Patent Application
20150040937
The present invention relates to a multifunctional cosmetic hair treatment apparatus which uses planar heating elements using carbon fiber as heating wires or far-infrared film plates. More particularly, the present invention relates to a cosmetic hair treatment apparatus using the planar heating elements or the far-infrared film plates for drying and cosmetically treating hair, which heats rods to a low temperature with heat or far-infrared radiations of the planar heating elements or the far-infrared film plates when the cosmetic hair treatments such as perms, straightening, softening, dyeing, hair-manicuring, treatments and hair-loss prevention and warmly heats a perm agent in the winter time and can also be used even when the hair is dried with the far-infrared radiations radiated from the far-infrared film plates.
In general, heating elements of a cap for a perm can be used to perform only cosmetic hair treatments such as perms, and generate heat using a nickel chrome alloy wire. However, since the heating elements generate electromagnetic waves and have poor flexibility due to a metal characteristic, the heating elements are disconnected due to corrosion, so that the heating elements have a short lifespan.
In addition, heating elements of a cap for a perm using nichrome heating wires have a structure in which only the corresponding heating wire is heated. Korean Utility Model Application No. 20-2001-0007980 discloses a cap for perming hair through heating of carbon heating semiconductor fiber, and fiber of a carbon heating semiconductor has simply a line structure. In order to improve tensile strength of the fiber in the line structure, a material such as rubber or silicon is coated on the fiber. However, since the coated fiber has also a line structure, a temperature distribution of the cap for a perm is non-uniformed, so that there are problems in that the perm is not uniformly performed during the perm and the dyeing is no uniformly on the entire hair to cause a difference in a dyed color.
Korean Utility Model Registration No. 20-0295967 discloses “Cap having plane heat-generating member” in which a heat generating unit such as a plane heat-generating member made of ceramic carbon fiber is provided between a lining and an outshell, power is supplied to the heat-generating member, and a power supply and a temperature control unit for controlling temperatures of the heat generated from the heat-generating member are provided.
Furthermore, Korean Patent Application No. 10-2005-0054246 discloses a cap in which heat is applied to hair in order to prompt a cosmetic hair treatment during dyeing, perms and hair nutritional clinic and far-infrared radiations, and anions for protecting hair and scalp are radiated at the same time to prompt health of the hair and scalp.
However, since heat-transferring methods of the aforementioned technologies are all performed at a time on a top portion, a nape portion and side portions of the hair, it is not easy to apply the aforementioned technologies to a cosmetic hair treatment necessary to allow the top portion, nape portion and side portions to have different temperatures. Further, the above-stated two products are used to perform only the cosmetic hair treatment, but are not used to a specialized and characterized hair drying without effort of the hairdresser.
Moreover, in an existing beauty salon, in order to quickly perm hair of a person to get a perm when the hair of the person to get a perm is permed, rods for cosmetically treating hair are heated to a low temperature (45° C. to 50° C.) by a separate heating unit, and the hairdresser needs to wash the hair and separately dry the hair with the hair drier after the cosmetic hair treatments such as perms, dyeing, treatments and hair-loss prevention.
It takes a long time for the hair dresser to dry the hair of the person to get a perm with the hair drier, and the hairdresser puts stress on the arm and wrist due to a heavy weight of the hair drier and long working hours of the hairdresser to increase tiredness.
The conventional cosmetic hair treatment cap is used to cosmetically treat hair. However, when the conventional cosmetic hair treatment cap is used to dry the hair, a space between the hair and the cosmetic hair treatment cap is not formed. Thus, there are problems in that circulated since the head is tightly covered with the cosmetic hair treatment cap, warm wind of the drier is not smoothly, the person to get a perm feels uncomfortable, or volumizing of the hair is flattened.
In order to solve the aforementioned problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a cosmetic hair treatment apparatus capable of simultaneously drying and cosmetically treating hair in various manners by improving an existing nickel chrome wire structure and using planar heating elements made of carbon fiber to radiate far-infrared radiations or far-infrared film plates capable of radiating far-infrared radiations.
In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present invention provides a cosmetic hair treatment cap used to cosmetically treat hair. The cosmetic hair treatment cap includes a lining (10) that is located at the innermost portion of the cosmetic hair treatment cap where a head touches, and is made of flame-retardant fiber; planar heating elements (40 and 40′) or far-infrared film plates (50 and 50′) that are located on a side surface of the lining where the head does not touch, the planar heating elements being made of a carbon fiber material and being used to heat an upper head and a lower head and the far-infrared film plates being capable of radiating far-infrared radiations; a temperature maintaining part (20) that is located on an outer surface of the lining (10) including the planar heating elements (40 and 40′) or the far-infrared film plates (50 and 50′), and is made of cotton fiber to maintain temperatures; an inner cover (30) of the cosmetic hair treatment cap that is located on an outer surface of the temperature maintaining part (20), and is made of a water-proof polyester material; and an outer cover (60) of the cosmetic hair treatment cap that surrounds an outer surface of the inner cover (30), is made of an artificial fiber material which is attached to the inner cover by Velcro, has cosmetic hair treatment cap-hanging parts (110) formed to correspond to the upper head, and is hung up on a support (90).
Further, preferably, the planar heating elements (40 and 40′) may be divided into the upper planar heating element (40) and the lower planar heating element (40′) or the far-infrared film plates (50 and 50′) may be divided into the upper far-infrared film plate (50) and the lower far-infrared film plate (50′), and the upper and lower planar heating elements or the upper and lower far-infrared film plates may include temperature sensors (77 and 77′) and over-temperature preventing units (78 and 78′).
Furthermore, preferably, the cosmetic hair treatment cap may further include a neck cover (34) that is detachably connected to a lower end of the inner cover (30) of the cosmetic hair treatment cap by a zipper (35), and surrounds a neck of a person to get a perm; a neck adjusting string (38′) that adjusts the neck cover to be suitable for a size of the neck; a neck adjusting button (39′) that adjusts a length of the neck adjusting string (38′); a face line cover (36) that is connected to the neck cover (34), and surrounds a face edge (a face line) of the inner cover (30) of the cosmetic hair treatment cap; a face line adjusting string (38) that adjusts the face line cover to be suitable for the face line; and a face line adjusting button (39) that adjusts a length of the face line adjusting string (38).
A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a cosmetic hair treatment apparatus including the cosmetic hair treatment cap (100); a control unit (70) that includes temperature control switches (74 and 74′) and time control units (76 and 76′) which detect temperatures of the planar heating elements (40 and 40′) or the far-infrared film plates (50 and 50′) and control heating times; and a support (90) that includes cosmetic hair treatment cap-hanging rings (92) on which the cosmetic hair treatment cap-hanging parts (110) are hung up.
Moreover, preferably, the temperature control switches (74 and 74′) and the time control units (76 and 76′) of the control unit (70) may be able to separately control upper and lower parts of the cosmetic hair treatment cap. The cosmetic hair treatment apparatus may further include left and right neon units (79 and 79′) that are able to check whether or not the planar heating elements or the far-infrared film plates are operated by being turned on when the planar heating elements (40 and 40′) or the far-infrared film plates (50 and 50′) are heated.
A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a cosmetic hair treatment apparatus for drying hair which includes a cosmetic hair treatment cap including a cosmetic hair treatment cap-outer cover (60), a cosmetic hair treatment cap-inner cover (30), far-infrared film plates (50 and 50′) that are located inside the cosmetic hair treatment cap-inner cover (30), are able to radiate far-infrared radiations, and are divided into upper and lower parts, and a ventilation inner cover (32) that is located inside the far-infrared film plates (50 and 50′), has a plurality of vent holes through which wind of a drier passes, and is made of a heat-resistance material; an outer surface part (89) that includes a drier outlet inserting hole (80) formed at a lower end of the ventilation inner cover (32) so as to allow wind of a hair drier to be inserted; a far-infrared film plate (50″) that is provided inside the outer surface part (89) in a cylindrical shape; central, left, right and upper central wind passing pipes (82, 84, 86 and 88) through which wind blows toward an upper end, left and right sides, and upper and lower sides of the far-infrared film plates; a control unit (70); and a support (90).
In addition, the far-infrared film plates (50 and 50′) may further include temperature sensors (77 and 77′) and over-temperature preventing units (78 and 78′).
As mentioned above, according to the present invention, there is provided a cosmetic hair treatment apparatus including a heating cosmetic hair treatment cap using a general-purpose fiber-reinforced planar electrical conductor obtained by minimizing a thickness of a cosmetic hair treatment cap with a light-weight heat maintaining material while maximizing a cosmetic hair treatment effect by improving an existing nickel chrome wire structure to solve the aforementioned problems and applying the improved structure to cosmetically treat hair.
Further, there is provided a cosmetic hair treatment apparatus including a planar heating cosmetic hair treatment cap using a fiber-reinforced planar electrical conductor capable of helping a cosmetic hair treatment suitable for a well-being trend by giving a function of radiating far-infrared radiations due to a planar heating material characteristic to an existing cap for perming hair through heating.
Furthermore, it is possible to exhibit a cosmetic hair treatment effect of variously maintaining a temperature of the cosmetic hair treatment cap depending on various kinds of hairs when the hairs are cosmetically treated in various manners. Furthermore, by using the cosmetic hair treatment cap including the upper planar heating element and the lower planar heating element, it is possible to cosmetically treat the hair while allowing a top of a head having a high temperature and a back and sides of the head having a relatively low temperature to have different temperatures when the cosmetic hair treatments such as perms, straightening, dyeing, hair-manicuring, treatments and hair-loss prevention are performed on the hair.
In addition, it is possible to save workforces by using the existing hair drier, and since hairdressers do not directly dry the hair, it is possible to reduce tiredness caused by excess exhaustion of physical strength of the hairdressers.
According to the cosmetic hair treatment apparatus for drying hair, since heat of warm wind from the hair drier is uniformly blown to the entire hair at the same time without effort of the hairdresser, it is possible to exhibit a cosmetic hair treatment effect and an economical effect. Further, it is possible to provide a more characterized and specialized cosmetic hair treatment apparatus until the last hair drying step from the first step of the cosmetic hair treatment by using the cosmetic hair treatment cap capable of radiating far-infrared radiations after the cosmetic hair treatment and anti-bacterial and deodorization effects as the hair drier.
Hereinafter, various embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail by referring to the accompanying drawings.
Further, the face line cover 36 includes a face line adjusting string 38 and a face line adjusting button 39 in order to adjust the face line cover to be suitable for the size of the face, and also includes a neck adjusting string 38′ and a neck adjusting button 39′ in order to adjust the neck cover to be suitable for the size of the neck.
The neon units 79 and 79′ of the control unit 70 are provided on left and right sides of an upper part of the control unit. Here, when the planar heating elements 40 and 40′ or the far-infrared film plates 50 and 50′ are heated, the upper and lower neon units 79 and 79′ are turned on, so that it can be preferably checked whether or not upper and lower parts of the planar heating elements or the far-infrared film plates are operated.
The outer cover is detachably provided to the inner cover by a Velcro, and it is preferred that the planar heating elements be separately divided into the upper head-planar heating element 40 and the lower head-planar heating element 40′. When the hair is dried, far-infrared film plates 50 and 50′ may be provided instead of the planar heating elements, and the description thereof will be presented below.
It is preferred that the temperature sensors 77 and 77′ provided at the planar heating elements 40 and 40′ are divided into the upper temperature sensor 77 and the lower temperature sensor 77′ and the over-temperature preventing units 78 and 78′ provided at the planar heating elements are divided into the upper over-temperature preventing unit 78 and the lower over-temperature preventing unit 78′. The temperature sensors and the over-temperature preventing units detect the temperatures and prevent a scalp from being scalded by allowing the planar heating elements not to be heated any more when the detected temperatures are equal to or more than predetermined temperatures.
The planar heating elements 40 and 40′ made of a carbon fiber material are located inside the lining 10, and as stated above, the planar heating elements 40 and 40′ are preferably divided into the upper planar heating element 40 and the lower planar heating element 40′.
The outer cover 60 of the cosmetic hair treatment cap which is made of an artificial fiber material may be provided on the outer surface of the inner cover 30 so as to be detachably connected to the inner cover by Velcro.
The planar heating elements 40 and 40′ are connected to the control unit 70 by a wire to be able to control the temperatures and times.
In this way, the planar heating elements including the planar heating elements can be variously used while controlling the temperatures and times when various cosmetic hair treatments such as perms and straightening are carried out.
Furthermore, according to one preferred embodiment, the cosmetic hair treatment cap may be specialized in the drying of the hair. Referring to
In addition, as mentioned above, the temperature sensors 77 and 77′ and the over-temperature preventing units 78 and 78′ may be further provided at the far-infrared film plates 50 and 50′. The temperature sensors and the over-temperature preventing units may be controlled by the control unit 70, and the cosmetic hair treatment cap can be hung up on the support 90.
A method for cosmetically treating hair by using the cosmetic hair treatment cap of the present invention will be described below.
In general, when healthy hair, hair subjected to perm after a long time or hair dyed by henna is permed in a beauty salon, the hair does not curl well.
In this case, rods for a perm or a perm agent is inserted into the cosmetic hair treatment cap 100 before the hair is permed, and the cosmetic hair treatment cap 100 is sealed in order to prevent external air from being introduced by adjusting the face line adjusting button 39 and the neck adjusting button 39′ of the cosmetic hair treatment cap 100. Thereafter, the time control units 76 and 76′ and the upper temperature control units 74 and 74′ are operated by setting the time control units to 15 minutes at the upper head or 20 minutes at the lower head and setting the upper temperature control units 74 and 74′ to 70° C.
After the above-mentioned procedure, when the rods inside the cosmetic hair treatment cap 100 are heated, after the hair of a person to get a perm is permed while taking out the perm agent and the heated rods by using the face line adjusting button 39 of the cosmetic hair treatment cap 100, the hair of the person to get a perm is directly covered with the cosmetic hair treatment cap 100 that has been already heated in the above-mentioned procedure. Accordingly, heat from the cosmetic hair treatment cap 100 can be more quickly transferred to the hair, and it is possible to use the cosmetic hair treatment apparatus suitably for a hair condition of the person to get a perm and application treatments of various cosmetic hair treatments.
Further, it is necessary to dry the hair after various cosmetic hair treatments, and even when the hair is dried, after the hair is set with the rods by using the cosmetic hair treatment cap 100 including the ventilation inner cover 32 having the drier outlet inserting hole 80 and the far-infrared film plates 50 and 50′, a conventional drier is inserted into the drier outlet inserting hole and is used. Accordingly, it is possible to considerably reduce effort of a hairdresser when drying the hair, and it is possible to exhibit deodorization, sterilization and antibacterial effects with far-infrared radiations.
The embodiments described herein have been presented by way of example only, and it is to be appreciated that those skilled in the art can variously change or modify the embodiments without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. The changes and modifications are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.
The present invention can be usefully used in the beauty industry.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-2012-0036240 | Apr 2012 | KR | national |
| PCTKR2013002565 | Mar 2013 | KR | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/KR2013/002565 | 3/28/2013 | WO | 00 |
