Apparatus and method to realize personalized cosmetic compositions
AssigneeL'oreal
InventorsGeraldine Thiebaut, Guive Balooch, Helga Malaprade
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Abstract
An apparatus to realize personalized cosmetic compositions including a formula supply assembly having a plurality of additive reservoirs that contains a plurality of additive substances, a plurality of additive pumps that supplies selected additive quantities of the plurality of additive substances, a base reservoir that contains a base substance, and a base pump that supplies a base quantity of the base substance and a mixing assembly having an additive inlet that receives the selected additive quantities, a base inlet that receives the base quantity, and a mixing channel that mixes the additive quantities with the base quantity to form the personalized cosmetic compositions.
Claims12
An apparatus to realize personalized cosmetic compositions comprising:
- a formula supply assembly including:
- a plurality of additive reservoirs that contains a plurality of additive substances,
- a plurality of additive pumps that supplies selected additive quantities of the plurality of additive substances,
- a flush reservoir that contains a flush substance, and
- a flush pump that supplies a flush quantity of the flush substance;
- a mixing assembly including:
- an additive inlet that receives the selected additive quantities and the flush quantity,
- an outlet that delivers the personalized cosmetic compositions, and
- a mixing channel that channels the selected additive quantities from the additive inlet to the outlet;
- and
- an electronic control unit configured to
- acquire a desired formulation from a consumer,
- determine the selected additive quantities based on the desired formulation,
- operate the plurality of additive pumps to provide the selected additive quantities to the additive inlet, and
- operate the flush pump to push the selected additive quantities along the mixing channel to provide mixing between the additive quantities and form the personalized cosmetic compositions,
- wherein the mixing channel includes a cavity positioned between the outlet and the additive inlet and a pulsing pump connected to the additive inlet and the cavity that mixes the plurality of additives through successive motions of stretching and folding.
An apparatus to realize personalized cosmetic compositions comprising:
- a formula supply assembly including:
- a plurality of additive reservoirs that contains a plurality of additive substances,
- a plurality of additive pumps that supplies selected additive quantities of the plurality of additive substances,
- a base reservoir that contains a base substance, and
- a base pump that supplies a base quantity of the base substance;
- a mixing assembly including:
- an additive inlet that receives the selected additive quantities,
- a base inlet that receives the base quantity,
- an outlet that delivers the personalized cosmetic compositions, and
- a mixing channel that channels the selected additive quantities and the base quantity from the additive inlet and the base inlet to the outlet;
- and
- an electronic control unit configured to
- acquire a desired formulation from a consumer,
- determine the selected additive quantities based on the desired formulation, and
- operate the plurality of additive pumps and the base pump to push the selected additive quantities and the base quantity along the mixing channel to provide mixing between the additive quantities and the base quantity to form the personalized cosmetic compositions,
- wherein the mixing channel includes a cavity positioned between the outlet and the additive inlet and a pulsing pump connected to the additive inlet and the cavity that mixes the plurality of additives through successive motions of stretching and folding.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.