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US 10,537,653 B2Granted
Fragrance cartridge and chamber dispersion system
Assignee5Th Screen Digital Inc.
InventorKeith Kelsen
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a digital aroma system that provides a scented air on demand. Dry fragrance infused substrates are contained in fragrance cartridges that are removably mounted in a cassette that is connected to a manifold that has airway passages that are connected to fans or pumps that are controlled by a computer processor. The processor can selectively output scented air having a specified fragrance.
Claims23
A digital aroma system comprising:
- a plurality of fragrance cartridges, each of the fragrance cartridges comprising:
- a cartridge having a hollow housing;
- a plurality of dry fragrance infused beads that are loose objects within the hollow housing;
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- an inlet and an outlet on a bottom surface of the hollow housing;
- a cassette for holding the plurality of fragrance cartridges, the cassette having a manifold with air passages wherein each of the plurality of fragrance cartridges are individually removable from the cassette wherein each of the air passages of the manifold has an air inlet and a scent outlet that are separate flow paths for each of the plurality of fragrance cartridges;
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- a processor that selectively controls a plurality of control valves that transmit the dry fragrances from the plurality of fragrance cartridges to the scent outlet of the manifold;
- wherein fresh air is directed through the air inlet of the manifold to one of the fragrance cartridges in the manifold and some of the dry fragrance flows from the one of the plurality of fragrance cartridges flows to the scent outlet of the manifold.
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