Patent Application
20200360956
Airbrush equipment is regularly employed in beauty and grooming services in order to provide clients the ability to obtain custom designs such as coatings on nails, hair highlights, and skin coatings. The process involves aerosolizing a paint and applying thin coats. Aerosolizing involves using compressed air in combination with an attached nozzle to direct thin coats of paints on specific areas in specific designs.
As specificity and detail are key reasons for using air brush techniques, having easy to use tools for applying air brush techniques. Portability of air brush tools have been pursued in the art to aid in ease of moving, positioning, and directing nozzles and the resultant thin coats of paint. In pursuit of portability of the tools, wireless air compressors and nozzles have been created. These wireless tools within the industry have generally relied on direct current sources, such as alkaline batteries, or rechargeable batteries to drive the air compressor motor. Drawbacks of using industry technology include being required to continuously change direct current power sources, or regularly plug the air compressor into an AC power source, such as a wall outlet, in order to have sufficiently charged batteries. In the case of using an AC power source, in a professional work environment such as a barber shop or beauty salon, AC power source generally require the use of hard wired outlets to plug into the wireless air compressor. The use of hard wired outlets increases the clutter in the environment.
It is a goal of the present invention to present a new development in order to allow for rechargeable battery source for air compressors while avoiding clutter.
The present invention relates to a wireless air compressor capable of having its battery power sources recharged wirelessly. By being able to be recharged wirelessly, the present invention decreases the clutter in beauty and barber shops by eliminating the need for a separate AC power supply or power strip that would normally be required to recharge battery power sources.
The present invention has as its goal an air compressor for use with air brush tools, whereby the air compressor is wireless and is wirelessly rechargeable.
It is a further goal of the present invention to present an adapter capable of providing an air compressor the capability of wireless recharge-ability.
It is a still further goal of the present invention to reduce clutter in professional hair care environments by allowing an air compressor component of an air brush apparatus to be rechargeable wirelessly and thus not require the use of hard wired AC source.
The rechargeable battery may number from one to several, based on the desired output charge, defined in terms of mAh which is the amount of power flow that is supplied at a specific voltage to an electrically driven device. The batteries may be used to recharge an electrically driven device, or may be used to drive an electrically driven device.
In a preferred embodiment, the rechargeable battery is recharged via wireless means. The air compressor 100 includes wireless charging receiver components 111 and a support 113. When the air compressor 100 is being wirelessly recharged, a visual indicator 119 displays to let the users know the air compressor 100 is being recharged. In one embodiment, the visual indicator 119 shuts off automatically when the battery 121 is fully recharged.
Auto shut-off of the air compressor 100 is accomplished by a pressure sensor 105. In this way, when the air compressor 100 is placed down unto a surface or a recharging pad, the air compressor 100 shuts off automatically. Thus, the unit exhibits energy saving capabilities.
Nozzles suitable for use in the present invention, and as well-known in the art, include atomizer nozzles, electrostatic process nozzle, ultrasonic nozzle, and spray nozzle. In the present invention, the nozzle is removably attached to allow attachment of different types of nozzles, as well as cleaning of the nozzles.
In this embodiment, the air compressor 303 include the means to allow the compressor 303 to recharge wirelessly, which in the present case the means is a removably attached adapter 300. In this embodiment, and as will be discussed later, the adapter 300 is positioned on the posterior of the air compressor 303. The adapter 300 further includes a pressure sensor (not shown), which triggers auto-shut off of the air compressor 303 when the air compressor 303 is placed down on a surface or recharging pad.
The adapter 300 further includes a guard rising from 1 to 3 inches up the side of the air compressor 303. The air compressor 303 further includes a neck 301 onto which a nozzle is removably attached.
The adapter 400 is presented as a single unit capable of being secured at or around the posterior of the wireless air compressor so that the adapter 400 does not interfere in the professionals use or handling of the wireless hair clipper. In one embodiment, the guard 404 raises approximately from 1 to 3 inches along side the hair clipper body as measured from the base of the air compressor sans the adapter.
