Ultrasonic mist conditioning hair styling apparatus

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provides a hair drying and styling apparatus that comprises a hair styling tool in combination with an ultrasonic mist generator. The ultrasonic mist generator includes a water tank, an ultrasonic transducer to produce water mist, a wick tube to supply water from the water tank to the transducer, and a spray manifold including a plurality of holes to spray water mist over the heated portions of the hair styling tool and the heated hair. Further, the mist generator also includes a provision to add a customized personal fragrance or cologne to the hair. Furthermore, the mist generator also includes an ion generator to provide negatively ionized water for static control and improving hair gloss and conditioning. Advantageously, the apparatus prevents the hair from over drying, and providing heat damage to hair, scalp or hands of a user/stylist by spraying cool mist during operation.

What is to be claimed is: 
     
         1 . An apparatus for hair drying and styling, comprising:
 a hair styling tool including a heating mechanism to provide heat for styling or drying hair; and   an ultrasonic mist generator, attached adjacent to the hair styling tool, for producing and applying an ultra fine spray of cool sonic mist to the hair, the ultrasonic mist generator includes:
 a tank to store a fluid; an ultrasonic transducer to produce the spray of mist; a manifold to uniformly and evenly spray the mist onto the heated portions of the hair styling tool and heated hair; and a means to add a customized fragrance to the fluid and hair; where the manifold uniformly sprays the ultra fine small and light mist to replace moisture lost by the hair while drying out by the heat from the hair styling tool. 
   
     
     
         2 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the mist generator further includes a wick tube to supply the fluid from the tank to the ultrasonic transducer; and a fluid supply arrangement to allow outflow of fluid from the tank towards the wick tube. 
     
     
         3 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the fluid is water. 
     
     
         4 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the fluid is a conditioner, a hair serum, or any other aromatic fluid. 
     
     
         5 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the mist generator further includes an ion generator to produce negatively ion charged water for providing static control and improving conditioning and gloss of hair. 
     
     
         6 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the operation of the mist generator is manually controlled by a user or a stylist or automatically controlled depending on temperature and other conditions of the hair styling tool and hair. 
     
     
         7 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the mist generator is able to work either independently of the hair styling tool or along with the operation of the hair styling tool. 
     
     
         8 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the mist generator produces a cool mist which is so small, fine and light that the mist is able to penetrate into the hair cuticle much more effectively than steam without the risk of scalding the scalp or hands of a stylist. 
     
     
         9 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the hair styling tool is any one of a hair dryer or a hair straightener or a hair curling iron/rod or any other heat treatment tool for hair. 
     
     
         10 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 1  and  claim 9 , wherein the ultrasonic transducer and the wick tube are inside housing of the hair dryer. 
     
     
         11 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the tank is detachably attached to the hair styling tool. 
     
     
         12 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein the fluid supply arrangement is a one-way valve arrangement, or a detachable/spring plunger fluid release. 
     
     
         13 . The apparatus as claimed  claim 1 , wherein the hair styling tool is provided with input/output control modules to control the operation of the hair styling tool and the mist generator, and to control the temperature of the hair styling tool and the amount of mist to be sprayed, to check fluid level in the tank, and the like. 
     
     
         14 . The apparatus as claimed  claim 1 , wherein the mist generator is placed along the body length of the hair styling tool, and the manifold sprays the cool mist either along the body length or vertical to the body length of the hair styling tool. 
     
     
         15 . An apparatus for hair styling comprising:
 a hair styling tool for providing heat treatment to hair; and   a piezoelectric based ultrasonic mist generator, attached along the hair styling tool, for producing an ultra fine and uniform spray of cool water sonic mist that replaces moisture lost by the hair during the heat treatment; the generator includes a means to provide an added customized fragrance to the mist and hence, hair.   
     
     
         16 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 15 , wherein the hair styling tool may be one of a hair dryer or a hair straightener or a hair curling iron/rod. 
     
     
         17 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 15 , wherein the mist generator further includes a fixed or detachably removed water tank for storing water; a a piezoelectric transducer to produce ultrasonic cool mist; a wick tube to supply the water from the water tank to the transducer; and a manifold to evenly diffuse an ultra fine spray of water mist over the hair styling tool and the hair. 
     
     
         18 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 15 , wherein the mist generator may work either independently or in combination with the hair styling tool; and may operated manually or automatically.