HAIR DRYER WITH SENSOR AND REMOVABLE ATTACHMENT

Abstract

A hair dryer (H) comprises a sensor (S) mounted on the hair dryer (H) to sense a hair property, and a removable attachment (A) provided with a first channel (C1) for passing air from the hair dryer (H) to hair, and a second channel (C2) for allowing the sensor (S) to sense the hair property through the second channel (C2), the second channel (C2) being distinct from the first channel (C1). The second channel (C2) may be an inner tube of the removable attachment (A). The second channel (C2) may have a conical shape.

Claims

1. A hair dryer, comprising: a sensor mounted on the hair dryer to sense a hair property; and a removable attachment provided with a first channel for passing air from the hair dryer to hair, and a second channel for allowing the sensor to sense the hair property through the second channel, the second channel being distinct from the first channel.

2. The hair dryer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second channel is an inner tube of the removable attachment.

3. the hair dryer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second channel has a conical shape.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0010] FIG. 1 shows a side view of an attachment in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

[0011] FIG. 2 shows a front view of an attachment in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

[0012] FIG. 3 shows a rear view of an attachment in accordance with an embodiment of the invention; and

[0013] FIG. 4 shows a rear view of a hair dryer provided with an attachment in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

[0014] In the example shown in FIGS. 1-4, the attachment A is a diffuser that can be removably mounted on a hair dryer H. The attachment A has a connector C that allows the attachment A to be connected to the hair dryer H, and various diffuser pins D. As usual, the attachment A has a first channel C1 between the hair dryer H, and a plurality of air outlet openings O on a front side of the attachment A; the diffuser pins D too have air outlet openings.

[0015] In accordance with the present invention, the attachment A further has a second channel C2 that allows a sensor S mounted on the hair dryer H to “see” the hair so that the sensor S can measure a hair property without being prevented from doing so by the attachment between the hair dryer and the hair. In various embodiments, the second channel C2 is a kind of inner tube between the rear side of the attachment A, where the second channel C2 faces the sensor S on the hair dryer H, and the front side of the attachment A. Advantageously, it has a kind of conical shape so that an opening of the second channel C2 on the front side of the attachment A is wider than an opening of the second channel C2 of the rear side of the attachment A, thereby following the “field of view” of the sensor S on the hair dryer H.

[0016] It should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiments illustrate rather than limit the invention, and that those skilled in the art will be able to design many alternative embodiments without departing from the scope of the appended claims. In the claims, the notion “hair dryer” also covers products that are marketed as “air styler”, “hair stylers”, etc., and the air supplied by the hair dryer does not necessarily have to be hot. As shown in the embodiments, the first channel C1 may be any path for the air that may have any shape. In the claims, any reference signs placed between parentheses shall not be construed as limiting the claim. The word “comprising” does not exclude the presence of elements or steps other than those listed in a claim. The word “a” or “an” preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements. So, there may e.g. be multiple first channels C1. The invention may be implemented by means of hardware comprising several distinct elements. In the device claim enumerating several means, several of these means may be embodied by one and the same item of hardware. Measures recited in mutually different dependent claims may advantageously be used in combination.