IT organization for custom hair dye dispensing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12325620-B2
Application number	US-202217709581-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 31, 2022
Priority date	Mar 31, 2021
Publication date	Jun 10, 2025
Grant date	Jun 10, 2025

Abstract

A system is provided 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.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

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.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to collect usage rate information on past dispensed amounts of the different bulk hair dye colors and output a recommendation on how to position the dispensing mechanisms corresponding to the bulk hair dye colors based on the usage rate information.

3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to perform self-calibration of at least one of the dispensing mechanisms by
inserting a calibration receiving container into the fill line
dispensing a programmed predetermined amount of bulk hair dye color from the at least one of the dispensing mechanisms into the calibration receiving container;
measuring an actual amount of the bulk hair dye dispensed into the calibration receiving container;
determining that recalibration of the at least one dispensing mechanism is required when the measured actual amount of the dispensed bulk hair dye is outside of a predetermined tolerance range.

4. The system according to claim 3 , wherein the circuitry is configured to perform calibration of a plurality of the dispensing mechanisms using the same calibration receiving container.

Assignees

• Oreal

Inventors

• VALCESCHINI Florent
• Besen Richard
• Hipple Christopher
• Falardeau Joel
• Deguire Luc

Classifications

• G05B19/042

  using digital processors (G05B19/05 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B67D7/02

  for transferring liquids other than fuel or lubricants · CPC title

• G05B2219/23363

  Barcode · CPC title

• B67D7/085 Primary

  Testing or calibrating apparatus therefore (testing or calibrating apparatus for measuring volume flow in general G01F25/00) · CPC title

• G05B19/418 Primary

  Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM] · CPC title