Odor Industry, Deodorant Industry

This report was compiled based on an article introduced in our periodical, “Yano E plus” of August 2020 issue.

1. Peculiarity of Olfactory Perception among Five Senses and Difficulty in Odor Sensors

2. Impact to Digitalize the Information Taken by Odor Sensors

3. Major Types of Operation Systems of Odor Sensors

1) Semiconductor

2) Quartz Crystal Unit

3) Field Effect Transistor (FET) Biosensor

4) Membrane-type Surface Stress Sensor (MSS)

4. Application of Odor Sensors

1) Medicine, Healthcare

2) Security

3) Agriculture, Food

4) Communications

5. Forecast of Odor Sensor Market Size

6. Trends in Companies related to Odor Sensors

  6-1. Karumoa Co., Ltd.

              (1) Odor Sensor “POLFA”

              (2) Fixed-point Observation System “LIMOS”

   6-2. Kyushu University

              (1) Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Sensor Using Antigen-Antibody Reaction

              (2) Chemosensitive Resistor Artificial Olfactory System

   6-3. DAIICHISEIKO Co., Ltd.

   6-4. Tokyo Medical and Dental University

              (1) Biofluorescence Gas Sensor

              (2) Odor Detection Camera that Visualizes Concentration Distribution of Skin Gas

   6-5. Tokyo Institute of Technology

              (1) Odor Biosensing System Using Insect Olfactory Receptor and Image Recognition

              (2) Electrochemical Odor Sensor Using Monoatomic Metals

   6-6. The University of Tokyo

   6-7. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

   6-8. National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

7. Future Prospects of Odor Sensors