Segmented Sealing Structure for Steam Hair Styling Apparatus
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing steam hair styling devices face inefficiencies in steam diffusion due to cold steam orifices leading to condensation, complex construction, thermal losses, and safety concerns, which affect the effectiveness and reliability of hair treatment.
Innovation Solution
A steam hairdressing device with a heating treatment element and steam emission means featuring a liquid vaporization device, multiple steam ejection orifices, and sealing parts to ensure efficient steam propagation and thermal efficiency, while maintaining safety and simplicity in design and manufacture.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single sealing piece is used to seal multiple vapor outlets, then the device construction is simpler, but steam leakage occurs between the vaporization device and heating element
Solution Approach 1:
The single sealing piece is divided into multiple separate sealing pieces, with each sealing piece corresponding to one vapor outlet. This segmentation ensures that each outlet is independently sealed, preventing steam leakage while maintaining manageable construction complexity.
2Productivity
If steam outlets are positioned close to the heating element, then steam treatment effectiveness is improved, but steam leakage inside the device increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple separate sealing pieces are positioned at different locations corresponding to each vapor outlet, enabling effective sealing at each steam emission point while allowing the outlets to remain close to the heating element for effective steam treatment.
Solution Approach 2:
Each sealing piece provides localized sealing quality at its specific vapor outlet position, ensuring that steam is directed outward to the hair rather than leaking internally, while maintaining the proximity needed for effective steam treatment.
3Reliability
If multiple separate sealing pieces are used, then steam sealing reliability is improved, but the device construction becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The sealing structure is segmented into multiple independent pieces, each responsible for sealing one vapor outlet. This segmentation improves reliability by ensuring each outlet is properly sealed, while the modular nature of separate pieces keeps construction complexity manageable through standardized components.
4Productivity
If the vaporization chamber is heated to high temperature, then vapor generation efficiency is improved, but thermal losses to surrounding components increase
Solution Approach 1:
The heating system is segmented with the heating element positioned adjacent to the vaporization chamber, allowing efficient heat transfer for vapor generation while limiting thermal loss to specific localized areas rather than spreading throughout the entire device.
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 provides effective, reliable, and safe steam and heat treatment for hair, enhancing styling and care outcomes while minimizing thermal losses and manufacturing complexity.
Implementation Method 1
a liquid vaporization device for generating said vapor flow, said vaporization device comprising a vaporization chamber
Implementation Method 2
a heating element intended to come into contact with the hair
Implementation Method 3
the vapor diffusion orifices remain relatively cold, which leads to immediate condensation of the vapor on contact with them
Data Source
Figure 1
Figure 2~3
Figure 4~5
AI summary
- Steam hair styling device with multiple seals - The invention relates to a steam hair styling device comprising a heating element (4) intended to come into contact with the hair, and steam emission means for subjecting said hair in contact with the heating element to a steam flow, the latter comprising steam ejection ports (41), the steam emission means comprising - a liquid vaporization device (5) for generating the steam flow, comprising a vaporization chamber (50) and steam outlets (51), and - at least two separate and widely separated sealing pieces (8), each forming a seal between at least one of the steam outlets and at least one of the corresponding steam ejection ports of the heating element. - Hair styling devices.