Essential Oil Atomizer with Filter Reflux and Guide Board
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional essential oil atomizers produce large droplets leading to poor atomization performance and waste, with droplets splashing in the atomization chamber potentially blocking filters and causing inefficiency.
Innovation Solution
An airflow guided essential oil reflux-type atomizer featuring a filter atomization mechanism with concentrically arranged cylindrical filter housings and a guide board to direct airflow and filter larger droplets, reducing waste and improving atomization efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of substance
If a filter is used to filter essential oil droplets from atomized airflow, then essential oil can be recycled, but the filter may be blocked by accumulated droplets causing waste
Solution Approach 1:
The atomization chamber is divided into multiple sections with guide boards creating separate airflow paths. This segmentation prevents droplet accumulation in one location and directs airflow systematically through the chamber, reducing filter blockage while maintaining essential oil recycling efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
Guide boards are introduced as intermediary elements between the airflow source and the filter. These guide boards redirect the airflow and suspended droplets, preventing direct accumulation against the filter surface and maintaining filtration efficiency over extended periods
2Productivity
If high-speed airflow is used to extract and atomize essential oil, then atomization is achieved, but larger droplets are produced reducing efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The atomization chamber design creates dynamic airflow patterns through guide boards and strategic openings. The airflow velocity and direction are dynamically adjusted through the chamber structure, allowing for finer atomization that produces smaller droplets and reduces essential oil waste
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces spatial dimensionality through guide boards and multi-directional airflow paths. By utilizing three-dimensional airflow patterns rather than simple linear flow, the system achieves better atomization with smaller droplet size and improved essential oil utilization
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution effectively filters larger essential oil droplets, recycles them, and improves atomization performance by re-atomizing droplets through pressure differences, reducing waste and maintaining filter efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
ejects a high-speed airflow to extract an essential oil from an essential oil bottle and transfer the essential oil out of the atomizer
Implementation Method 2
re-atomizing droplets through pressure differences
Data Source
AI summary
An essential oil reflux-type atomizer comprising the following structures: chassis (10), housing (30), atomization chamber (310), gas pump (21), gas tube (22), gas nozzle (23), oil nozzle (24), filter atomization mechanism (40). The filter atomization mechanism (40) is installed in the housing (30) and has a plurality of filter housings (41). A lower end of each of the filter housings (40) has one or more through holes (411). When the gas nozzle (23) ejects an airflow, the airflow draws out the essential oil through the oil nozzle (24) to form a mixed airflow which passes through each of the filter housings (41) successively. Larger essential oil droplets in the airflow are filtered by each of the filter housings (41) to be recycled, while the atomized essential oil gas will pass through the through holes (411) of each of the filter housings to be dispensed. At the same time, the essential oil droplets in the through holes (411) are re-atomized by the airflow to improve the atomization performance. The atomization chamber (310) comprises a guide board guiding the airflow from the gas nozzle (23) upwards towards the filter atomization mechanism (40).