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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2001
John Arnell, Bishops Stortford, GB;
Christos Pavlos Bakopoulos, Cardiff, GB;
Ahmet Ennis Baydar, West Roxbury, MA (US);
Philippe Blondeau, Paris, FR;
Aroma Technology Limited, Bishops Stortford, GB;
Abstract
The invention relates to an odor dispensing device comprising a housing and a disc shaped cartridge ( ) adapted to move around its rotation axis and having a plurality of discrete radially arranged compartments ( ), each compartment ( ) containing an odorant or an odorant carrier ( ), said housing containing means for positioning the cartridge ( ), means for producing an airstream to a pre-selected compartment ( ) in response to a signal emanating from a computer control module, a microprocessor, an optical system or a timing mechanism and means for temporarily subjecting the odor carrier ( ) within the compartment ( ) to the airstream so that an odor is discharged from the cartridge ( ), and entrained in the airstream, wherein the cartridge ( ) has a basic body ( ) with bottom ( ) and compartments ( ) separated by walls, which compartments ( ) of the cartridge ( ) can be tightly closed and opened by covers ( ) working in axial direction of the cartridge ( ) and against the flow of the airstream.