Rotatable Cooling Element Heat Dissipation Hair Styling Device

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional hair styling devices with rigidly attached cooling elements tend to absorb heat over time, leading to a deterioration in their cooling effect and resulting in hair drying out due to excessive strain from high temperatures.

Innovation Solution

A hair styling device with rotatably mounted cooling elements, which are attached to the housing via a fastening element, allowing for improved heat exchange and reduced heat absorption, thereby maintaining an effective cooling effect over increased usage periods.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the cooling element is rigidly attached to the shaped part, then the cooling element is firmly positioned, but the cooling element absorbs heat over time and loses its cooling effect

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecooling effectVSAvoidtemperature increase of cooling element
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSTemperature

Solution Approach 1:

The cooling element is made rotatable relative to the housing instead of being rigidly fixed, allowing it to dynamically adjust its position and improve heat dissipation through rotational movement, thereby maintaining cooling effectiveness over time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The cooling element is separated from the rigid structure of the housing through a rotatable mounting mechanism, extracting it from the fixed position to enable independent thermal management and prevent heat accumulation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Loss of energy

If the cooling element is rotatably mounted on the housing, then heat exchange with the environment is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheat dissipationVSAvoidmounting mechanism complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The cooling element utilizes its own rotational movement to enhance heat dissipation without requiring external actuation mechanisms, allowing the component to serve its own thermal management needs through passive rotation capability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

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 rotatably mounted cooling elements ensure better heat dissipation to the environment, reducing the overall temperature increase and maintaining an improved styling result by preventing hair drying out.

Implementation Method 1

an improved heat exchange between the cooling element and the environment preferably takes place, so that the heat absorbed by the cooling element during hair styling can be at least partially given off to the environment

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHeat exchange: Convection

Data Source

PatentEP2734077B1Hair shaping device
Publication Date: 2016.07.06 BOSCH SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GMBH
  • EP2734077B1 patent drawingFigure 1

AI summary

The invention relates to a hair shaping device having a housing (1), having two shaping parts connected to each other by a joint for shaping hair (4) and having at least one cooling element (3). At least one of the shaping parts comprises at least one heating element (2) for warming the hair. The cooling element (3) is allocated to the at least one shaping part and is suitable for cooling the hair which is warmed on the heating element (2). The cooling element (3) is rotatably attached to the housing (1).