Patent ID: 9504825
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: A45D,A61K,A61N

Claim Text:
1. A percutaneous penetration enhancing apparatus comprising: a sheet member capable of being placed on a skin; a plurality of skin condition sensors arranged on the sheet member, each of the plurality of skin condition sensors detecting information related to a condition of the skin; a plurality of percutaneous penetration enhancing elements arranged on the sheet member, each of the plurality of percutaneous penetration enhancing elements being operated on the basis of the information detected by one or more of the plurality of skin condition sensors; an operation determination unit; wherein the sheet member is divided into segments, each of which includes one or more of the plurality of percutaneous penetration enhancing elements and one or more of the plurality of skin condition sensors; wherein the operation determination unit determines, for each of the segments, whether or not to cause the one or more of the plurality of percutaneous penetration enhancing elements included in a segment to perform the penetration enhancing process on the basis of the information detected by the one or more of the plurality of skin condition sensors included in the segment; a tank that contains a cosmetic agent; and a pump that supplies the cosmetic agent contained in the tank to the sheet member, wherein the sheet member includes a pipe that supplies the cosmetic agent supplied by the pump to each of the plurality of percutaneous penetration enhancing elements, and a plurality of supply-amount controllers arranged in the respective segments, the supply-amount controllers controlling the supply of the cosmetic agent by the pipe, and wherein the operation determination unit instructs one or more of the plurality of supply-amount controllers that are arranged in one or more of the segments in which the penetration enhancing process is not to be performed to stop the supply of the cosmetic agent.