Skin treatment apparatus

• US 9,730,758 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2013
• Issued: 08/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ryzman Family Partnership
• Original Assignee: Conair Corporation
• Inventors: Carlucci, Vito James
• Primary Examiner(s): Miles, Jonathan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rwego, Kankindi
• Application Number:
  US14/133,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20150173842A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,335 Days
• Field of Search: 606131
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 13/008 Disc-shaped brush bodies
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 13/023 with means for inducing vibration to the bristles
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 15/0006 with a controlling brush technique device, e.g. stroke movement measuring device
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 15/0008 with means for controlling duration, e.g. time of brushing
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 2200/102 Brush specifically designed for massaging the skin or scalp A46B2200/1026 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/80 Implements for cleaning or washing the skin of surgeons or patients
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1671 rotational
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1676 Pivoting
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/5043 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2205/022 Face
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/02 with electric or magnetic drive
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 7/005 hand-held

Abstract

A facial treatment apparatus includes a housing, a facial treatment member mounted to the housing, and dimensioned for application to facial skin of a subject and being actuable to treat the facial skin, a visual display including a facial icon having a plurality of regions corresponding to different areas of the facial skin to be treated by the facial treatment member, an electronic timer adapted to count time associated with a treatment protocol and responsive to actuation of the facial treatment member and a controller associated with the timer and the facial icon and cooperating to visually identify a different region of the facial icon at successive predetermined time intervals of the treatment protocol.

Claims

1. A facial treatment apparatus, which comprises:

a housing;

a facial treatment member mounted to the housing, the treatment member dimensioned for application to facial skin of a subject and being actuatable to treat the facial skin;

a visual display including a facial icon having a plurality of regions corresponding to different areas of the facial skin to be treated by the facial treatment member, each of the plurality of regions being associated with a corresponding mode of a treatment protocol;

a timer adapted to count time associated with the treatment protocol and responsive to actuation of the facial treatment member, the treatment protocol including six different predetermined time intervals corresponding to six modes of the treatment protocol and to different regions of the facial icon; and

a controller including a processor and a memory and configured to illuminate a specific region of the facial icon at successive predetermined time intervals of the treatment protocol based on the time counted by the timer to instruct the subject to apply the facial treatment member for a predetermined time interval to an area of the facial skin corresponding to the illuminated specific region of the facial icon and activate the mode of the treatment protocol associated with the illuminated specific region of the facial icon.

2. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the visual display includes a time indicator associated with the timer, and adapted to identify time associated with the treatment protocol.

3. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 2 wherein the time indicator is adapted to display time remaining in the treatment protocol.

4. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a mode indicator for indicating the mode of the treatment protocol corresponding to a select predetermined time interval of the treatment protocol.

5. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 1 wherein each of the predetermined time intervals are substantially equal.

6. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the facial icon is representative of a face.

7. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a manual actuator mounted to the housing and a motor in electrical communication with the manual actuator for actuating the facial treatment member.

8. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 7 wherein the manual actuator is activated to selectively control operation of the motor between two different operating speeds to cause corresponding respective movement of the facial treatment member.

13. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the visual display is mounted to the housing.

14. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 8 wherein the controller is in communication with the manual actuator and includes logic such that successive actuation of the manual actuator will cause the motor to selectively operate between a high speed mode, a low speed mode and a pause mode.

9. A facial treatment apparatus, which comprises:

a housing;

a facial treatment member mounted to the housing;

a visual display including a facial icon mounted to the housing, the facial icon having six regions each corresponding to a respective area of the facial skin to be treated by the facial treatment member, each of the six regions being associated with a different mode of a treatment protocol;

an electronic timer adapted to count time associated with each of the modes of the treatment protocol, the treatment protocol including six different predetermined time intervals corresponding to six modes of the treatment protocol and to six regions of the facial icon; and

a controller including a processor and a memory and configured to illuminate the six regions of the facial icon during respective modes of the treatment protocol based on the time counted by the electronic timer to instruct a user to apply the facial treatment member to the respective one of the six areas of the facial skin during the respective mode of the treatment protocol.

10. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 9 wherein the visual display includes a mode indicator adapted to respectively display the six modes of the treatment protocol.

11. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 9 wherein the visual display includes a time indicator adapted to display time associated with the treatment protocol.

12. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 11 wherein the time indicator is adapted to display time remaining in the treatment protocol.

15. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a manual actuator mounted to the housing and a motor in electrical communication with the manual actuator for moving the facial treatment member.

16. The facial treatment apparatus according to claim 15 wherein the controller is in communication with the manual actuator and includes logic such that successive actuation of the manual actuator will cause the motor to selectively operate between a high speed mode, a low speed mode and a pause mode.