Smell Sensibility Management for Moving Objects

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies lack the ability to provide personalized control of moving objects based on individual users' smell sensitivities, leading to unpleasant experiences due to bad smells during travel, particularly in enclosed vehicles where users cannot effectively avoid or mitigate bad smells using passive methods.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that manage smell sensibility by checking planned routes for bad-smell areas, determining their impact on users, and implementing suppression processes such as detour routes or controlling air intake to mitigate bad smells, using smell detectors and machine learning to personalize responses based on user sensitivity patterns.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If the moving object takes the planned travel route without modification, then the travel time is minimized, but the user is exposed to bad smells causing unpleasantness

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetravel timeVSAvoidbad smell exposure

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of bad-smell areas along the planned travel route before the moving object arrives. By identifying these areas in advance using smell detectors and comparing them with user-specific unpleasantness levels, the system can proactively adjust the route or ventilation settings to prevent bad smell exposure, rather than reacting after the user is already affected.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the travel route based on real-time detection of bad-smell areas and user-specific sensitivity levels. When a bad-smell area is detected on the planned route, the system automatically generates an alternative route that avoids the harmful area while minimizing additional travel time. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to balance travel efficiency with user comfort based on individual sensibility characteristics.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If the system implements personalized smell sensibility control based on user sensitivity patterns, then user comfort is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser comfortVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of bad-smell areas along the planned travel route before the moving object arrives. By identifying these areas in advance using smell detectors and comparing them with user-specific unpleasantness levels, the system can proactively adjust the route or ventilation settings to prevent bad smell exposure, rather than reacting after the user is already affected.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically detects bad-smell areas, compares them with stored user-specific unpleasantness levels, and independently determines the appropriate response (route change or ventilation adjustment) without requiring real-time user input. The user's sensibility characteristics are pre-stored in the database, allowing the system to autonomously make decisions tailored to each user's preferences, simplifying the interaction while maintaining personalization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Object-affected harmful factors

If the system detects and avoids all bad-smell areas, then user exposure to unpleasant smells is eliminated, but the travel route becomes longer and less efficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebad smell exposureVSAvoidtravel efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different levels of protection against bad smells based on user-specific sensitivity characteristics. Instead of uniformly avoiding all bad-smell areas regardless of user preferences, the system tailors the response to each user's unpleasantness level for different smell types. This allows the system to selectively avoid only those bad-smell areas that are relevant to the current user, maintaining travel efficiency while providing targeted protection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the travel route based on real-time detection of bad-smell areas and user-specific sensitivity levels. When a bad-smell area is detected on the planned route, the system automatically generates an alternative route that avoids the harmful area while minimizing additional travel time. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to balance travel efficiency with user comfort based on individual sensibility characteristics.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11740097B2Method, device and system for managing smell sensibility based on route of moving object

Publication Date: 2023.08.29 HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD

AI summary

A method of managing smell sensibility according to a route of a moving object includes checking a planned travel route of the moving object, determining whether a bad-smell area is included in the planned travel route, determining whether a bad-smell level of the bad-smell area is equal to or greater than an unpleasantness level of a user of the moving object when the bad-smell area is included, and performing a suppression process for blocking introduction of a bad smell into the moving object when the bad-smell level is equal to or greater than the unpleasantness level of the user and maintaining the planned travel route when the bad-smell level is less than the unpleasantness level of the user.