US 12,167,763 B2
Medical head-cooling cap set
Katsumasa Okamura, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to Hair Clinic Reve-21 Corporation, Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/907,956
Filed by Hair Clinic Reve-21 Corporation, Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 15, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/001229
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 29, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/171821, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-032962 (JP), filed on Feb. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0015573 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. A42B 1/008 (2021.01); A42B 1/017 (2021.01)
CPC A42B 1/008 (2013.01) [A42B 1/017 (2021.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical head-cooling cap set constituted from three items being a head-cooling cap for cooling a user's head, an inner cap that fits inside the head-cooling cap, and an outer cap that is for securing, and that fits outside, the head-cooling cap, characterized in that:
a cooling-medium flow path is formed interiorly in the head-cooling cap, the head-cooling cap therein being adapted for cooling the user's scalp by a cooling medium being circulated in the cooling-medium flow path; and
the inner cap is made from a fabric component formed so as to cover the user's head, and is constituted from
a main part furnished with a frontal region that is adapted to cover the user's forehead including the brow, an occipital region that is adapted to cover the user's occiput, and a nape region that is adapted to cover the user's nape, and
a left temporal element and a right temporal element, connected to the main part, wherein a left finlike protrusion is formed in a rear edge of the left temporal element and a right finlike protrusion is formed in a rear edge of the right temporal element, and between each of the respective left and right finlike protrusions and the nape region a slit is formed; wherein
the outer cap is adapted to receive, through a brim-defining opening therein, the user's head fitted with the head-cooling cap over the inner cap, and is configured with attached securing gear comprising
two first belts that are drawn out from either side of the outer-cap opening and stretch to the exterior, and a first fastener for linking the two first belts, wherein after the user's head fitted with the head-cooling cap over the inner cap has been passed into the opening and the outer cap has been donned, the two first belts can be fastened neck-area-forward by means of the first fastener; and
two second belts that extend from a rear middle part near the brim and run frontally along the brim, and a second fastener for linking the two second belts, wherein after the user's head fitted with the head-cooling cap over the inner cap has been passed into the opening and the outer cap has been donned, the two second belts can be fastened around the user's forehead by means of the second fastener.