Eyelash Grasper with Domed Stopper Disk
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mascara removal methods are inefficient, often causing eyelash loss due to excessive pressure, interference with the user's line of vision, and difficulty accessing the inner eyelashes, while also requiring direct handling of absorbent pads, which can lead to germ transmission and mascara transfer.
Innovation Solution
A mascara removal device with elongated arm members and angled wing portions holding disposable absorbent sleeves, featuring a domed stopper disk to prevent excessive pressure and oval-shaped sleeves to mimic the eyelid shape, allowing for hands-free operation and efficient removal without direct handling of pads.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a folded tissue or pad is used to encase the eyelash for mascara removal, then mascara removal effectiveness is improved, but the risk of eyelash loss due to excessive pressure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies prior cushioning by incorporating a domed stopper disk that prevents the folded tissue or pad from exerting excessive pressure on the eyelash. The stopper disk acts as a cushioning element that limits the maximum pressure applied during the mascara removal process, thereby preventing eyelash loss while maintaining removal effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The domed stopper disk serves as an intermediary element between the folded tissue/pad and the eyelash. It mediates the pressure application by providing a controlled interface that allows mascara removal while preventing direct excessive pressure contact with the delicate eyelash structure.
2Productivity
If a conventional Swab or tissue is used for mascara removal, then mascara can be removed from eyelashes, but the user's line of vision is blocked and accessibility to inner eyelashes is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dimensionality change by extending the tissue or pad laterally beyond the immediate eyelash area. This extended configuration allows the user to manipulate the tissue/pad from a position that does not block the line of vision, effectively moving the operation to a different spatial dimension that improves both visibility and accessibility to inner eyelashes.
3Productivity
If fingers are used to apply liquid mascara remover to the eyelashes, then mascara removal can be performed, but germ transmission and mascara transfer to fingers occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a folded tissue or pad as an intermediary tool between the liquid mascara remover and the eyelashes. This intermediary absorbs and holds the remover, allowing application without direct finger contact with the eyelashes or the remover bottle, thereby preventing germ transmission and mascara transfer to fingers while maintaining removal functionality.
4Productivity
If tissue or pad layers are pressed against the sandwiched eyelash to facilitate mascara removal, then mascara transfer to the tissue is improved, but undue pressure may cause eyelash to come off
Solution Approach 1:
The domed stopper disk provides beforehand cushioning by limiting the pressure that can be applied when pressing the tissue or pad layers against the eyelash. This pre-established pressure limit ensures sufficient mascara transfer while preventing the undue pressure that would cause eyelash loss.
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
The device safely and effectively removes mascara from all eyelashes, minimizing eyelash loss, improving accessibility, and preventing germ transmission and mascara transfer, while maintaining clear vision during use.
Implementation Method 1
disposable absorbent sleeves which may be impregnated with mascara remover
Implementation Method 2
The liquid mascara remover is applied to the mascara-coated eyelashes by the user with her fingers or with a tissue, cotton ball, or compressed cotton pad that has been saturated with the liquid mascara remover
Data Source
AI summary
The device includes two movable elongated arms with a stationary distal end and a movable wing portion at each proximal end of the elongated arms for slidingly and reversibly receiving disposable absorbent oval-shaped sleeves for effecting the transfer of dissolved or softened mascara from the eyelash to the sleeves when the invention is practiced. One of the elongated arms includes a domed stop disk on its inner surface to prevent damaging pressure on the eyelash during usage. The device provides for the safe and efficient removal of mascara from both the top and bottom surfaces of the eyelashes by causing the gentle encasement of the eyelashes between the two absorbent sleeves during usage. The invention includes a self-contained unit for both transporting the device and providing tools for the hands-free insertion of the sleeves onto the wing portions and hands-free removal of soiled sleeves from the wing portions.