Nasal Aroma Breathing Pipe with Segmented Air and Substance Pathways
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing breathing and aroma delivery devices, such as electronic cigarettes, disturb others with scented smoke-like air and are not suitable for public spaces due to passive emission of chemically altered air, which is a concern for users wanting to avoid affecting those around them.
Innovation Solution
A breathing and aroma delivery apparatus with separate cylindrical compartments for air and active substance extraction, using a driving link to prevent gas mixing, where ambient air is drawn through a mouthpiece and used to rotate an active substance extractor, directing the substance towards the nostrils without mixing with exhaled air, allowing for controlled release of aromas and improved breathing techniques.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If ambient air is drawn through the mouthpiece and used to rotate the active substance extractor, then controlled aroma delivery is achieved, but the device complexity increases due to separate compartments and driving link mechanism
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into separate compartments: a first compartment for air extraction and a second compartment for active substance extraction. This segmentation allows independent control of air flow and aroma delivery, enabling precise aroma delivery while maintaining separate pathways that prevent mixing of gases.
Solution Approach 2:
A driving link acts as an intermediary mechanism connecting the air extractor to the active substance extractor. The driving link transfers rotational motion from the air extractor to rotate the active substance extractor, enabling controlled aroma delivery through mechanical coupling without direct mixing of the two extraction streams.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the air extractor and active substance extractor are separated by a partition, then gas mixing is prevented, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into separate compartments: a first compartment for air extraction and a second compartment for active substance extraction. This segmentation allows independent control of air flow and aroma delivery, enabling precise aroma delivery while maintaining separate pathways that prevent mixing of gases.
Solution Approach 2:
The harmful factor of passive emission is addressed by extracting and separating the active substance delivery pathway from the main air flow. The partitioned design extracts the aroma delivery function into a separate compartment, preventing chemically altered air from mixing with exhaled air and being emitted passively to others.
3Productivity
If the outlet nozzle directs active substance towards the user's nostrils, then aroma delivery efficiency is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The outlet nozzle is specifically designed to direct the active substance towards the user's nostrils, creating a localized delivery system. This local quality approach concentrates the aroma delivery function at the specific location where it is needed (near the nostrils), improving delivery efficiency without requiring complex system-wide changes.
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 long, deep breathing with controlled aroma delivery directly to the nostrils, reducing stress and anxiety, providing an alternative to harmful habits, and improving health without disturbing others, as it separates the air and active substance pathways, minimizing passive emission.
Implementation Method 1
The air extractor is magnetically coupled to the active substance extractor such that rotation of the air extractor drives the active substance extractor to rotate
Implementation Method 2
a permeable membrane, said membrane allowing the active substance to be drawn from the third compartment and into the second compartment
Data Source
AI summary
The claimed invention is an apparatus to assist and encourage a person to take long, deep and steady breaths. The invention is designed to provide improved health for the user by fostering; improved breathing and relaxation, aroma delivery and positive smell association, calmer clearer thinking, reduced stress and anxiety, as well as providing a substitute for potentially harmful habits such as smoking, over-eating, over-drinking and other forms of drug abuse. This invention may also reduce the impact of some existing physiological and psychological health conditions.