KR20230077771A - User customized skin care apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

A user-customized skin care device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a user-customized skin analyzer for determining a user's skin damage prediction state based on user life data received from a user terminal and weather information received from a meteorological agency server, a plurality of Among the light rays, a light irradiation unit for irradiating light rays through different light sources according to the predicted skin damage state, and a cleansing cream having different functions stored in a cleansing cream storage unit, extracting and mixing specific cleansing creams according to the predicted skin damage state A cleansing cream manufacturing unit that manufactures a user-customized cleansing cream, a plurality of cleansing cream supply holes through which the cleansing cream manufactured by the cleansing cream manufacturing unit is discharged, and a specific cleansing cream supply hole among the plurality of cleansing cream supply holes. When discharged to the cleansing unit including a cleansing head that rotates or vibrates to clean the user's skin using the cleansing cream, to irradiate a specific type of light beam according to the predicted skin damage condition received from the user-customized skin analysis unit and a control unit controlling operations of the light irradiation unit, the cleansing cream storage unit, and the plurality of cleansing cream supply holes based on the light irradiation unit and the predicted skin damage state.

Description

User customized skin care device {USER CUSTOMIZED SKIN CARE APPARATUS}

The present invention relates to a user-customized skin care device, and more particularly, to a user-customized skin care device for recovering the user's skin by radiating light rays capable of restoring the skin according to the user's daily skin damage predicted state. .

Recently, the anti-aging market is growing. Anti-aging refers to various treatments to medically manage aging and maintain youth. Demand for such products is rapidly increasing due to factors such as population aging, increasing tendency to emphasize appearance, income increase, and expansion of women's social advancement.

In addition, the skin care medical device market is growing. The paradigm of the anti-aging industry is expected to shift from cosmetics in the past to a high value-added market. Therefore, as it is expected to be reclassified as a procedure-centered market, it is estimated that the growth rate of the skin beauty medical device market will accelerate in the future along with the facial beauty market.

Accordingly, the market for user-customized skin care devices (home use beauty devices) is growing.

As the development of user-customized skin beauty devices becomes active, there is a prospect that many of the procedures treated in dermatology and the like will be replaced at home. A user-customized skin beauty device is a device that manages, maintains, or protects the skin, and consumer needs are increasing. As the demand for skin treatment increased, customized skin care devices for hospitals using lasers and the like were pouring out.

However, consumers still feel time, area, and economic burdens for hospital procedures, triggering demand for user-customized skin care devices. It is expected that the market for user-customized skin care devices, which have the characteristics of general consumer goods and medical device businesses, will gradually expand as personalized health management progresses in the future.

Meanwhile, as the external environment changes, the female population is gradually changing. The growth of the skin care industry is not irrelevant to the increasing number of women entering society and the consequent increase in income. As women's social position changes and they use beauty devices and services as a concept of investment in themselves, the market related to skin beauty is growing. It is expected that this pattern will continue in the future.

Next, the trend is changing from wellness to wellness. The essence of wellness is wanting to look younger than people your age and have a healthy body. Due to this change in trend, the anti-aging industry pursuing youth and beauty is growing rapidly. In particular, the skin condition is a scale representing age, health, and the like. Therefore, as skin aging is recognized as the core of anti-aging, the growth potential of industries such as medical procedures, functional cosmetics, and beauty services is expected to be high.

An object of the present invention is to provide a user-customized skin care device for recovering the user's skin by irradiating light rays capable of restoring the skin according to the user's daily skin damage predicted state.

In addition, the present invention allows the user to cleanse the user's face after mixing different cleansing creams according to the user's daily skin damage prediction state, so that the user's skin can be restored at the same time as the user irradiates light. It is an object of the present invention to provide a skin beauty device.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide a user-customized skin care device that allows the user to recover the skin at the same time as cleansing.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects and advantages of the present invention not mentioned above can be understood by the following description and will be more clearly understood by the examples of the present invention. It will also be readily apparent that the objects and advantages of the present invention may be realized by means of the instrumentalities and combinations indicated in the claims.

A user-customized skin care device for achieving this object includes a user-customized skin analysis unit for determining a user's skin damage prediction state based on user life data received from a user terminal and weather information received from a meteorological office server, among a plurality of light rays. Among the cleansing creams having different functions stored in the light irradiation unit and the cleansing cream storage unit for irradiating light rays through different light sources according to the predicted skin damage condition, specific cleansing creams are extracted and mixed according to the predicted skin damage condition, and customized for the user. A cleansing cream manufacturing unit that manufactures cleansing cream, a plurality of cleansing cream supply holes through which the cleansing cream produced by the cleansing cream manufacturing unit is discharged, and an external discharge through a specific cleansing cream supply hole among the plurality of cleansing cream supply holes. A cleansing unit including a cleansing head that rotates or vibrates to clean the user's skin using the cleansing cream, and a light irradiation unit that emits a specific type of light according to the predicted skin damage condition received from the user-customized skin analysis unit. and a control unit controlling operations of the light emitting unit, the cleansing cream storage unit, and the plurality of cleansing cream supply holes based on the predicted skin damage state.

In one embodiment, the control unit selects the type of light to be provided through the light emitter according to the predicted skin damage condition based on a database in which types of light rays for improving the corresponding skin condition are stored for each predicted skin damage condition. The type of light to be provided through the light emitter may be determined, and the light emitter may be controlled to emit the corresponding light beam.

In one embodiment, the control unit determines the type and amount of cleansing cream to be extracted from the cleansing cream storage unit according to the predicted skin damage state, and then, according to the type and amount of cleansing cream, the cleansing cream stored in the corresponding cleansing cream storage unit The cleansing cream manufacturing unit may be controlled to extract and manufacture the cleansing cream through the cleansing cream manufacturing unit.

In one embodiment, the light irradiator is formed to extend from the handle of the user-customized skin care device, and when the cleansing head of the cleansing unit touches the user's facial skin, it is located within a specific distance from the facial skin, so that the cleansing head During operation, the user's skin may be irradiated with light rays.

According to the present invention as described above, there is an advantage in that the user's skin can be restored by irradiating light rays capable of restoring the skin according to the user's daily skin damage predicted state.

In addition, according to the present invention, the user's face can be cleansed after mixing different cleansing creams according to the user's daily skin damage prediction state, so that the user's skin can be restored while irradiating light. there is

In addition, according to the present invention, there is an advantage that the user's convenience can be increased because the user's skin can be restored at the same time as cleansing.

1 and 2 are perspective views for explaining a user-customized skin care device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a block diagram for explaining a user-customized skin care device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is an exemplary diagram for explaining an execution process of a user-customized skin care device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The above objects, features and advantages will be described later in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, and accordingly, those skilled in the art to which the present invention belongs will be able to easily implement the technical spirit of the present invention. In describing the present invention, if it is determined that the detailed description of the known technology related to the present invention may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description will be omitted. Hereinafter, preferred embodiments according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the drawings, the same reference numerals are used to indicate the same or similar components.

1 and 2 are perspective views for explaining a user-customized skin care device according to an embodiment of the present invention. 3 is a block diagram for explaining a user-customized skin care device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1 and 2, the user-customized skin care device 100 includes a user-customized skin analysis unit 110, a light irradiation unit 120, a cleansing cream manufacturing unit 130, a cleansing unit 140, and a cleansing cream storage unit. It includes units 150_1 to 150_N, a communication unit 160, a control unit 170 and a handle unit 180.

The user-customized skin analysis unit 110 includes the user's skin time pre-stored through the communication unit 160, the user's cosmetics information, and the user's life data received from the user terminal 200 (eg, whether or not makeup is applied, time-specific The user's skin damage prediction state is determined based on location information, etc.) and weather information (eg, degree of ultraviolet rays, etc.) received from the Korea Meteorological Administration server.

In one embodiment, the user-customized skin analyzer 110 analyzes the location information of the user for each hour based on the user life data received from the user terminal 200 to generate indoor location information and outdoor location information for each hour. The user's skin damage prediction state is determined by reflecting the sun protection factor according to weather information and previously stored cosmetics information.

First, the user-customized skin analyzer 110 determines the outdoor UV exposure time based on outdoor location information by time, and applies a plus weight corresponding to the UV index among weather information to first temporary UV rays according to the outdoor UV exposure time. Determine the exposure index.

For example, the user-customized skin care device 100 can determine the outdoor UV exposure time as 12 hours because the outdoor activity was performed between "9:00 AM and 9:00 PM" based on outdoor location information by time among the user's life data. Since the UV index is different depending on the time of day, 3 hours of outdoor UV exposure time have a plus weight corresponding to normal UV index, 3 hours of outdoor UV exposure time have a plus weight corresponding to high UV index, and 23 hours of outdoor UV exposure The first temporary UV exposure index according to the outdoor UV exposure time may be determined by applying a positive weight corresponding to a low UV index to the time.

Then, the user-customized skin analyzer 110 determines an indoor UV exposure time based on the indoor location information by time, and second temporary UV exposure time according to the indoor UV exposure time based on the standard UV index according to the indoor lighting installed in the room. Determine the UV exposure index.

For example, the user-customized skin care device 100 may determine the indoor UV exposure time as 1 hour because indoor activities were performed between "10:00 pm and 11:00 pm" based on indoor location information among user life data, A second temporary UV exposure index may be determined by applying a plus weight corresponding to a standard UV index according to indoor lighting installed indoors to an indoor UV exposure time of 1 hour.

At this time, the user-customized skin analysis unit 110 may receive the type of indoor lighting installed in the building by communicating with the architect server that built the building where the user was located through the communication unit 160, and The standard UV index can be determined.

After that, the user-customized skin analysis unit 110, when the user is active after applying makeup on the corresponding day, the cosmetic information pre-stored in the UV exposure index obtained by adding the first temporary UV exposure index and the second temporary UV exposure index. The final sun exposure index is determined by applying the sun protection factor according to the negative weight.

Finally, the user-customized skin analysis unit 100 determines the user's skin damage prediction state according to the final UV exposure index. At this time, the user-customized skin analysis unit 110 may determine a skin damage prediction state according to the skin damage prediction state for each UV exposure index stored in the database.

The light emitting unit 120 is formed by extending from the handle 180 of the user-customized skin care device 100, and when the cleansing head 141 of the cleansing unit 140 touches the user's facial skin, a certain amount is obtained from the facial skin. It can be formed to be located within the distance.

The light emitting unit 120 includes a light source 121 generating light. Here, the light source 121 may be implemented as an LED light source, an incandescent light source, or a fluorescent light source. The light irradiation unit 120 irradiates light rays generated from the light source 121 to the skin contacted while the cleansing unit 140 rotates through the light irradiation groove.

For example, the light emitting unit 120 may radiate at least one or more light rays from among near infrared rays, infrared rays, ultraviolet rays, near ultraviolet rays, and visible rays generated from the light source 121 to the skin.

The light radiated from the light emitting unit 120 is harmless to the human body, and acts by inducing a photo-biochemical reaction between cells, unlike a high-power laser that intensively treats a local area.

Such rays can be medically applied to wound healing, inflammation healing, skin rehabilitation, sunburn prevention, and photodynamic therapy, and can effectively treat a large area of disease with appropriate light output.

For example, LED red light (644mm) is absorbed by fibroblasts of capillaries to promote skin activity, and LED blue light (465mm) is absorbed by sebaceous glands to suppress sebum and acne bacteria, thereby improving skin characteristics. It can be used separately.

The light emitting unit 120 radiates light corresponding to a skin damage prediction state under the control of the control unit 170 .

The cleansing unit 140 includes a cleansing head 141 and a plurality of cleansing cream supply holes 142_1 to 142_N.

The cleansing head 141 may have a round brush shape. The cleansing head 141 may be in the form of a silicone material to remove the scalp. In the present invention, for convenience of description, it is assumed that the cleansing unit 14 has a round brush shape.

Since the cleansing head 141 rotates when the power button of the handle 180 is turned on, when the user brings the cleansing head 141 to the facial skin, the cleansing head 141 can be rotated to cleanse the facial skin.

The cleansing head 141 is formed with a plurality of cleansing cream supply holes 142_1 to 142_N for supplying the cleansing cream manufactured by the cleansing cream manufacturing unit 130 . Accordingly, the cleansing head 141 may cleanse the user's skin using the cleansing cream supplied through the plurality of cleansing cream supply holes 142_1 to 142_N.

The plurality of cleansing cream supply holes 142_1 to 142_N may maintain an open state or a closed state under the control of the controller 170 to provide the cleansing cream manufactured by the cleansing cream manufacturing unit 130 to the outside.

When the plurality of cleansing cream supply holes 142_1 to 142_N are kept open under the control of the control unit 170, the cleansing cream manufactured by the cleansing cream manufacturing unit 130 may be supplied to the outside, but the control unit ( When the closed state is maintained according to the control of 170), the cleansing cream manufactured by the cleansing cream manufacturing unit 130 cannot be provided to the outside.

As described above, the state of the plurality of cleansing cream supply holes 142_1 to 142_N is changed to an open state or a closed state to adjust the amount of cleansing cream discharged to the cleansing head 141, so that the user can adjust the amount of cream to cleanse has the advantage of being able to proceed with

The cleansing cream manufacturing unit 130 extracts and mixes cleansing creams having different functions stored in the cleansing cream storage units 150_1 to 150_N under the control of the controller 170 to prepare a user-customized cleansing cream.

That is, the cleansing cream manufacturing unit 130 is specific among cleansing creams having different functions stored in the cleansing cream storage units 150_1 to 150_N so as to recover the skin according to the predicted skin damage condition under the control of the controller 170. A user-customized cleansing cream may be prepared by extracting and mixing the cleansing cream.

As described above, the cleansing cream produced by the cleansing cream manufacturing unit 130 is extracted to the cleansing head 141 through the plurality of cleansing cream supply holes 142_1 to 142_N.

Cleansing creams having different functions are stored in the cleansing cream storage units 150_1 to 150_N. To this end, cleansing creams having different functions are stored in the cleansing cream storage units 150_1 to 150_N.

For example, the cleansing cream storage units 150_1 to 150_N store cleansing creams having different functions, such as a moisturizing cleansing cream, a wrinkle-reducing cleansing cream, and an anti-aging cleansing cream. The cleansing cream stored in the cleansing cream storage units 150_1 to 150_N may be extracted by a specific amount under the control of the controller 170 and provided to the cleansing cream manufacturing unit 130 .

The controller 170 controls each component of the user-customized skin care device 100 to provide a skin care server.

First, the controller 170 selects the type of light to be provided through the light emitter 120 according to the skin damage prediction state received from the user-customized skin analyzer 110 . To this end, the control unit 170 selects the type of light to be provided through the light emitter 120 according to the predicted skin damage condition based on a database in which the type of light beam for improving the corresponding skin condition is stored for each predicted skin damage condition. You can choose.

After that, the control unit 170 determines the type and amount of cleansing cream to be extracted from the cleansing cream storage units 150_1 to 150_N according to the skin damage prediction state received from the user-customized skin analysis unit 110, and then the cleansing cream Depending on the type and capacity of the cleansing cream stored in the corresponding cleansing cream storage units 150_1 to 150_N, the cleansing cream is extracted and manufactured through the cleansing cream manufacturing unit 130.

The handle portion 180 corresponds to a portion where the user holds the user-customized skin care device 100 by hand.

The handle portion 180 may have a gently curved shape so that the user can easily contact the cleansing portion 140 to the skin (eg, facial skin) while holding the handle portion 180 . As described above, since the handle part 180 is formed in a gently curved shape, the light irradiation part 120 extending from the handle part 180 is a cleansing head 141 of the cleansing part 140. When it touches the facial skin of the face, it can be located within a certain distance from the facial skin.

A power supply unit 181 is formed in the handle part 180, and when the state of the power supply unit 181 is changed to an on state by the user, the user-customized skin care device 100 is operated, and the power supply unit 181 is operated by the user. ) is changed to an off state, the operation of the user-customized skin care device 100 is stopped.

The power supply unit 181 supplies power to each component of the user-customized skin care device 100 . The power supply unit 181 may store and supply power required for plasma discharge and light irradiation to each component.

Power required for plasma discharge and light irradiation can be stored and supplied to each component.

The power supply unit 181 may receive necessary power (eg, external power or battery power). In addition, the power supply unit 181 may provide battery charging through a charging circuit. In addition, the skin care device 100 can be charged and used as an independent device without wires or electrical connections. For example, the power source 181 may include an external power source 182 or a battery charger 183 .

4 is an exemplary diagram for explaining an execution process of a user-customized skin care device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4 , the user-customized skin care device 100 receives user life data from the user terminal 200 . At this time, the user's life data may include makeup, outdoor activity between 9:00 am and 9:00 pm, inside activity between 10:00 pm and 11:00 pm, and sleeping at other times.

In addition, the user-customized skin care device 100 receives weather information (eg, UV index, etc.) from the Korea Meteorological Administration server. In this case, the weather information may include 9:00 am to 12:00 am: normal UV index, 12:00 am to 4:00 pm: high UV index, and 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm: low UV index.

In addition, the user's skin care device 100 stores information about the user's skin type and cosmetics used by the user. To this end, when the user purchases cosmetics through the online market, the user terminal 200 receives cosmetics purchase information from the online market server, and then provides cosmetics information corresponding to the cosmetics purchase information to the user-customized skin care device 100. can do.

In one embodiment, the user-customized skin care device 100 generates indoor location information and outdoor location information by time by analyzing location information of the user by time based on user life data, and then provides weather information and pre-stored cosmetic information. The user's skin damage prediction state is determined by reflecting the UV protection index according to the

First, the user-customized skin care device 100 determines a UV exposure time based on hourly outdoor location information, and applies a plus weight corresponding to a UV index among weather information to a first temporary UV exposure according to the outdoor UV exposure time. determine the index.

In the example of FIG. 4 , the user-customized skin care device 100 set the outdoor UV exposure time to 12 hours because the outdoor activity was performed between “9:00 AM and 9:00 PM” based on outdoor location information by time among user life data. Since the UV index is different depending on the time of day, 3 hours of outdoor UV exposure time have a plus weight corresponding to normal UV index, and 3 hours of outdoor UV exposure time have a plus weight corresponding to high UV index, and outdoor UV exposure time A first temporary UV exposure index according to the outdoor UV exposure time may be determined by applying a plus weight corresponding to a low UV index to 23 hours of the middle.

Then, the user-customized skin care device 100 determines an indoor UV exposure time based on the indoor location information for each hour, and second temporary UV exposure time according to the indoor UV exposure time based on the standard UV index according to the indoor lighting installed in the room. Determine the UV exposure index.

In the example of FIG. 4 , the user-customized skin care device 100 can determine the indoor UV exposure time as 1 hour because the indoor activity was performed from “10:00 pm to 11:00 pm” based on indoor location information among user life data. In addition, a second temporary UV exposure index may be determined by applying a plus weight corresponding to a standard UV index according to indoor lighting installed indoors to an indoor UV exposure time of 1 hour.

At this time, the user-customized skin care device 100 may receive the type of indoor lighting installed in the building by communicating with the architect server that built the building where the user is located, and determine the standard UV index according to the type of indoor lighting. there is.

After that, the user-customized skin care device 100 is pre-stored cosmetic information in the UV exposure index obtained by adding the first temporary UV exposure index and the second temporary UV exposure index when the user is active after putting on makeup on the corresponding day. The final sun exposure index is determined by applying the sun protection factor according to the negative weight.

Finally, the user-customized skin care device 100 determines the user's skin damage prediction state according to the final UV exposure index. At this time, the user-customized skin care device 100 may determine the skin damage prediction state according to the skin damage prediction state for each UV exposure index stored in the database.

After that, the user-customized skin care device 100 mixes the cleansing cream stored in a specific cleansing cream storage unit according to the skin damage predicted state among the cleansing creams stored in the cleansing cream storage unit, and then supplies the cleansing cream to the outside through the cleansing cream supply hole of the cleansing head. to be discharged as

In the example of FIG. 4 , the cleansing cream storage unit stores cleansing creams having different functions, such as a cleansing cream dedicated to hydration, a cleansing cream dedicated to wrinkle improvement, and a cleansing cream dedicated to anti-aging. lack of moisture due to", the amount of the cleansing cream dedicated to moisturizing is increased among the predetermined amounts of cleansing cream, and the amounts of each of the cleansing cream dedicated to wrinkle improvement and the cleansing cream dedicated to anti-aging are decreased.

Although described by the limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and those skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations from these descriptions. Therefore, the spirit of the present invention should be grasped only by the claims described below, and all equivalent or equivalent modifications thereof will be said to belong to the scope of the spirit of the present invention.

100: user-customized skin beauty device,
110: user-customized skin analysis unit,
120: light irradiation unit,
130: cleansing cream manufacturing unit,
140: cleansing unit,
150: cleansing cream storage unit,
160: communication department,
170: control unit,
180: handle part

Claims (4)

a user-customized skin analysis unit that determines a user's skin damage prediction state based on the user life data received from the user terminal and the weather information received from the Korea Meteorological Administration server;
a light irradiation unit for radiating light from among a plurality of light rays through different light sources according to the predicted skin damage state;
a cleansing cream manufacturing unit that extracts and mixes specific cleansing creams according to the predicted skin damage condition among the cleansing creams having different functions stored in the cleansing cream storage unit to prepare a user-customized cleansing cream;
When the cleansing cream manufactured by the cleansing cream manufacturing unit is discharged to the outside through a plurality of cleansing cream supply holes and a specific cleansing cream supply hole among the plurality of cleansing cream supply holes, the cleansing cream is rotated or vibrated to use the cleansing cream. a cleansing unit including a cleansing head to clean the user's skin;
a light irradiation unit to irradiate a specific type of light according to the predicted skin damage state received from the user-customized skin analysis unit; and
Characterized in that it comprises a control unit for controlling the operation of the light irradiation unit, the cleansing cream storage unit and the plurality of cleansing cream supply holes based on the skin damage prediction state
Custom skin care device.
According to claim 1,
The control unit
The type of light to be provided through the light emitter is selected based on the database storing the types of light rays for improving the corresponding skin condition for each predicted skin damage state, and the light beam to be provided through the light emitter according to the predicted skin damage condition. Characterized in that by determining the type of and controlling the light irradiation unit so that the corresponding light beam is irradiated
Custom skin care device.
According to claim 1,
The control unit
After determining the type and amount of cleansing cream to be extracted from the cleansing cream storage unit according to the predicted skin damage condition, the cleansing cream stored in the corresponding cleansing cream storage unit is extracted according to the type and capacity of the cleansing cream through the cleansing cream manufacturing unit. Characterized in that for controlling the cleansing cream manufacturing unit to manufacture
Custom skin care device.
According to claim 1,
The light irradiator
It is formed by extending from the handle of the user-customized skin care device, and when the cleansing head of the cleansing unit touches the user's facial skin, it is located within a specific distance from the facial skin and emits rays to the user's skin while the cleansing head operates. characterized by investigating
Custom skin care device.

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