Hair care appliance which can be employed in a flexible manner

• US 9,295,315 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2008
• Issued: 03/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Braun GmbH (The Procter & Gamble Company)
• Original Assignee: Braun GmbH (The Procter & Gamble Company)
• Inventors: Kloeppel-Riech, Michael, Honnefeller, Katja, Smetana, Norbert, Soerensen, Olaf, Seng, Juergen
• Primary Examiner(s): Doan, Robyn
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOBREGA, TATIANA L
• Application Number:
  US12/674,053
• Publication Number:
  US 20110088714A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,804 Days
• Field of Search: 132/115, 132/126, 132/148, 132/157, 132/212, 132/219, 132/221, 132/271, 132/272, 151/60, 151/69, 151/84, 151/85, 152/46
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 1/04 by electricity
• 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 20/50 and provision for an air stream
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 20/525 by an independent heating source
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/202 Ionisation
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 15/0002 Arrangements for enhancing monitoring or controlling the brushing process
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 15/0024 with means generating ions
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 2200/104 Hair brush bristles arrangements for hair brushes A46B9/023

Abstract

The present invention relates to a hair treatment appliance (1) having a handle (3), a functional head (4) which can be connected to the handle (3) and has a hair treatment device (5), and also an ion application device (9) for applying ions to the hair, said ion application device having at least one ion outlet (11), wherein the functional head (4) and the handle (3) also in each case have an electrically conductive area on an outer face of the component and the electrically conductive area of the functional head (4) and the electrically conductive area of the handle (3) are electrically conductively connected to one another.

Claims

1. A hair treatment device having a handle (3), a function head (4) that can be connected to the handle (3) and that has a hair treatment device (5), and an ion-discharging device (9) for discharging ions onto the hair having two ion outlets (11), characterised in that the function head (4) and the handle each have an electrically conductive surface on the outside of a component, and the electrically conductive surface of the function head and the electrically conductive surface of the handle are connected to one another in electrically conductive fashion, and further characterized in that the two ion outlets (11) are both situated in an edge area of the back side of the function head (4), and facing each other, such that an ion cloud arising over the back side of the function head is produced.