Theunique Difusor D’Aromes Intel·ligents by Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu

Theunique Difusor D’Aromes Intel·ligents by Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award d'Argent in Disseny de Peces de Vehicle, Accessoris d'Automòbil i Productes de Manteniment Competition Category.

ArgentAccessori de Vehicle· 2020

Theunique Difusor D’Aromes Intel·ligents

by Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu

Client: Theunique

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Accessori de Vehicle Category

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The Design

About Theunique Difusor D’Aromes Intel·ligents

L’agarwood és rar i car. El seu aroma només es pot obtenir a partir de cremades o extracció, utilitzades a l'interior i proporcionades per pocs usuaris. Per trencar aquestes limitacions, es crea un difusor d’aromes intel·ligents i tauletes naturals d’agarwood fetes a mà després d’esforços de 3 anys amb més de 60 dissenys, 10 prototips i 200 experiments. Demostra un nou model de negoci possible i l'ús del context per a la indústria agrícola. Els usuaris simplement poden inserir un difusor dins d’un cotxe, personalitzar el temps, la densitat i la varietat d’aroma amb facilitat i gaudir de l’aromateràpia immersiva allà on vagin i sempre que condueixin.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

Theunique Difusor D’Aromes Intel·ligents és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award d'Argent, un reconeixement extraordinàriament prestigiós concedit a dissenys d'alta gamma, esplèndids i impressionants. Els guanyadors d'Argent són obres tremendament brillants i summament creatives que il·lustren la perícia, el talent i la perspicàcia excepcionals dels seus dissenyadors. Es preveu que Theunique Difusor D’Aromes Intel·ligents sigui una obra meravellosa i de gran lluïment, remarcablement professional i profundament innovadora. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award d'Argent és un invent molt notable i admirat que beneficia i fa avançar els límits de l'art, la ciència, el disseny i la tecnologia. Theunique Difusor D’Aromes Intel·ligents és una creació molt envejada que evoca desitjos, introdueix sentiments positius i desperta sorpresa i admiració.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The product set consists of a smart aroma diffuser and several natural and hand-made agarwood tablets, which can be used inside of a vehicle. When turning on the diffusor, the tablet inside can be heated multi-dimensionally, creating an immersive aroma environment, wherever and whenever a user drives. Agarwood tablet created and heated this way can volatilise stably with longer time and higher efficiency, compared with the traditional way of burning. It revolutionises agarwood industry with an easy to use, customised, affordable and sustainable solution.
Dimensions & Packaging: 32mm x 100mm
Tags: Smart Aroma Diffusor, Natural Arwarwood Product, Vehicle-mounted, Immersive Experience, New Using Context
Production Technology: The product set is granted with design and technology patents and qualified with international safety standards of SGS and ROHS. The making of portable natural agarwood tablet takes 6 months of perfection using biotechnology, physical thermostat control, fine grinding and carefully multi-dimensional moulding by hand. The tablet maintains its precious and unique ingredients, like spirulin, furan, white wood sulphuric acid and so on. The diffusor is consisted of magnetic heat-absorbed insulation cover, polymer insulation product body and anodised aluminium casing to improve the time, efficiency, and effectiveness of volatilisation.
Design Challenge: One challenge of the project is to maximise the efficiency of aroma volatilisation. The space inside of a vehicle, duration and speed of volatilisation, density of aroma, and temperature of heating is calculated and tested carefully. Besides, as the diffusor is inserted inside of the cigarette lighter, different vehicles have different standards, it is quite hard to adjust to them.
Research: To modernise the traditional agarwood industry and let more people afford and enjoy it, the first industry-university collaborated agarwood Bio-Technology Lab is set up in China to study its new integration, using scenario and context. The R&D process takes 3 years, with 60 designs and 10 prototypes created, and over 200 experiments conducted to ensure the performance, efficiency and experience of the product.
Inspiration: Agarwood has significant meaning in culture, arts, literature and religious ceremony in China. Its aroma is rare and expensive, which can be obtained merely from burning or extraction and afforded by few users. Its usage is strictly limited by time and space. To explore its modern using context and new market possibilities, a project was launched to study agarwood with modern Bio-Technology and a product set was developed based on it.
Project Duration: The research of this project began in 2014. The product set was launched in the market in 2017. The project achieves great success in the design industry and in the market. Its series of products have won international awards like IF and Red Dot. Partners and clients include Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Accor Hotels, InterContinental Hotels, Bank of China, etc.
Operation Flow: First, put an agarwood tablet inside of a smart aroma diffuser. Then, insert the diffuser into the cigarette lighter inside of a vehicle. After turning on the diffusor, the tablet inside can be heated multi-dimensionally, creating an immersive aroma environment. Users can customised time, density and variety of aroma volatilisation with ease.
Patents: Technology Patents: 201721205892.4;201721207501.2
Design Patents: 201730355919.7
Team Members: Zhang Mengting
Li Xiaolin
Yang Chunxu
Image Credits: Zhang Mengting
Li Xiaolin
Yang Chunxu