JP2013090726A - Hair shaping device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hair shaping device, which can easily adjust hair and can improve the ability to shape hair, and then can improve the work efficiency.SOLUTION: The hair shaping device comprises a main unit 1 having a gripper, a hairdressing unit 14 having a rod-shaped heating unit 4, and a drive unit 3 configured to rotate the hairdressing unit 14 around an axis of the heating unit 4, and wherein the hairdressing unit 14 is provided, in an outer periphery of the heading unit 4, with a comb 5, and wherein the comb 5 comprises a comb section 51, and the comb section is formed so as to slope, over the entire circumference of the comb 5, toward an axial direction Ax and to intersect with the axial direction Ax.

Description

  The present invention relates to a hair styling apparatus that heats hair introduced through a comb with a heating unit to adjust the hair into a desired shape.

  Conventionally, as a hairdressing apparatus, there exist barber apparatus for eyelashes, such as an eyelash shaping tool as shown to patent documents 1, 2, for example. The eyelash forming tool shown in Patent Document 1 is provided with a spiral brush and a heating element wound in a spiral in parallel with the inside of the brush on the tip side of a main body having a handle. The eyelash forming tool shown in Patent Document 2 has a shaping head at one end of a body case that also serves as a grip, and a heater for heating eyelashes is arranged on the shaping head. The first shaping surface and the second shaping surface for shaping the eyelashes are arranged opposite to each other on the peripheral surface of the shaping head, and comb teeth for combing the eyelashes are provided on each of the shaping surfaces. In this eyelash shaping tool, the eyelashes are combed and adjusted to a desired shape, and the eyelashes are held in the shape adjusted by the heat of the heater to adjust the hair.

Registered Utility Model No. 3042723 JP 2009-219571 A

  By the way, the conventional eyelash shaping tools of Patent Documents 1 and 2, for example, whisk the eyelashes with a brush or a shaping head, heat the eyelashes with the heat of a heater or a heating element, and further hold the eyelash shaping tool in this state. It is shaped by bending the eyelashes by moving the hand (wrist).

  Therefore, these conventional eyelash forming tools are shaped to a desired shape by moving the wrist, that is, shaped to a desired shape by the user's technique and operation, and the working efficiency at the time of shaping is not so high. . Since the shaping head and the brush (heating element) are shaped in contact with the eyelashes, the temperature of this part tends to decrease, the amount of heat supplied to the eyelashes is insufficient, and the bent shape is held. There is a risk that it becomes difficult to shape the eyelashes (decrease in forming power) due to difficulty.

  Furthermore, since the hand or wrist is moved to be shaped into a desired shape, the shape of the eyelash, such as the degree of bending of the eyelashes, is likely to be different depending on the shaped part, for example, bent at substantially the same bending rate, It is difficult to perform bending such as bending by continuously changing the bending rate.

  Therefore, in view of this situation, an object of the present invention is to provide a hair straightening device that makes it easy to shape hair and that has improved forming ability and work efficiency for the hair.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, a hairdressing apparatus of the present invention includes a main body having a gripping part, a barber part having a rod-like heating part, and a driving part for rotating the barber part around the axis of the heating part. The barber portion has a comb on the outer periphery of the heating portion, and the comb is inclined in the axial direction with respect to the circumferential direction over the entire circumference of the comb and intersects in the axial direction. It is characterized by providing.

  As this hair straightener, it is preferable that the comb portion has a spiral shape.

  By adopting such a configuration, the shape between the comb portions is inclined, the hair can be easily shaped, the barber portion can be rotated and brought into contact with the hair, and the forming power and work efficiency for the hair Can be easily improved.

It is a perspective view of the hair straightener of embodiment. It is a disassembled perspective view of a hair straightener. It is a perspective view of a barber part. It is a perspective view of the barber periphery periphery of the state which removed the comb. It is a front view of the state which removed the comb. It is a top view of a comb. It is a top view of the modification of a comb.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

<Embodiment 1>
As shown in FIG. 1, the hairdressing apparatus of this embodiment includes a main body 1 with a built-in power supply, a barber unit 14 having a heating unit 4 and a comb 5, a drive unit 3 that rotates the barber unit 14, and a main body. 1 and a cap 10 (see FIG. 2) that is detachably attached to 1 and covers the barber portion 14. The hair styling device of the present embodiment is a so-called eyelash curler that shapes the eyelashes into a bent shape (curled shape).

  As shown in FIG. 1, the main body 1 has a columnar shape and is provided with an operation portion 6 for operating operation exposed to the outer shell. The outer shell is formed by a battery cover 12 that houses a battery 13 and a housing 11 provided with an operation unit 6. The housing 11 has a barber 14 at one end of a cylinder, and one end on the opposite side of the cylinder. A battery cover 12 is detachably provided. As shown in FIG. 2, the main body 1 includes a battery 13 as a power source, a circuit unit 2 that electrically connects the battery 13 to the heating unit 4 and the driving unit 3, and a motor 31 as a driving source. The drive unit 3 is accommodated. Hereinafter, the axial direction Ax of the cylinder is simply referred to as the axial direction Ax and is used as a reference for the direction.

  The operation unit 6 includes a switch 61 for operating the heating operation by the heating unit 4 and a switch 62 for operating the rotation operation by the driving unit 3. The switch 61 is a slidable slide switch, and the switch 62 is a tiltable seesaw switch. The operation unit 6 can operate the heating operation via the circuit unit 2 by operating the switch 61, and the rotation operation can be performed via the circuit unit 2 by operating the switch 62. It is possible to operate on / off and forward / reverse switching of the rotation direction. The circuit unit 2 turns on / off the heating operation of the heating unit 4, turns on / off the driving operation of the motor 31 (rotation operation of the heating unit 4), and switches the rotation direction of the heating unit 4 according to the operation of the operation unit 6. And do.

  The drive unit 3 includes a motor 31 as a drive source and a drive transmission unit 32 that transmits the drive of the motor 31 to the barber unit 14. The motor 31 includes a rotating shaft along the axial direction Ax and substantially concentric with the main body 1, and the drive transmission unit 32 is, for example, a planetary reduction mechanism. And the drive transmission part 32 is outputting the rotational drive of the motor 31 to the barber part 14 substantially concentrically, the drive part 3 rotates the heating part 4 of the barber part 14 centering on an axis | shaft, This rotation operation | movement is As described above, the switch 62 is turned on and off.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the barber unit 14 includes a heating unit 4 for heating the eyelashes and a comb 5 for combing the eyelashes, and is provided so as to protrude from one end of the main body 1 in the axial direction Ax.

  The heating unit 4 has a built-in heater wire 41 (see FIG. 2). The heater wire 41 is supplied with power from the battery 13 through the circuit unit 2 when the switch 61 is turned on to generate heat, and the switch 61 is turned off. As a result, the power supply from the battery 13 is cut off and the heat generation is stopped. The heating unit 4 heats the hair with the heat generated by the heater wire 41.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the heating unit 4 has a rod shape that protrudes in the axial direction Ax from one end of the main body 1, and rotates around the axis about the axis of the rod by the rotational drive of the driving unit 3. To do. Furthermore, the heating part 4 has the contact surface 41a for heating the eyelashes in the whole peripheral surface (outer surface around the axis) of the rod, and heats the eyelashes in contact with the contact surface 41a.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the heating unit 4 has a polygonal shape as viewed in the axial direction Ax (front view), specifically, a polygonal shape in front view with rounded corners (vertices). And in this embodiment, it is the front view substantially equilateral triangle shape which rounded the angle | corner (vertex). Therefore, the heating unit 4 has a shape having a flat surface on the contact surface 41a.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the comb 5 has a bottomed cylindrical shape having a comb portion 51 as a peripheral surface. The heating portion 4 is disposed in the cylinder, and the tip of the heating portion 4 is covered with the bottom portion. As shown in FIG. 6, the comb portion 51 has a spiral shape with the rotation center of the heating unit 4 as an axis, and is provided at a position that covers the contact surface 41 a of the heating unit 4. In other words, the comb portion 51 is formed so as to incline in the axial direction Ax with respect to the circumferential direction (rotating circle) and intersect the axial direction Ax over the entire circumference of the comb 5.

  A space (gap) between the comb portions 51 in the axial direction Ax serves as an introduction groove 52 for introducing eyelashes to the contact surface 4a of the heating portion 4, and the comb 5 is provided with the introduction groove 52 in a spiral shape. It becomes the composition.

  The comb 5 has a cylindrical end on the opening side of the cylinder, and the comb 5 is supported by the main body 1 by attaching the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder in contact with one end of the main body 1. The comb 5 is provided with a long support member in the axial direction Ax between the end on the opening side and the bottom, and the support member supports the comb portion 51 from the inner peripheral side. Therefore, the comb 5 keeps the helical shape of the comb part 51 and the distance from the bottom part to the end part on the opening side by the support member, and suppresses the deformation of the comb 5 when contacting the living body surface.

  Thus, in the heating part 4 which has the contact surface 41a over the perimeter of the circumferential direction, the contact part 41a of the heating part 4 which contacts hair (eyelashes) by rotating the heating part 4 is used. It can be changed with rotation. Therefore, it becomes easy to suppress a decrease in the amount of heat supplied to the hair due to heating of the hair only at the same part (contact surface 41a) of the heating unit 4, and the hair can be easily shaped (easily curled). It is possible to easily improve the convenience of the hairstyling apparatus such as the work efficiency.

  Then, by providing the comb portion 51 of the comb 5 in a spiral shape, the portion of the contact surface 41a of the heating portion 4 exposed from the space in the axial direction Ax of the comb portion 51 (introduction groove 52) is shifted in the circumferential direction. It is the composition which is located. Therefore, in the region where the comb portion 51 is provided, the introduction groove 52 is provided at any position on the entire circumference, the hair is easily introduced into the introduction groove 52, and the hair is easily brought into contact with the heating portion 4 (hair The convenience of the hairstyling device can be improved easily.

  Furthermore, the heating unit 4 is formed in a polygonal shape when viewed in the axial direction Ax (front view) and has a flat surface on the contact surface 41a, so that the heating unit 4 is in surface contact with the hair. Therefore, as compared with the heating unit 4 having a circular shape in front view that is easy to make point contact with the hair, the contact area with the hair at the time of contact can be easily increased, and heat can be easily applied to the hair. It is possible to easily improve the working efficiency at the time.

  The present invention is not limited only to the configuration of each embodiment, and within the scope intended by the present invention, appropriate design changes can be made in each embodiment, and the configuration of each embodiment can be changed as appropriate. It is possible to apply in combination. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the comb 5 has a plurality of annular comb portions 51, each of the comb portions 51 is located at the center of rotation, and the circle is inclined in the axial direction Ax so as to intersect the axial direction Ax. A plurality of comb portions 51 may be provided in a so-called inclined disk shape. Further, for example, the heating unit 4 may have a circular cross section having a contact surface 41a over substantially the entire circumference in the circumferential direction. Moreover, both the heating part 4 and the comb 5 may rotate. Further, the hair straightening device is not limited to the eyelash curler.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body 4 Heating part 14 Barber part 3 Drive part 5 Comb 51 Comb part Ax Axial direction

Claims (2)

A main body having a gripping part, a barber part having a bar-like heating part, and a driving part for rotating the barber part around the axis of the heating part,
The barber has a comb on the outer periphery of the heating unit,
The hair-styling device, wherein the comb includes a comb portion that is inclined in the axial direction with respect to a circumferential direction over the entire circumference of the comb and intersects the axial direction. The hair straightening device according to claim 1, wherein the comb portion has a spiral shape.

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