Coupled Air Amplifier Array for Uniform Atmospheric Effects Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for enhancing audience immersion in media and entertainment events, such as using large flames or air blowers, are inefficient, pose fire concerns, and struggle to provide uniform atmospheric effects to large audiences.
Innovation Solution
A coupled air amplifier array system that utilizes high-pressure air to accelerate low-velocity air streams, creating high-velocity, high-volume output streams which can be combined to provide atmospheric effects like wind, scent, and temperature, enhancing audience immersion through portable mobile effects pods strategically placed within venues.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If large flames or radiant space heaters are used to deliver heating effects, then heating capability is improved, but fire safety deteriorates and energy efficiency worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces thermal-based heating systems (flames, radiant heaters) with a pneumatic system using air amplifiers. High-pressure air streams are generated and directed toward the audience area, creating a mechanical fluid flow that produces perceived warmth through motion and convection rather than direct thermal radiation, thereby eliminating fire hazards while maintaining heating capability
Solution Approach 2:
The invention employs air amplifiers that utilize high-pressure air streams to generate controlled flows of air. These pneumatic devices create directed air movement that can be felt by the audience as warmth or cooling effects without requiring open flames or high-energy thermal systems, thus improving fire safety while maintaining temperature control capability
2Temperature
If large air blowers are used to deliver cooling effects, then cooling capability is improved, but device complexity and power consumption worsen
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of using a single large air blicer, the patent divides the cooling function into multiple smaller air amplifier units distributed throughout the venue. Each unit handles a localized area, reducing the power requirement per device while collectively providing comprehensive cooling coverage to the entire audience area
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces conventional high-power mechanical air blowers with air amplifier technology that uses high-pressure air streams more efficiently. The air amplifiers generate equivalent or superior cooling effects with lower power consumption by utilizing fluid dynamics principles rather than traditional mechanical propulsion
3Temperature
If conventional heating or cooling systems are used, then atmospheric effects are achieved, but uniform distribution across large audiences deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the venue into multiple zones, each served by individual air amplifier units positioned strategically throughout the space. This segmentation allows each device to focus its output on a specific audience section, ensuring uniform distribution of atmospheric effects across the entire large area rather than concentrating effects in one location
Solution Approach 2:
The invention implements local quality control by allowing each air amplifier unit to be independently adjusted and positioned to serve specific audience areas. This enables tailored atmospheric effects for different zones within the venue, ensuring uniform coverage and appropriate localization of heating or cooling effects across the entire audience area
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system effectively delivers uniform and immersive atmospheric effects, improving audience engagement while being safer and more efficient than traditional methods, with the ability to focus effects precisely on different areas within a venue.
Implementation Method 1
An air amplifier utilizes a high-pressure input stream of air to accelerate a low-velocity input stream of air to provide a high-velocity, high-volume output stream of air
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AI summary
An air amplifier utilizes a high-pressure input stream of air to accelerate a low-velocity input stream of air to provide a high-velocity, high-volume output stream of air. A coupled air amplifier array includes multiple air amplifiers which couple their respective output streams of air to one another to form a single collective output stream of air. Multiple coupled air amplifier arrays can be utilized to form coupled air amplifier array systems to provide multiple collective output streams of air which can be focused toward to an audience within a venue. The coupled air amplifier array system can be implemented within atmospheric effects systems to provide atmospheric effects, such as wind, scent, and/or temperature to provide some examples, relating to an event. These atmospheric effects systems can present these atmospheric effects to the audience to enhance the immersion of the audience as they are viewing the event. These atmospheric effects systems can include multiple portable mobile effects pods that are situated within different locations within the venue to present these atmospheric effects to different locations with the venue.