Coupled Air Amplifier Array for Venue Atmospheric Effects Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional heating and cooling systems used in media and entertainment venues are inefficient, require excessive power, and pose fire concerns, while large air blowers struggle to provide uniform cooling to entire 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 focused to provide atmospheric effects such as wind, scent, and temperature enhancements, enhancing audience immersion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If conventional heating systems (large radiant space heaters) are used to deliver heat effects, then heating capability is improved, but energy consumption becomes excessive and fire concerns increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces conventional thermal heating systems with a pneumatic system using air amplifiers. High-pressure air streams are generated and directed toward the audience area to create wind effects and cooling, substituting mechanical pneumatic action for thermal heating mechanisms. This eliminates the need for large radiant space heaters and their associated high energy consumption and fire hazards.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention employs air amplifiers that utilize high-pressure air streams to generate controlled airflow. The system uses pneumatic principles where compressed air is expanded through nozzles to create high-velocity streams that can be directed to provide cooling effects, replacing conventional thermal heating/cooling systems with a pneumatic approach.
2Temperature
If large air blowers (industrial fans) are used to deliver cooling effects, then cooling capability is improved, but the ability to provide uniform cooling across large venues deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the venue into multiple zones, each served by individual air amplifiers positioned strategically. Rather than using a single large industrial fan, the system employs multiple smaller air amplifiers that can be independently controlled and directed. Each amplifier serves a specific section of the audience, ensuring uniform cooling distribution across the entire venue.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides localized cooling control by directing high-pressure air streams from multiple air amplifiers to specific areas within the venue. Each air amplifier can be independently adjusted to provide optimal cooling to its designated zone, ensuring uniform overall coverage while allowing local customization based on audience density and environmental conditions.
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 system efficiently delivers targeted atmospheric effects, improving audience immersion while being safer and more energy-efficient than traditional methods, with the ability to uniformly distribute air volumes across large venues.
Implementation Method 1
An air amplifier uses a high-pressure input stream of air to accelerate a low-velocity input stream of air to provide a high-velocity 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.