JP2013094436A - Aroma providing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an aroma providing device controlling a fragrance component to be felt by people at unintentional timing, and controlling emission of a fragrance at a time not to emit the fragrance.SOLUTION: The aroma providing device includes: a cylindrical shield tube whose inner hollow is used as a fragrance transporting passage and which has an opening on a part of a side surface; a fragrance container in which the fragrance is stored, which is provided on the outer surface of the shield tube and which has an opening on a side surface on the shield tube side; and a blower means disposed at one end of the fragrance transporting passage for blowing air. The interior of the fragrance container and the fragrance transporting passage can communicate with each other or can not communicate with each other by relative rotational motions of the shield tube and the fragrance container while the shield tube and the fragrance container are closely attached to each other.

Description

  The present invention relates to a fragrance providing device. In particular, the present invention relates to a scent providing apparatus that can provide a scent that is rotary and defined in accordance with the progress of a moving image.

  2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a system for selling a moving image such as a movie to a person by evaporating a kind of fragrance according to the scene in synchronization with the reproduction thereof has been sold.

  As the fragrance, a plurality of types of fragrance are prepared in advance according to the scene of the moving image, vaporized according to the scene, and supplied to the vicinity of the human nose.

  In these systems, more than ten kinds of fragrances are prepared. (For example, refer nonpatent literature 1.).

  Many types of perfume are generally liquid and are provided in containers such as bottles. The fragrance is composed of a volatile component, and if there is a slight gap in the container, it permeates and leaches out from there.

  The method of releasing the fragrance into the air is a method of heating the fragrance into a vapor, a method of taking out the fragrance vapor present on the liquid surface of the fragrance in a bottle, or making the fragrance fine particles based on the ink jet method, There is a way to vaporize in the air. The perfume released into the air is naturally vaporized due to the vapor pressure relationship, or it is vaporized by heating and flows to the position of the human nose.

  Generally, a scent defined in accordance with the progress of a moving image with sound is provided to a person according to the progress. The fragrance emits a vaporized fragrance made of liquid or solid to a position where a person can feel it. There are two methods for vaporization, such as heating and ultrasonic atomizer. Most of them are vaporized with a fragrance container placed on a table and passed through a resin pipe with a diameter of 1 to several millimeters. Transport near the face. In addition, the method of vaporizing the fragrance based on the ink jet method applies vibrations (including sound waves and ultrasonic waves) to the ink reservoir as in the case of an ink jet apparatus for printing, and is released from a minute discharge port based on the pressure. The

  Furthermore, as a smaller and simpler method for providing a plurality of scents to a person, a bead containing a fragrance is printed on paper or the like, and the operator smashes the bead to dissipate the fragrance inside to give a predetermined scent. A method for producing a scent has also been implemented. In this case, the viewer can view the scent set for the scene by crushing the fragrance beads printed at a predetermined location at a predetermined timing during the movie viewing.

JP 2010-257126 A

Monthly Display September 2010 Issue Vo; 9, pp.72-79 (ISSN 1341-3961)

An apparatus for providing a plurality of scents to individual persons is required to have a large number of fragrances containing fragrances, and a mechanism for providing only the vapor of the predetermined fragrances to a person is required, which is a large scale. Therefore, a normal scent providing device is installed on a desk or the like, and the vaporized fragrance is sent along with air through a pipe to be provided near a person's nose.

  Also, the method of providing a scent by preparing a card in which a fragrance is stored in a bead and providing a fragrance is very troublesome for the viewer because the viewer needs to rub a predetermined portion to crush the bead each time.

  In the means for providing a fragrance, there exists a problem that a fragrance | flavor component adheres to the inner surface of piping or a vaporization apparatus, and the fragrance | flavor component is perceived by the person at the timing which is not located. This problem is particularly serious when providing a plurality of fragrances. Moreover, although a fragrance | flavor is stored and stored in a fragrance | flavor container, a fragrance | flavor component is diffused from a very few gaps, and it may be felt by the person at an unintended timing.

  That is, in order to provide a scent in accordance with the progress of a moving image, a scent providing device that does not release a fragrance at a time when the fragrance is not released and a method for using the scent providing apparatus are required.

  In the present invention, the fragrance component adheres to the inner surface of the apparatus, and the fragrance component is prevented from being perceived by a person at an unintended timing. It is an object to provide a suppressed scent providing device.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the invention according to claim 1 is a cylindrical shape in which an internal cavity serves as a fragrance transporting airway, a shielding cylinder having an opening in a part of a side surface, and a fragrance is housed inside, A fragrance container provided on the outer surface of the shielding cylinder and having an opening on the side surface on the shielding cylinder side, and a blowing means capable of blowing air at one end of the fragrance transporting airway, while the shielding cylinder and the fragrance container are in close contact with each other The inside of the fragrance container and the fragrance transporting airway can be made to pass through by overlapping the opening of the shielding cylinder and the opening of the fragrance container by a general rotation operation, and the shielding cylinder and the fragrance container The inside of the fragrance container and the fragrance transporting airway are in a non-penetrating state by overlapping the shield tube and the one opening portion of the fragrance container with a portion other than the one opening portion by a relative rotational operation while closely contacting each other. To do And aroma providing apparatus characterized by enabling a.
The invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that the fragrance container is divided into a plurality of fragrance chambers on an outer surface of the shielding cylinder, and an opening is provided on a side surface on the shielding cylinder side for each of the plurality of fragrance chambers. A scent providing device according to claim 1.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the scent providing apparatus according to the first or second aspect, wherein the blowing means is capable of blowing the inside of the fragrance transporting airway in a sending direction and a sending direction. It was.
Moreover, as invention concerning Claim 4, it is provided in a cylindrical shape, the fragrance | flavor is accommodated inside, a fragrance | flavor container which equips a part of side surface with an opening part, and an outer surface of this fragrance | flavor container is contacted, A shielding cylinder provided with an opening; a perfume transporting airway outside the shielding cylinder; and a blowing means at one end of the perfume transporting airway, wherein the shielding is performed by a relative rotational operation while the perfume container and the shielding cylinder are in close contact with each other. By overlapping the opening of the tube and the opening of the fragrance container, the inside of the fragrance container and the fragrance transporting airway can be made to penetrate, and the relative while the shielding tube and the fragrance container are in close contact with each other. It is possible to make the inside of the fragrance container and the fragrance transporting airway non-penetrating by overlapping the shielding cylinder, one opening of the fragrance container, and a portion other than the one opening by a rotating operation. Features Was the aroma providing device that.
According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the cylindrical fragrance container includes a plurality of fragrance chambers divided inside, and each of the divided fragrance chambers includes an opening. It was set as the fragrance providing apparatus described.
The invention according to claim 6 is characterized in that the blowing means is capable of blowing air inside the fragrance transporting airway in the sending direction and the sending direction. It was.

In the scent providing device of the present invention, a fragrance container is installed on the side of the fragrance transporting airway. Thereby, the distance from a fragrance | flavor container to a fragrance exit can be shortened, and adhesion of the fragrance | flavor component to an apparatus inner surface can be made small. Thereby, it can be set as the fragrance provision apparatus which can suppress discharge | release of the unintended fragrance | flavor. In the first embodiment of the present invention, a fragrance container is provided on the outside, a shielding cylinder is provided on the inside, and the inside of the shielding cylinder is a fragrance transporting airway. On the other hand, in the second embodiment of the present invention, a fragrance container is provided on the inner side, a shielding cylinder is provided on the outer side, and a fragrance transporting airway is provided on the outer side of the shielding cylinder.
Moreover, the scent providing device of the present invention includes a blowing means. By blowing air in the sending direction from the blowing means toward the scent outlet by the blowing means, the scent can be quickly provided to the user.
In addition, the scent providing device of the present invention is characterized in that the perfume container and the perfume transporting airway are switched to a penetration state and a non-penetration state by rotating the shielding cylinder and the perfume container. Here, when the fragrance container and the fragrance transporting airway are in a penetrating state, the fragrance is released from the fragrance container to the fragrance transporting airway, and the scent is provided to the user from the scent outlet. On the other hand, when the fragrance container and the fragrance transporting airway are in a non-penetrating state, the fragrance is not released from the fragrance container into the fragrance transporting airway. That is, in the scent providing device of the present invention, the perfume container and the perfume transporting airway can be quickly switched to a non-penetrated state, and the scent is provided at an appropriate timing. It can be set as the fragrance provision apparatus which can be used.
Moreover, in this invention, it is preferable that a fragrance | flavor container is equipped with several fragrance | flavor chambers. By providing a plurality of fragrance chambers in the fragrance container, a plurality of scents can be provided. Further, in the present invention, even when a plurality of fragrance chambers are provided, a scent providing device in which front and rear scents are hardly mixed when switching between a plurality of scents can be provided.
Moreover, in the scent providing device of the present invention, the unintended unnecessary scent remaining in the fragrance transporting airway is quickly collected by blowing in the feeding direction from the scent outlet toward the blowing means by the blowing means. be able to.

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing the entire configuration of the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a part of the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing the entire configuration of the second embodiment. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a part of the second embodiment.

[First Embodiment]
A first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing the entire configuration of the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a part of the first embodiment. 2A is a perspective view of the fragrance container, FIG. 2B is a perspective view of the shielding cylinder, and FIG. 2C is a cross-sectional view of the fragrance transport container.

  1 and 2, the fragrance container 1 has four fragrance chambers 4. The perfume container has a donut shape and has a cylindrical through-hole on the inner surface, and an opening from each perfume chamber on the wall surface.

  A rotary cylindrical shielding cylinder is set so as to be in close contact with the through hole of the fragrance container. The shielding cylinder is cylindrical and the inside becomes a fragrance transporting airway. The diameter of the shielding cylinder and the diameter of the cylindrical through-hole of the fragrance container are substantially equal, or a cushioning material (not shown) for smoothing each other's shearing rotation is arranged.

  When the shielding cylinder and the fragrance container are rotated with the shielding cylinder inserted into the fragrance container, the opening of the fragrance container and the opening of the shielding cylinder are overlapped to form a penetrating state. can do. Moreover, the intensity | strength of fragrance can be made controllable by changing the area where the opening part of the said fragrance | flavor chamber and the opening part of the shielding cylinder were overlapped by rotation. When in the penetrating state, the fragrance in the fragrance chamber of the fragrance container is in a state of diffusing the above into the shielding cylinder.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the shielding cylinder is connected to a motor, and it is possible to select which fragrance chamber of the fragrance container the opening of the shielding cylinder is connected with the rotation of the motor. Further, as shown in the fragrance container cross-sectional view shown in FIG. 2 (c), the fragrance container has a protruding portion between the fragrance chambers, and in the state where the protruding portion and the opening of the shielding tube overlap, The fragrance chamber of the fragrance container becomes non-penetrating. At this time, a state where no fragrance is provided to the fragrance transporting airway can be created.

  Each fragrance chamber is filled with a cotton-like fragrance holder. The fragrance holder is for insertion so that the liquid fragrance does not leak out as a liquid from the fragrance chamber. Alternatively, a film that allows gas to pass but not liquid to pass through the opening of the perfume chamber, or a porous ceramic plate may be arranged to provide the same effect.

  Moreover, it is desirable that the fragrance container is transparent. This is because it is possible to observe from the outside the process in which the fragrance is colored and consumed as described above, and it is possible to detect and replenish the fragrance shortage in advance. Furthermore, as shown in FIG.1 and FIG.2, a fragrance | flavor container is fixed to an outer case with a screw type. That is, exchange is easy.

  1 has a control means and a battery. In the external signal, information indicating the fragrance to be released at that time (the fragrance of the fragrance chamber to be opened), or rotation amount instruction information is provided to the rotation motor based on the instruction of the control means. The battery is a battery that can be repeatedly used by charging, and serves as the power for the communication and motor drive, and the air blowing fan that can blow air in the sending or sending direction.

  The air blowing fan 8 which is a blowing means rotates based on an instruction from the control means to take in the ambient air from the outside air approaching mouth, blows in the sending direction toward the scent outlet in the perfume transport airway, and faces the perfume transport airway The fragrance is provided from the fragrance outlet to the user with the fragrance vapor (fragrance) from the fragrance chamber in the penetrating state.

  The air blowing fan is controlled by control means that receives instruction information presented in accordance with the progress of the viewing content. Until the opening of the shielding cylinder overlaps with the opening of the fragrance chamber storing the fragrance to be provided by the mutual rotation, an opening state is temporarily generated with the opening of the fragrance chamber having the fragrance not intended to be provided. At times when the shield tube is rotating and not intended to provide fragrance, the air blower fan is stationary or blows in the feeding direction (from the scent outlet to the outside air intake port) to extend the scent outlet. It is possible to prevent an unintended scent from being sensed by a person's sense of smell. In addition, the air containing the unintended scent that has been sent in is adsorbed by the activated carbon holding part (scent removal filter) 14 and released to the outside. In particular, when the scent providing device of the present invention is used close to the head, the air containing the unintended scent that has been sent is released to the outside in a state in which the scent is adsorbed by the activated carbon holding unit 14 and does not contain the scent. Need to be done.

  The air blowing fan can control the amount of perfume vapor provided. That is, when it is slow, the effect of increasing the concentration can be brought about. Moreover, the fragrance | flavor component which remained or adhered to the inside of a fragrance | flavor conveyance airway or the passage of air to a fragrance exit can be removed by continuing rotation of the fan for air blowing in the reverse direction. It is an effective operation for increasing the purity of the scent to be provided to a person because various fragrance components adhere to the inside of the pipe by operating for a long time.

  Further, in the present invention, a penetrating state and a non-penetrating state are formed by a relative rotating operation while the shielding cylinder and the fragrance container are in close contact with each other. When a plurality of fragrance chambers are provided, the fragrance chamber having an unintended fragrance during the rotation operation may be in a penetrating state, and an unintended fragrance may be released to the fragrance transporting airway. In the present invention, the air blowing means is controlled to blow in the feeding direction (from the scent outlet to the outside air intake opening direction) during the relative rotation operation of the shielding cylinder and the fragrance container when the scent is switched. preferable.

  As shown in the present embodiment, the cylindrical shielding tube is rubbed against the cylindrical through-hole, closely adhered, and the provision of air is controlled when rotating it, thereby radiating a large number of fragrances. The valve to be controlled can be realized with a simple mechanism, and furthermore, by making the non-penetrating state with the rubbing mechanism, it is possible to realize a scent providing device in which unintended fragrance is not transported to a person at an unintended time.

[Second Embodiment]
A second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing the entire configuration of the second embodiment. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a part of the second embodiment. 4A is a perspective view of the fragrance container, FIG. 4B is a cross-sectional view of the fragrance container, and FIG. 4C is a cross-sectional view in which the fragrance container and the shielding cylinder are set.

  This scent providing device uses a fragrance container having a cylindrical outer peripheral surface. All of the fragrance chambers possessed by the fragrance container have an opening on the outer peripheral surface side, and the shielding cylinder covering the opening covers the fragrance container in a cylindrical shape from the outside. The air blowing fan, which is a blowing means, has a fragrance transporting airway only at a position where the cylindrical fragrance container is located (upper part of the drawing in FIG. 3). That is, FIG. 3 depicts a cross section through which the perfume transport airway passes. In this embodiment, the shielding cylinder does not rotate, but instead the cylindrical fragrance container rotates relative to the shielding cylinder. The rotation is installed at a position different from the position where the fragrance transporting airway is installed (in this case, the lower side in FIG. 3), and the cylindrical fragrance container itself is rotated via the rotating gear to be positioned at the position of the fragrance transporting airway. Perfume room (fragrance) can be selected.

  In 2nd Embodiment, a fragrance | flavor container and a shielding cylinder can be used by rubbing and a penetration state can be made only into a predetermined | prescribed perfume chamber. The opening of the fragrance chamber, which is not intended to cause an open state, can be adopted without any influence on its function, even if it can be brought into a completely non-penetrating state by the shielding cylinder.

  In 2nd Embodiment, it is also possible to connect to a single fragrance | flavor transport airway, overlapping a cylindrical fragrance | flavor container. Therefore, a large number of fragrances can be retained. Moreover, since the penetration state with a fragrance | flavor transport airway can be produced in the outer peripheral part of a cylindrical fragrance | flavor container, the area of an opening part is not restricted to the wall surface inside a shielding cylinder like 1st Embodiment. Since the outer periphery of the fragrance container has a large area, it is possible to make a relatively large opening. That is, there is an advantage that the fragrance can be released more efficiently.

  On the other hand, as compared with the first embodiment, since the fragrance container and the shielding cylinder have a mating surface (contact surface) having a large area, the rotational friction force is increased. For this reason, the rotation motor for rotating the cylindrical fragrance container is formed on the outer peripheral portion, but it is obvious that the rotation motor may be formed at the center position of the fragrance container.

  In addition, since the second embodiment has a relatively large opening, only gas is allowed to pass through in order to prevent the fragrance from flowing out into the fragrance transporting airway through the opening as in the first embodiment. It has a gas permselective membrane. When there is no gas permselective membrane, valve-like fibers holding liquid fragrance may be packed in the fragrance chamber, or a porous fragrance-containing material may be arranged.

  Furthermore, when the perfume container rotates, if the opening of the shielding cylinder is located at the opening of the perfume chamber that is not intended to provide a scent, the unintended scent can be provided by moving the fan in or in the stationary direction. Can be prevented. Although this is repeated, in the scent providing device of the present invention, the air blowing means is blown in the feeding direction (from the scent outlet to the outside air intake opening direction) during the relative rotation operation of the shielding cylinder and the fragrance container. It is preferable to control. Thereby, the discharge | release of the unintentional fragrance during rotation operation | movement in the case of providing a some fragrance | flavor chamber can be prevented. In FIG. 3, the activated carbon holding part (scent removing filter) is not shown, but the activated carbon holding part (scent removing filter) can also be provided in the second embodiment.

  In the second embodiment shown in FIG. 3, the motor for rotating the fragrance container is held by the rotation motor support, and can be removed around the hinge. In other words, the fragrance container can be taken out and replaced by opening the outer case, and the fragrance can be replaced in various combinations.

  As shown in the cross section of the fragrance container in FIG. 4, for example, eight kinds of fragrances can be configured in one fragrance container, and furthermore, by setting these three times, as described above, 24 kinds of fragrance containers Perfume can be set. In addition, any cylindrical fragrance container can make a state where any fragrance chamber opening is not connected to the fragrance transport airway by stopping any one protruding portion at the position of the fragrance transport airway, It can be set as a standby position at a time when fragrance is not intended. Further, in the present embodiment, all of the inside of the cylindrical shape is a fragrance chamber, but the fragrance chamber becomes a fragrance transport airway chamber by putting any fragrance chamber in a state where there is no fragrance or a liquid without fragrance. The scent can be stopped when located in the area. In addition, any of the perfume chambers may hold a chemical that removes the perfume adhering to the inner wall surface of the perfume transporting airway or removes the perfume.

  In the scent providing device of the present invention, the first embodiment and the second embodiment are combined, the scent providing device of the first embodiment is installed closer to the center of rotation, and farther from the center of rotation. By installing the scent providing device of the second embodiment, a double fragrance container (fragrance chamber) can be provided with respect to the center of rotation. As a result, more scent can be released.

  In the scent providing device of the present invention, the “cylindrical” shielding cylinder and the “cylindrical” fragrance container have at least a part of the side surface cylindrical, What is necessary is just to be able to form a non-penetrating state. For example, in the scent providing device of the present invention, the cross section may include a part of the circumference like a sector. However, as shown in the drawing, it is preferable that all side surfaces are cylindrical.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Fragrance container 2 ... Shielding cylinder 3 ... Opening part 4 ... Fragrance room 5 ... Fragrance transport airway 6 ... Fragrance 7 ... Rotary motor 8 ... Fan 9 ...・ Outside air intake port 10... Control means 11 .. Scent outlet 12 .. Through port 13 .. Projecting portion 14... Activated carbon holding unit (scent removing filter)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 15 ... Outer case 16 ... Gas selective permeable membrane 17 ... Antenna 18 ... Rotating gear 20 ... Shielding cylinder 21 ... Rotating motor support body 22 ... Hinge part 23 ...・ Center axis

Claims (6)

Cylindrical, internal cavity becomes a perfume transport airway, and a shielding cylinder having an opening on a part of the side surface;
Fragrance is stored inside, provided on the outer surface of the shielding cylinder, and a fragrance container having an opening on the side surface on the shielding cylinder side;
A blower capable of blowing air at one end of the fragrance transporting airway,
By overlapping the opening of the shielding tube and the opening of the fragrance container by a relative rotation operation while the shielding tube and the fragrance container are in close contact with each other, the inside of the fragrance container and the fragrance transporting airway are in a penetrating state. Is possible and
The inside of the fragrance container and the fragrance are overlapped by overlapping a portion other than the one opening and the one opening of the fragrance cylinder and the fragrance container by a relative rotational operation while the shielding tube and the fragrance container are in close contact with each other. A scent providing device characterized in that the transport airway can be made non-penetrating.   The fragrance providing device according to claim 1, wherein the fragrance container is divided into a plurality of fragrance chambers on an outer surface of the shielding cylinder, and an opening is provided on a side surface on the shielding cylinder side for each of the plurality of fragrance chambers.   The scent providing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the blowing means is capable of blowing air inside the fragrance transporting airway in a sending direction and a sending direction. A fragrance container that is cylindrical, contains fragrance inside, and has an opening on a part of the side surface;
A shielding tube provided in contact with the outer surface of the fragrance container and having an opening on the side surface;
A perfume transporting airway outside the shielding tube,
A fragrance means is provided at one end of the fragrance transporting airway,
The inside of the fragrance container and the fragrance transporting airway are made to pass through by overlapping the opening of the shielding cylinder and the opening of the fragrance container by a relative rotational operation while the fragrance container and the shielding cylinder are in close contact with each other. Is possible and
The inside of the fragrance container and the fragrance are overlapped by overlapping a portion other than the one opening and the one opening of the fragrance cylinder and the fragrance container by a relative rotational operation while the shielding tube and the fragrance container are in close contact with each other. A scent providing device characterized in that the transport airway can be made non-penetrating.   The fragrance providing device according to claim 4, wherein the cylindrical fragrance container is divided into an interior and includes a plurality of fragrance chambers, and each of the divided fragrance chambers includes an opening.   The scent providing device according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the blowing means is capable of blowing air inside the fragrance transporting airway in a sending direction and a sending direction.