Foam-Dispensing Roller Head for Combined Facial Cleansing and Massage

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing beauty apparatuses fail to simultaneously achieve effective facial cleansing and massage effects, as suction-based cleansing cannot remove dead skin cells and massage rollers struggle to maintain contact with the skin surface when combined with suction.

Innovation Solution

A beauty apparatus with a main body and detachable head featuring a circular opening for foam discharge and spherical rollers on shafts extending in the circumferential direction, allowing for simultaneous facial cleansing and massage by rotating rollers that stir foam on the skin.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a roller is sealed to the skin surface for massage, then suction can be performed, but the roller cannot be pressed against the skin effectively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesuction effectivenessVSAvoidroller pressure on skin
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSForce

Solution Approach 1:

The roller members are designed to rotate during operation, creating dynamic contact with the skin surface. This rotation allows the rollers to maintain effective pressure and friction for massage while simultaneously allowing suction to act on the skin through the gaps between the rotating rollers, resolving the contradiction between sealing for suction and pressing for massage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Force

If a beauty apparatus provides only roller massage function, then massage effect is achieved, but facial cleansing is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemassage effectVSAvoidfacial cleansing effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
ForceVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines roller massage function with suction function and foam generation. The rollers provide mechanical stimulation and massage while the suction mechanism simultaneously performs facial cleansing by removing sebum and dead skin cells, and foam provides additional cleansing coverage, achieving both massage and thorough cleansing effects in one apparatus.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

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 apparatus effectively combines facial cleansing and massage effects, enhancing cosmetic outcomes through synergistic benefits and improving skin contact and cleaning efficiency.

Implementation Method 1

a circular opening for discharging foam is provided in the head, and spherical rollers are provided on at least one shaft extending in the circumferential direction of the opening

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFoam: Foam

Data Source

PatentEP3348166B1Beauty apparatus
Publication Date: 2020.08.12 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD
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AI summary

A beauty apparatus includes a main body (10) having a gripper (10a) and a head (100) attached to one end of the main body (10). A circular opening (121) from which foam is discharged is provided in the head (100), and spherical rollers (112A, 112B, 112C) are provided on at least one shaft (111A, 111B, 111C) extending in a circumferential direction of the opening (121).