Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Nobuyuki Morihara

Fumiya Ueda

Tomohiro Kami

Yoshinori Abura

Shuhei Ochi

Motohisa Nishino

Shigeo Yamamoto

Hiroshi Namba

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.

Facial beauty device

A hair curler comprising an elongated substantially hollow hair bobbin includes a PTC heating element having a temperature self-controlling function housed within the hair bobbin. A pair of opposed cup-shaped generally cylindrical members are housed within the bobbin with each cylindrical member including a bottom and a side wall. The heating element is held between the opposed bottoms of the cup-shaped members. Each of the bottoms of the cup-shaped members defines an electrode plate arranged in contact with a respective side of the heating element for transmitting electricity to the heating element and conducting heat from the heating element to the side wall of the respective member. The side wall of each member defines conductors for transmitting the heat to the ends of the hair bobbin. A power supplying pin includes first and second power supplying terminals which are connected to a respective one of the electrode plates. The power supplying pin further includes an insulator interposed between the terminals. One end of the power supplying pin extends in one direction through the heating element and both electrode plates for fastening the heating element and the electrode plates together. Another end of the pin extends in an opposite direction along a longitudinal axis of the hair bobbin toward an open end of the bobbin. The power supplying pin is accessible through the open end of the bobbin and is adapted to be connected to a power source.

Electrically heated hair curler

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Hikone, Japan

Nobuyuki Morihara