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US 6,964,116 B2Granted
Ambulatory hairdryer
OwnerMollie B. Kroll, Mark W. Krollinventors
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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.
Claims7
A personal ambulatory hair dryer system comprising:
- an approximately head-conforming shell, holding desiccant for removing hair moisture,
- a self-contained and mechanically attached battery weighing less than 1 kilogram,
- communicatively connected to,
- a self-contained fan,
- where the shell is shaped to be positioned upon,
- a mating self-contained base unit, with
- at least one heating coil to heat the base unit in order to pre-heat the ambulatory head-conforming shell and dry the desiccant of the shell, and
- electrical contacts to recharge the battery in the head-conforming shell unit so that the personal ambulatory hair dryer can force air over a wearer's hair to dry the hair while the wearer is ambulatory
- and the mating base unit can pre-heat, dry, and electrically recharge the ambulatory shell unit.
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A personal ambulatory hair dryer consisting of:
- an approximately head-conforming shell with a mating base unit for regeneration,
- said shell holding a self-contained battery,
- communicatively connected to,
- a self-contained fan,
- with a humidity sensor mounted on either the shell or the base unit to read the local humidity to control the drying of the shell during a regeneration cycle so that the personal ambulatory hair dryer can force air over a wearer's hair to dry the hair while the wearer is ambulatory.
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A personal ambulatory hair dryer consisting of:
- an approximately head-conforming shell with a mating base unit for regeneration,
- said shell holding a self-contained battery,
- communicatively connected to,
- a self-contained fan,
- with a mating base unit
- with a temperature sensor mounted on either the shell or the base unit to read the local temperature to control the heating of the shell during a regeneration cycle so that the personal ambulatory hair dryer can force air over a wearer's hair to dry the hair while the wearer is ambulatory.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.