Bubble-Stirring Beauty Head for Gentle Skin Impurity Removal

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing beauty devices often cause strong skin irritation when used to remove impurities, particularly when brushes are pressed firmly against the skin.

Innovation Solution

A beauty device with a stirring mechanism that homogeneously stirs bubbles, allowing them to be moved between the mechanism and the skin, reducing the need for strong pressure and minimizing irritation, featuring a head case with a support portion for rotation and movement, and return ports to manage heavy bubbles generated by insufficient foaming agent and water mixing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a brush is pressed firmly against the skin to remove impurities, then cleaning effectiveness is improved, but skin irritation increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecleaning effectivenessVSAvoidskin irritation
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the traditional mechanical brush scrubbing system with a bubble-based cleaning system. Bubbles are generated and supplied to the skin surface, where they mechanically lift and remove impurities through their physical properties rather than through friction from brush bristles. This substitution eliminates the need for firm pressure application while maintaining effective cleaning.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention utilizes pneumatic principles by generating and controlling bubbles (gas-liquid mixture) to perform the cleaning function. The bubble generation mechanism creates controlled foam that is delivered to the skin, using the expansion and rupture of bubbles to remove impurities without requiring mechanical pressure from a brush.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #29Pneumatics and hydraulics

2Object-affected harmful factors

If bubbles are generated for skin cleaning, then skin gentleness is improved, but cleaning effectiveness may be reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveskin gentlenessVSAvoidcleaning effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent optimizes multiple parameters of the bubbles including size, concentration, and stability to achieve effective cleaning while maintaining skin gentleness. By controlling the bubble generation parameters (such as gas flow rate, liquid composition, and mixing ratio), the system produces bubbles that are gentle on skin yet sufficiently effective at removing impurities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The cleaning system uses a composite structure of gas bubbles within liquid foam, creating a multi-phase material that combines the gentleness of gas with the cleaning capability of liquid. This composite bubble-liquid structure allows the system to be both gentle on skin and effective at removing various types of impurities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Effectively removes skin impurities without applying strong irritation, as the bubbles are stirred and moved by the mechanism, ensuring thorough cleaning while maintaining skin gentleness.

Implementation Method 1

a stirring mechanism for stirring bubbles

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectStirring: Stirring

Data Source

PatentEP3042713B1Beauty device, body of beauty device, and head of beauty device
Publication Date: 2018.04.25 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD
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AI summary

A first head (100) of a beauty device includes a stirring mechanism (110) stirring bubbles, and a head case (120) provided with an opening (121) for allowing the bubbles stirred by the stirring mechanism (110) to pass through. When the first head (100) is used while being mounted to the body (10) of the beauty device, bubbles are supplied to the stirring mechanism (110) from the body (10) of the beauty device. In a state where bubbles supplied to the stirring mechanism (110) are present between the stirring mechanism (110) and the skin, the bubbles are stirred and moved between the stirring mechanism (110) and the skin by the stirring mechanism (110), and thus impurities of the skin are removed by the bubbles.