Patent Application
20250153376
The disclosure relates to hair treatment devices and more particularly pertains to a new hair treatment device for activating to treat hair of an individual when the device senses body heat of the individual.
The prior art discloses myriad hair treatment devices but fails to describe such a device which activates when the hair treatment device senses body heat of the individual. Such a device is advantageous over the prior art because it conserves electrical power by limiting electricity usage when the device is not being used to treat hair.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a housing and a hair treatment mechanism mounted to the housing. A processor is operatively coupled to the hair treatment mechanism, the processor is mounted in the housing. A heat sensor is operatively coupled to the processor and is mounted to the housing adjacent to the hair treatment mechanism. The heat sensor faces away from the housing and is oriented such that the heat sensor is configured to face an individual when the hair treatment mechanism is in use on hair of the individual. The processor is configured to activate the hair treatment mechanism when the heat sensor detects heat indicative of the heat sensor lying adjacent to the individual.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A processor 24 is operatively coupled to the hair treatment mechanism 14 and is mounted in the housing 12. A heat sensor 26 is operatively coupled to the processor 24 and is mounted to the housing 12 adjacent to the hair treatment mechanism 14 opposite the plurality of cutting teeth 20 of the pair of blades 18. The heat sensor 26 faces away from the housing 12 and is oriented such that the heat sensor 26 is configured to face an individual 46 when the hair treatment mechanism 14 is in use on hair 48 of the individual 46. The processor 24 is configured to activate the hair treatment mechanism 14 when the heat sensor 26 detects heat indicative of the heat sensor 26 lying adjacent to the individual 46 and to deactivate the hair treatment mechanism 14 when the heat sensor 26 does not detect heat indicative of the heat sensor 26 lying adjacent to the individual 46.
A camera 28 is operatively coupled to the processor 24. The camera 28 is mounted to the housing 12 adjacent to the hair treatment mechanism 14 and adjacent to the plurality of cutting teeth 20 of the pair of blades 18. The camera 28 is configured to face the individual 46 when the hair treatment mechanism 14 is in use on the hair 48 of the individual 46. An input 30 is operatively coupled to the processor 24 and is mounted on the exterior 13 of the housing 12. The input 30 comprises a sensor control 32 for alternately activating and deactivating the heat sensor 26 and a camera control 34 for alternately activating and deactivating the camera 28. A transceiver 36 is operatively coupled to the processor 24 wherein the processor 24 is configured to be in signal communication with a remote electronic device 50. The processor 24 is configured to selectively transmit images captured by the camera 28 via the transceiver 36 to the remote electronic device 50.
A power supply 38 is electrically coupled to the processor 24 and comprises a battery 40. A charging port 42 is electrically coupled to the battery 40 and is mounted on the exterior 13 of the housing 12. A charge indicator 44 is operatively coupled to the battery 40 and is configured to indicate when the battery 40 is charging.
In use, the processor 24 causes the hair treatment mechanism 14 to activate when the hair styling device 10 is positioned such that the heat sensor 26 detects the body heat of the individual 46. In such a position, the hair styling device 10 is used to treat the hair 48 of the individual 46 with the hair treatment mechanism 14. The camera 28 is selectively activated to record still or video images which are transmitted via the transceiver 36 to the remote electronic device 50, which may be a smart phone, a computer, a tablet, or the like.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
