IP Library Granted Patent US 12685376
Granted Patent B2
US 12685376 · App. 18/254,539 · Granted Jul 21, 2026

Beauty equipment

Inventors: Hirotoshi Oikaze (Shiga, JP); Yuki Chikazawa (Nara, JP); Masato Kinoshita (Shiga, JP)
Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
A45D20/12A45D20/08B05B9/0822
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Patent No.
US 12685376
App. No.
18/254,539
Granted
Jul 21, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Hair care device includes: housing including suction port and discharge port; heater disposed inside housing; and spray including two-fluid nozzle that discharges an atomized liquid. Housing includes, inside housing, air blow flow channel disposed between suction port and discharge port, and branch flow channel disposed below air blow flow channel. Heater is disposed in air blow flow channel, and spray is disposed in branch flow channel.

Claims (20)

1 . Beauty equipment comprising:

a housing including a suction port and a discharge port;

a heating unit disposed inside the housing;

a spray including a discharger that discharges an atomized liquid generated by atomizing liquid; and

a grip portion to be gripped by a user's hand coupled to the housing, wherein:

the housing includes, inside the housing:

a warm air flow channel disposed between the suction port and the discharge port and having a warm air port;

a cold air flow channel disposed closer to the grip portion than the warm air flow channel and having a cold air port; and

a non-air flow channel disposed closer to the grip portion than the cold air flow channel and having a discharge port, and

the heating unit is disposed in the warm air flow channel,

the spray is disposed in the non-air flow channel such that the atomized liquid is discharged from the discharge port, not from the cold air port and the warm air port,

the heating unit is controlled to make a temperature of warm air discharged from the warm air flow channel lower when the spray performs spray operation than when the spray does not perform the spray operation, and

the heating unit is controlled such that the heating unit is turned off when the spray performs the spray operation, and the heating unit is turned on when the spray does not perform the spray operation.

2 . The beauty equipment according to claim 1 , wherein

the discharger includes a two-fluid nozzle,

the spray includes an air pump connected to the two-fluid nozzle, and

the air pump is controlled to discharge liquid remaining inside the two-fluid nozzle to an outside of the two-fluid nozzle after an end of spray operation of the spray.

3 . The beauty equipment according to claim 1 , wherein

the spray includes a storage that stores the liquid, and a liquid feed pump capable of performing forward rotation operation and reverse rotation operation, and

the liquid feed pump is operated in reverse rotation to return liquid remaining inside the discharger to a storage side after an end of spray operation of the spray.