Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Hiroshi Namba

Shuhei Ochi

Motohisa Nishino

Nobuyuki Morihara

Fumiya Ueda

Shigeo Yamamoto

A facial beauty device attainable, in addition to facial sauna effect with a heated and highly moistened atmosphere, a facial skin washing effect by means of water spray and simultaneously both facial skin tightening and massaging effects accompanying inherent cooling and spray pressure, respectively. The device is provided with a moistening means oscillating water in a reservoir within a body case at a frequency of an ultrasonic band and delivering generated mist into a hood on the case to provide a highly moistened atmosphere within the hood, means for heating the mist by passing it through an electric resistive heater or carrying it onto the hood with hot air stream heated by the heater, and means for spraying water in the reservoir or from a tank capable of automatically supplying water responsive to falling water level in the reservoir toward a face contacting opening of the hood through nozzles opened in the hood by means of a pump. Preferably further provided is a spray rocking mechanism for providing sprays of a pattern elongated in the width direction of the user's face and blown while being moved between jaw and forehead through nozzles positioned on the forehead side. As desired, the heating means is arranged so that only a hot air stream can be fed into the hood after water is sprayed.

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Hiroshi Namba