Warming Composition with Cooling Agent for Sensory Shift
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current warming compositions do not provide an enhanced or long-lasting heating sensation upon consumption or application to the skin, and existing formulations often require higher concentrations of warming agents to achieve desired effects.
Innovation Solution
A combination of a cooling agent and a warming agent is used, either separately or in a single formulation, to create a warming composition that enhances and prolongs the heating sensation, allowing for spatial or temporal shifting of the heat perception.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If higher concentrations of warming agents are used to achieve desired heating sensation, then the heating effect is improved, but the concentration of substance increases and may cause adverse effects
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines a warming agent and a cooling agent in a single composition. The cooling agent enhances the perception of the warming effect through sensory interaction, allowing lower concentrations of the warming agent to achieve the desired heating sensation, thereby resolving the contradiction between heating effect and substance concentration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the sensory parameters by introducing a cooling agent that modifies the perception of temperature. This creates a enhanced warming sensation through the contrast effect, enabling effective heating at lower warming agent concentrations.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If warming agent concentration is reduced to minimize adverse effects, then safety is improved, but the heating sensation becomes weaker
Solution Approach 1:
By merging warming and cooling agents in one composition, the patent achieves a synergistic effect where the cooling agent amplifies the perceived warming sensation. This allows reduced warming agent concentration while maintaining or enhancing the heating effect, thus reducing adverse effects.
Solution Approach 2:
The cooling agent acts as an intermediary that modifies sensory perception. It mediates between the warming agent and the sensory neurons, enhancing the warming perception through thermal contrast without requiring higher warming agent concentrations.
3Duration of action of moving object
If a single warming agent is used to simplify formulation, then device complexity is reduced, but the duration of heating sensation is shortened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges warming and cooling agents in a single formulation, achieving extended heating sensation duration through the prolonged sensory interaction between the two agents. While this increases formulation complexity, it provides significant benefit in sensation duration.
Solution Approach 2:
The combination of warming and cooling agents creates a continuous sensory stimulus that prolongs the heating sensation. The cooling agent sustains the thermal contrast effect over time, extending the duration of the useful warming action.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The combination of cooling and warming agents in the composition achieves a longer-lasting and intensified heating sensation at lower concentrations of warming agents, with the ability to shift the perception of heat either spatially or temporally, enhancing user experience in products like chewing gum and confectionery.
Implementation Method 1
a cooling agent and a warming agent have been used together in a single product... provides an enhanced warming effect... produces a warming sensation that is longer lasting
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a heating or warming composition that may be delivered orally or to the skin or mucous membranes. The composition contains a warming agent in combination with a cooling agent. The warming agent and cooling agent may be provided in one composition or they may be provided separately in distinct formulations separated over time or geographically. The present invention also extends to methods of providing a heating sensation as well as to products for oral or skin or mucous membrane delivery that contain such a warming composition or that contain a warming agent in combination with a cooling agent. Such products include food products, beverages, chewing gums, confections, cosmetics, lotions, creams and the like containing such a warming composition.