Automatic Drip Feeder for Consistent Essential-Oil Humidification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing aroma humidifiers require manual addition of essential oils, leading to a decline in aromatic effect over time due to insolubility issues and higher water requirements, resulting in diminished performance in the middle and later stages of use.
Innovation Solution
An automatic drip feeder system that continuously and controllably adds essential oils using a piston air pump driven by a motor and cam mechanism, ensuring quantitative addition through a touch switch and control center, integrated with a purification and aroma humidifier for sustained aromatic output.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If essential oil is manually added to water in existing aroma humidifiers, then the device structure is simple, but the aromatic effect declines in the middle and later stages due to insolubility issues
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-fills an essential oil storage container with essential oil before operation begins. The automated dispensing mechanism is pre-configured to add essential oil at predetermined intervals, eliminating the need for manual intervention during operation and ensuring consistent aromatic effect from start to finish.
Solution Approach 2:
The aroma humidifier incorporates an automated essential oil dispensing system that self-regulates the addition of essential oil to water. The system uses a piston air pump to automatically dispense the required amount of essential oil at intervals, making the device self-sufficient and eliminating manual addition requirements.
2Device complexity
If manual addition of essential oil is used, then the device complexity is low, but the productivity of aromatic output decreases over time
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements continuous automated dispensing of essential oil at predetermined intervals throughout the operation of the humidifier. This ensures that the aromatic output is maintained consistently over time, preventing the decline that occurs with manual addition methods where users may forget or delay refilling.
Solution Approach 2:
The manual mechanical action of adding essential oil is replaced with an automated piston air pump system that mechanically dispenses essential oil based on pre-programmed intervals. This substitution eliminates human intervention and ensures consistent productivity of aromatic output.
3Ease of operation
If essential oil is added to water for ultrasonic atomization, then the aromatic substances are effectively diffused, but the insolubility of essential oil causes the aromatic effect to disappear in later stages
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs periodic addition of essential oil at predetermined intervals during the humidifier's operation. Instead of relying on a single initial mixing of essential oil and water, the system periodically introduces fresh essential oil to maintain saturation levels, thereby extending the duration of effective aromatic output throughout the entire operating cycle.
4Reliability
If higher water capacity is used to maintain humidification effect, then the humidification capacity is improved, but the device requires larger water tank and higher power consumption
Solution Approach 1:
The system maintains effective aromatic output by changing the parameter of essential oil addition frequency and quantity. By adding small amounts of essential oil periodically rather than requiring large initial quantities, the system achieves sustained aromatic effect without needing proportionally larger water tanks or higher power consumption for heating larger volumes of water.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The automatic drip feeder maintains a consistent aromatic effect by continuously adding essential oils, enhancing the performance of aroma humidifiers by preventing the decline in aromatic output seen in traditional systems.
Implementation Method 1
a piston air pump, wherein: the piston air pump comprises a piston driven by a driving part to reciprocate
Implementation Method 2
when the piston air pump exhausts air, air is guided into the container, so that the liquid in the container drops out via the outlet
Implementation Method 3
the atomization chamber is provided with an ultrasonic atomizer... essential oil molecules and water molecules are decomposed into ultrafine micro-particles by ultrasonic vibration
Implementation Method 4
atomized essential oil is blown out by a fan together with water mist and the negative ions
Implementation Method 5
an air blower... The air flow generated by the air blower is blown into the atomization chamber via the atomization chamber air inlet to blow water mist out via the atomization chamber air outlet
Implementation Method 6
every time the piston is driven by the driving part to reciprocate once, a touch switch is synchronously triggered, so that the reciprocating times of the piston are obtained
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AI summary
The invention discloses an automatic drip feeder and a purification and aroma humidifier using the same for adding essential oil to solve the problem that existing humidifiers have a good aromatic effect in the early stage of usage, while the aromatic effect disappears in the middle and later stages. A water trough of a humidifier body is provided with a receiving groove used for receiving the automatic drip feeder. Essential oil or aromatic liquid is contained in a container of the automatic drip feeder and is quantitatively added into the water trough of the humidifier via a feed port, thus, realizing a continuous purification and aroma effect.