For my second post, I found an interesting patent that seems to be silly. It is called a smoking hat. What it does is when a user smokes any tobacco products, the hat attached to the head of the smoker, takes the smoke inside and filters and removes the bad substance harmful to the environment. It also makes our environment clean and makes air smell nicer. This is a product that is suitable for smokers who are also interested in keeping the environment clean. I was able to get their exact abstract from the patent website.
It is stated that, "A portable hat system enables the smoking of tobacco type products without affecting the environment includes a hat for covering the head of the smoker, an integral fan for intaking ambient air (contaminated and non contaminated) into the hat with this intake ambient air flowing in front of the smoker's face, a filtration, purification and deionization system for removal of combustion products, such as smoke odors and positive ions from the intake ambient air, and an exhaust system for expelling the filtered deodorized, deionized and optionally scented air from the hat."
This is basically a hat attached to the person to prevent harmful substances from going out to the world. On the first look, it doesn't look too innovative because a smoker would not first think about environment in the first place(if the user was a smoker). Second, I feel that it would be cumbersome for smoker to use this because it would create more stress for the user. After all, many smokers smoke in order to get rid of stress. I was not find similar prior art for this patent. It may be because no one actually used this patent to get anything out of the world. To me this patent does not seem practical at all because no one would go that far to smoke. I feel that there is no practical use for this patent, so it should be invalidated, but as it's not obvious and there are no prior arts for this patent, it seemed to have been approved.
This is similar to the green house hat we saw in class. I wonder which patent came first. It does sound like this one is more innovative with better technology.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds innovative in that, but is it really practical in life though?
DeleteI can't think of why a smoker would wear this on a daily basis. If it was made to make a smoker quit smoking, I would understand. Maybe, the company should have marketed that way?