Sauna Air Merging Chamber for Uniform Heat and Humidity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional sauna apparatuses fail to achieve uniform temperature and humidity distribution, leading to discomfort and limitations in usage, such as preventing users from reading due to mist on glasses and difficulty in controlling environmental conditions.
Innovation Solution
A sauna apparatus with integrated heating and humidifying sections that mix heated and humidified air to ensure uniform temperature and humidity, featuring a merging chamber to combine air streams and a water-shattering section to produce fine water droplets for efficient humidification, allowing for easy control of temperature and humidity levels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If heated air and mist are blown separately, then the heating and humidifying functions can be performed, but the temperature and humidity distribution becomes non-uniform
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the heated air blowing function and humidified air blowing function into a single outlet structure. The merging chamber integrates both air streams before discharge, ensuring uniform mixing of heated and humidified air. This resolves the technical contradiction by achieving uniform temperature and humidity distribution without requiring separate outlets or complex mixing structures.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If mist is spouted separately from heated air, then humidification can be achieved, but water droplets adhere to user's glasses and cause discomfort
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the heated air stream and humidified air stream in a common merging chamber before discharge through a single outlet. This integration ensures that water droplets are properly mixed and distributed with the heated air, preventing them from adhering to the user's glasses. The unified outlet structure eliminates the harmful effect of separate mist spouting while maintaining simple device architecture.
3Ease of operation
If separate blowing sections are used for heated air and humidified air, then independent control is possible, but overall temperature and humidity control becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the control of heated air blowing and humidified air blowing into a unified system through the merging chamber. By integrating both air streams before discharge, the control system can easily adjust overall temperature and humidity levels through a single coordinated mechanism. This resolves the contradiction by achieving easy environmental control without requiring complex independent control systems for separate outlets.
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 solution provides a sauna environment with uniform temperature and humidity, enhancing user comfort and usability by preventing mist on glasses and allowing for easy control of environmental conditions, enabling the sauna space to be used for various purposes.
Implementation Method 1
a heating section for heating air to generate heated air
Implementation Method 2
a humidifying section for humidifying air to generate humidified air
Implementation Method 3
a water-shattering section to produce fine water droplets for efficient humidification
Implementation Method 4
a merging chamber for mixing the sent heated air and the sent humidified air to generate heated and humidified air
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AI summary
A sauna apparatus includes a heating section for heating air to generate heated air, a heated-air-blowing section for sending the heated air, a humidifying section for humidifying air to generate humidified air, a humidified-air-blowing section for sending the humidified air, a merging chamber for mixing the sent heated air and the sent humidified air to generate heated and humidified air, and an outlet for blowing the heated and humidified air generated. This sauna apparatus provides air having uniform temperature distribution and uniform humidity distribution, and allows temperature and humidity to be controlled easily.