Unilever Home and Personal Care Usa, Division of Conopco, Inc.

Brunel University

Wamadeva Balachandran

Susan Michelle Kutay

Peng Miao

Langtao Lui

Richard Leslie Wright

A personal product comprising a liquid cosmetic composition and a hand-held electrostatic spraying device suitable for applying the composition to the human body, said hand-held electrostatic spraying device comprising a slit nozzle having a maximum width of from 0.05 mm to 0.5 mm, means for containing the liquid cosmetic composition, means for supplying the liquid cosmetic composition to the nozzle, an electricity source, high voltage circuitry arranged so that, in use, liquid cosmetic composition sprayed in atomised form from the nozzle is electrically charged, and control means for selectively applying a high voltage.

Electrostatic spraying of a cosmetic composition

A navigation system, used for example to navigate visually handicapped people, uses a satellite system such as the GPS system to locate the user via a user held receiver (,). A two-way communication system such as a digital telephone (,) communicates with a central service center (,) at which the user's exact location and navigational information can be determined. There is preferably provided a human-to-human information interface (,). The use of a two-way communication system (,) enables some of the components (,) to be kept at a remote and stationary base station (,).

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Uxbridge, United Kingdom

Wamadeva Balachandran