Skin care pad with ultrasonic transducer

• US 20050256431A1
• Filed: 05/12/2004
• Published: 11/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Masatoshi Masuda
• Original Assignee: Masatoshi Masuda
• Inventors: Masuda, Masatoshi
• Application Number:
  US10/844,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20050256431A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 601/2
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/105 with means for delivering media, e.g. drugs or cosmetics
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/0245 with ultrasonic transducers, e.g. piezoelectric

Abstract

A cosmetic device for improving skin conditions comprises: (i) a fluid-storing portion fluid-tightly storing a fluid therein comprised of a thin material, on a surface of which portion a planar contact surface adapted to contact a skin is formed; and (ii) at least one ultrasonic transducer disposed near or at the fluid-storing portion to propagate ultrasonic waves through the fluid to the skin. The fluid is fluid-tightly stored in the fluid-storing portion and is not in contact with the body. Ultrasonic waves are propagated through the fluid to a skin.

Claims

1. A cosmetic device for improving skin conditions comprising:

a fluid-storing portion fluid-tightly storing a fluid therein comprised of a thin material, on a surface of which portion a planar contact surface adapted to contact a skin of the body is formed, said fluid-storing portion being divided into multiple compartments by isolation walls having holes through which the fluid passes; and

multiple ultrasonic transducers disposed on the fluid-storing portion opposite to the planar contact surface to propagate ultrasonic waves through the fluid to the skin.

2. The cosmetic device according to claim 1, wherein the ultrasonic transducers are disposed on the respective compartments.

3. The cosmetic device according to claim 1, wherein the fluid is a gel or cream which propagates ultrasonic waves.

4. The cosmetic device according to claim 1, further comprising a controller which transmits ultrasonic wave signals to each transducer in sequence.

5. The cosmetic device according to claim 1, wherein each transducer is capable of emitting ultrasonic waves at a frequency of about 500 kHz to about 10 MHz.

6. The cosmetic device according to claim 1, further comprising a vibration stop layer disposed on a side opposite to the planar contact surface of the fluid-storing portion.

7. A cosmetic device for improving skin conditions comprising:

a fluid-storing portion fluid-tightly storing a fluid therein comprised of a thin material, on a surface of which portion a planar contact surface adapted to contact a skin of the body is formed; and

at least one ultrasonic transducer disposed at one longitudinal end of the fluid-storing portion at an acute angle formed by an axis of the transducer and an incidence plane of the fluid at the longitudinal end, to generate surface waves at the longitudinal end and to propagate transversal waves through the fluid to the skin.

8. The cosmetic device according to claim 7, wherein the axis of the transducer is positioned at a middle point of the incidence plane of the fluid in a propagation direction.

9. The cosmetic device according to claim 7, wherein the transducer and the fluid-storing portion are configured to provide a propagation depth of about 35 mm in the fluid.

10. The cosmetic device according to claim 7, wherein the transducer is capable of emitting ultrasonic waves at a frequency of about 40 kHz to about 1 MHz.

11. The cosmetic device according to claim 7, further comprising a vibration stop layer disposed on a side opposite to the planar contact surface of the fluid-storing portion.

12. A cosmetic device for a skin comprising:

a fluid-storing portion storing a fluid therein and constituted by a soft pouched material, on a surface of which portion a body-contacting planar surface which can contact the body is formed;

at least one ultrasonic transducer having a given angle of gradient with the body-contacting surface of said fluid-storing portion, wherein an oscillating surface of said transducer is disposed facing said fluid-storing portion; and

a surface-wave-generating material supporting said ultrasonic transducers and having a contacting surface which contacts the edge of said fluid-storing portion, wherein said contacting surface is disposed to cross the normal line from nearly the center of said ultrasonic transducer.

13. The cosmetic device according to claim 12, wherein the center portion of the contacting surface of said surface-wave-generating material and the normal line from nearly the center of said ultrasonic transducers are crossed.

14. The cosmetic device according to claim 12, wherein the contacting surface of said surface-wave-generating material is a convex planar surface.

15. The cosmetic device according to claim 12, further comprising a supporting material which supports said fluid-storing portion and said ultrasonic transducer from the reverse side of said body-contacting surface in said fluid-storing portion, wherein said supporting material comprises a fastening material to be used to attach said supporting material to a part of the body along with said fluid-storing portion and said ultrasonic transducer.

16. A cosmetic device for a skin comprising:

a fluid-storing portion storing a fluid therein and comprising a soft pouched material, on a surface of which portion a planar contact surface which can contact the body is formed;

partition-walls dividing a fluid stored inside said fluid-storing portion into multiple compartments, wherein multiple pores through which said fluid can pass are formed in said partition-walls; and

multiple ultrasonic transducers, which are disposed on a surface on the reverse side of said contact surface.

17. The cosmetic device according to claim 16, further comprising an ultrasonic-transducer drive mechanism which vibrates said multiple ultrasonic transducers sequentially.

18. The cosmetic device according to claims 16, further comprising a supporting material which supports said fluid-storing portion and said ultrasonic transducer from the reverse side of said contact surface in said fluid-storing portion and wherein said supporting material comprises a fastening material which is used for attaching the supporting material to a part of the body along with said fluid-storing portion and said ultrasonic transducer.