Enhanced optical illusion fluid display device

摘要

A fluid display device that produces the illusion of fluid droplets traveling up, traveling down or levitating, in a stable, smooth, and non-jerky motion. The fluid display device includes a housing, a reservoir for storing the fluid, an outlet nozzle for dispensing the fluid, a pump pulsating the fluid, an inlet for receiving the fluid from the outlet nozzle, and a light source having a color temperature of at least 5000 degrees K operating at or above flicker-fusion frequency to illuminate the fluid droplets.

主权项

1. A fluid display device comprising:
a housing having an opening, said opening having an edge; an interior cavity having a matte finish within said housing defined by said opening, having at least a left interior wall, a right interior wall, a back interior wall, an upper interior wall and a lower interior wall; a reservoir within said housing for storing the fluid; at least one outlet nozzle within said interior cavity for dispensing a stream of the fluid,
wherein said at least one outlet nozzle is movable; a pump within said housing for delivering pulsating fluid at a predetermined intensity from said reservoir to said at least one outlet nozzle; at least one inlet within said interior cavity spaced apart from said at least one outlet nozzle for receiving the fluid being dispensed from said at least one outlet nozzle for re-circulating back to said reservoir; and at least three light sources having a color temperature of at least 5000 degrees K operating at a flash rate at or above flicker-fusion frequency directed at the stream of fluid between said outlet nozzle and said inlet and located in the interior cavity at said edge of said opening such that said light source is not viewable from outside said housing, and wherein said at least three light sources are increasingly spaced from one another, such spacing corresponding to an increased spacing of the pulsating fluid falling within said interior cavity.