Electric Massage Comb with Essential Oil Atomization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional head massagers or massage combs struggle to effectively reach deep muscles and provide uniform coverage of essential oil over the entire scalp and hair, while also lacking sufficient infrared light for improving scalp microcirculation.
Innovation Solution
An electric massage comb with essential oil atomization and infrared light apparatus, featuring a main massage comb body, control circuit board, cartridge body assembly, teeth plate, sonic motor, air pump, and infrared light board, which work together to deliver atomized essential oil and infrared light for comprehensive scalp and hair care.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a brush-based rotary motor is used for mechanical massage, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but it cannot easily reach deep muscles in actual application
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the traditional brush-based rotary motor with a magnetic drive system that generates rotational movement without mechanical contact. The magnetic drive head rotates under magnetic field control, eliminating the need for brush-based mechanical components while achieving deeper tissue penetration and more effective massage action.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the operational parameters of the massage system by using magnetic field strength and rotational speed control to achieve variable massage intensity. The magnetic drive system allows for adjustable rotational speeds and torque, enabling deeper muscle penetration compared to fixed-parameter brush motors.
2Device complexity
If essential oil is delivered by using balls according to hydrodynamic principle, then the structure is simple, but the essential oil is delivered only from a few places and cannot cover entire scalp and hair
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a pneumatic atomization system where compressed air flows through a nozzle to create a vacuum that draws essential oil from the cartridge. The air stream atomizes the oil and distributes it widely across the scalp and hair, achieving comprehensive coverage rather than localized delivery from a few points.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs an atomization nozzle with porous or restricted orifices that break the essential oil stream into fine droplets. This porous atomization mechanism distributes the oil uniformly over a large surface area of the scalp and hair, significantly increasing coverage compared to ball-based delivery.
3Device complexity
If conventional massage combs simply adopt mechanical massage or have only several spots of infrared light irradiation, then the device complexity is low, but the light is few and low power, not powerful enough for improving scalp microcirculation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple infrared light-emitting diodes into an integrated infrared illumination system within the comb handle. This merged system provides high-power infrared radiation that covers the entire scalp area, rather than a few low-power spots, significantly enhancing microcirculation improvement while maintaining reasonable device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The infrared light system is designed to serve multiple functions: improving scalp microcirculation, enhancing essential oil penetration, and providing therapeutic heat. This multi-functional infrared system achieves high power output without proportionally increasing device complexity, as the same light source serves multiple purposes.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The electric massage comb effectively reaches deep muscles, provides uniform coverage of essential oil over the scalp and hair, and enhances scalp microcirculation through the combination of sonic vibrations, air-pumped atomized essential oil, and infrared light radiation.
Implementation Method 1
a sonic motor for driving the teeth plate to vibrate
Implementation Method 2
a cartridge body assembly for producing mist... mist produced by the cartridge body assembly
Implementation Method 3
an air pump that is disposed inside the main massage comb body and that is interconnected to the cartridge body assembly through an air duct, where mist produced by the cartridge body assembly is transferred, through a straight-through hose with pumping of the air pump, to the spray outlet part for spraying
Implementation Method 4
an infrared light board, or infrared light beads, is further disposed in the main massage comb body, to deepen the mist into scalp with infrared light radiation
Data Source
AI summary
The present utility model provides an electric massage comb with an essential oil atomization and infrared light apparatus, including a main massage comb body, a control circuit board disposed inside the main massage comb body, a cartridge body assembly, a teeth plate at an outer side of the main massage comb body, and a sonic motor for driving the teeth plate to vibrate, where a spray outlet for spraying mist is provided on the teeth plate part, and the cartridge body assembly, the sonic motor, and the control circuit board are electrically connected.