Perfume gas generating device

• US 5,484,086 A
• Filed: 04/01/1994
• Issued: 01/16/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kuan H. Pu
• Original Assignee: Kuan H. Pu
• Inventors: Pu, Kuan H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kashnikow, Andres
• Assistant Examiner(s): DeRosa, Kenneth R.
• Application Number:
  US08/221,737
• Time in Patent Office: 655 Days
• Field of Search: 222/146.5, 222/187, 392/394, 392/395, 392/403, 392/406
• US Class Current: 222/187
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 9/037 comprising a wick

Abstract

A perfume gas generating device including a container for containing the perfume, a cap member associated with a neck portion of the container and formed with at least one opening, a fiber-made wick member disposed in the container and serving as an upward moving path of the perfume in the container, and a heating system including a heating mechanism disposed above the wick member and contacting a top surface thereof, whereby the heating mechanism forms a high temperature area above the top surface of the wick member and the perfume is able to move upward along the wick member into the high temperature area to be vaporized into gas which dissipates to ambient environment.

Claims

1. A perfume gas generating device including:

a container for containing the perfume, said container having a main body, a neck portion formed on an upper end of said main body, and a reservoir defined by said main body;

a cap member associated with said neck portion of said container, having at least one opening;

a fiber-made wick member disposed in said reservoir of said container, said wick member serving as an upward moving path of the perfume in said reservoir and having a top end extending outside said neck portion of said container; and

a heating system including a heating mechanism disposed above said wick member, having a heat input end and a heat output end, and a heat source controlling circuit for conducting heat to said heating mechanism, whereby

said heating mechanism forms a high temperature area above said top end of said wick member and the perfume is able to move upward along said wick member into said high temperature area to be vaporized into gas which dissipates into the ambient environment, said heating mechanism including a transistor connected with said input end of said heating mechanism, a diode and a current-limiting resistor connected with said transistor, and an oscillating circuit having a variable resistor, whereby said oscillating circuit is connected with said transistor through said current-limiting resistor and diode.

2. A perfume gas generating device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cap member has an end wall formed with a recess portion, permitting said heating mechanism to be disposed thereon.

3. A perfume gas generating device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the length of said wick member is such that said wick member extends from a bottom of said container to said opening of said cap member with said top end of said wick member protruding beyond said opening by a predetermined length to contact with said output end of said heating mechanism.

4. A perfume gas generating device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a heating wire is wound on said output end of said heating mechanism to contact a top surface of said top end of said wick member.

5. A perfume gas generating device as,claimed in claim 1, wherein a support member is disposed between said output end of said heating mechanism and said cap member, said support member having a hollow section and two lateral tooth ends, whereby a heating wire is wound on said tooth ends and said top end of said wick member passes through said hollow section to contact with said heating wire.

6. A perfume gas generating device including:

a container for containing the perfume, said container having a main body, a neck portion formed on an upper end of said main body, and a reservoir defined by said main body;

a cap member associated with said neck portion of said container, having at least one opening;

a fiber-made wick member disposed in said reservoir of said container, said wick member serving as an upward moving path of the perfume in said reservoir and having a top end extending outside said neck portion of said container; and

a heating system including a heating mechanism disposed above said wick member, having a heat input end and a heat output end, and a heat source controlling circuit for conducting heat to said heating mechanism, whereby

said heating mechanism forms a high temperature area above said top end of said wick member and the perfume is able to move upward along said wick member into said high temperature area to be vaporized into gas which dissipates into the ambient environment;

wherein a base member is disposed at a front end of a cigarette lighter, said base member being slidably fitted with a head body, a connecting seat having rails being disposed under said head body for connecting with said perfume gas generating device, said cap member being formed with two slide blocks corresponding to said rails of said connecting seat, whereby said perfume gas generating device is able to fit into said connecting seat with said slide blocks sliding along said rails.

7. A perfume gas generating device as claimed in claim 6 wherein:

said cap member has an end wall formed with a recess portion in which said heating mechanism is disposed.

8. A perfume gas generating device as claimed in claim 6 wherein:

the length of said wick member is such that said wick member extends from a bottom of said container to said opening of said cap member with said top end of said wick member protruding beyond said opening by a predetermined length to contact with said output end of said heating mechanism.

9. A perfume gas generating device as claimed in claim 6 wherein:

a heating wire is wound on said output end of said heating mechanism to contact a top surface of said top end of said wick member.

10. A perfume gas generating device as claimed in claim 6 wherein:

a support member is disposed between said output end of said heating mechanism and said cap member, said support member having a hollow section and two lateral tooth ends, whereby a heating wire is wound on said tooth ends and said top end of said wick member passes through said hollow section to contact said heating wire.