Personal care device
AssigneeBraun GmbH
InventorsChristian Neyer, Marvin Thorsten Knorr, Thomas Verstege, Martin Fuellgrabe
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Abstract
The present invention is a personal care device comprising an elongated handle for manually moving the personal care device along a body surface, a working head attached to the handle for effecting a personal care treatment to the body surface, wherein an adjustment device including at least one adjustment actuator is provided for adjusting at least one treatment characteristic, wherein the adjustment actuator is configured and controlled to adjust the at least one treatment characteristic from a first setting to a second setting within a transition time period of not less than 0.1 seconds and not more than 1.5 seconds.
Claims20
Personal care device comprising an elongated handle for manually moving the personal care device along a body surface, a working head attached to said handle, said working head having at least one working head element for effecting a personal care treatment to said body surface, wherein an adjustment device including at least one adjustment actuator is provided for adapting the working head and/or the working head element to a contour of the body surface, characterized in that said at least one adjustment actuator is configured and controlled to adjust a pivoting stiffness of the working head relative to the handle and/or a pivoting stiffness of the working head element relative to a working head base from a first setting to a second setting within a transition time period of not less than about 0.1 seconds and not more than about 1.5 seconds, wherein said at least one adjustment actuator is configured to vary the transition time period spent for effecting the adjustment of the pivoting stiffness in response to a user preference signal and/or in response to an operation change.
Personal care device comprising an elongated handle for manually moving the personal care device along a body surface, a working head attached to said handle, said working head having at least one working head element for effecting a personal care treatment to said body surface, wherein an adjustment device including at least one adjustment actuator is provided for adapting the working head and/or the working head element to a contour of the body surface, characterized in that said at least one adjustment actuator is configured and controlled to adjust a pivoting stiffness of the working head relative to the handle and/or a pivoting stiffness of the working head element relative to a working head base, wherein said at least one adjustment actuator is configured to vary a transition time period spent for effecting the adjustment of the pivoting stiffness in response to a user preference signal and/or in response to an operation change.
Personal care device comprising an elongated handle for manually moving the personal care device along a body surface, a working head attached to said handle, said working head having at least one working head element for effecting a personal care treatment to said body surface, wherein an adjustment device including at least one adjustment actuator is provided for adapting the working head and/or the working head element to a contour of the body surface, characterized in that said adjustment actuator is configured and controlled to adjust the following characteristic:
- restoring force/torque urging the working head and/or the working head element towards a neutral tilt position relative to the handle depending on rotatory and/or linear displacement and/or moving speed of the working head and/or of the working head element, wherein the at least one adjustment actuator is configured and controlled to adjust at a transition speed which is non-constant over a transition time period, wherein the transition speed is reduced at an initial phase and/or at an end phase of the transitional time period and/or increased at a medium phase of the transitional time period.
Personal care device comprising an elongated handle for manually moving the personal care device along a body surface, a working head attached to said handle, said working head having at least one working head element for effecting a personal care treatment to said body surface, wherein an adjustment device including at least one adjustment actuator is provided for adapting the working head and/or the working head element to a contour of the body surface, characterized in that said at least one adjustment actuator is configured and controlled to adjust a restoring force/torque and/or a shape of a graph defining restoring force/torque over linear and/or rotatory displacement of the working head and/or the working head element and is further configured to adjust the restoring force/torque of a restoring device, wherein said restoring device includes a leaf spring connected to the working head and/or the working head element in a way to be deflected by contour adaption movements of the working head and/or the working head element, wherein the at least one adjustment actuator is configured to adjust an effective length of said leaf spring by displacing a spring bearing.
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