DRYER

• US 20160302548A1
• Filed: 11/28/2014
• Published: 10/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ya-Man Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Ya-Man Ltd.
• Inventors: YAMAZAKI, Iwao
• Application Number:
  US15/101,216
• Publication Number:
  US 20160302548A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 20/10 Hand-held drying devices, e.g. air douches
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 20/12 Details thereof or accessories therefor, e.g. nozzles, stands
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/205 Radiation, e.g. UV, infrared
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/207 Vibration, e.g. ultrasound
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0107 modular
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0153 hand-held
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0207 heated
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/025 by direct air flow on the patient's body
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1692 Enhanced rubbing effect
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/5025 Activation means
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2205/021 Scalp
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/02 with electric or magnetic drive
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/0263 using rotating unbalanced masses
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 7/005 hand-held

Abstract

To provide a dryer that can simply and effectively massage the scalp. The main body of this dryer, which dries the scalp and provides vibratory stimulation to the scalp, is provided with a blower which sucks air from the outside and blows the air towards a blower port, a heater and/or a heater which heats the blown air, a scalp massage attachment which is attached in the blowing direction of the blower port, and a vibrator which generates vibration to vibrate the scalp massage attachment.

Claims

1. A dryer that performs drying and a vibratory stimulation to a scalp, the dryer comprising in a dryer body:

a blower that sucks air from outside and blows the air towards a blower port;

a heater that heats the blown air;

a scalp massage attachment that is attached along a blowing direction of the blower port; and

a vibrator that generates vibration to vibrate the scalp massage attachment.

2. The dryer according to claim 1, the dryer comprising:

at least an infrared ray heater as the heater of the dryer body to radiate infrared rays to the scalp and hair through the blower port.

3. The dryer according to claim 1, wherein

an auxiliary handle part for pressing the scalp massage attachment towards the scalp is attached in a back side of the scalp massage attachment of the dryer body.

4. The dryer according to claim 2, the dryer comprising:

as the heater of the dryer body, a ceramic heater that has output power of 400 W or less to mainly radiate infrared rays; and

a nichrome wire heater that has output power of 1200 W or less to mainly heat air, wherein

the ceramic heater is only used so as to perform the vibratory stimulation by the scalp massage attachment,

while at least one of the ceramic heater and the nichrome wire heater is used so as to perform the drying.

5. The dryer according to claim 4, wherein

the dryer body includes a cylindrical part and a handle part that is extended downward from a cylindrical side face of the cylindrical part,

having in the cylindrical part from an edge part in order the scalp massage attachment, the blower port, the ceramic heater, the nichrome wire heater and the blower,

further having a vibration transmission part that uses a vibration motor as the vibrator and connects the scalp massage attachment and the vibration motor, and

a user uses the dryer with the blower port facing a body by grasping the handle part.

6. The dryer according to claim 5, wherein

the auxiliary handle part is extended from the cylindrical side face of the cylindrical part at least one of in a left side, in a right side and on an upper part, and

the auxiliary handle part has a pressing face part parallel to a radial cross section of the cylindrical part.

7. The dryer according to claim 4, wherein

by use of an electric resistance of a nichrome wire used for the nichrome wire heater, at least one of the blower and the ceramic heater is controlled.

8. The dryer according to claim 1, wherein

the scalp massage attachment is detachable in a vicinity of the blower port.

9. A vibration attachment that is mounted to a dryer body, the vibration attachment for dryer comprising:

a mounting part that is mounted to a blower port of the dryer body;

a scalp massage attachment that is attached along a blowing direction of the blower port; and

a vibrator that generates vibration to vibrate the scalp massage attachment.