Earwax removal apparatus
AssigneeOrogylab Healthcare Inc.
InventorYoung-Tae Kim
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Abstract
Disclosed is an earwax removal apparatus comprising a head portion moving from the inside to the outside of a wax pocket and moving from the outside to the inside of the wax pocket; and a remover removably mounted inside the wax pocket and dislodging earwax from the tip of a scrubbing head of the head portion and allowing it to fall into the interior of the wax pocket. The earwax removal apparatus may further comprise a dry-only head mountable on the earwax removal apparatus and capable of entering an ear canal and blowing air directly onto the walls of the ear canal. The earwax removal apparatus may further comprise an oily earwax removal portion configured to remove oily earwax by injecting hydrogen peroxide into the ear canal through a spray hole of the scrubbing head of the head portion.
Claims15
An earwax removal apparatus comprising:
- a wax pocket defining an interior;
- a head portion including a scrubbing head having a tip, the head portion being configured to move from the interior of the wax pocket to outside of the wax pocket and move from the outside to inside of the wax pocket;
- and
- a remover removably mounted inside the wax pocket, the remover comprising a hollow body defining a passage hole and a plurality of curved elastic ribs arranged on one side of the hollow body,
- wherein, for each elastic rib, a first end of the elastic rib is integrally formed with the hollow body and a second end of the elastic rib is curved away from the hollow body with a constant curvature, and second ends of opposing elastic ribs are spaced apart to define the passage hole,
- wherein, during a linear motion of the scrubbing head into the remover, the plurality of curved elastic ribs bend to accumulate elastic force and the accumulated elastic force dislodges earwax from the tip of the scrubbing head of the head portion such that the earwax falls into the interior of the wax pocket,
- wherein the plurality of elastic ribs are mutually equidistantly spaced apart from each other on one side of the hollow body of the remover,
- wherein the stiffness of each elastic rib of the remover is equal to or less than the stiffness of the tip of the scrubbing head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.