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EP1567029B1
EP1567029B1 EP03796137A EP03796137A EP1567029B1 EP 1567029 B1 EP1567029 B1 EP 1567029B1 EP 03796137 A EP03796137 A EP 03796137A EP 03796137 A EP03796137 A EP 03796137A EP 1567029 B1 EP1567029 B1 EP 1567029B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D20/00—Hair drying devices; Accessories therefor
    • A45D20/22—Helmets with hot air supply or ventilating means, e.g. electrically heated air current
    • A45D20/30—Electric circuitry specially adapted for hair drying devices
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D20/00—Hair drying devices; Accessories therefor
    • A45D20/04—Hot-air producers
    • A45D20/08—Hot-air producers heated electrically
    • A45D20/10—Hand-held drying devices, e.g. air douches
    • A45D20/12—Details thereof or accessories therefor, e.g. nozzles, stands

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  • the present invention relates to a hairdressing appliance of the type comprising, inside a housing, means for circulating a flow of hot air applied to an outlet opening of the housing to achieve drying and / or shaping the hair.
  • the present invention relates more particularly to a hairdryer provided with control and adjustment means for selecting the speeds and temperatures of the air flow used for drying or shaping the hair.
  • Hair-driers known from the state of the art generally comprise a three-position switch, a stop position and two others making it possible to pass from a low power value of the heating element and the speed of the flow of heat. air, to a higher value of these parameters.
  • a switch has, in addition, a display window of the selected position, to quickly inform on this position.
  • such a device does not independently adjust the value of the temperature and the speed of the air flow.
  • a similar apparatus is described in DE 91 14 242 U where the handle of the hairdryer also has an actuating button allowing the user to adjust the value of the torque speed and temperature of the air and to display it. in a window of the handle.
  • This apparatus further includes a pressure key arranged centrally of said actuator button to shut off power to the heating element and to send cold air through the outlet when the pressure key is actuated.
  • this apparatus does not allow an individual adjustment of the temperature and the speed of the air and, in addition, it does not inform the user by a display specific when the device operates in a mode other than the setting, including that corresponding to the cold air sent through the air outlet of the device.
  • JP 4-246303 discloses a hairdryer having means for controlling the operating parameters of the apparatus, in particular temperature and air speed, as well as means for storing the preselected values, values which can be found in later use.
  • this apparatus also proved to be difficult to use because of the multiplicity of control keys and the fact that the user must himself find the right keys in order to store the values of the operating parameters. .
  • the user being able to select and store a pair of temperature and air velocity, there may be the danger that he selects inappropriate values, far from optimal ones adapted to a specific use.
  • the document US Pat. No. 6,393,718 describes a hair dryer comprising, inside its housing, a fan actuated by an electric motor to send the air sucked through a heating element to the outlet orifice of air, as well as an ion generator provided to send a flow of ions to the air outlet of the hair dryer.
  • the handle of this housing comprises a control panel with several sensitive keys, one of which controls the operation of the ion generator and another the adjustment of the air speed. Indicators are provided on the same handle, one to show the start state of the ion generator and three others to indicate the value of the air velocity blown by the device.
  • This document only describes an apparatus provided with several control keys capable of adjusting an independent operating parameter. It does not describe a control button of an operating mode corresponding to a combined setting of at least two parameters at the same time.
  • the object of the invention is to overcome at least part of these disadvantages and to provide a hair dryer having an improved device for controlling the heating power and the air speed allowing a fast treatment, while offering good protection of the hair during treatment.
  • a further object of the invention is a hair dryer having operating mode control means, selected from several possible modes, which are able to clearly indicate the chosen mode allowing easy use of the apparatus, while leaving the possibility for the user to adjust the operating parameters.
  • Another object of the invention is a hairdryer provided with indication means for good viewing from all angles.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a hairdryer having means for controlling and indicating the selected values of temperature and air speed that are of simplified construction, while being reliable in operation and easy to industrialize for a lower cost.
  • manual adjustment operating mode is understood a mode of operation that allows the user to independently adjust the temperature or air speed according to its own criteria of choice.
  • the device comprises in this sense several switches that are activated one by one in this manual adjustment mode to each perform a separate adjustment of an independent parameter, for example: the adjustment of the air temperature, the setting of the air velocity, even the control of the emission of an ion flow, etc.
  • said predetermined automatic adjustment operating mode is understood a preset operating mode for a combined adjustment of at least two parameters simultaneously.
  • the power level of the heating element and the speed of the motor-fan are imposed by the manufacturer so as to ensure, during operation and without any other preliminary adjustment, a fast drying, good shaping and protection of the hair.
  • These parameters established during the tests carried out in the laboratory, have as range of values for the temperature: from 30 ° to 80 ° C and for the speed of air from 15 m 3 / h to 90 m 3 / h.
  • Such a predetermined or pre-established automatic adjustment mode may, for example, be an optimum drying mode which ensures rapid drying without damaging the hair.
  • the predetermined operating mode may be a mode called cold air in which the chosen treatment temperature is very low, the heating element can be cut off, or even powered at very low power, the speed having a value chosen in the aforementioned beach.
  • the preset mode may have a temperature selected within the aforementioned range, while the speed can have a maximum value, ensuring ultra-fast drying.
  • the preset mode may be a comfort mode, the speed and temperature values being chosen to treat the sensitive hair. We can also consider a blow-drying mode where the setting of the hairstyle is facilitated, etc.
  • the selected operating mode is obtained by operating a control button that acts on an electrical switch to change the operating parameters of the heating element and the motor-fan .
  • This button at the same time activates a display that indicates the current operating mode of the device.
  • control button of the apparatus of the invention makes it possible to switch between an operating mode where the user can manually adjust the various parameters of the apparatus and a mode where this adjustment is done automatically by the apparatus, each operating mode is indicated by a display provided for this purpose.
  • Such an apparatus has a considerable flexibility of its control means, while allowing a pre-established optimum operation.
  • said control button is connected to the display by a control mechanism.
  • An electronic display of the LCD screen type could also be envisaged.
  • a control mechanism allowing to mechanically actuate said display, because such a mechanism does not require a power supply to operate. This makes the display functional at all times, even when the hair dryer is not powered, for example when it is exposed at a place of purchase.
  • such a solution is more simple and reliable in operation.
  • said display is disposed in the handle of the hair dryer and has a transparent window behind which scroll two indicator surfaces set in motion by said control mechanism.
  • a transparent window can be arranged outside the handle, while the control mechanism and the indicator surfaces can be arranged inside the handle, behind said window, which allows a compact construction of the apparatus, while having a good visibility of the message conveyed by the indicator surfaces. This allows the display of different messages in the same window of the handle. Alternatively, one could replace the transparent window with a simple opening in the handle of the hair dryer.
  • said control mechanism converts the longitudinal sliding movement of the control knob into a pivoting movement of the indicator surfaces about an axis parallel to the sliding direction of the control knob.
  • the control knob is preferably located in the handle of the hair dryer, for better handling of the apparatus, the longitudinal sliding movement in the direction of the handle being used first to actuate the contacts of the switch which switches between the two possible modes of operation.
  • This sliding movement of the control button is also used to actuate a display that changes image behind a window of the housing, in particular by a pivoting movement of the indicator surfaces.
  • a pivoting of these indicator surfaces around an axis parallel to the direction of sliding of the control knob allows to bring these surfaces in a plane parallel to this direction, for better visibility.
  • said indicator surfaces form an angle greater than 30 ° between them and are pivoted around pins located at the end of each surface.
  • each indicator surface initially arranged in parallel and at a short distance from the display window, remains parallel and close to the display window after pivoting, which allows good visibility, through the transparent window, of the indications written on the display window. each indicator surface.
  • said indicator surfaces are pivotally driven by being actuated by a lever set in motion by a cam connected to the control knob.
  • said indicator surfaces are connected together by two toothed sectors that mesh with rack sections mounted fixed relative to the housing.
  • the first indicator surface bears indications different from those written on the second indicator surface, these indications being in the form of text.
  • said display comprises a rectangular transparent window, arranged with its largest dimension in the longitudinal direction of the handle.
  • a hair styling or hair treatment appliance comprising a housing enclosing a motor fan and / or an electric heating element, means for controlling the operating mode of the appliance. according to different power levels of the heating element and / or the fan, and a display of the selection, since it comprises a control button for switching between a so-called manual adjustment mode of operation and a mode said predetermined automatic adjustment operation, said control button being connected to the display to inform the selected operating mode.
  • Such a hairdressing appliance may be a heating and / or blowing brush, a heating and / or blowing comb or any other appliance provided for shaping and / or drying the hair.
  • the apparatus illustrated in FIG. 1 is a hair dryer comprising a tubular housing 1 provided with a handle 7 arranged transversely to the housing 1.
  • the housing 1 contains ventilation means represented by a motor-fan unit 4 (FIG. , intended to suck the air inside the housing from an air inlet 2. The sucked air is then directed to an air outlet 3 possibly being heated beforehand by an electric heating element placed inside the housing, between the electric motor and fan assembly 4 and the air outlet 3.
  • the air outlet end of the apparatus may be provided with various accessories such as nozzles, diffusers, brushes or combs for performing the drying and / or shaping of the hairstyle.
  • the handle 7 receives the power supply cables that are connected to the electrical components (motor, heating element) of the housing 1 via control and adjustment means located in the handle 7.
  • the control means comprise, as shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, two lateral adjustment sliders, respectively a temperature adjustment slider 9 and a slider for adjusting the speed 10. These sliders move by sliding along the handle, relative to visible marks in a window 8 of the housing, each slider 9,10 having a tip 9a, 10a indication coming opposite a mark of the window 8.
  • the temperature adjustment slider 9 is integral with a bar 11, extending in the longitudinal direction of the handle downwards, which is connected, by a flange 11a, to a switch 14 for adjusting the temperature.
  • the switch 14 has several pairs of pads that are switched in line by the temperature setting slider 9 to connect the heating element to several power levels.
  • the electrical heating element of the apparatus may be a wire-type electrical resistor wound around an insulating support having a plurality of outlets connected to the switch 14 so as to divide the resistor into several parts to obtain different power modes. In the example shown in the figures, the switch 14 switches between three power modes corresponding to the marks represented by 1,2,3 in the display window 8.
  • the slider for adjusting the air speed 10 is itself secured to a bar 12 parallel to the bar 11, which bar 12 is connected by a flange 12a to a switch 15 for adjusting the speed.
  • the switch 15 is thus switched in line by the speed adjustment slider 10 and can establish several speed levels of the fan motor being, for example connected to a potentiometer varying the supply voltage of the electric motor and allowing thus obtain several values for the speed of rotation of the fan motor 4.
  • the switch 15 switches between three speed values corresponding to the marks represented by O, L, H in the display window 8 .
  • the control means further comprise a control button 21 slidably movable along the handle 7 to operate, as best seen in Figures 4 to 5, two switches 16,17.
  • the control knob 21 is integral with a bent rod 22, the upper arm 23 comprises two flanges 24,25 connected to the switches 16,17.
  • the control button 21 makes it possible to choose between two possible modes of operation.
  • the arm 23 switches in line the contacts of the switches 16,17 between two positions: a first, called setting, putting into circuit the switches 14,15 with the heating element, respectively the motor fan so that they operate according to the setting chosen by the user, and a second position, said optimum in the example shown in the figures, where the switches 14, 15 are interrelated, the switches 16, 17 switching on the heating element and the motor fan with another part of the circuit making it possible to automatically obtain a single pair, of predetermined value, for the power of the heating element. and the speed of the motor-fan.
  • the apparatus comprises a display 19 connected to the control means which is able to indicate, in the window 8, the mode of operation chosen by the user.
  • a control mechanism 20 connecting the control knob 21 to the display 19. The components of this control mechanism 20 are better visible in Figure 6 and in part in Figures 4 and 5.
  • FIG. 6 shows the control knob 21 fixed on the bent rod 22 which comprises two parallel arms: upper 23 and lower 27, extending in the longitudinal direction of the handle 7.
  • the upper arm 23 supports the control knob 21 and terminates at its upper end by the flanges 24, 25 for actuating the switches 16, 17.
  • the lower arm 27 is slidably guided by a longitudinal slot in the base 32 of a cradle 31.
  • the cradle 31 has a U-shape and is fixedly mounted relative to the handle 7, the two arms of the U forming walls transverse members 33 which support, in articulations 30, a pivoting lever 29.
  • the transverse walls 33 terminate in the upper part by rack sections 34.
  • the pivoting lever 29 has at its lower end several pins inserted in a groove 28 of the lower arm 27 and ends at its upper part by two forks 37.
  • the groove 28 has a cam path which prints to the pivoting lever 29. a movement in rotation when the arm lower 27 is pushed in sliding.
  • the forks 37 pivotally support an indicator piece consisting of a first indicator surface 39 and a second indicator surface 40 connected and forming a right angle therebetween.
  • Each indicator surface carries, on its outer face, an indication printed in the form of a row of marks, or a message, or a different coloring or decoration.
  • the first indicator surface 39 on the first indicator surface 39 are printed two vertical rows of marks indicating, on one side, the marks 1,2,3 (relating to ascending values of the power of the heating element) and the other O, L, H (relating to upward values of the blown air speed which could be, for example, zero, low and high), while on the second indicator surface 40 is printed a message in one word, for example, OPTIMUM. These messages correspond to the mode of operation chosen by the user.
  • the two indicator surfaces are connected at their ends by two toothed sectors 35 each carrying a pin 36 around which the forks 37 of the pivoting lever 29 rotate.
  • the toothed sectors 35 are in the form of an arc of a center circle situated in the intersection of the two indicator surfaces. .
  • the toothings of the toothed sectors 35 mesh with those of the rack sections 34 of the transverse walls 33, so that when the pivoting lever 29 rotates, it drives in movement the indicator piece showing, next to the pushbutton 21, either the first indicator surface 39 or the second indicator surface 40.
  • the indications carried by these indicator surfaces appear through the same window 8 which is transparent thus informing the mode of operation that has been activated.
  • the user begins by operating the command button 21 to select the desired operating mode. If the mode chosen is that represented in FIGS. 1 and 4, that is to say if the marks 1,2,3 and O, L, H are displayed in the window 8, the user can then slide the sliders 9 and 10 to independently adjust, on the one hand the power level of the heating element, corresponding to a desired temperature of the air blown, and, secondly, the value of the speed of the air blown by the device.
  • the user wishes to activate the optimum operating mode of the apparatus, he slips the pushbutton 21 until a new message is displayed in the window 8, for example that of FIG. 2. At this time, the user knows for sure that there is no adjustment to be made and that he can use the hair dryer operating according to this predetermined automatic adjustment mode to obtain a fast drying and good shaping the hair, while having protected her hair.
  • optimum operation can be obtained for a temperature of between 50 ° and 70 ° C., preferably 60 ° C. and an air velocity of between 35 m 3 / h and 70 m 3 / h, preferably 55 m 3 / h
  • Other embodiments of the invention may be envisaged, without departing from the scope of its claims.

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