US 11,950,682 B2
Method and device for providing a hair treatment agent
Esther Kumpan-Bahrami, Duesseldorf (DE); Jordan Katzarov, Duesseldorf (DE); and Georg Knuebel, Duesseldorf (DE)
Assigned to HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA, Duesseldorf (DE)
Appl. No. 16/617,888
Filed by Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Duesseldorf (DE)
PCT Filed May 29, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/063988
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 27, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/219895, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 6, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2017 209 227.0 (DE), filed on May 31, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0113313 A1, Apr. 16, 2020
Int. Cl. A45D 44/00 (2006.01); A45D 19/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/103 (2006.01)
CPC A45D 44/00 (2013.01) [A45D 19/012 (2021.01); A61B 5/0077 (2013.01); A61B 5/1032 (2013.01); A61B 5/448 (2013.01); A61B 5/6898 (2013.01); A45D 2044/007 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0204 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for providing a hair treatment agent, comprising:
a portable sensor device having at least one sensor for capturing a reflected light from a hair of a user;
a memory for storing a relationship between a cysteic acid content value and a measure of light absorption intensity, wherein the relationship is determined in response to a plurality of light absorption measurements made on a plurality of hair samples having a known cysteic acid content;
a data processing device for determining a light absorption intensity of the hair of the user in response to the reflected light, estimating a cysteic acid content of the hair of the user in response to the light absorption intensity and the relationship between the cysteic acid content value and the measure of light absorption intensity, and for determining of a user-specific hair treatment agent using the cysteic acid content; and
a hair treatment agent mixer configured to prepare the user-specific hair treatment agent wherein the user-specific hair treatment agent is one of a hair care agent, a hair coloring agent and a hair styling agent.