US20050229425A1 - Ambulatory hairdryer - Google Patents
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- A45D2/00—Hair-curling or hair-waving appliances ; Appliances for hair dressing treatment not otherwise provided for
- A45D2/36—Hair curlers or hair winders with incorporated heating or drying means, e.g. electric, using chemical reaction
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- the portable hair dryer of Bonnema (U.S. Pat. No. 5,857,262) is a gas-powered drier. While this will presumably store enough energy for a full cycle of drying as hydrocarbons are highly efficient energy storage units, this would still require the use of a hand to hold and control the dryer.
- the hands-free dryer of Lee et. al. (U.S. Pat. No. 5,940,980) is essentially a conventional hand-held drier attached to a gooseneck tubing, which is attached to a large clip for attachment to convenient furniture or fixtures. This again is not very practical as it requires a largely fixed position of the head with respect to the dryer.
- the invention is a hair-drying helmet that is completely portable and ambulatory.
- the hair-drying helmet contains a built in battery to power a fan.
- the helmet has desiccant materials on the inside for passive drying of the hair.
- the helmet is made of a very high heat capacity polymer.
- the whole system of the helmet can be simply automatically regenerated by setting it on a stand, which is in turn powered from household energy sources.
- the multiple synergies between the thermal storage, dessicant drying, and low volume fan allow the use of small and practical batteries.
- FIG. 3 shows a side view of the regenerating base station.
- FIG. 5 shows the electronic schematic for the helmet.
- FIG. 6 shows the method for drying hair taught in this invention.
- FIG. 7 shows the method for the regeneration and recovery of this invention.
- FIG. 8 shows a detailed cross section of the helmet shell.
- Fan 17 is used to force air in from the outside and direct it down through channel 18 on to the head of the user.
- the helmet has multiple fans located around the upper half of the helmet.
- a suitable fan is the MDS series DC axial flow fans from Oriental Motor USA Corp located at OrientalMotor.com.
- the smallest frame size at 1.65 square inches for input voltage of 12 VDC is appropriate for the design.
- a high voltage generator develops negative ions near the fan as negative ions speed the hair drying process.
- the optional small speaker 19 to allow the user to listen to the radio through direct FM reception. Alternatively this could be used for producing noise cancellation over the user's ear or with a Bluetooth connection to listen to the television or the user's stereo system. This speaker is also used in conjunction with the microphone 9 for telephone operation.
- the next layer 24 is a lithium polymer battery.
- the battery which battery has been announced by Caleb Technology Corporation located at Caleb-Battery.com.
- the battery is available in very thin sheets and can be wrapped inside and bonded to the helmet and is also rechargeable.
- the capacity is greater than 60 Ah/kg with an average lithium ion voltage of 3.8 V.
- the cycle life is over 1,000 charged cycles with an operating temperature range of up to 60° C.
- the lithium ion polymer batteries have excessive internal impedance at room temperature for many uses. They perform much better at 60° C. because the internal impedance is lowered significantly.
- the helmet top air port 28 as shown in the center of FIG. 2 .
- FIG. 5 teaches the basic schematic of the helmet.
- the power is input on terminals 30 and 32 from the base station for recharging. This is then used to recharge the three battery sections in series namely lithium ion polymer cells 76 , 78 and 80 . Each of these is protected from overcharging by Zener diodes 70 , 72 , and 74 respectively.
- Controller 86 performs all sensor data processing and system controls.
- the capacitance humidity sensor 54 is located at the bottom of the base unit in the top of the airflow from the helmet being regenerated. This type of sensor is most simply explained by the fact that a thin electric polymer layer absorbs water molecules through the very thin metal electrode and causes a capacitance change proportional to the relative humidity due to the fact that its dielectric constant changes.
- a device using this technology is available from Met One Instruments of Grants Pass, Oreg. or NovaLynx Corporation at novalynx.com.
- Suitable capacitance based humidity sensors are the APS-200 from General Eastern Instruments of Woburn, Mass. (www.geinet.com).
- the humidity sensor is located in the helmet. This is then connected to circuitry to alert the user when then desired level of humidity had been reached, This allows the operator to dry the hair to a precise level of humidity and stop to begin styling. Alternatively, the helmet circuitry would merely stop the drying process at this point.
- the temperature sensor 84 is mounted inside the nylon six main body. This feeds a DC voltage proportional to the temperature into the controller 86 .
- a suitable temperature sensor is the REF 02 available from Maxim at Maxim-IC.com.
- both the humidity sensing function and the temperature sensing function may be performed by a single integrated sensor.
- the preferred sensor is the SHT11 from Sensirion AG of Zurich Switzerland and located at www.sensition.com.
- Switches 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , and 16 control the fan speed up or down, the temperature up or down, and the on/off functions as described in FIG. 1 .
- FIG. 8 shows a detailed cross section of the shell of the helmet. Beginning on the outside is the layer 20 of thermal insulating material. Layer 22 is the nylon six as described below. However here we see the detail of two heating wires, 160 and 161 embedded in the nylon six plastic. These serve to heat nylon six during regeneration and to maintain its temperature during operation.
Abstract
A portable self-contained hair drying helmet is taught that has thermal storage, desiccants, and thin lithium ion polymer batteries to allow one to dry their hair while walking around and performing personal and household duties.
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- This application is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 10/307,881 filed 2 Dec. 2002.
- Many people spend a half an hour in the morning to dry their hair. This is non-productive time, which must be spent with a hairdryer in one hand. Thus there is need for a portable hair dryer that would dry the hair while the person is able to perform other morning duties. Several such devices have been patented already. The portable hairdryer of Waters (U.S. Pat. No. 3,946,498), is a unit that hangs on the head, and is powered by a long extension cord. The cordless drier of Tomay (U.S. Pat. No. 5,195,253) teaches a handheld blower type dryer with both an electrical and thermal battery. This is also impractical since it requires the full time use of one hand.
- The hands-free hair dryer of Sanders (U.S. Pat. No. 5,651,190) teaches a hair bonnet connected by a flexible hose to a battery pack worn on the back. This is not very practical for a number of reasons. The hose would interfere with many activities, and the heavy battery requires a strap to be attached to the body. And lastly, the battery's longevity is very limited. Consider the worst-case example and assume that one needs to have the dryer at 1500 watts for 30 minutes. This equates to a total energy use of 2.7 megajoules. If this was powered by a 12 volt battery this would require a total charge of 225 coulombs. This is equivalent to 62.5 ampere hours, which is the capacity of a large conventional car battery. Thus the battery-operated devices have not proven practical. Similarly the portable hair dryer of Stelly (U.S. Pat. No. 5,787,601) with a rechargeable battery pack has not proven practical, presumably because of the extreme weights required for conventional hair-drying.
- The portable hair dryer of Bonnema (U.S. Pat. No. 5,857,262) is a gas-powered drier. While this will presumably store enough energy for a full cycle of drying as hydrocarbons are highly efficient energy storage units, this would still require the use of a hand to hold and control the dryer.
- The hands-free dryer of Lee et. al. (U.S. Pat. No. 5,940,980) is essentially a conventional hand-held drier attached to a gooseneck tubing, which is attached to a large clip for attachment to convenient furniture or fixtures. This again is not very practical as it requires a largely fixed position of the head with respect to the dryer.
- Finally the portable dryer of Porter (U.S. Pat. No. 6,058,944) teaches a bonnet and hose with a purse style hydrocarbon heater feeding the hot, dry air to the hose. This has some of the same limitations as some of the early devices in that it would require the carrying of the heater unit and the hose would be interfering with natural movements. In addition, the propane reservoir in the purse unit would have to be recharged on a regular basis.
- Thus, in spite of the demonstrated need for a truly portable hair dryer no practical unit has been brought to the market.
- The invention is a hair-drying helmet that is completely portable and ambulatory. The hair-drying helmet contains a built in battery to power a fan. It is another significant feature of this invention that the helmet has desiccant materials on the inside for passive drying of the hair. It is another significant feature of the invention that the helmet is made of a very high heat capacity polymer. It is another significant feature of this invention that the whole system of the helmet can be simply automatically regenerated by setting it on a stand, which is in turn powered from household energy sources. It is another significant feature of this invention that the multiple synergies between the thermal storage, dessicant drying, and low volume fan allow the use of small and practical batteries.
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FIG. 1 shows a basic hair-drying helmet on the head of a user. -
FIG. 2 shows a schematic bottom view of the helmet. -
FIG. 3 shows a side view of the regenerating base station. -
FIG. 4 shows the electronic schematic of the base station. -
FIG. 5 shows the electronic schematic for the helmet. -
FIG. 6 shows the method for drying hair taught in this invention. -
FIG. 7 shows the method for the regeneration and recovery of this invention. -
FIG. 8 shows a detailed cross section of the helmet shell. -
FIG. 1 shows thehelmet 10 in use on the head of the user.Brow strap 8 holds it on the head. Microphoneboom 9 allows for the user to answer telephone calls during the drying operation. Onswitch 11 and offswitch 12 are used to turn the device on and off.Fan speed switches switch 15 and decreaseswitch 16 are used to adjust the temperature in the helmet. -
Fan 17 is used to force air in from the outside and direct it down throughchannel 18 on to the head of the user. In an alternative embodiment, the helmet has multiple fans located around the upper half of the helmet. - A suitable fan is the MDS series DC axial flow fans from Oriental Motor USA Corp located at OrientalMotor.com. The smallest frame size at 1.65 square inches for input voltage of 12 VDC is appropriate for the design. In an alternative embodiment, a high voltage generator develops negative ions near the fan as negative ions speed the hair drying process.
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small speaker 19 to allow the user to listen to the radio through direct FM reception. Alternatively this could be used for producing noise cancellation over the user's ear or with a Bluetooth connection to listen to the television or the user's stereo system. This speaker is also used in conjunction with themicrophone 9 for telephone operation. -
FIG. 2 shows a bottom view of thehelmet 10. On the outside is a thin layer ofthermal insulation 20. This could be any suitable plastic with a low thermal conductivity such as Dow Chemical company Styrofoam. Alternatively the outer layer is applied with a “soft-touch” overmolding process. Preferentially the soft touch overmolded material is polyetheramide, polyetherester, polyesterester, or styrene ethylbutylene styrene. Just inside of that is the layer of athermal storage plastic 22. A preferable plastic is nylon six. Nylon six has the remarkable property of having almost the same heat capacity as water. This heat capacity is about 3.9 J/g/° C. Assume for purposes of this illustration, that the layer of nylon six is 4 mm thick and that the average radius of the helmet is 10 cm. Then the area of the half-shell helmet would be approximately 628 cm2. Multiplying this by a 4 mm thickness gives an approximate volume of 251 ml. The density of nylon six is about 1.09 g/ml giving a total approximate mass of 274 g. The heat storage in the nylon six then going from apreheated temperature 60° C. down to 30° C. (which temperatures are comfortable to the human head) would be 274 g×3.9 J/g/° C.=32 kJ. Suitable suppliers for nylon six include Allied Signal which sells nylon six under the trade name Capron® or Prima Plastics which sells nylon six under the trade name Primapron® or Bayer Corporation Plastics Divisions which sells nylon six under the trade name Durethan®. - Assume a blonde with long hair (blondes have the most hair, approximately 140,000 hairs on the head). The mass of the wet hair would be approximately 100 g. The energy stored in nylon six on its own would be sufficient to raise the temperature of the wet hair by almost 80° C. Because of the limited temperature of the preheated nylon six (to prevent burning) this would not be done alone but would rather be assisted by the heating elements.
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next layer 24 is a lithium polymer battery. Which battery has been announced by Caleb Technology Corporation located at Caleb-Battery.com. The battery is available in very thin sheets and can be wrapped inside and bonded to the helmet and is also rechargeable. The capacity is greater than 60 Ah/kg with an average lithium ion voltage of 3.8 V. The cycle life is over 1,000 charged cycles with an operating temperature range of up to 60° C. In fact, the lithium ion polymer batteries have excessive internal impedance at room temperature for many uses. They perform much better at 60° C. because the internal impedance is lowered significantly. Hence, there is an advantage of having the lithium ion polymer battery bonded directly to the nylon six heat source. With 1 kg of battery built into the helmet the device would store 60 Ah×3.8 V=820,800 J. This would allow the continuous delivery of 456 watts=820,800 J/30 minutes/60 seconds per minute for the typical half hour drying cycle. This is not enough to power a full 1500 watt conventional blow dryer. But, due to the high efficiency design of the helmet it would be more than enough to completely dry the operator's head. - The next layer is the
desiccant 26. This desiccant would be preferentially a mixture of silica gel and molecular sieve zeolite (sodium aluminal silicate). The advantage of the zeolite is it will hold 20% of its weight in moisture down to very low relative humidity. The advantage of the silica gel is that it will hold about 45% of its weight, but that drops down very quickly as the relative humidity goes to zero. Thus the preferred embodiment entails a combination of the two desiccants. - A suitable source for both desiccants is the Polylam Corporation located at polylam.com.
- An alternative sophisticated desiccant is a cross linked polymeric desiccant such as that taught by Cote in U.S. Pat. No. 6,110,533 which is incorporated herein by reference.
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top air port 28 as shown in the center ofFIG. 2 . -
Electrode contacts Electrode contacts Contacts base contacts FIG. 3 . - Only 220 grams of silica gel could absorb all of the 100 g of water in the wet hair. Due to the fact that half of the humidity will be dissipated in the exhaust air the desiccants really only need to store about 50 g of water. This would be divided between the zeolite and the silica gel so that the required total mass of desiccant would be about 100 g.
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FIG. 3 shows the side view of the base regeneration station 40. Power cord plug 42 is plugged into the household electrical supply and provides current throughcord 44 to the base unit 40.Pressure contacts contacts Contacts capacitance humidity sensor 54. This allows the circuitry in the helmet to read the local air humidity during a regeneration phase. Thedome 50 in the middle of base station 40 performs two functions. First it forces an accurate centering of the helmet so that the electrode contacts are aligned properly. Secondly, it forces the airflow to go through the sides of the helmet so as to recycle the desiccant. -
FIG. 4 shows the schematic for the power supply for the base unit.Power plug 42 feeds power into the unit, which is limited byfuse 60 and thence totransformer 62 to reduce the voltage to approximate 12 VAC RMS. This is fully rectified byrectifier bridge 64 and then filtered byfilter capacitor 66. Finally, that rectified DC power is voltage and current limited bypower supply controller 68 to provide a positive 12 volts to terminal 46 with a return atterminal 48. -
FIG. 5 teaches the basic schematic of the helmet. The power is input onterminals ion polymer cells Zener diodes -
Controller 86 performs all sensor data processing and system controls. As previously mentioned, thecapacitance humidity sensor 54 is located at the bottom of the base unit in the top of the airflow from the helmet being regenerated. This type of sensor is most simply explained by the fact that a thin electric polymer layer absorbs water molecules through the very thin metal electrode and causes a capacitance change proportional to the relative humidity due to the fact that its dielectric constant changes. A device using this technology is available from Met One Instruments of Grants Pass, Oreg. or NovaLynx Corporation at novalynx.com. Suitable capacitance based humidity sensors are the APS-200 from General Eastern Instruments of Woburn, Mass. (www.geinet.com). Thus the capacitance humidity sensor will be able to sense the humidity of the air coming down from the helmet so the system will “know” when the helmet has been dried out. This capacitance value then goes intohumidity processor 82 where it is converted to a DC level to be fed to thecontroller 86. - In an alternative embodiment, the humidity sensor is located in the helmet. This is then connected to circuitry to alert the user when then desired level of humidity had been reached, This allows the operator to dry the hair to a precise level of humidity and stop to begin styling. Alternatively, the helmet circuitry would merely stop the drying process at this point.
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temperature sensor 84 is mounted inside the nylon six main body. This feeds a DC voltage proportional to the temperature into thecontroller 86. A suitable temperature sensor is the REF 02 available from Maxim at Maxim-IC.com. - Alternatively both the humidity sensing function and the temperature sensing function may be performed by a single integrated sensor. The preferred sensor is the SHT11 from Sensirion AG of Zurich Switzerland and located at www.sensition.com.
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Fan 88 is controlled bypower MOSFET 90, which is in turn controlled by thecontroller 86.Nichrome heating wires 92 are controlled bypower MOSFET 94, which is in turn controlled by thecontroller 86.Optional heating wires 96 in the air stream of the fan on top of the helmet are controlled bypower MOSFET 98, which is in turn controlled by thecontroller 86. A suitable choice for thepower MOSFETs - The hair drying method is explained in
FIG. 6 . Atstep 110 the operator places the helmet on the head and then turns the unit on with the switch instep 112. Atstep 114 the fan is powered from the internal battery according to the selected fan speed. Instep 116 the controller stores the desired temperature settings from the “up” and “down” temperature switch depressions. Atstep 118 the controller asks if the temperature is greater than the desired temperature. If it is in fact greater than the desired temperature then the method branches to step 120 to reduce the duty cycle on the heating elements by giving shorter “on” pulses to MOSFETs 94 and 98. If the temperature is approximately equal to the desired temperature then the system progresses down to step 122, which is to remove the moisture from the local air with the desiccant. This is also where the method ends up after completingstep 120. If the temperature is in fact less than the desired temperature then the system will increase the duty cycle on the heating elements instep 124. Note that the heating will we minimal at first as the method relies on the stored heat in the helmet at the beginning. -
FIG. 7 explains the recovery and regeneration method of the invention. Instep 130 the operator places the helmet on the base unit. Instep 132 the helmet detects the electrical power supply connections and the humidity sensor connections. Instep 133 the system runs the fan to a medium speed. Instep 134 the system runs the heater at a maximum duty cycle. The system then goes to thebranch question 136 and asks if the local relative humidity is less than 15%. If it is not then the system continues to cycle throughstep 134. - If in fact the local relative humidity is finally brought down below 15% then we can be confident that the desiccants have dried out. At this point the method progresses to step 138 where the heaters are turned off. The method then goes to step 140 where the fan is run at maximum speed for 20 minutes.
- This is because the desiccant recycling is actually a 2-step process. To begin with, dry desiccant has a low vapor pressure and the moist air coming off of the wet hair has a higher vapor pressure. Therefore the water vapor moves from the air to the desiccant to equal that pressure difference during the drying operation. As the desiccant collects water its vapor pressure and temperature rise until the vapor pressure of air and desiccant and the desiccant no longer attract water vapor. At this point the desiccant is said to be in equilibrium. Now, during the regeneration process the desiccant must be dried by heating. Heating raises the vapor pressure at the surface of the desiccant very high. This is well above the vapor pressure of the surrounding air. This is especially true because the dry dome is now replacing the wet human head. So the water moves out of the desiccant towards a lower vapor pressure in the dry air being forced over it now during the regeneration process. Now, even though the desiccant is dry its surface vapor pressure remains high because it is hot. To restore its lower vapor pressure the desiccant must be cooled. This is the point of running the fan at maximum speed as described in
step 140. - At
step 142 the system goes to sleep for 23 hours. Atstep 144 the system asks if it is wakeup time. If it is then instep 146 it runs the embedded heaters at maximum duty cycle until the set desired temperature is achieved. - The system is now ready to be used when the operator comes in to take it off of the regeneration base.
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FIG. 8 shows a detailed cross section of the shell of the helmet. Beginning on the outside is thelayer 20 of thermal insulating material.Layer 22 is the nylon six as described below. However here we see the detail of two heating wires, 160 and 161 embedded in the nylon six plastic. These serve to heat nylon six during regeneration and to maintain its temperature during operation. -
Layer 24 is the lithium ion polymer battery. Details of this are theouter shell 162, the anode 164, the cathode 166, and theinner wall 168. Finally thedesiccant layer 26 is shown.
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1. A method of drying hair including the steps of:
a. placing a self-contained unit on the head,
b. turning the unit on,
c. powering a self-contained fan from an internal battery weighing less than 1 kilogram and communicatively connected to control circuitry, and
d. forcing airflow around the head and thereby drying the hair of the operator.
2. The method of drying hair of claim 1 including the additional step of varying the electrical drive to internal heating elements depending on desired temperature.
3. The method of drying hair of claim 1 including the additional step of removing moisture from the air with a desiccant.
4. The method of drying hair of claim 1 including the additional step of a communicating by wireless telephone via a microphone communicatively connected to the battery and control circuitry.
5. The method of drying hair of claim 1 with fan speed switches communicatively connected to the battery, the control circuitry, and the fan to allow the increase or decrease of fan speed.
6. The method of drying hair of claim 1 including the additional step of listening to music or the telephone during the drying operation via a speaker communicatively connected to the battery and control circuitry.
7. The method of drying hair of claim 1 in which the self-contained unit for the head contains nylon 6.
8. The method of drying hair of claim 1 in which the self-contained battery is a lithium ion battery.
9. The method of drying hair of claim 1 including the additional step of adding a desiccant to the inside region of the self-contained unit for the head.
10. The method of drying hair of claim 1 including the additional step of recharging the self-contained battery with an external recharging unit through contacts on the self-contained unit for the head.
11. The method of drying hair of claim 1 including the additional step of regenerating the self-contained unit for the head by using a mating base unit to dry out the desiccant of the self-contained unit for the head.
12. The method of drying hair of claim 1 including the additional step of regenerating the self-contained unit for the head by using a mating base unit to heat the self-contained unit for the head.
13. A method of drying hair including the steps of:
a. placing a self-contained approximately head fitting unit on the head,
b. turning the unit on,
c. powering a self-contained fan from an internal battery,
d. and regenerating the self-contained approximately head fitting unit with a mating regeneration base,
e. where the regeneration base regenerates the self-contained approximately head fitting unit by a step chosen from the list of: recharging the internal battery, drying the head fitting unit, or warming the head-fitting unit.
14. The method of drying hair of claim 13 with the additional step of waiting until a programmed operator wake-up time before the regeneration process is performed.
15. The method of drying hair of claim 13 including the additional step of varying the electrical drive to internal heating elements depending on desired temperature.
16. The method of drying hair of claim 13 including the additional step of removing moisture from the air with a desiccant.
17. The method of drying hair of claim 13 including the additional step of a communicating by wireless telephone via a microphone communicatively connected to the battery and control circuitry.
18. The method of drying hair of claim 13 with fan speed switches communicatively connected to the battery, the control circuitry, and the fan to allow the increase or decrease of fan speed.
19. The method of drying hair of claim 13 including the additional step of listening to music or the telephone during the drying operation via a speaker communicatively connected to the battery and control circuitry.
20. The method of drying hair of claim 13 including the additional step of sensing the humidity inside the helmet and either alerting the operator or ceasing the drying operation when a preset level of humidity is achieved.
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