Patents by Inventor Dennis E. Kuhlman

Dennis E. Kuhlman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7380556
    Abstract: A hair iron that can set hairstyles by heating and spraying a treatment agent comprises a pair of holding parts (1, 1); each having heating block (2), the surface of which acts as a holding surface (7); at least one holding part (1) containing liquid container (5), liquid holder (4) that brings the liquid in liquid container (5) in contact with heating block (2) as the liquid in liquid container (5) is transferred to heating block (2), and steam path (19) that sprays from holding surface (7) the steam generated as the liquid transferred from inside liquid container (5) is heated by the contact surface with heating block (2) of liquid holder (4). Hair is held between the holding surfaces (7, 7) of the pair of holding parts (1, 1), and under the action of the steam sprayed from the steam path (19), the hairstyle is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignees: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd., The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jose A. Carballada, Dennis E. Kuhlman, David M. Stentz, Shinji Nishimura, Kazunori Nakasai