Aromatic odorant emitting device

• US 4,370,300 A
• Filed: 11/24/1981
• Issued: 01/25/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dduskin Franchise Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Duskin Franchise Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Nishimura, Haruo, Mori, Yasuyuki, Sugahara, Yoshikazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Kellogg, Arthur D.
• Application Number:
  US06/324,487
• Time in Patent Office: 427 Days
• Field of Search: 422/105, 422/108, 422/110, 422/124, 261/DIG. 17, 261/96, 261/102
• US Class Current: 422/108
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/24 Apparatus using programmed or automatic operation
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 9/122 comprising a fan
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 261/17 Odorizers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 261/88 Aroma dispensers

Abstract

An aromatic odorant emitting device comprising a mainbody case and a cover case, said device including an odorant, and an evaporator immersed with the aromatic odorant, and a fan unit which blows the air to the evaporator so as to control the evaporation rate of the odorant in response to the temperature and the illumination intensity in the room, with the aid of a thermosensor and a photosensor, so that a constant aromatic odorant evaporation is provided.

Claims

1. An aromatic odorant emitting device comprising:

(a) a first mainbody case 2 in a box shape having a plurality of openings 6f at the lower portion of its rear surface, said case being fixed onto an wall;

(b) a second cover case 3 detachably mounted onto said first case, said second case being slightly larger than the first case and having a plurality of through slits 25 for exhaustion of an air including an aromatic odorant, at its lower portion, and having the openings 28, 30 at a center portion and a corner of an upper portion thereof;

said first case 2 containing;

(i) an aromatic odorant container 7 for containing the liquid aromatic odorant, to be placed on the bottom plate 5b;

(ii) an evaporator 35 having an absorbing piece 38 which is always supplied with the liquid aromatic odorant through the glass fiber bundles 37, said aromatic odorant container being detachably mounted onto said evaporator;

(iii) a fan unit fixed on an inside thereof being positioned in opposite to said evaporator and said opening 28 for a fan 17 of said unit;

(iv) a photosensor 20 fixed on a portion of said first case 2, being placed in opposite to said opening 30;

(v) a thermosensor 19 for controlling a rotational speed of said fan 17, together with said photosensor 20;

(vi) a battery container 21 for containing at least one battery to supply its electric current to said thermosensor 19 and the photosensor 20, being detachably provided for said first case 2;

said second case 3 having at its upper end thereof a locking mechanism 31 comprising;

(i) a washboard-like piece 32 extending from the case 3 and having a hook 32a provided at its tip end for being engaged within an opening 9a provided on an engagement piece 9 formed on said first case 2;

(ii) a slide lever 33 slidably attached on a backside of the washboard-like member 32, one end 33a of which extending forwardly from an opening 34 formed on a front face of said second cover case, another end of which extending at a lower side of a tip end of said washboard-like member 32, a pair of holding members 33b, 33b embracing the both sides of said forward tip end of said washboard-like member 32 being formed on said tip end of said slide lever 33.

2. An aromatic odorant emitting device according to claim 1, wherein it further comprises:

(a) a DC power source for supplying a power;

(b) a temperature detecting circuit for sensing a room temperature;

(c) an illumination intensity detecting circuit for sensing a room illumination intensity;

(d) a control circuit for receiving signals from said circuits in the (b) and (c) to drive and control a motor;

said control circuit comprising;

(i) a temperature reference circuit for generating a reference voltage for setting the temperature;

(ii) a temperature comparator circuit for comparing the temperature detecting voltage sensed by said temperature detecting circuit (b) with the reference voltage generated by said temperature reference circuit (i);

(iii) an illumination intensity reference circuit for generating the reference voltage for setting the illumination intensity;

(iv) an illumination intensity comparator circuit for comparing the illumination detecting voltage sensed by said illumination intensity detecting circuit (c) with the reference voltage generated by said illumination intensity reference circuit (iii); and

;

(v) a change-over circuit for switching the revolution speed of the motor at a multiple stages by receiving the outputs from said both comparator circuits (ii) and (iv),

(e) a fan unit having a plurality of fan blades, mounted on one end of the rotary axis of said motor for blowing air onto an evaporation surface of the aromatic odorant, said blown air volume being variably controlled by said combination of the circuits to variably control the evaporation rate of the aromatic odorant in response to the room temperature and the illumination intensity.

3. A device according to claim 2, wherein the motor is a pulse motor.

4. A device according to claim 3, wherein the pulse motor comprises at least a coil and a driving coil, said motor having at its rotary axis at least a permanent magnet which generates an induction voltage, which then pulsatively controls a current flowing through said driving coil.

5. A device according to claim 2, wherein the motor is a DC motor.

6. A device according to claim 2, wherein the temperature detecting circuit comprises at least a thermistor.

7. A device according to claim 2, wherein the illumination intensity detecting circuit comprises at least an element selected from a group consisting of CdS, photodiodes and phototransistors.

8. A device according to claim 2, wherein the temperature and illumination intensity detecting circuits comprise at least one selected from a group consisting of transistors and Zener diodes.