Patent ID: 8567415

Claim:
A hair styling apparatus comprising: a first arm comprising a first heatable element; a second arm comprising a second heatable element, said second arm being connected to said first arm in such a way as to allow opening and closing of the apparatus by respectively moving said arms between an open state away from one another and a closed state close to each other; temperature regulators associated to said heatable elements comprising a heat source and a temperature sensor for regulating the temperature of said heatable elements; compensators operatively connected to said temperature regulators adapted to compensate temperature changes which said heatable elements are subjected to when styling a hair lock; wherein the compensators comprise a detection device for detecting an open state and a closed state of said arms and is adapted to control said temperature regulators in order to regulate the temperature of said heatable elements such that when the detection device detects the arms are in the open state the heatable elements operate at a first working temperature (T 1 ) and when the detection device detects the arms are in the closed state the heatable elements operate at a second working temperature (T 2 ) to styling a hair lock, where the second working temperature (T 2 ) is higher than the first working temperature (T 1 ); wherein the temperature sensor detects the temperature of the heat source and based on the detected temperature the temperature regulators either activates or deactivates the heat source to maintain the temperature of the heatable elements at either the first working temperature (T 1 ) or the second working temperature (T 2 ) based on the position of the arms.