US 12,325,620 B2
IT organization for custom hair dye dispensing system
Florent Valceschini, Paris (FR); Richard Besen, New York, NY (US); Christopher Hipple, New York, NY (US); Joel Falardeau, St-Paul d'Abbotsford (CA); and Luc Deguire, Montreal (CA)
Assigned to L'Oreal, Paris (FR)
Filed by L'OREAL, Paris (FR)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/709,581.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/168,733, filed on Mar. 31, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2109242 (FR), filed on Sep. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0315408 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. B67D 7/08 (2010.01); B67D 7/02 (2010.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01)
CPC B67D 7/085 (2013.01) [B67D 7/02 (2013.01); G05B 19/042 (2013.01); G05B 2219/23363 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for dispensing a hair dye formulation into container, comprising:
a conveyer belt configured to transport the customer container along a fill line;
a plurality of dispensing mechanisms, each connected to a respective bulk containers having a different bulk hair dye color, the plurality of dispensing mechanisms being disposed over a conveyer belt along the fill line; and
circuitry configured to
receive a plurality of formulas for filling a respective plurality of receiving containers with one or more bulk hair dye colors from among the plurality of bulk containers having the different bulk hair dye color, and
control each of the plurality of dispensing mechanisms to perform a dispensing operation to dispense an amount of bulk hair dye color or to not perform a dispensing operation at a time when each of the receiving containers are transported to each of the plurality of dispensing mechanisms along the fill line,
wherein the circuitry is configured to adjust a sequence of the receiving containers to be filled in the fill line based on the formulas and a sequence which results in a minimum time to complete filling the receiving containers in the fill line.