Patents Examined by Tatiana L Nobrega
  • Patent number: 10674807
    Abstract: A cosmetic brush is provided that is capable of enhancing an ability to retain a liquid cosmetic material and making fine adjustment to the eyelashes easier. The cosmetic brush comprises a core wire part and a bristle group radially attached to the core wire part around an axis of the core wire part continuously in a helical state in an axial direction of the core wire part. The bristle group has bristles each constituted by integrating a basic fiber made up of a plurality of bundled constituent fibers and a wound fiber helically wound around an outer circumferential surface of the basic fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SINWA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Aso, Akihiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10646016
    Abstract: A hair grid measuring device comprises a thin, flexible body, a first side opposite a second side, a third side opposite a fourth side, a plurality of horizontal grid lines extending from the first side to the second side, and a plurality of vertical grid lines extending from the third side to the fourth side. The thin, flexible body also includes a plurality of apertures holding the device against a first individual's skin, ensuring stability and leverage, and easily bending the grid measuring device to the contours of the first individual's face, head, and body. A method for creating a custom hair style using the hair grid measuring device, accomplished either by hand or via a software application on an electronic device, that allows the first individual to obtain the hair design of a second individual, such as a celebrity, sports player, or actor, or any predetermined shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventor: Antonio Xavier Alvarez
  • Patent number: 10631625
    Abstract: The vibrating dispensing hairbrush has an elongated upper housing, a main body below the upper housing, and a removable bottom cover. The main body defines a fluid reservoir for holding a liquid to be dispensed while brushing. A bristle plate defines the bottom wall of the reservoir, the bristle plate having an alternating pattern of bristles and resilient nubs depending therefrom, the nubs dispensing drops of the fluid when pressure is applied thereto by the bristles while brushing. The upper housing houses a vibratory motor at opposite ends thereof for aiding in fluid dispensing and distribution, and for imparting vibratory motion to the bristles, and also houses rechargeable batteries. The bottom cover protects the bristles when not in use, and may have an accessory mirror attached thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Inventor: Hala F.H.Y. Alhajji
  • Patent number: 10617190
    Abstract: A hair clamping device includes a clamping member and a stretching member. The clamping member is a flexible arcuate member including first and second engaging ends releasably engaged with each other. The clamping member is in an extended state when the first and second engaging ends disengage from each other. The clamping member is in a clamping state when the first and second ends engage with each other. The clamping member in the clamping state defines an annular through-hole in a central portion thereof. The stretching member has an outer diameter smaller than a diameter of the through-hole of the clamping member in the clamping state. The stretching member includes an outer surface connected to an inner face of the clamping member. A hair clamping slot is defined between the inner face of the clamping member and the outer surface of the stretching member in the clamping state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Inventor: Shih-Ling Hsu
  • Patent number: 10610338
    Abstract: A dental cleaning tool includes a body portion and a secondary cleaning tool. The body portion includes a floss assembly, a handle, a receiving slot, and a shield. The floss assembly includes a first arm, a second arm, and a bridge segment. The first arm and the second arm extend from the bridge segment. The handle is coupled to the floss assembly and extends from the floss assembly. The receiving slot is formed in the handle. The shield is formed on the handle and is configured to cover the receiving slot such that access to the receiving slot is restricted. The secondary cleaning tool is coupled to the bridge segment and is pivotable relative to the bridge segment in at least two degrees of freedom such that the secondary cleaning tool is insertable into the receiving slot from a second direction different than the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: World Wide Daily Holdings Company Limited
    Inventor: Chun Yuen To
  • Patent number: 10524559
    Abstract: Applicator for a cosmetic product, in particular for mascara, comprising: a core that extends along a main longitudinal axis of extension X and has two ends; a plurality of protrusion that project from the core and are moulded to the core. Said applicator is characterised in that the core has a plurality of recessed regions for storing product, which alternate, axially along the axis X of said core, with jutting regions for combing the eyelashes, said recessed regions consisting of cylindrical portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: ALBEA SERVICES
    Inventors: Anne Rutigliano, Camille Schreiber
  • Patent number: 10512293
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present teachings address torn hair from a person's scalp when receiving hair extensions by absorbing the mechanical stress of affixing such hair weft extensions to a person's scalp. The hair weave apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a first side, adapted to be affixed to a plurality of hair wefts, a second side, adapted to be affixed to a plurality of hair braids organized in parallel, and a plurality of apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Inventor: Kathryn Hiskey
  • Patent number: 10499720
    Abstract: An applicator for applying an eye-liner, extending along a straight longitudinal axis, including: an application member, in particular an applicator tip, a support carrying the application member, extending along an exposed length along the longitudinal axis of the applicator, a handle defining a gripping surface allowing the user to hold the applicator when applying the product, the handle having at least one cross-section, considered perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the applicator, with a substantially triangular general shape, the handle extending along a length along the longitudinal axis of the applicator, the ratio of the length of the handle to the exposed length of the support being greater than 2, preferably between 2 and 7, and more preferably between 3 and 6, the handle having at least two cross-sections, separate from each other, with a substantially triangular general shape, the two cross-sections being angularly offset relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: L'OREAL
    Inventors: Eric Caulier, Audrey Thenin, Antoine Lebrun, Pauline Prade
  • Patent number: 10492589
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a cosmetic applicator, in particular for the eyelashes or the contour of the eyes, comprising: a gripping member, an applicator element, a stem connecting the gripping member and the applicator element, the axis of the stem extending in all three dimensions of space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: L'OREAL
    Inventors: Michel Limongi, Vincent Jacquart
  • Patent number: 10477956
    Abstract: Two-in-one cosmetic systems having a tweezer removably disposed in a handle are disclosed. The tweezer may be removably disposed in a handle of the applicator, such that the tweezer is restrained and a pinching tip of the tweezer is in a closed position. By virtue of having a tweezer restrained and having a pinching tip in a closed position, the pinching tip of the tweezers remain sharp and undamaged until a time of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: HCT Group Holdings Limited
    Inventor: Cindy Sean Yuei Lim
  • Patent number: 10463130
    Abstract: A hair styling device comprises a heating contact surface (HP) for applying heat to hair; a temperature sensor (TS) for sensing a hair temperature; and a control circuit to control a heating of the heating contact surface (HP) in such a manner that a first temperature setting that applies when hair is wet, does not exceed a threshold temperature, the threshold temperature not exceeding 120° C., while a second temperature setting of at least 140° C. applies when the hair is not wet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Nikolaj Vasiljevitsj Zjiroecha
  • Patent number: 10463098
    Abstract: A hair extension device is provided that does not prematurely slip or fall out of the user's natural hair when in use. The hair extension device is configured to wrap around a user's natural hair when their natural hair is in a bun or ponytail. The hair extension device includes: a cord member configured in a loop; and an artificial hair extension member coupled to the cord member, the artificial hair extension member comprising a plurality of strands of artificial hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SHAKE-N-GO FASHION, INC.
    Inventors: James K. Kim, Peter Ough, Hye Sun Kim
  • Patent number: 10441048
    Abstract: The system includes a hair color packet assembly having one hair color packet and one developer packet and a pump assembly for moving the hair coloring material and developer material to a mixing assembly which mixes the color and the developer and delivers it to a brushhead/distributor, which has openings through which the selected hair color formulation is delivered. The brushhead/distributor is mountable in a handle having a motor which drives the brushhead/distributor in a linear oscillating manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: L'ORÉAL
    Inventor: Joseph Grez
  • Patent number: 10433606
    Abstract: The invention relates to an applicator (1) for replacement hair strands, one end of the hair of which is embedded into a thermoplastic element. The applicator has a punch/die unit (5, 6), the mutually facing working profiled sections of which are adapted to the shape of at least one thermoplastic element. In order to ensure a fault-free, continuous hot-melt adhesion between a person's own hair strands and the replacement hair strands, the punch (6) is arranged on a pivoting head (10) which supports an additional punch (11) with substantially the same contours, wherein the punch (6) is provided with a heating device (12), and the additional punch (11) is provided with a cooling device (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: HAIRDREAMS HAARHANDELS GMBH
    Inventor: Gerhard Ott
  • Patent number: 10426397
    Abstract: Hairstyling tool of the comb or hairbrush type, comprising a handle and a body, an electric battery a force sensor, an electronic unit configured to capture and format signals provided by the sensors, a wireless communication means for transmitting data to a remote entity, by means of which information about the movements executed by the tool and the forces it undergoes can be transmitted to the remote entity, the remote entity being able to send information back to the user of the tool about the hair being styled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: WITHINGS
    Inventors: Cedric Hutchings, Eric Carreel
  • Patent number: 10420410
    Abstract: The invention relates to an applicator device for applying a cosmetic product, comprising an elongate applicator head equipped with a groove having a straight portion substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the head, said groove containing a rectilinear resistive heating wire extending over the entire length of the straight portion of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: LVMH Recherche
    Inventors: Marc Chevalier, Jean-François Tranchant, Emilie Gombard
  • Patent number: 10413035
    Abstract: A casing for a cosmetic article has a base having an inner surface which accommodates a mirror. A lid is rotatably and directly mounted to the base, the lid being rotatable, relative to the base, between a closed position and an opened position. An intermediate tray is located between the base and the lid for accommodating the cosmetic article and covering the whole base, the intermediate tray being slidably mounted to the base so as to be movable relative to the base between a retracted position, in which the intermediate tray substantially covers the inner surface of the base, and an extended position, in which the intermediate tray exposes the inner surface of the base. The intermediate tray being further rotatably or slidably mounted to the lid so as to be movable relative to the lid. Rotation of the lid from the closed position to the open position causes the tray to slide from the retracted position to the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: ALBEA SERVICES
    Inventors: Michel Limongi, Vincent Lequeux, Nicolas Rondeau
  • Patent number: 10413007
    Abstract: A product and process for making a transitorily colored sombre hair extension that creates a natural looking sombre effect. The hair extension comprises a hair bundle consisting of a plurality of hair strands having varied lengths. The hair is colored a first color, the bundle realigned, so that the ends of the hair strands are varied in length at the top portion. Then the top half of the hair bundle is color processed to a second color. Again, the strands are realigned and the varied length hair ends are returned to the tail portion. This results in a sombre colored hair extension with a mid-section of the hair bundle that contains transitorily colored hair with a blend of the first color in the top portion of the hair bundle with the second color in the tail portion of the hair bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventor: Gunter Alex
  • Patent number: 10413033
    Abstract: A hairstyling tool for attaching various hair articles to a banded ponytail by inserting a bead that is attached to a hair article, through a banded ponytail center axis. The very center axis of a banded ponytail has a lot of tension. If a bead, or similar tapered device, is pushed through the banded ponytail center axis, toward a person's scalp, it locks into place. If a hair article is attached to an end of the bead, the hair article stays secured to the ponytail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventor: David Silva
  • Patent number: 10398215
    Abstract: A cosmetic applicator is provided. The cosmetic applicator comprises a grip, a holder shaft that extends from the grip, an applicator region that is connected to the holder shaft by means of an articulation, and a ball stud. The applicator region pivots at a desired angle of up to 90° arounds its axis, and is adjusted to any desired angles off a longitudinal axis of the cosmetic applicator in any direction around the axis, and the ball stud has a stopper or a protrusion at the opposite end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: AA R&D LLC
    Inventors: Yoon H. Kim, Asher Kim