Personal cooling misting system
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing personal cooling misting systems are not compact, portable, or programmable, failing to provide effective and controlled cooling for individuals in extreme heat conditions.
Innovation Solution
A compact, portable, and programmable personal cooling misting system with a fluid reservoir, electrically operated pump, and programmable circuit board, featuring adjustable misting distribution patterns and biometric and environmental sensors for automatic operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If conventional misting systems are used, then cooling function is provided, but the systems are bulky and not portable
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into separate functional modules: a wearable fluid reservoir, a handheld pump unit, and a misting head. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently and enables portable, flexible deployment without requiring a bulky integrated system.
Solution Approach 2:
The pump is extracted as a separate handheld unit from the wearable reservoir, allowing the reservoir to remain compact and wearable while the pump provides powerful fluid delivery when activated. This separation eliminates the need for a large integrated pump-reservoir system.
2Device complexity
If manual operation is used, then system simplicity is maintained, but controllability and adaptability are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from static manual operation to dynamic controllable operation. The pump can be activated on-demand through wireless control, and the misting head can be adjusted to different positions and angles, providing adaptability while maintaining relative system simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
Environmental sensors detect temperature and humidity conditions, providing feedback that triggers automatic pump activation and adjusts misting intensity. This feedback mechanism enables the system to adapt to changing conditions without complex manual controls.
3Ease of operation
If passive operation is used, then ease of use is improved, but automatic adaptation to conditions is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service through environmental sensors that automatically detect heat and humidity conditions, triggering pump activation and adjusting misting patterns without user intervention. This maintains ease of use while providing intelligent automatic adaptation to environmental conditions.
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 system effectively provides controlled and adaptive cooling, ensuring user comfort in extreme heat conditions while being easy to carry and use, overcoming the limitations of conventional misting systems.
Implementation Method 1
The misting head atomizes the misting fluid directed to it
Implementation Method 2
the body provides its own natural cooling mechanism through sweating, which at the skin surface provides cooling as the sweat evaporates
Implementation Method 3
an electrically operated pump to pump the misting fluid from the fluid reservoir to a misting head
Data Source
AI summary
The personal cooling misting system disclosed provides for a wearable fluid reservoir to contain a volume of misting fluid, and an electrically operated pump proximate to the reservoir to pump the misting fluid from the reservoir to a misting head. The misting head facilitates atomizing the misting fluid. The system further provides for feed tubing to direct the misting fluid from the reservoir to the pump, and distributive tubing to direct the misting fluid from the pump to the misting head. The system also includes a pump control to control at least one of a pressure and a flow rate of the misting fluid through at least one of the feed tubing and distributive tubing, and the system includes a programmable circuit board to facilitate system control via the pump control, as well as directing to the pump control a misting distribution pattern for at least one of a consistent or intermittent misting pattern.