Electric Hair Grooming Appliance Including Touchscreen
AssigneeRovcal, Inc.
InventorCarl Gottfried Kammer
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Abstract
An electric hair grooming appliance is configured to have one or more operations to facilitate grooming of hair. The electric hair grooming appliance includes a control circuit, and a touchscreen for receiving one or more inputs from a user and to facilitate communication between the user and the control circuit. The touchscreen is configured to send one or more command signals to the control circuit in response to receiving the one or more inputs from the user. The control circuit is configured to control one or more operations of the electric hair grooming appliance in response to receiving one or more of the command signals.
Claims20
An electric, handheld hair grooming appliance comprising:
- a housing;
- at least one hair grooming device carried by the housing and adapted to facilitate grooming of hair, said at least one hair grooming device being adapted to perform an operation using electrical energy applied thereto;
- a control circuit in the housing and in communication with said at least one hair grooming device;
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- a touchscreen on at least one of the at least one hair grooming device and the housing for receiving at least one input from a user and to facilitate communication between the user and the control circuit, the touchscreen being configured to send at least one command signal to the control circuit in response to receiving said at least one input from the user,
- wherein the control circuit is configured to control said operation of the at least one hair grooming device in response to receiving said at least one command signal.
A method of controlling an operation of an electric hair grooming appliance, the method comprising:
- receiving an input using a touchscreen of the electric hair grooming appliance, said input corresponding to a desired setting of at least one operating parameter of the appliance;
- sending a command signal from the touchscreen to a control circuit of the electric hair grooming appliance in response to said receiving an input;
- controlling the operation of the electric hair grooming appliance using the control circuit in response to receiving said command signal.
An electric hair grooming appliance configured to have an operation to facilitate grooming of hair, the electric hair grooming appliance comprising:
- a control circuit;
- and
- a touchscreen for receiving at least one input from a user and to facilitate communication between the user and the control circuit, the touchscreen being configured to send at least one command signal to the control circuit in response to receiving said at least one input from the user,
- wherein the control circuit is adapted to control the operation of the electric hair grooming appliance in response to receiving said at least one command signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.