Shape-Changing Fragrance Diffuser with Deformable Triggering Zone
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fragrance diffusers are limited by their inability to diffuse multiple fragrances over time, require sealed outer casings for storage, and often involve complex designs with difficult handling and limited reusability.
Innovation Solution
A compact, portable, and omni-positionable diffuser with a one-piece design that uses deformable trigger zones and capsules to release volatile substances on demand, allowing for multiple uses without an outer casing and featuring a self-sufficient mechanism for continuous fragrance diffusion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a sealed outer casing is used for storage and transport, then the diffuser is protected during storage, but the design complexity increases and handling becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The invention removes the sealed outer casing from the diffuser design. The diffuser body itself is designed to be sufficiently robust for storage and transport without requiring an additional protective casing, thereby simplifying the overall structure while maintaining adequate protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention integrates the protective function into the diffuser body itself rather than relying on a separate outer casing. The diffuser body combines structural integrity for protection with the fragrance diffusion function, eliminating the need for a separate protective casing.
2Manufacturing precision
If complex designs with multiple components are used, then the diffusion mechanism can be precise, but the ease of operation decreases and handling becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The invention combines multiple functions (fragrance storage, diffusion control, and structural protection) into a single integrated diffuser body. This reduces the number of separate components while maintaining precise diffusion control through the designed porous structure and volatile substance reservoir integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The diffuser body serves multiple functions simultaneously: it stores the volatile substance, controls the diffusion rate through its porous structure, provides structural integrity, and eliminates the need for separate protective casing. This multi-functionality simplifies handling while maintaining diffusion precision.
3Ease of manufacture
If the diffuser is designed for single use, then the manufacturing cost is lower, but the duration of action and value for money decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The invention employs a dynamic refilling mechanism where the volatile substance reservoir can be replenished. The diffuser body includes a replaceable reservoir or refilling port that allows users to add more volatile substance, thereby extending the diffusion duration while maintaining a relatively simple base structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The diffuser is designed to be self-refillable by the user. The structure includes accessible refilling mechanisms that allow users to extend the diffusion duration without requiring complex professional service or replacement of the entire unit, thus extending service life while keeping the base design simple.
4Duration of action of stationary object
If the diffuser requires recharging with fragrance, then the duration of action can be extended, but the ease of operation decreases and requires additional steps
Solution Approach 1:
The diffuser incorporates a self-refilling mechanism where users can easily replenish the volatile substance reservoir. The design includes user-friendly refilling ports or removable reservoirs that allow simple extension of diffusion duration without complex procedures, maintaining operational simplicity while extending service life.
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
Enables continuous, long-lasting fragrance diffusion for multiple uses, eliminating the need for recharging and complex handling, while being easy to implement and manufacture.
Implementation Method 1
one permeable to the volatile substance, in a transverse direction, from one side to the other
Implementation Method 2
capable, in at least one deformable triggering zone, of being deformed in a transverse direction and in the outside-in direction following a sufficient triggering pressure
Data Source
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AI summary
The invention relates to a diffuser (1) which comprises two outer walls (2a, 2b) having outer (3a) and inner (3b) surfaces, one surface of which is pervious to the volatile substance and one surface of which has a release area (7) that changes shape following release pressure manually exerted by the user to activate diffusion; an inner plate (6) between the two outer walls (2a, 2b), the entire plate being rigidly connected, provided with communicating and opening cracks (10), transversely compressible, and provided with a cavity (12) therein that receives and holds a volatile substance capsule (13) in position; and a volatile substance capsule (13) which, in the integrity thereof, contains a volatile substance and is adjacent to the bottom plate (6) and the pervious outer wall (2a, 2b), and which is breakable by means of the release pressure, thus releasing the volatile substance such that, before use, the volatile substance capsule (13) has the integrity thereof, and in order to activate diffusion of the volatile substance, the user exerts the release pressure on the shape-changing release area (7) corresponding to the capsule (13), thus breaking and releasing the volatile substance that diffuses towards the inner surface (3b) of the pervious outer wall (2a, 2b), directly on one hand and indirectly on the other hand via the communicating and opening cracks (10) in the inner plate (6), then diffuses through the pervious outer wall (2a, 2b) and then into the surrounding atmosphere.