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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2001
Yukio Ito, Tokyo, JP;
ITO Engineering Inc., Kuwana, JP;
Abstract
A highly reliable odor communication system which cannot be influenced by the natural condition and phenomenon and does not have a limit of the distance for sending odor signals. In the odor communication system, a data transmission system has an odor analysis unit for measuring humidity, temperature, mass, and odor constituents of an odor source and a data receiving unit has an odor emission unit for emitting an odor based on humidity, temperature, mass, and constituents of the odor, information of which is transmitted from the data transmission system. The odor emission unit has an odor element cell which has a nozzle for emitting an odor substance, an odor element cell layer having an odor element cell row in which one or more odor element cells are arranged in a horizontal direction and an odor element cell column in which one or more odor element cells are arranged in a vertical direction, an odor element selection mechanism for releasing the odor substance by selecting a desired odor element cell from one or more odor element cells of the odor element cell layer, and an odor element cell storage unit having layers in which one or more combination layers of one or more odor element cell layers and one or more odor element cell selection mechanisms are layered.