141 |
Hair-clipping device and cutter-member assembly for such a device |
US11722685 |
2005-12-19 |
US09610695B2 |
2017-04-04 |
Wolfgang Obermann; Michael Janny |
A hair-clipping device comprises a stationary cutter member (2; 52; 102; 152; 202; 252; 302; 352), at least one movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457), and a drive (9, 14, 15; 465) coupled to the movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457) for driving movement of the movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457). The stationary cutter member (2; 52; 102; 152; 202; 252; 302; 352) has an outer surface (3; 53; 103), a chamber (4) bounded by an inner surface (5) and at least one hair-catching opening (6; 56; 406) extending from the outer surface (3; 53; 103) to the inner surface (5). The movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457) comprises at least one cutting edge (8), fits in the chamber (4) with a free, close fit and includes a continuous carrier (15; 465) oriented in longitudinal direction of the movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457). The cutting edges (8) are provided on cutters (16) projecting radially from the carrier (15; 465). A set of cutter members for such a hair-clipping device is also described. |
142 |
Shaving apparatus |
US14061813 |
2013-10-24 |
US09061428B2 |
2015-06-23 |
Ype Brada; Robert A. van Eibergen Santhagens; Wilko Westerhof |
A shaving apparatus has at least one cutting unit (3) having an outer shaving surface (7) for contacting the skin, interrupted by hair entry apertures (8), an internal cutter (5) which is drivable for movement along the hair entry apertures (8) for cutting off hairs projecting through the hair entry apertures (8). A suspension member (6) via which the external cutter is suspended relative to the holder (2) is tiltable relative to the holder (2) about a tilting axis (17) located more closely to a first peripheral portion (18) of the shaving surface (7) than to a second peripheral portion (19) of the shaving surface (7) opposite to said first peripheral portion (18) of said shaving surface (7). |
143 |
Nose hair trimmer |
US13071263 |
2011-03-24 |
US08959775B2 |
2015-02-24 |
Seiko Yabuuchi; Hitoshi Ogawa |
A nose hair trimmer that facilitates removal of clipped hair from a blade. A main body case of the nose hair trimmer includes an interior chamber, a disposal opening, and a ring-shaped shutter. The interior chamber accommodates an inner blade rotor, which supports an inner blade, and collects clipped nose hair. The disposal opening communicates the chamber with the exterior. The shutter opens and closes the disposal opening. The shutter includes a communication portion, which communicates the interior chamber and disposal opening to the exterior. The position of the shutter in the circumferential direction when the disposal opening is closed is set as a reference position, and the shutter opens the disposal opening when rotated from the reference position by an amount that is less than one complete rotation. |
144 |
SKIN GUARD FOR HAIR TRIMMER |
US14358781 |
2012-11-13 |
US20140317932A1 |
2014-10-30 |
Roland Van Straaten; Roel Alexander Rethmeier; Reinier Alexander Tijsseh |
A device for trimming hair (11) is disclosed, comprising a fixed cutting element (4), a mobile cutting element (5) and a fixed guard (13), each comprising a plurality of teeth (6, 7, 13) extending in a similar direction. The mobile cutting element is moveable relative to the fixed cutting element such that hairs are cut when they enter the space between the teeth. The mobile cutting element is positioned between the fixed cutting element and the fixed guard, and when in use the fixed guard is the component closest to the skin to be shaved. The length of the teeth of the fixed and mobile cutting elements and the fixed guard differ so that, during use, the fixed cutting element and the fixed guard may contact the skin but the mobile cutting element is restricted from fully contacting the skin to prevent damage or irritation of the skin. |
145 |
Electric Shaver Comprising a Pivotable Shaving Head |
US13671601 |
2012-11-08 |
US20130111759A1 |
2013-05-09 |
Thorsten Pohl; Joachim Krauss; Tobias Schwarz; Peter Junk; Reinhold Eichhorn; Andreas Peter; Michael Odemer; Martin Fuellgrabe; Christoph Zegula; Alois Koeppl |
The invention relates to an electric shaver comprising a housing (1) and a shaving head (2) which comprises at least one cutting system, and which is pivotably connected to the housing (1), and further comprises means for locking this pivoting motion at several predetermined positions, whereby the shaving head (2) comprises a multitude of notches (23). To improve the function on comfort of the shaver the housing (1) provides a switch element (6) which is connected to at least one engaging element (10) that is adapted for being coupled with at least one of the notches (23). |
146 |
Shaver having spaces for collecting cut-off hairs |
US12373097 |
2007-07-09 |
US08296954B2 |
2012-10-30 |
Ronald Maarten Schneider; Johannes Cornelius Antonius Muller; Peter Adrianus Albert Kemps; Jacob Brinkert; Geert-Jan Darwinkel; Mattheus Jacobus Van Der Meer |
A shaver includes a shaving unit having e.g., three shaving elements. Each shaving element accommodates a cutter member for cutting off hairs. Each shaving element further accommodates a gear wheel which is part of a transmission for coupling a drive shaft for driving the cutter member to an output shaft of a motor of the shaver. A top side of a space where the gear wheel is located is covered by a partition, where only the drive shaft extends through this partition. Each shaving element can be individually opened by removing a top portion of the shaving element, including the cutter member, from a base portion of the shaving element where the gear wheel, the drive shaft and the partition are located. An opening system may be provided to open all the shaving elements in one action by reversal of the direction of rotation of the output shaft, for example. |
147 |
Toothbrush head |
US13334335 |
2011-12-22 |
US20120110768A1 |
2012-05-10 |
Armin BAERTSCHI; Franz FISCHER; Christian HILFIKER |
A toothbrush has a removable end cap at its free end area directed away from the bristles, which end cap closes off an inner space of a grip element. The end cap accommodates an electrical control element, in particular a potentiometer, which can be adjusted via an adjustment element arranged rotatably on the end cap. The toothbrush also comprises an electrical power consumption unit, in particular an electric motor, which is designed to set the bristles in vibration. The energy supply from an energy reservoir arranged in the interior to the electrical power consumption unit can be adjusted continuously by means of the control element, as a result of which the vibration intensity of the bristles can be steplessly adjusted. |
148 |
Electrically operated, continuously adjustable personal hygiene device |
US12223748 |
2007-03-14 |
US08089227B2 |
2012-01-03 |
Armin Baertschi; Franz Fischer; Christian Hilfiker |
A toothbrush has a removable end cap at its free end area directed away from the bristles, which end cap closes off an inner space of a grip element. The end cap accommodates an electrical control element, in particular a potentiometer, which can be adjusted via an adjustment element arranged rotatably on the end cap. The toothbrush also comprises an electrical power consumption unit, in particular an electric motor, which is designed to set the bristles in vibration. The energy supply from an energy reservoir arranged in the interior to the electrical power consumption unit can be adjusted continuously by means of the control element, as a result of which the vibration intensity of the bristles can be steplessly adjusted. |
149 |
NOSE HAIR TRIMMER |
US13071263 |
2011-03-24 |
US20110232096A1 |
2011-09-29 |
Seiko Yabuuchi; Hitoshi Ogawa |
A nose hair trimmer that facilitates removal of clipped hair from a blade. A main body case of the nose hair trimmer includes an interior chamber, a disposal opening, and a ring-shaped shutter. The interior chamber accommodates an inner blade rotor, which supports an inner blade, and collects clipped nose hair. The disposal opening communicates the chamber with the exterior. The shutter opens and closes the disposal opening. The shutter includes a communication portion, which communicates the interior chamber and disposal opening to the exterior. The position of the shutter in the circumferential direction when the disposal opening is closed is set as a reference position, and the shutter opens the disposal opening when rotated from the reference position by an amount that is less than one complete rotation. |
150 |
SHAVING APPARATUS |
US13071605 |
2011-03-25 |
US20110167641A1 |
2011-07-14 |
YPE BRADA; ROBERT ALEXANDER VAN EIBERGEN SANTHAGENS; WILKO WESTERHOF |
A shaving apparatus has at least one cutting unit (3) having an outer shaving surface (7) for contacting the skin, interrupted by hair entry apertures (8), an internal cutter (5) which is drivable for movement along the hair entry apertures (8) for cutting off hairs projecting through the hair entry apertures (8). A suspension member (6) via which the external cutter is suspended relative to the holder (2) is tiltable relative to the holder (2) about a tilting axis (17) located more closely to a first peripheral portion (18) of the shaving surface (7) than to a second peripheral portion (19) of the shaving surface (7) opposite to said first peripheral portion (18) of said shaving surface (7). |
151 |
Strain-responsive visual indicator |
US12088990 |
2006-10-02 |
US07730846B2 |
2010-06-08 |
Martin Andrew Pett; Ian Andrew Jamieson |
A strain-responsive visual indicator comprises a pair of overlapping shutter strips (1, 2) adapted to be mounted to a substrate such that strain in the substrate causes relative movement M between them. Each shutter strip comprises an alternating set of windows (5) or (6) and bars (7) or (8) and the distal strip (2) is backed by a strip (3) of a different color exposed through its windows (6), or the distal strip can instead be printed with a set of alternating colors in place of its windows and bars. The effect is that under different strain conditions different color indications from the distal strip (2) will be visible through the windows (5) of the proximal strip (1), in accordance with the relative positions of the two strips. The indicator can be incorporated e.g. in the shaft of a toothbrush to give a visual warning in response to flexure of the shaft if excessive brushing pressure is applied. Numerous other applications and the use of different types of indicia are indicated in the specification. |
152 |
UNIT FOR CLEANING AN INTERIOR SPACE OF A SHAVING HEAD OF A SHAVER |
US12518304 |
2007-12-10 |
US20100059092A1 |
2010-03-11 |
Robbert Freerk Johan Van Der Scheer; Ype Brada; Sint Baron |
A cleaning unit (1) is provided for cleaning an interior space (15) of a shaving head (10) of a shaver, which shaving head (10) comprises a movably arranged cutter member (20) for cutting off hairs and a contacting surface (14) for contacting a portion of skin to be shaved, which is provided with a plurality of holes for catching and letting through hairs to 5 be shaved off by means of the cutter member (20). In particular, the cleaning unit (1) comprises separating means (30) for constituting a physical barrier between two portions of an outer surface (13) of the shaving head (10) and for conveying cleaning fluid (41). During a cleaning process, an agitated flow of fluid (41) is realized in the interior space (15) of the shaving head (10) under the influence of a centrifugal pump action which is obtained when 10 the cutter member (20) of the shaving head (10) is in motion. |
153 |
SHAVER HAVING A SPACE FOR COLLECTING CUT-OFF HAIRS |
US12373097 |
2007-07-09 |
US20100000092A1 |
2010-01-07 |
Ronald Maarten Schneider; Johannes Cornelius Antonius Muller; Peter Adrianus Albert Kemps; Jacob Brinkert; Geert-Jan Darwinkel; Mattheus Jacobus Van Der Meer |
A shaver has a shaving unit which comprises three shaving elements (6), wherein each shaving element (6) accommodates a cutter member (9) for cutting off hairs. Each shaving element (6) further accommodates a gear wheel (16) which is part of transmission means for coupling a drive shaft (17) for driving the cutter member (9) to an output shaft of a motor of the shaver. A top side of a space (23) where the gear wheel (16) is located is covered by a partition (22), wherein only the drive shaft (17) is extending through this partition (22). Each shaving element (6) can easily be opened by removing a top portion (27) of the shaving element (6), which comprises the cutter member (9) from a base portion (26) of the shaving element (6) where the gear wheel (16), the drive shaft (17) and the partition (22) are located. An opening system (102, 104, 112, 200) may be provided to open all the shaving elements (6) in one action by reversal of the direction of rotation of the output shaft (15, 15a). |
154 |
Dummy hair clipper head for the attachment of guide combs |
US11470256 |
2006-09-06 |
US07536789B2 |
2009-05-26 |
Matthew Justin Michel |
A dummy hair clipper head which conforms to those dimensions of the head of a hair clipper (its stationary blade) which are necessary for its compatibility with attachment guide combs. This dummy hair clipper head provides a base onto which the attachment guide combs can be attached, and by which they can be held, allowing them to be organized within a kit among other uses. The dummy hair clipper head can be connected to a tool to allow the combs to be used with that tool, such as a pair of scissors to create a scissor comb, or including a conduit through the dummy hair clipper head to be used as a vacuum comb, a dryer comb, and a liquid dispensing comb. |
155 |
Piezoelectric driving device and a regulation method for a piezoelectric driving device |
US10303980 |
2002-11-25 |
US07352108B2 |
2008-04-01 |
Gerhard Diefenbach; Christian Reichinger; Hans Steinbusch; Matthias Wendt |
A piezoelectric driving device and a regulation method for a piezoelectric driving device are proposed. Piezoelectric driving devices known so far show a characteristic with which the electric power applied to the motor drops when the load increases. This behavior, which leads to a strong reduction of the range of use of such motors, is counteracted by predefining the amplitude of the excitation voltage so that the effective power does not drop with increasing load. For this purpose the electrical effective power is determined from the excitation voltage and the current flowing through the piezoelectric resonator. Alternatively, with a predefined fixed phase angle between excitation voltage and current a regulation may also be effected in the way that the current is kept to the constant value. A further aspect of the invention relates to a unit for limiting the current flowing through the piezoelectric resonator, so as to avoid this component being damaged. |
156 |
Shaver |
US10511605 |
2003-03-28 |
US07350300B2 |
2008-04-01 |
Takashi Yamaguchi; Yasunori Ueda; Kotaro Yanagi; Izumi Mihara; Masahiro Takatani; Tetsushi Ogawa; Takumi Adachi; Etsushi Muramatsu; Tsuyoshi Nishizawa; Takashi Yukawa; Matsuki Yamamoto; Fumio Taniguchi; Masanobu Yamasaki |
In a shaver having provided on an upper end portion of a main body thereof a head portion comprising a razor having an outer blade and an inner blade, a front cross section of the shaver has a shape narrowed at a substantially center portion in its up and down direction, and a side cross section of the shaver has a substantially S-shape, in order to increase the contact area between the main body and the palm, to improve fit feeling, to make it hard to slip, and to finely adjust the angle of the razor against the skin without moving the wrist. |
157 |
Hair Removing Apparatus |
US11577826 |
2005-12-16 |
US20070261249A1 |
2007-11-15 |
Masanobu Yamasaki; Toshiyuki Tsushio; Takeshi Shiba; Juzaemon Iwasaki |
The invention provides a hair removing apparatus having a body hair treatment head (A) removing a body hair by shaving the body hair, depilating the body hair or cutting the body hair, and a main body grip (2) held by a hand, and in which the body hair treatment head (A) being rotatably coupled to the main body grip (2) in such a manner that the body hair treatment head (A) is freely oscillated with respect to the main body grip (2). In this structure, the hair removing apparatus is provided with a weight applying means (100, 110, 120, 130, 140) for applying a force opposing to a force by which the body hair treatment head (A) is oscillated by its own weight of the body hair treatment head (A) around a center (81) of rotation of the body hair treatment head (A). |
158 |
Automatic shaving apparatus system |
US11212659 |
2005-08-29 |
US20070044313A1 |
2007-03-01 |
Menachem Rozenkranc |
A shaving apparatus system includes an electrically actuated and starting and shutting off device for improved shaving comfort. The system can include an electrical device, e.g. a battery, which actuates an operating device, e.g. vibrating, oscillating, heating and water-sprinkling system, etc. |
159 |
Flushing and flow guiding device for electric nose hair cutter |
US11116618 |
2005-04-29 |
US07152323B1 |
2006-12-26 |
Mark Y. S. Lin |
A flushing and flow guiding device for an electric nose hair cutter includes a spiral guiding plate located at an outer periphery of an inner blade seat. The spiral guiding plate has an outer radius, smaller than an inner radius of an outer blade seat. By a rotation of the inner blade seat, the spiral guiding plate can drive detergent filled in an inner barrel inside the outer blade seat. By rotating the spiral guiding plate clockwise or counterclockwise, the detergent can be sucked in from a front end of the outer blade seat of the nose hair cutter and then expelled through a periphery at a lower end of the outer blade seat, or can be sucked in from the periphery at the lower end of the outer blade seat, and then expelled through the front end, in order to flush nose hair debris in the blade seat. |
160 |
Cutter unit for a shaver and shaver with a cutter |
US10543392 |
2004-01-21 |
US20060156555A1 |
2006-07-20 |
Michael Janny; Wolfgang Obermann |
A cutter unit (16) for a shaver (1) comprises a base part (19) and cutting-edge carriers (21, 22, 23, 24, 25), the base part (19) and the cutting-edge carriers (21 to 25) being formed by means of a single plastics part (36) that is all in one piece and the plastics part (36) being coated with a metal coating (37) in that region of the cutting-edge carriers (21 to 25) that is intended to form the cutting edges (31, 32). |