Apparatus for Generating Odor upon Electronic Signal Demand Rasouli, Firooz Arastoopour, Hamid Oskouie, Ali An apparatus for generating odor upon electronic signal demand using a disk having an aroma-impregnated adsorbent and a substrate. The disk is inserted into a disk drive that receives signals from a user and/or a server computer. A controller within the disk drive supplies an electric, mechanical or thermal signal to the disk, resulting in the heating of the adsorbent. The controller may also activate a blower to distribute the scent produced by the heated adsorbent and to cool the adsorbent at the end of the scent distribution cycle. Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology United States Patent 2009-05-11 1999-12-21 Patent application/pdf islandora:9777 6,004,516 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2427 en No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access