Patent ID: 7718119
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: A61L,A61M

Abstract:
1. A smell generating apparatus for generating a desired smell under computer control, comprising: perfume information that sets preliminarily kinds of perfumes constituting a smell, its generation amount and variation with time of the generation amount; a smell generation program; storage means for storing the smell generation program; smell generation control means for controlling smell generation according to the smell generation program and the perfume information; smell selecting means for selecting a specific perfume containing member from perfume containing members under control by the smell generation control means; smell generating means for generating the smell from the specific perfume containing member, by rotating or vibrating a porous container member containing the perfume with a shape memory alloy, based on the smell selecting means; smell classification table memory means for storing a smell classification table comprising a plurality of smell items defining the perfume information, the perfume information including a combination of perfumes constituting a smell of a smell item, a generation amount of the smell and variation with time of the generation amount; perfume information registration means for registering the perfume information; perfume information selecting and extracting means for selecting a predetermined smell item from the smell classification table and extracting corrected perfume information corresponding to the predetermined smell item; at least one of image reproducing means and sound generating means for outputting the associated at least one of continuous images and sounds, wherein the desired smell is generated along with an output of the associated at least one of continuous images and sounds based on the perfume information corresponding to the predetermined smell item of the smell classification table or the corrected perfume information thereof.