JP6066470B2 - Skin care equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a skin beautifying device for tapping skin such as a face or an arm.

  Tapping is an easy skin care technique that repeatedly taps the skin with a fingertip to give rhythmic vibrations. In addition to the massage effect, it is said that a relaxing effect and acupuncture point stimulating effect can be obtained.

  The skin beautifying device of Patent Document 1 achieves the piston movement of the shaft for tapping with the following configuration. That is, a biasing member that biases the shaft in one direction of the piston motion, a wire that applies a force to the shaft in a direction against the biasing force of the biasing member when tension is applied, and a tension is indirectly applied to the wire. A tapping mechanism including an actuator. According to the above mechanism, there is no frictional noise even when a piston motion is performed, the tapping mechanism can be reduced in size and weight, and a more beautiful skin-beautifying device can be provided.

As an embodiment, a motor, a power source, and a control device, which are actuators, are built in a substantially cylindrical handle serving as a grip portion, and the tapping mechanism is provided at the end of the cylinder. The direction of movement of the piston motion is the axial direction of the cylindrical body.

International Publication No. 2012/086351 Pamphlet

  In the above configuration, since the tapping mechanism that moves parallel to the axial center of the cylindrical body is provided at the end of the handle of the cylindrical body, the axial length of the skin beautifying apparatus must be increased. There was a problem that it was difficult to reduce the overall size and weight. Therefore, the problem to be solved by the invention is to provide a skin beautifying device that is further reduced in size and weight while employing a conventional tapping mechanism.

The present invention has taken the following technical means to solve the above problems.
That is, the invention according to claim 1 has a shaft having a pad at one end and a piston motion mechanism in the axial direction of the shaft in a columnar grip portion, and the piston motion mechanism is arranged in one direction. An urging member that urges, a wire that applies a force to the shaft in a direction against the urging force of the urging member when tension is applied, and a rotary piston motion motor that intermittently applies the tension to the wire In the skin beautifying device, in which the piston motion is performed by winding a wire around the output shaft of the piston motion motor and applying tension to the wire, the pad is positioned on the side of the columnar grip portion, The piston movement is arranged in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the columnar grip part, and the axis of the output shaft of the piston movement motor is the axis of the columnar grip part. Provided parallel to the, and the tensile direction acting on the wire, to change the fulcrum member for converting the tension direction, tension directions of all the straight portions of the wire material, and characterized in that parallel to the direction of piston movement It is a compact skin beautifying device.

The invention of claim 2, wherein the operation button provided on a side surface provided with the pad, the compact skin beautifying apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that a transparent cover that protects the pad portion and the operation buttons It is.

In the invention according to claim 3, the shape of the combination of the transparent cover and the columnar grip portion is obtained by cutting a flat cylinder into two parts in a plane parallel to the axis of the cylinder, and the larger one of them. The compact skin-beautifying device according to claim 2 .

The invention according to claim 4 is the compact skin-beautifying device according to claim 3 , wherein the parallel surface is a side surface facing the side surface provided with the pad of the columnar grip portion.

  According to the first aspect of the invention, the pad is positioned on the side surface of the columnar grip portion, and the piston movement is performed in the direction perpendicular to the axis of the columnar grip portion. The apparatus can be made compact as compared with a conventional example having a mechanism. Further, in this configuration, the apparatus can be made compact in this respect by providing the axis of the output shaft of the motor in parallel with the axis of the grip portion.

As a result, a woman who mainly uses the skin-beautifying device can put the skin-beautifying device in the palm of the hand, and even a weak woman can hold the device appropriately, and does not get tired even if the device is used for a long time.

In addition, since the tension direction of all linear portions of the wire is parallel to the direction of the piston movement, the fulcrum member can be reduced, thereby reducing the friction between the wire and the fulcrum member, and the wire and the fulcrum member. Power transmission loss and heat generation can be suppressed.

According to the invention described in claim 2 , in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 1, both the buttons and the pad portion can be protected by a single cover. As a result, it is possible to easily start and clean up the skin beautifying device, and the usability of the skin beautifying device is improved. Moreover, since it is transparent, the status of the pad portion can be easily confirmed.

According to the invention described in claim 3 , in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 2 , the shape obtained by combining the transparent cover and the columnar grip portion is a flat cylinder with a plane parallel to the axis of the cylinder. By cutting into two and having the larger one of them, the portion corresponding to the palm of the grip portion is a cylindrical outer peripheral curved surface, and the user does not get tired even if the device is used for a long time.

According to the invention of claim 4 , in addition to the effect of the invention of claim 3 , by providing the skin-beautifying apparatus main body with a parallel surface, the skin-beautifying device is placed and stored on the parallel surface. be able to. That is, a relatively heavy portion such as a motor or a battery can be brought close to the placement surface, and the stability of the feeling in the field is improved.

1 is an overall perspective view of a compact skin beautifying apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention. It is sectional drawing of the side surface direction of the compact skin beautifying device of FIG. It is a figure which shows the state holding the compact skin beautifying device of FIG. It is a figure which shows the use condition of the compact skin beautifying device of FIG. It is the elements on larger scale of the head of the compact skin beautifying device of FIG.

  Embodiments specifically configured based on the above technical idea will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view of a compact skin beautifying apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention. The compact skin beautifying device 1 of the first embodiment has a flat cylindrical shape whose overall shape is approximately 100 [mm] in diameter and 40 [mm] in height. The shape of the compact skin-beautifying device 1 will be described in more detail. This flat cylinder is cut by a parallel surface approximately 40 [mm] away from the axis of the cylinder, and the larger one of the two separated figures. It becomes. This parallel cut surface is located below in FIG. 1 and becomes the mounting plane 30 of the compact skin beautifying device 1.

In this case, unless otherwise indicated, the placement plane 30 is the bottom surface, and the surface with the pad 2 or the light is the operation surface. Further, the surfaces located on the upper and lower surfaces of the flat cylinder are defined as the left and right surfaces, and the surface that is entirely visible in FIG. 1 is defined as the left surface.

  The compact skin beautifying device 1 is composed of a columnar grip portion 3 and a transparent cover 2 that form a main body. Here, “columnar” means a figure in which the length in one direction is longer than the length in the other two directions, such as a column of three-dimensional figures. Has an axis along the long direction. In FIG. 1, what is indicated by CC is the axis of the columnar grip portion 3, which is a straight line located at the center of the left and right surfaces of the columnar grip portion 3 and at the center of the mounting plane 30 and the operation surface.

  On one side of the columnar grip portion 3 which is the main body of the compact skin beautifying device 1, that is, on the operation surface, in addition to the head 20 that performs piston movement by a piston movement mechanism, a mode selection button 7 and a power button 9 that are operation switches are provided. There are provided three mode display lights 6 for notifying the user of the selected mode, a power display light 8 for informing that the power is on, and a charge display light 10 for informing that the battery is being charged.

  Hand electrodes 4 for ion introduction are provided on the left and right surfaces of the columnar grip portion 3, and a DC jack 11 for supplying DC power is provided on a cylindrical curved surface that is an end surface of the columnar grip portion 3.

  FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view in the side direction of the compact skin beautifying device 1 of the first embodiment. The structure of the piston movement mechanism of the compact skin beautifying device 1 will be described with reference to FIG. In the description of FIG. 2, it is referred to as up, down, left and right when viewed from the front.

  The columnar grip portion 3 includes a shaft 21 having a soft pad 2 (not shown), which will be described later, at one end, and a piston motion mechanism in the axial direction of the shaft 21. The soft pad 2 is attached to the head 20 and is used when tapping skin such as a face or an arm.

The piston movement mechanism includes a biasing member that biases the shaft 21 in one direction, a wire that applies a force to the shaft 21 in a direction that resists the biasing force of the biasing member when tension is applied, and the tension applied to the wire. It is composed of a rotary piston motion motor 27 applied intermittently.

The shaft 21 is fixed perpendicularly to the working surface of the head 20. Below the shaft 21 is an elongated columnar structure, and a spring 25 of a biasing member that biases the shaft 21 downward is fitted into that portion.

The columnar grip portion 3 is provided with two fixed guide pins 23 and one movement guide pin 22 is provided on the shaft 21 so as to sandwich the two fixed guide pins 23. Two fixed guide pins 23 and one moving guide pin 22 are fulcrum members that change the tension direction of the wire, which will be described later. After the end portion of the wire rod is fixed to the columnar grip portion 3, the wire is wound in the order of the upper side of the left fixed guide pin 23, the lower side of the central moving guide pin 22, and the upper side of the right fixed guide pin 23. When tension is applied to the wire rod by winding in this way, a force is applied to the shaft 21 in a direction against the urging force of the spring 25 urging downward, that is, upward, and the shaft 21 operates. Further, the two fixed guide pins 23 and the movement guide pins 22 are in a positional relationship such that the linear portion of the wound wire is substantially parallel to the direction of piston movement of the shaft 21.

In the first embodiment, stainless wire 22 is used as the wire. The other end of the stainless steel wire 22 is fixed to a bobbin 26 fitted into the output shaft of a rotary piston motion motor 27. The axis of the output shaft of the piston motion motor 27 is parallel to the axis C of the columnar grip portion 3, and the positional relationship between the right fixed guide pin 23 and the bobbin 26 is such that the wire between them is the piston motion of the shaft 21. The positional relationship is substantially parallel to the direction.

With this configuration, the piston motion motor 27 is intermittently driven, that is, a current for rotation is intermittently supplied. When the current is supplied, the stainless steel wire 22 is wound around the bobbin 26, and the movement guide pin 22 and the shaft 21 integrated therewith are lifted upward. When the supply of current is stopped, the piston motion motor 27 becomes free, and the shaft 21 moves downward by the urging force of the spring 25. At that time, the stainless steel wire 22 is unwound from the bobbin 26.

  A rechargeable battery 28 is provided below the piston motion motor 27 along the mounting plane 30. Further, the substrate 29 is disposed substantially parallel to the operation surface on which the operation switches 7 and 9 are located. A light source for supplying light to the display lights 6, 8 and the like on the substrate 29, switches for generating input signals when the operation buttons 7 and 9 are pressed, and driving of the piston motion motor 27 and light sources are controlled by the input signals. A control device is installed.

  By placing the pad 2 on the operation surface which is the side surface of the columnar grip portion 3 and performing piston movement in the direction perpendicular to the axis C of the columnar grip portion 3, a piston movement mechanism is provided at the end of the grip portion. The apparatus can be made compact as compared with the conventional example. Further, in this configuration, the shaft center of the output shaft of the piston drive motor 27 is provided in parallel with the shaft center C of the columnar grip portion 3, so that the device can be made compact in this respect as well. Note that the descriptions of “vertical direction” and “parallel” are not strict, and are allowed as long as the effect of this arrangement can be achieved. The “vertical direction” is a positional relationship when viewed from either the left or right side of the compact skin-beautifying device 1, and includes a three-dimensional misalignment axis.

As a result, a woman who mainly uses the skin-beautifying device can put the skin-beautifying device in the palm of the hand, and even a weak woman can hold the device appropriately, and does not get tired even if the device is used for a long time.

  Since the tension direction of all linear portions of the wire is parallel to the direction of piston motion, the fulcrum member can be reduced, thereby reducing the friction between the wire and the fulcrum member, and between the wire and the fulcrum member. Power transmission loss and heat generation can be suppressed. In this configuration as well, the description of “parallel” is not strict, and is allowed as long as the effect of this arrangement can be achieved.

  By providing the transparent cover 5 that protects the pad portion 2 and the operation buttons 7 and 9, both the operation buttons 7 and 9 and the pad portion 2 can be protected by a single cover. As a result, it is possible to easily start and clean up the skin beautifying device, and the usability of the skin beautifying device is improved. Moreover, since it is transparent, the state of the pad 2 etc. can be confirmed easily.

  The shape of the combination of the transparent cover 5 and the columnar grip portion 3 is obtained by cutting a flat cylinder into two in a plane parallel to the axis of the column, and the larger one of them. The portion corresponding to the palm of this is the outer circumferential curved surface of the cylinder, and the user does not get tired even if the device is used for a long time.

  By providing the mounting plane 30 in the skin beautifying device main body, the skin beautifying device can be placed and stored on its parallel surface. That is, a relatively heavy portion such as a motor or a battery can be brought close to the placement surface, and the stability of the feeling in the field is improved.

  A method of using the compact skin beautifying device 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5. FIG. 3 shows a state in which the woman is holding the compact skin-beautifying device 1 with one hand, FIG. 4 shows a usage state of the compact skin-beautifying device 1, and FIG. 5 shows a partially enlarged view of the head 20 of the compact skin-beautifying device 1. 5A shows a state in which the head 20 is exposed, FIG. 5B shows a state in which the soft pad 2 is attached to the head 20, and FIG. 20 shows a state of mounting.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the compact skin beautifying device 1 according to the first embodiment is large enough to be held by an adult woman who is the main user with one hand. The portions that come into contact with the palm are a part of the mounting plane 30 and the outer peripheral curved surface of the columnar grip portion 3. Then, the user places his / her index finger or middle finger along the side surface of the columnar grip portion 3 facing the soft pad 2. Then, as shown in FIG. 4, the user performs tapping or the like by applying the soft pad 2 or the like to the skin of the face.

  The compact skin beautifying device 1 according to the first embodiment can be operated in three types of modes. The three modes are “TAP”, “ION +”, and “ION−”, and can be selected by pressing the mode selection button 7.

  In the “TAP” mode, the soft pad 2 is attached to the head 20 as shown in FIG. 5B, and the soft pad 2 reciprocates integrally with the head 20 to continuously hit the skin such as the face.

  In the “ION +” mode, the head 20 is used as it is as shown in FIG. When the head 20 is made of metal and applied to the face, the head 20 is energized with the hand electrode 4 of the columnar grip portion 3 via the user's body, and the ionized waste on the skin surface is raised. In this case, the head 20 does not operate.

In the “ION-” mode, as shown in FIG. 5C, the cotton 32 is fixed to the head 20 with the cotton clamp 31, and a lotion or the like is soaked into the cotton 20. Then, the head 20 is vibrated with a smaller amplitude than that of the “TAP” mode and a larger frequency. While giving this high-speed fine vibration to the skin, the ionized component of the skin lotion is efficiently infiltrated into the skin.

  In the first embodiment, the spring 25 is used as the urging member. However, this is not limited to the coil spring but is a concept including, for example, a leaf spring.

  Further, although two fixed guide pins 23 and one movement guide pin 24 are used as fulcrum members for changing the direction of tension acting on the wire, for example, one each can be used. Further, in order to improve the movement of the wire, a pulley can be used as a fulcrum member.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Compact skin care apparatus 2 Soft pad 3 Column-shaped grip part 4 Hand electrode 5 Transparent cover 6 Mode display light 7 Mode selection button 8 Power display light 9 Power button 10 Charging display light 11 DC power jack 20 Head 21 Shaft 22 Stainless wire 23 Fixed guide Pin 24 Movement guide pin 25 Spring 26 Winding bobbin 27 Motor 28 for piston motion 28 Rechargeable battery 29 Substrate 30 Placement plane 31 Cotton clamp 32 Cotton C Axis of columnar grip

Claims (4)

It has a shaft with a pad at one end and a piston motion mechanism in the axial direction of this shaft in the columnar grip part,
The piston movement mechanism,
A biasing member that biases the shaft in one direction;
A wire that applies a force to the shaft in a direction against a biasing force of the biasing member when tension is applied;
It comprises a rotary piston motion motor that intermittently applies the tension to this wire,
In the skin beautifying apparatus in which the piston motion is performed by winding the wire around the output shaft of the piston motion motor and applying tension to the wire,
Position the pad on the side of the columnar grip part,
With the arrangement that performs the piston movement in the direction perpendicular to the axis of the columnar grip portion,
An axis of the output shaft of the piston motion motor is provided in parallel with the axis of the columnar grip part, and
The tension direction acting on the wire is changed by a fulcrum member that converts the tension direction,
A compact skin-beautifying apparatus characterized in that the tension direction of all the straight portions of the wire is parallel to the direction of piston motion. An operation button is provided on the side surface provided with the pad,
The compact skin-beautifying apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a transparent cover for protecting the pad portion and the operation buttons. The combined shape of the transparent cover and the columnar grip is
The compact skin-beautifying apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein a flat cylinder is cut into two by a plane parallel to the axis of the cylinder, and the larger one of them is formed. The compact skin-beautifying apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the parallel surface is a side surface facing a side surface provided with the pad of the columnar grip portion.

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