Theunique 智能香气扩散器 by Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 银奖 in 汽车零部件、汽车配件与养护产品设计 Competition Category.
银汽车配件· 2020
Theunique 智能香气扩散器
by Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu
Client: Theunique
A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 汽车配件 Category
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About Theunique 智能香气扩散器
沉香是稀有且昂贵的。它的香气只能通过燃烧或提取获得，只能在室内使用，并且很少有用户提供。为了克服这些限制，经过3年的努力，通过60多个设计，10个原型和200个实验，创建了一种智能香气扩散器和天然手工沉香片。它展示了一种新的可能的商业模式，并在沉香行业中使用了上下文。用户只需将扩散器插入车内，即可轻松自定义时间，密度和各种香气，无论身在何处，何时开车，都可以享受沉浸式香薰疗法。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 银奖
Theunique 智能香气扩散器是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Theunique 智能香气扩散器将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Theunique 智能香气扩散器是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。
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
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