Patents Examined by Sarah Woodhouse
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Patent number: 11882926Abstract: An adjustable applicator for applying cosmetic, makeup, or personal care composition, the adjustable applicator includes an applicator head. The applicator head comprises at least two applicator members each comprising a plurality of application elements and wherein when there is a relative axial displacement of one of the at least two applicator members, the other of the at least two applicator members is deformed radially. The applicator head may be used for applying cosmetic, makeup, or personal care composition to keratin materials chosen from the skin, the lips and the eyelashes, or hair of the human. The cosmetic or care product includes liquid or viscous cosmetics such as for mascara, lip stick, hair color, skin care and like products.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: ZEN DESIGN SOLUTIONS LIMITEDInventors: Leo Clifford Pires, Roger Hwang, Rahul Bose, Manisha Kohli, Iti Seth, Rajesh Deswal
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Patent number: 11871828Abstract: An attachment including a casing having an air inlet for receiving an airflow from a hair styling apparatus, a hair engaging member, supported by the casing, and adapted to move relative to the casing between a first position and a second position under the action of an over-centre mechanism. First and second airflow outlets are formed between the casing and the hair engaging member when the hair engaging member is in the first and second position, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Annmarie Rita Nicolson, Emma Victoria Carson, Robert Mark Brett Coulton, Stephen Benjamin Courtney
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Patent number: 11839285Abstract: A cosmetic container including an impregnation member having the surface intaglio-patterned by laser beam machining is provided. The surface of the impregnation member is heated and burned by a laser to form an intaglio-pattern, and an intaglio-pattern part having the intaglio-pattern is formed with a width of 0.1 mm to 5.0 mm so that the intaglio-pattern part formed by the laser is maintained in the open cell structure and has the large discharge surface area, so a user easily adjusts an amount of discharged cosmetic material according to force applied to the impregnation member and use the cosmetic material. The cosmetic container includes an outer container having an open upper portion, an outer container lid coupled to the outer container, an inner container mounted inside the outer container, the impregnation member in the inner container and impregnated with cosmetic material and an inner container lid hinged with the inner container.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: AMOREPACIFIC CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Young Kim, Ju Ho Kim
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Patent number: 11771158Abstract: An applicator comprising: a first arm having a first grasping tip that is arcuate, wherein the first grasping tip has a first inner side hosting a male portion; and a second arm having a second grasping tip that is arcuate, wherein the second grasping tip has a second inner side hosting a female portion, wherein the first inner side faces the second inner side, wherein the male portion and the female portion avoid mating when the first arm and the second arm are at a default position, wherein the male portion and the female portion mate when the first arm and the second arm are at a grasping position.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Lashify, Inc.Inventor: Sahara Lotti
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Patent number: 11751663Abstract: A magnetic cap assembly is used to close a bottle, grip or box. The magnetic cap assembly includes an external cap, magnets and an internal cap. The magnets are inserted in the external cap. The internal cap is fitted in the external cap, thereby keeping the magnets in the external cap. The internal cap is used to close the bottle, grip or box.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Libo Cosmetics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hsiao-Yun Lin
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Patent number: 11730247Abstract: The combination hair band and comb assists people with activities of daily living (ADLs). The combination hair band and comb includes an elongate fabric hair band having a series of small internal combs that assist the user in combing/brushing their hair. A first end of the band is attached to one end of a spring clip, and the opposite second end of the band passes through a hole at the other end of the spring clip. In use, the hair band is tightened by pulling the distal end of the band through the hole in the spring clip. The spring clip is then fastened to maintain the band in the desired position. The internal plastic combs extend through an internal slit in the band and comb the hair as the band is pulled rearward through the user's hair, by the user grasping and pulling the distal end of the band.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: KING SAUD UNIVERSITYInventors: Maha Fahad Saud Algabbani, Asma Saad Alrushud, Rawan Faisal Alghamdi, Rahaf Hamad Alrajhi, Ayshah Abdullah Aldosari, Ebtesam Nasser Alqhtaney, Ranym Ibrahim Alawaji, Hala Rashed Alrashed
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Patent number: 11712079Abstract: A method of attaching hair extensions includes sectioning, beading, securing, and stitching hair extensions into a client's hair. Sectioning allows a hairdresser to properly place the hair extension, which creates beads that are unseen. The beads may be placed so as to allow a flexible groove to place the wefts. Securing the wefts includes a pattern of stitching that places a stitch at a side, middle, opposite side, and between the beads. This stitching pattern promotes secure wefts as well as prevents damage to scalp and hair.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Inventor: McKenzie Turley
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Patent number: 11700930Abstract: This invention relates to a cosmetic product applicator, including: an application member (30) comprising an application element (42); and a gripping member (32) hinged to the application member, with the gripping member being mobile with respect to the application member around an axis of rotation (38), between a first and a second stable configurations. The application member and the gripping member respectively comprise first and second (75) guiding elements, configured to slide against one another during a rotation of the gripping member with respect to the application member, with each one of the first and second stable configurations corresponding to a minimum of elastic stress between said first and second guiding elements, said elastic stress being considered in the radial direction with respect to the axis of rotation (38).Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: L'OREALInventors: Xavier Debaecker, Sylvain De Raemy
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Patent number: 11690434Abstract: A device for applying or removing nail polish or nail art has a replaceable cartridge with a distal end removably coupleable to a proximal end of a handle. The cartridge has a reservoir that contains a liquid, such as nail polish or nail polish remover and a flow control member (e.g., valve) actuatable to allow flow of the liquid out of the distal end of the cartridge. The handle has a flow path therethrough that extends between its proximal end to an applicator implement (e.g., brush, sponge) attached to its distal end, the flow path in fluid communication with the flow control member when the cartridge is coupled to the handle. Selective actuation of the flow control member by the user (e.g., by squeezing the cartridge) allows fluid to flow out the reservoir and through the flow path in the handle to the applicator implement for application of the fluid by the user to a finger or toe nail.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: OJIP, LLCInventor: Sarah Gibson Tuttle
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Patent number: 11684132Abstract: The invention relates to a device for treating the hair and to the corresponding application method, the device (2) comprising: —two arms (5, 6) that are able to move relative to one another between a moved-together configuration for treating the hair and a spaced-apart configuration for inserting hair to be treated between said arms, and —a system (18) for applying a product, comprising an applicator member (26) for applying the product, the application system (18) being mounted on one of the arms (5) and being able to move relative to said arm (5) between at least two positions generating, while the device (2) is being used to treat the hair, different respective application pressures of the applicator member (26) on the hair to be treated.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: L'OREAL, SEB S.A.Inventors: Baptiste Bonnemaire, Martial Maisonneuve, Fabien Normand, Régis Fereyre, Xavier Vacheron, Sandy Lapize, Gabin Vic, Stefania Nuzzo, Edouard Messager
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Patent number: 11659909Abstract: The present invention provides a multifunctional hair straightening and curling device, including: an upper main body, a lower main body and a handle, wherein the upper heating body is disposed on the upper main body, the lower heating body is disposed on the lower main body, one end of the upper heating body and one end of the lower heating body are rotatably connected by a rotary shaft, a button is disposed on the upper main body, the upper surface of the upper main body is provided with first air outlets, the upper main body is provided with a first air outlet passage therein, the lower surface of the lower main body is provided with second air outlets, the lower main body is provided with a second air outlet passage therein, the handle is provided with a fan therein.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Inventors: Qiongquan Lin, Shenglong Wei, Shengquan Wang, Taiqiao Yin, Peikai Zhu
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Patent number: 11648097Abstract: An interdental cleaner for cleaning interdental spaces includes a cleaning portion for interdental cleaning and a handle portion connected as a grip to the cleaning portion by a flexible neck portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: SUNSTAR SUISSE S.A.Inventor: Jürgen Butz
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Patent number: 11627792Abstract: The present invention relates to an applicator for applying a cosmetic product to the eyelashes and/or eyebrows, having an applicator member with a core made of thermoplastic material, spikes moulded with the core, of which at least some are multiple, the multiple spikes having at least two branches extending in divergent directions away from the core, these branches connecting to one and the same base or having bases contiguous or close to each other, and a support having two metal branches twisted around the core.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: L'OREALInventors: Alain Berhault, Eric Caulier
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Patent number: 11617406Abstract: A handheld device for applying eyelash extensions is disclosed. The handheld device includes a device enclosure with an opening at a distal end of the device enclosure. The handheld device further includes tweezers at least partially disposed within the device enclosure. The tweezers are configured to grasp one or more lashes from a lash cartridge at least partially disposed within or coupled to the device enclosure. The tweezers are coupled to a tweezer actuator at least partially disposed within the device enclosure. The tweezer actuator is configured to selectively position the tweezers between a rest position and an extended position, wherein the tweezers are configured to extend the one or more lashes grasped by the tweezers through the opening at the distal end of the device enclosure when the tweezers are in the extended position.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Inventor: Christopher Fiala
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Patent number: 11596962Abstract: A micro pump vessel has an outer vessel on one side of which a button is formed and an outer vessel lid which is hinge-coupled to one side of the outer vessel to be opened and closed. In the vessel, a first and a second pistons are installed on an upper surface of cosmetic contents, and thus, when the cosmetic contents are pumped and used by the operation of a micro pump, the first and the second pistons lower to exhaust all the cosmetic contents so as not to discard the remaining cosmetic contents.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Inventor: Seong Il Kang
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Patent number: 11540619Abstract: The present invention relates to an applicator for applying a cosmetic product to the eyelashes and/or eyebrows, having an applicator member (8) having: —a core of thermoplastic material having a longitudinal axis, the core being twisted through more than one revolution about its longitudinal axis under the effect of the twist of the metal arms of the holder, and having an endpiece that has no spikes. —spikes of thermoplastic material extending from the core, —a holder having two metal arms twisted around the core.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: L'OREALInventor: Alain Berhault
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Patent number: 11528978Abstract: In one aspect the invention is arranged to provide a hair treatment apparatus adapted to reduce the temperature of hair. This apparatus includes at least one thermal energy storage core arranged to draw heat out of hair wherein said at least one thermal energy storage core is arranged to cool hair to a temperature below 0° Celsius.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: ROHOLM LIMITEDInventors: Blythe Guy Rees-Jones, David Erl Roe, Jonathan Martin Jones, Simon John Crane, Timothy Mark Allan
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Patent number: 11446126Abstract: A dental floss member and a dental floss holder are disclosed. The dental floss member includes a linear type dental floss having a predetermined length, a first fixer disposed at one end of the dental floss, and a second fixer disposed at the other end of the dental floss. The dental floss holder includes a body having a first corresponding fixer to which the first fixer is fixed and a mounting part on which a section for use of the dental floss is mounted, and a second corresponding fixer disposed at the body and to which the second fixer is fixed.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Inventor: Bong kyun Oh
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Patent number: 11439193Abstract: A method of integrating a hair extension weft on a human scalp is disclosed. The hair extension weft includes a polyurethane strip enclosing a plurality of meshes arranged in a longitudinal direction of the strip. Each mesh is configured to have a plurality of contiguous hairs attached in a transverse orientation. The hair extension weft includes several gaps formed between the plurality of meshes in the longitudinal direction. Each gap is configured to receive a plurality of hairs from the human scalp. Upon clipping the hair extension weft to the human scalp, the plurality of hairs is pulled through each gap with a needle shaped tool placed under the each gap of the hair extension weft. A microbead is clamped to the plurality of hairs pulled through the each gap, to anchor the hair extension weft to the human scalp.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Inventor: Tammy Gucciardi
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Patent number: 11419376Abstract: A method of attaching hair extensions includes sectioning, beading, securing, and stitching hair extensions into a client's hair. Sectioning allows a hairdresser to properly place the hair extension, which creates beads that are unseen. The beads may be placed so as to allow a flexible groove to place the wefts. Securing the wefts includes a pattern of stitching that places a stitch at a side, middle, opposite side, and between the beads. This stitching pattern promotes secure wefts as well as prevents damage to scalp and hair.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Inventor: McKenzie Turley