Snow Shower with Cold Nebulizer for Enhanced Cooling Sensation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing snow showers lack an enhanced shower experience that differentiates from conventional designs, failing to provide an enjoyable and extraordinary cooling sensation.
Innovation Solution
A snow shower system incorporating a cold nebulizer producing water mist below 15°C, combined with a snow machine to generate snowflakes, and optionally a blower for cold air, to enhance the cooling effect and user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If a conventional snow machine is used to produce snowflakes, then the shower area receives snow coverage, but the cooling effect and shower experience remain ordinary and fail to provide an extraordinary sensation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines a snow machine and a cold nebulizer into a single integrated system where both snowflakes and cold water mist are delivered through the same chute to the shower area. This merging of two cooling mechanisms (snowflakes from the snow machine and water mist from the nebulizer) creates a synergistic effect that significantly enhances the cooling sensation and shower experience without requiring separate delivery systems
Solution Approach 2:
The chute structure serves multiple functions: it delivers snowflakes from the snow machine, transports cold water mist from the nebulizer, and directs both toward the shower area. This multi-functional design allows the system to provide both snow coverage and enhanced cooling effect through a single delivery pathway, improving efficiency while managing system complexity
2Productivity
If a cold nebulizer is added to produce water mist below 15°C, then the cooling rate and shower experience are significantly enhanced, but the device complexity and construction difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a blower to generate airflow that draws cold water mist from the nebulizer through the chute and directs it toward the shower area. This pneumatic approach eliminates the need for complex pumping systems or high-pressure delivery mechanisms, simplifying the overall construction while achieving effective delivery of cold water mist to enhance the cooling rate
Solution Approach 2:
The cold nebulizer is designed to operate at specific temperature parameters (below 15°C, preferably below 10°C) to optimize the cooling effect. By controlling the water temperature and mist generation parameters within specific ranges, the system achieves enhanced cooling performance while maintaining manageable system complexity and ease of manufacture
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 combination of cold water mist and snowflakes significantly increases the cooling rate and provides an improved, personalized shower experience.
Implementation Method 1
the cold nebulizer is an ultrasonic nebulizer
Implementation Method 2
water or water droplets are applied to a lateral surface of the cooled rotatable cylinder at a location, the water or the water droplets then freezes to ice
Implementation Method 3
the blower is able to suck cold air with a temperature below 15°C... and blows the cold air through the third connection such that the cold air enters the chute
Implementation Method 4
the chute is directed towards the shower area, such that the snow machine is able to produce snowflakes that enter the chute through the first connection and exit the chute through a chute exit to fall onto the shower area
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a snow shower comprising a shower area, a snow machine and a chute, wherein the snow machine comprises a first connection to the chute and the chute is directed towards the shower area, such that the snow machine is able to produce snowflakes that enter the chute through the first connection and exit the chute to fall onto the shower area. According to the invention, the snow shower comprises a cold nebulizer that is able to produce water mist with a temperature below 15 °C, preferably below 10 °C, further preferably between 2 °C and 8 °C, and that is configured such that the water mist falls onto the shower area.