JPH02118107A - Hair arranging unit of hair planting machine for wig - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve efficiency of automatic hair planting and to obtain a high-quality wig by equipping a hair planting machine with a means to arrange hairs planted on a wig base in a given direction in order not to make the planted hairs prevent hair planting in the neighborhood of the planted hairs. CONSTITUTION:A hair planting unit for wig is equipped with a means such as belt-like brush 51 or a blower capable of controlling flow rate of air to arrange hairs planted on a wig base by a hair feed unit and a hair planting unit in a direction not obstructing hair planting in the neighborhood of the planted hair.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Industrial Field of Application) The present invention is a wig hair transplanting machine that automatically implants hair onto a wig base, so that the hair that has already been implanted does not interfere with the next hair transplant. The present invention relates to a hair removal unit for aligning the hair.

[Conventional technology]

-a. When transplanting hair made of synthetic hair and/or artificial hair to the wig base, in order to achieve natural hair and hair flow, It is necessary to perform hair transplantation work by appropriately mixing several types of hair transplantation methods depending on the area.

The typical method of hair transplantation is ■planting.

Methods such as single planting, pan single planting, and cutting planting are known.

By the way, hair transplanting for wigs has traditionally been done manually, one by one, according to these hair transplanting methods, but this manual hair transplanting process is hard work and requires advanced technology, so Even for experienced technicians, it typically takes a long time, approximately 10 to 20 days, to complete a wig.

For this reason, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5936707 by the present applicant
As disclosed in Japanese Patent Application No. 59-36711, a new wig flocking machine for automating the above-mentioned manual hair flocking work has been proposed.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, all of these wig flocking machines are
In order to complete each wig, multiple types of wig flocking machines must be prepared to perform the wig transplantation. Each time the hair transplant method is changed depending on the area, it is necessary to set the wig base in another wig hair transplant machine during the hair transplant process. There are also problems in terms of operability, especially when the hair that is being implanted one after another on the wig base may cover the implantation position or wrap around the implantation needle during the next implantation operation, causing an obstruction. There is.

In view of the above points, the present invention provides various hair transplantation methods, such as V.
It is possible to perform transplanting, single planting, pan-single planting, etc. with a single hair transplant machine while appropriately mixing them, and it is possible to add the desired prestige, and the hair that has already been transplanted can be used for the next hair transplant operation. To provide a hair removal unit in a wig hair transplanting machine, which enables continuous hair transplanting operation without interfering with hair transplantation.

[Means and actions for solving the problem] The above purpose is:
According to the present invention, there is provided a head unit having a heel portion for fixing and holding a wig base, a hair supply unit 7 for supplying hair to a position on the wig base fixedly held by the head portion, and a hair supply unit 7 for supplying hair to a position where hair is to be implanted on the wig base fixedly held by the head unit; A wig hair transplanting machine comprising a hair transplanting unit having a hair transplanting needle for transplanting hair supplied by a hair unit into a predetermined position of a wig base, and a control section controlling each of these units according to a preprogrammed procedure. , When performing hair transplantation using the above hair transplantation unit,
To align the hair that has already been planted on the wig base in a certain direction so that it does not interfere with the next hair transplant.
Preferably, the hair removal unit is comprised of a belt-shaped brush which is rotatably supported while being driven in circulation, or a blower whose air volume can be adjusted to draw out the implanted hair using wind pressure. achieved.

According to this invention, in order to prevent the hair already planted on the wig base from interfering with the next hair transplanting operation, the hairs are aligned in a certain direction by plunging or by wind pressure before the hair transplanting operation. That will happen. Therefore, the hair transplanting operation can be performed continuously without the implanted hair covering the hair transplanting position or getting wrapped around the hair transplant needle or the like, causing a malfunction.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on an embodiment shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a wig flocking machine equipped with a hair removal unit according to the present invention. This wig flocking machine 10
The henode unit hair supply, hair supply unit 3! , hair transplant unit 41 & hair removal unit.

Each of these units is preferably fixedly arranged on a movable frame 11.

Note that each of these units does not necessarily need to be arranged on the frame 11 as a separate unit as long as it has the configuration and function described below. They can also be constructed by integrally incorporating them as one unit, and various changes in their arrangement can be made as desired without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

! First time, head unit) 21 will be explained.

The head unit 21 includes a substantially hemispherical head portion 2 for fixing and holding a wig base (not shown) to be implanted with hair.
2, and a wig base made of a soft synthetic resin or a net having a fine mesh, made separately from polyurethane, silicone, etc., is mounted on the head part 22 by an appropriate method such as riveting or pasting. Fixed. This head section 22
is driven to rotate by a motor 24 around a central axis A' perpendicular to the head portion 22 with respect to the center A of the approximately hemispherical shape, and together with a rotation drive mechanism around the central axis A', a horizontal axis (this is the X-axis) by a motor 23.

Further, in the illustrated embodiment, the head portion 22 including the above-described swing WA rotation mechanism is driven in translation by a motor 25 in the vertical direction (that is, in the Z-axis direction), and the motor 25 is driven in translation around this Z-axis.
6, the entire head unit 21 is configured to be driven to rotate.

By the operation of the motors 23, 24 and 25, the head section 22 of the head unit 21 can move any position on its surface to the flocking position B of F on the Z axis, and furthermore, by the operation of the motor 26, It can be set in any desired direction.

Here, in the above embodiment, of the head unit 21,
The head portion 22 including the rotation drive mechanism of the motors 23 and 24 is configured to be driven in translation in the vertical direction by the motor 25.
The entire head unit 21 may be driven in translation as in the wig flocking machine disclosed in the above publication. Further, in the above embodiment, the entire hend unit 21 is configured to be rotated around the Z axis, thereby making it possible to set the flocking direction, that is, the system flow. If there is no need to automatically adjust the head unit 21, the motor 26 for rotating the entire head unit 21 is not required.

Further, above the head portion 22, an optical position sensor portion 27 is fixedly disposed on the frame 11 as a positioning means for detecting the height of the wig base at the hair planting position and adjusting this height. There is. As a result, the head section 22 uses the motor 25 to adjust the height of the surface of the wig base at the Z-axis position based on the detection signal from the position sensor part 27 before the hair transplant operation, and accurately locates the hair transplant. It is now possible for it to be carried over to B.

Here, the position sensor part 27 is arranged on the frame ll above the head part 22, but if the surface at the position on the Z axis of the wig base can be adjusted in height, the position sensor part 27 can be set. The location is arbitrary. Further, the position sensor part 27 is not limited to the optical detector shown in the figure, and various means may be selected. For example, the position sensor part 27 may be configured by a limit switch, a stopper provided at a predetermined location of the flocking machine IO, or the like.

The hair end portion 22 is made of, for example, epoxy resin or rubber material to prevent the hair transplant needles described later from breaking, and the approximately hemispherical surface is made of a wig base made according to the shape of the user's head. It is preferably molded with a convex curved surface to match the concave curved inner surface of the base and is removably supported and fixed on the base.

As shown in an enlarged view in FIG. 2, the bristle supply unit 31 is fixedly disposed with its main body obliquely inclined with respect to the frame l, and is supplied from a bristle supply section (not shown). Two clamp parts 32a and 32b that grip the hair yH
A hair gripping part 32 having a hair holding part 32 on the opposite side in the diametrical direction, and a fork-shaped tip (see FIG. (see C)).

The hair Ij1 gripping part 32 is intermittently rotated by 180 degrees in the direction of arrow C for each hair-planting operation by a motor 34 equipped with a franchise brake, so that both the two clamp parts 32a and 32b are always attached to the head part 22 as shown in the figure. They are stopped by, for example, a click mechanism or the like so that they are positioned side by side so as to face each other.

Each of the clamp parts 32a and 32b has two truncated conical discs 35a and 35b facing each other vertically, the lower disc 35a being fixed to the hair gripping part 32, and the upper disc 35a being fixed to the hair gripping part 32. 35b is held slidably up and down along its central axis relative to the lower disc 35a, and is also supported by a spring 3.
6 is in contact with the lower disk 35a. The lower end of the rod 35c extending downward from the center of the upper circle +ff135b in the central axis direction is connected to the annular cam surface 3 formed on the upper surface of the main body of the hair supply unit 31.
7 according to the rotational movement of the hair gripping section 32, the clamping sections 32a and 32b are at a position forward in the direction of arrow C (i.e., the position of the clamping section 32b).
firmly grip the hair %LH and use another clamp part 32.
At position a, the hair H is loosely gripped so that the supplied hair H is kept under tension, and at the rear position with respect to the head part 22, it is opened to grip the hair H. It has become.

Further, the hair feeding rod 33 is moved in the thrust direction by the operation of the cylinder 3, and its two fork-shaped tips hook each of the four hairs StH while moving the hair planting position IB of the head portion 22 of the handing unit 21. It reaches a pinching position and comes into contact with the surface of the wig base attached to the head part 22. Furthermore, one or both of the hair feeding rods 33 are
For example, as shown in FIG. 2(D), it is configured to be expandable and retractable in the pre-inserted state, and is held in an expanded state by a spring or the like. Thereby, when the two hair feeding rods 33 contact the wig base near the hair planting position B, they can reliably contact the wig base. In addition, in FIG. 2(B), the reference numeral 30
0 is a cutting means consisting of a burning iron or a cutter for cutting the hair H after hair transplantation.

In this way, the hair feeding rod 33 supplies the hair H held by the clamp parts 32a and 32b of the hair gripping part 32 to the vicinity of the hair planting position B of the head part 22 of the head unit 7) 21 by the operation of the cylinder 38, As will be described later, in conjunction with the flocking operation of the flocking unit 41 such as V planting, single planting, single planting, etc., the cylinder 39 is operated to raise the hair VH from the flocking position B, and Vi is also included in part of the operation. .

The hair transplanter) 41 has its main body fixedly disposed with respect to the frame 11, and has a hair transplant needle 42 on a straight line P inclined with respect to the hair transplanting position B of the head portion 22 of the hair transplanter) 21. ing. The transplanting needle 42 is brought from the retracted position to the vicinity of the flocking position by being largely translated in the direction of the straight line P along the guide 43b via the crank 43a of the motor No. 43. In order to align the
4 in the direction of a straight line P, a motor 45 in the direction of a horizontal axis Q perpendicular to the straight line P, and a motor 46 in the R direction perpendicular to the P and Q directions, that is, in three axial directions including the straight line P. is configured to be Further, the flocking needle 42 is moved in the axial direction, that is, in the straight line P, by the motor 47.
A predetermined flocking operation is performed by being driven to rotate around the .

Note that the flocking needles 42 do not necessarily have to be arranged on a straight line inclined with respect to the flocking position B of the head section 22, and may be arranged, for example, along a horizontal axis, in which case the flocking needles 42 , the needle is driven forward and forward in three axial directions with respect to the central axis of the needle, which coincides with the horizontal axis. moreover,
The direction in which the hair transplant needle 42 is driven in translation is not limited to the three-wheel direction. For example, without moving the hair transplant needle 42 up and down in the R direction, by moving the head section 22 up and down with the motor 25, the hair transplantation can be performed. However, in the case of such a configuration, when the hair transplanting needle 42 is caused to perform the hair transplanting operation, another step is required.

The dount 21 and the hair supply unit 31 will also be adjusted.

Next, a preferred example of the hair removal unit 51 according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

This hair removal unit 51 is composed of a belt-shaped brush that is movably supported while being driven in circulation as a means for arranging the hair that has already been planted. That is, as shown in an enlarged view in FIG. 3, the cylindrical tip 52a of the substantially model guide body 52 is the hair transplanting unit) 41.
The flocking needle 42 is supported on the lower side so as to extend beyond the flocking position B where the flocking operation is performed, and further behind the guide body 52 is a roller 54 which is rotationally driven by a motor 53. A swing arm 55 is provided. This swinging arm 55 has a tip 52a of the guide body 52.
can be rotated by a cylinder 56 around a horizontal axis 55a so as to be able to swing up and down, and the entire guide body 5
horizontal guide 5 by cylinder 57 horizontally in the longitudinal direction of 2;
It is designed to be moved along day by day.

A belt-shaped brush 59 is wound around the guide body 52 and the roller 54 as shown in the figure, and the motor 53
By rotating the roller 54 through the guide body 52, the tip 52a of the guide body 52 can be driven to circulate from top to bottom as shown by the arrow. At this time, brush 5
In order to restrict lateral displacement of the swing arm 55, the swing arm 55 is provided with side guides 55b on both sides at its tip.

Preferably, in order to eliminate slack in the brush 59, the guide body 52 is supported so as to be able to slide slightly in the longitudinal direction of the swing arm 55, and is pressed in the direction of its tip by a spring 52b. This allows the brush 59 to be stretched at all times. Furthermore, if the tip of the guide body 52 is formed to be flexible so as to bend along the convex curved surface of the head portion 22, the transplanted hair can be effectively aligned in a certain direction.

In this way, the hair removal unit 51 removes the re-guide body 5 by operating the cylinder 57 before the hair transplantation operation of the hair transplantation unit throat 41.
The tip 52a of the needle 2 is brought to a point below the flocking position B where the flocking needle 42 performs the flocking operation;
The wig base (which is attached to the end part 22 of the head unit 21 by swinging the tip 52a of the wig base 2 downwards)
Then, the belt-shaped brush 59 is driven in circulation by the operation of the motor 53, and the guide body 5
After the hair already planted on the wig base under the tip 52a of the wig is pulled out and brushed, the guide body 52 is retreated.

The hair removal unit 51 may be configured with a brush having a large number of bridges instead of the belt-shaped brush described above (in that case, the comb may be moved in the front-rear direction along the convex curved surface of the wig base). Preferably, it is configured to drive the
On the other hand, as an alignment means, it is also possible to arrange the hair in a certain direction by disposing a fan or a blower whose air volume can be adjusted in the main body of the hair transplanter and blowing air without using such a brush.

If the hair that has already been transplanted is aligned in a certain direction by brushing or blowing air, these hairs will not get in the way during the next hair transplant operation, and the hair can be transplanted continuously. You will be able to do this.

The head unit 21 described above. Hair supply unit 31.
The hair transplant unit 41 and the hair removal unit 51 are connected to a control device (not shown), and this control device controls the motor 34 of the hair supply unit 31 according to a programmed procedure.
．． Flip 38.3'! By controlling the motors 43 to 47 of the flocking unit 41, for example, any method such as V planting, single planting, pan-single planting, or plunging planting can be performed based on the data of the flocking method inputted into the control device in advance. The hair transplant operation is now performed. And head unit 2! motor 2324.25 and 2
6, the head part 22 of the head unit 21 is brought in a predetermined direction at the position where the hair should be transplanted based on the data on the hair transplantation position and upstream direction that are input into the control device in advance, and the hair is removed. Motor 53 of unit 51. By controlling the flips 56 and 57, the hair already planted in the vicinity of the hair planting position of the wig base attached to the head part 22 of the hendo unit 21 is pulled out and aligned.

The wig hair transplanting machine equipped with the hair removing unit 7 according to the present invention is constructed as described above, and its hair transplanting operation is performed as follows.

First, before starting the hair transplantation operation, data on wig hair transplantation corresponding to the user's baldness U or various hairstyles, i.e., the hair transplantation position related to the wig base to be transplanted and the hair transplantation method at the hair transplantation position (■ planting, single planting, bun single (Various methods of planting, etc.) 3) Data on the direction of hair flow is manually entered into the control device in advance. Then, the head section 22 of the head unit 21
A wig base (not shown) to which hair is to be implanted is set, and hair H is set from a hair supply unit (not shown) to the hair supply unit 31 as shown in the drawing.

From this state, the hair transplanting operation of the wig hair transplanting machine 10 is started.

The motors 23, 24, 25, and 26 of the tip 21 are operated based on the data of the flocking position, so that the head 22 is rotated around the X axis by the motor 23 and around the central axis A by the motor 24. Then, it is driven in the Z-axis direction by the motor 25 based on the signal from the position sensor part 27, and the arbitrary position where the hair is to be transplanted is height-adjusted on the Z-axis and brought to the hair-planting position fiB. At the same time, the entire device is rotated around the Z-axis according to the data 26 and set in an arbitrary direction. As a result, the wig base attached to the head portion 22 of the head unit 21 is moved in a desired direction so that the desired hair-planting position is the hair-planting position B on the Z-axis.

Subsequently, the cylinder 38 of the bristling unit 31 is operated, so that the bristling rod 33 is moved to the clamp portions 32a, 3.
The hair H stretched between 2b is brought to the vicinity of the hair-planting position B of the throat part 22 by its fork-like tip.

At the same time, the motors 43 and 44 of the hair transplant unit 41 are operated, so that the hair transplant needle 42 is brought to the hair transplant position B, penetrates into the wig base, and brings out the needle tip to the surface.

When the hair H stretched on the hair feeding rod 33 is hooked onto the hair transplanting needle 42, the hair feeding rod 33 is pulled back to the position shown in FIG. 1 by the operation of the cylinder 38.

Here, the motors 44, 45°, 46.
47 and the cylinder 39 of the bristle supply unit 31 are each operated according to a preprogrammed procedure based on the data of the bristle implantation method, so that the bristle implantation side 42 is driven in translation in the P direction, the Q direction, and the R direction. The head portion 22 of the head unit 21 is driven to rotate around the axis P.
The hair is transplanted in a predetermined direction using a predetermined method such as ① planting, single planting, pan-single planting, or insertion planting at a predetermined position of the wig base.

After the hair is transplanted, the cutting means 300 (see FIG. 2(B))
The hair 9H planted at a predetermined position on the wig base is cut near the clamp part 32a of the hair gripping part of the hair supply unit 31, and the motor 34 of the hair supply unit 31 is roughly activated, and the hair gripping part 32 is cut off. The clamp part 32a moves to the illustrated position of the clamp part 32b, and the clamp part 32b moves to the illustrated position of the clamp part 32a.
The hair H is firmly grasped, and the hair H is pulled along with the rotational movement of the hair H, thereby causing a t between the clamp parts 32b and 32a.
k'H will be stretched.

fit i&, cylinder 565 of unit 51
7 is activated, the hair removal unit 2 51
The tip of the brush 59 is brought to a point beyond the next position of the wig base attached to the head part 22 of the head unit 21 and comes into contact with the surface of the wig base, and the motor 53 rotates. Brush 5 is driven
9 is circularly driven in the direction of the arrow (see FIG. 3 (8)), and the hair that has already been planted under the tip of the brush 59 is pulled out toward the front.

In this way, - times of hair transplantation operations are completed, and the above operation is performed again based on the next hair transplantation data, and thus, by repeating the above hair transplantation operations, the hair transplantation of the wig base set in the head section 22 of the head unit 21 is performed. is completed.

In addition, bend hair supply. Each part of the hair transplantation unit, hair supply unit, etc. is not limited to the above-mentioned parts (it is clear that various parts can be applied).

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the hair removal unit of the present invention, when the hair transplantation unit performs the hair transplantation operation, the hairs already planted on the wig base are aligned in a certain direction so that the hairs do not interfere with the next hair transplantation. It is preferably composed of a belt-shaped brush that is rotatably supported while being driven in circulation, or a blower whose air volume can be adjusted to draw out the implanted hair using wind pressure. ,
The hair that has already been planted on the wig base is aligned in a certain direction by brushing or by wind pressure before the next hair transplanting operation so as not to interfere with the next hair transplanting operation.

Therefore, the transplanted hair does not cover the transplanted position or get wrapped around the transplanted needle, causing a malfunction. ■Plant, single plant in the specified position of the wig base.

It becomes possible to automatically and continuously perform hair transplantation using a predetermined method such as pan-single planting or insert planting.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view showing an embodiment of a wig hair transplanting machine equipped with a hair removing unit according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an enlarged view showing details of the hair feeding unit in the embodiment of FIG.
A) is a plan view, (B) is a side view II, (C) is a perspective view of the hair feeding rod, (D) is a schematic sectional view of the hair feeding rod, and FIG. 3 is a hair removal unit in the embodiment of FIG. 1. The details are shown in an enlarged scale, with (A) being a plan view and (B) being a side view. 10 Wig flocking machine; 11 Frame: 21” head unit; 22-Heno F section; 2324-motor;
25-cylinder; 26-motor: 27-position sensor part: 31 hair supply unit: 32 hair gripping part; 32d32
b Clamp part; 33 Hair feeder; 34 Motor; 3
5a, 35b - Entei anti; 35c rod: 36 spring; 37 cam; 3 B, 3! J-cylinder; 41 Hair transplant unit: 42 Hair transplant needle; 43, 44° 45
46, 47--Motor 51 Hair removal unit; 52 Guide body; 53 Motor: 54 Roller; 55--Swinging arm; 56° 57
cylinder; 58 horizontal guide; 59-belt-shaped plan; Patent applicant: Azorance Co., Ltd. Agent: Patent attorney Hirayama - Muroma: Patent attorney ± 7m Tsu Tamotsu

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) a head unit having a head part for fixing and holding a wig base; a hair supply unit supplying hair to a position on the wig base fixedly held by the head part where hair should be implanted;
A wig hair transplanting machine comprising a hair transplanting unit having a hair transplanting needle for transplanting the hair supplied by the hair feeding unit to a predetermined position of a wig base, and a control unit controlling each of these units according to a preprogrammed procedure, When the hair transplantation needle of the hair transplantation unit performs a hair transplantation operation, the transplanted hairs are aligned in a predetermined direction so that the hairs already planted near the current hair transplantation position do not interfere with the next hair transplantation. A hair removal unit, characterized in that it has a means. (2) The hair alignment means is comprised of a belt-shaped brush that is supported in a swinging manner while being driven in circulation, and the hair that has been planted is pulled out toward the front by the brush. A hair removal unit for a wig hair transplanting machine according to claim 1. (3) The hair alignment means is comprised of a blower whose air volume can be adjusted, and the implanted hair is aligned in a certain direction by the wind pressure.
The hair removing unit of the wig hair transplanting machine described in Section 2.