Spray Booth Venting and Mist Extraction for Body Spray Coverage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current automated systems for applying artificial tanning products are limited to applying only one product per session, create a closed and foggy environment, and lack efficiency in mist containment, making them inconvenient and inefficient for users.
Innovation Solution
An automatic body spray system with a spray column, mist extraction column, and a slide-out drawer for multiple solution containers, utilizing HVLP nozzles and a CPU controller to atomize and apply various solutions, allowing for customizable tanning shades and efficient mist management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If high pressure compressed air nozzles are used to create atomized spray, then spray coverage is improved, but mist containment becomes problematic and creates foggy environment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes excess liquid and mist from the treatment chamber using a vacuum system during and after the spray application process. This eliminates the harmful foggy environment while preserving the beneficial spray coverage, directly resolving the contradiction between adequate spray distribution and mist containment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the pressure parameter dynamically by using vacuum (negative pressure) to remove excess mist after the positive pressure spray application. This parameter transition from high pressure spraying to vacuum removal allows both good spray coverage and clean environment to coexist.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If closed booth is used for spray application, then mist containment is improved, but user convenience deteriorates due to foggy environment
Solution Approach 1:
The vacuum system extracts excess liquid and mist from the closed treatment chamber, maintaining the benefits of a controlled environment while removing the harmful fog that reduces user convenience. This allows the closed booth to remain enclosed without creating an uncomfortable atmosphere.
Solution Approach 2:
The vacuum removal process operates continuously during and after spray application, ensuring that mist containment is maintained while continuously removing harmful fog. This continuous action preserves both the controlled environment and user comfort throughout the treatment session.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple solution containers are integrated into spray column, then product versatility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple solution containers directly into the spray column assembly, merging the storage and delivery functions into a single integrated structure. This allows multiple products to be applied through one system without requiring separate equipment for each product, balancing versatility with manageable complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The spray column is designed with universal functionality to handle multiple different solution types through a single integrated system. The same spray mechanism can deliver various treatments by switching between containers, eliminating the need for multiple specialized devices and making the added versatility practical.
4Device complexity
If one product per session is applied, then device simplicity is maintained, but productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple product delivery capabilities into a single spray column assembly, allowing several different treatments to be applied during one session without requiring multiple separate devices. This integration maintains operational simplicity while significantly improving productivity by enabling multi-product applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The spray system achieves multi-functionality by incorporating multiple solution containers and delivery mechanisms within one device, enabling it to perform multiple product applications in a single session. This universal design improves productivity without proportionally increasing complexity, as the basic spray mechanism remains the same.
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 the application of multiple products in one session without a foggy environment, improves transfer efficiency, and allows for user-specific area spraying, reducing the need for a large external air compressor and minimizing waste.
Implementation Method 1
HVLP nozzles and a CPU controller to atomize and distribute various solutions
Implementation Method 2
mist extraction column, and a slide-out drawer for multiple solution containers, utilizing HVLP nozzles and a CPU controller to atomize and distribute various solutions, allowing for customizable tanning and product application with improved mist management
Data Source
AI summary
An embodiment of an apparatus for extracting excess liquid in a human body spray system includes a spray booth defining a booth volume. The spray booth includes a base configured to support the human body and a column having walls extending vertically from the base and at least one vent opening disposed on a bottom half portion of the column on at least one of the walls. The walls form a hollow interior of the column. The apparatus for extracting excess liquid in a human body spray system further includes an extraction fan disposed within the hollow interior adjacent to a top half portion of the column and configured to create a low pressure volume within the hollow interior and draw air flow and at least some of the excess mist from the booth volume through the at least one vent opening.