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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8155508 | Drying apparatus A drying apparatus includes a casing and a cavity formed in the casing for receiving an object to be dried. A fan is located in the casing so as to be capable of creating an airflow, and a motor is provided in the casing for driving the fan. Ducting is provided for ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8064756 | Airflow directing structure for hand dryers An airflow directing structure for hand dryers includes an airflow directing case, an air inlet, an air outlet, a heating means, an air intake means and a flow directing channel. The air intake means has a rotary axle which has one end fastened to air intake blades.... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7801423 | Hair drier “IMPROVED HAIR DRIER” including a housing, inside which an electrical engine is mounted, which activates a rotor generating an axial air flow crossing the equipment and contacting the heating element represented by an electrical resistance, duly mounted in a spa... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7783177 | Manual electrical equipment for hair straightening “MANUAL ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT FOR HAIR STRAIGHTENING”, wherein each one of the heating plates of the referred equipment has a respective resistance, wherein the equipment characterized by the fact that each one of the resistances is controlled by a thermostat wit... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7555209 | Hand dryer The present invention relates to a hand dryer comprising inside the casing (1) two hollow chambers (3a, 3b) having: a mouth (36) for the inlet of high-speed air supplied by air propulsion means (4a, 4... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7412781 | Device for a hot air shower The air nozzle attachment (8) for the hair dryer (2) is connectable to the blower opening (7) of the hair dryer and produces a hot-air stream (9) and a cold-air stream (10) that are arranged side-by-side. The air nozzle attachment ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7303556 | Device for supplying an electro-pen with electrical energy The invention relates to a device for supplying electrical energy to an electro-pen with an electric drive unit for driving a tool. The device comprises a console with an energy supply unit having an accumulator for supplying the electrical drive unit with electrica... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7278225 | Foot drying device A foot-drying device includes a body including first and second vertical sides, and an open front face sloping upward away from a front edge thereof. The body is hollow, forming a chamber that extends from a bottom surface to a top surface thereof, and has a rear pa... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274365 | Graphical processing of object perimeter information A technique for graphically processing perimeter information includes determining a polar representation of the perimeter of an object to define polar perimeter information, storing the polar perimeter information, retrieving the stored polar perimeter information u... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7220160 | Gun grip controller A gun grip controller includes a rod-shaped controller body having a trigger-shaped lever and a steering dial or the like, for controlling a model car or the like, and a grip provided to protrude from the controller body. The grip is arranged so as to be rotatably a... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7184655 | Footrest with integral heater A footrest is provided comprising a base portion for placement on a supporting surface, a footplate connected to the base portion for receiving a foot of a user of the footrest, a heater connected to the base portion, an air intake system connected to the heater for... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7178261 | Air pulsing attachment for handheld dryer An air pulse attachment for a handheld dryer includes a shell defining a passage within the shell. The passage in the shell communicates the dryer with an outlet. A pulse valve is pivotably disposed in the passage and has a pivot axis. At least one deflection member... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7158716 | Portable pedestal electric heater A portable pedestal electric heater apparatus for providing a heated exhaust air stream at an elevation above a support surface comprises a tower electric heater and a support riser for supporting the tower electric heater at an elevation above a support surface. Th... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7123823 | Programmable manual hair dryer with multiple functions The dryer includes in its programmable control circuit a microprocessor to which are connected at least a temperature sensor, a static pressure sensor, a motor revolution sensor, a ion generator, a resistor battery with its selector switches in series, and the respe... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7096974 | Handle for a hand-held power tool A hand-held power tool including a tool spindle (12) having a motor (6) for driving the tool spindle (12), a handle (18) having a forwardly inclined position in which the handle (18), starting from the spindle axis (W) is inclined,... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7039301 | Method and apparatus for hand drying After washing, the hands are dried rapidly and comfortably by using a shaped high speed flow of heated air. The air flows in a direction controlled by an air outlet shaped to retain much of the exiting forceful air flow and temperature at a distance where the hands ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6973260 | Portable electric heater with vertical heated air outlet A portable electric heater producing a vertically oriented, heated exhaust air stream at an elevation above a support surface is provided. A base contacting the support surface and supporting an elongate housing in a substantially vertical position from the support ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6959144 | Air heater with expansion containing electric heater arranged in stages Providing a hot air heater and an expansion in the air blowing passage of the hot air heater and suppressing increases in air trunk resistance even if electric heaters are arranged in this expansion in a plurality of stages prevents increases in the rotation speed o... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6959145 | Footwear snow melting device using heated air An apparatus melts snow off a person's footwear without the need for the wearer to take off the footwear. In particular, the apparatus is for melting ice and snow off the footwear, for example shoes, boots or sneakers, of the wearer by a directed and accurately diss... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6957500 | Attachment for handheld dryer An attachment for a handheld dryer includes a shell and a dryer barrel-receiving portion. A first passage is defined between the shell and the dryer and terminates in a shell inlet defined between the shell and the dryer barrel. The present attachment may be useful ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6929322 | Vehicle seat air conditioning system A buffering member is connected between a cushion member and an air discharge duct of a blower unit to damp vibrations of the blower unit and thus to limit conduction of the vibrations from the blower unit to the cushion member. Resilient damper members are held bet... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6928235 | Forced air dryer for infant's bottom A forced air dryer designed to dry an infant's bottom during the diaper changing process comprises a housing having an end piece designed to reduce skin abrasion, skin heating, and air flow blockage. In one embodiment, the device is powered by a rechargeable electri... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6922909 | Attachment for hair dryers By providing a plurality of portals in a housing which forms a hair dryer attachment which is merely fixed to the exist portal of any conventional hair dryer, a hair dryer attachment is realized which is capable of substantially reducing the drying time required for... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6910281 | Hair drier with minus ion producer A hair drier having the capability of efficiently supplying hot air and minus ions from different outlets is provided. This hair drier has a hollow housing with an air suction inlet and an air outlet. In the housing, a fan and a heater are disposed in an air-flow ch... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6895686 | Hairdryer including a ionizing device Hairdryer-ionizing device assembly including a box-like body for holding a suction part, a fan, a driving motor, a heater, an air flow outlet part, an electric switch assembly and an ion emitting device comprising a high voltage generator, from AC to DC, which is el... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6885810 | Electrically heated hair dryer with catalytic odor filter The handheld hair dryer for generating a heated air stream has a blower for generating an air stream, an electric heater for heating the air stream, a catalytic odor filter for deodorizing the air stream and a thermal radiator for heating the catalytic odor filter. ... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6842581 | Body drier with interconnected cylindrical air blower housings Body Drier with a plurality of cylindrical housings, each housing retaining a heating coil, a fan blade, an electric fan motor, a fan bracket and a fan grill. Each cylindrical fan housing assembly is attached to the one above it by means of standard electrical conne... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6766589 | Portable hand dryer A portable hand dryer has an air blower and, optionally, an air heater. The hand dryer includes a laterally protruding male electrical plug having at least two prongs which provides electricity to the blower and which allows the hand dryer to be supported from a str... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6763606 | Apparatus for applying ionized particles and method for applying ionized particles An apparatus for applying ionized particles is disclosed. The apparatus includes an ionized particle emitter for emitting ionized particles against an object; and an electric potential maintainer for maintaining electric potential of the object at a predetermined le... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6725562 | Hairdryer The hair dryer includes a housing body that includes an air intake opening and an air outlet opening. The air outlet opening includes a non-ionized air outlet opening and an ionized air outlet opening. A fan is disposed within the housing body for introducing air in... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6718650 | Personal dryer A personal dryer capable of expelling temperatured air uniformly throughout the dryer and/or different temperatured air at different regions of the dryer, so as to provide a user with the option of drying their entire body with a more desirable uniformly temperature... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6715215 | Electric hair dryer There is disclosed an electric hair dryer (10) including a body (12) with a rear end (16) allowing entry of air into the body (12), a front end (18) allowing exit of the air from the body (12), two cover plates (20) s... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6580060 | Foot warmer mat adapted for use in an automotive vehicle A foot warmer mat including an electrical heater element embedded in the mat combined with a heater air circulation emanating from a detachable hood at one end of the mat. A vibrator is also embedded in the mat to stimulate the soles of a user's feet. An ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6457254 | Multifunctional apparatus for the treatment of hair of the head of humans A supporting column part supports a housing in which an apparatus for producing hot air and a further apparatus for producing steam are located. A jib is pivotally mounted to the housing. A hot air pipe extends from the apparatus for producing hot air thr... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6393717 | Foot dryer device with diffused heated air flow system A foot dryer device for completely drying the feet of the user that utilizes a heat/blower mechanism in connection with an air diffusion assembly that diffuses a heated air stream so as to prevent uncomfortable hot spots from occurring on the feet of the ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6367162 | Hair drier In the present invention, winding units (19) as a stator (23) are fixedly mounted in a cylindrical housing (1). A rotor (29) is provided on vanes (26) for supplying wind. The rotor (29) is disposed to surround the stator (23), thereby forming a brushless ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6354016 | Dual in-line styling hair dryer A dual in-line portable electric hair drying appliance includes independently operational heaters to provide optimized performance and a multitude of operating conditions that are found to be advantageous in the drying and styling of hair.... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6317998 | Hair-drying apparatus The hair-drying apparatus, the handle of which is provided below and transversally with respect to the body of the apparatus, is provided with a sliding regulating shutter at a delivery mouth thereof; axes of the motor and the delivery duct being reciproc... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6191930 | Ionizing hair dryer A hair dryer is provided with a high voltage generator which produces a negative DC voltage output of at least about 6 kilovolts for reducing static charges on a person's hair during hair drying. The generator can be mounted adjacent the dryer air inlet o... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6185838 | Cross flow hand drier A hand drier for drying the hands in a turbulent air flow region of cross flowing multiple air streams, and for recycling already heated air for reheating to conserve energy and having a housing and a fan in the housing to create air flow, scrolls for div... | 02/13/2001 |
