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US 12,629,284 B2Granted
Ear cleaning arrangement
OwnerQinbin Cheninventor
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Abstract
A an ear cleaning arrangement includes a fixing assembly comprising a fixing rod and a handle, wherein the fixing rod is connected to the handle, an ear spoon assembly which is arranged to be connected to the fixing rod for cleaning earwax, a camera, and a light source, wherein the camera and the light source are assembled in the fixing rod behind a light guide barrel, so that the ear cleaning arrangement is equipped with a suitable camera for real-time acquisition of images in the ear, so as to facilitate the user in accurately locating and cleaning earwax.
Claims10
An ear cleaning arrangement, comprising:
- a fixing assembly comprising a handle and a fixing rod extended from the handle, wherein the fixing rod comprises a rod body and a light guide barrel integrally extended from a free end portion of the rod body to form a light guide channel within the light guide barrel, wherein an inner diameter of the rod body is larger than an inner diameter of the light guide barrel to define a step surface therebetween;
- a camera supported in the rod body, wherein the camera comprises a camera body having a lens end surface located adjacent to the light guide barrel and defining a center axis at a center of the lens end surface;
- a light source which comprises a plurality of light emitting elements radially positioned away from the camera body for emitting light toward the light guide barrel;
- a holder, having a receiving cavity and a rear end wall, supported within the rod body behind the light guide barrel, wherein the light emitting elements of the light source are coaxially supported within a front end of the holder while the camera is rearwardly extended from the front end of the holder within the receiving cavity, wherein an outer annular surface of the holder is attached to an inner surface of the light guide barrel;
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- an ear spoon element which comprises an annular installation part detachably coupled at the free end portion of the rod body, and a spoon body component integrally extended from the annular installation part to form the ear spoon element as a single structure;
- wherein an inner diameter of the annular installation part is larger than an outer diameter of the light guide barrel for allowing the light emitted from the light source passing to the spoon body component through the annular installation part;
- wherein the holder is made of thermally conductive material for heat dissipation so as to prevent the heat transferring to the ear spoon element;
- wherein the fixing assembly further comprises a transparent cover is located on a front side of the camera and the light source, wherein the transparent cover is attached to and sealed between the front end of the holder and the step surface of the light guide barrel, such that the light source and the camera body are sealed in the holder between the transparent cover and the rear end wall of the holder;
- wherein the ear spoon element is made of transparent plastic material to allow the light emitted from the light source passing through the ear spoon element;
- wherein the ear spoon element has a tip end extended to and located at the center axis of the lens end surface, wherein a center of the tip end of the ear spoon element is extended to and aligned with the center axis of the lens end surface of the camera so as to ensure an image of the tip end of the ear spoon element being captured by the camera.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.