Handheld personal care device with a light indicator for indicating an operational condition

A hand held personal care device having:

• a main housing arranged to be held by hand;
• and
• an operative unit connected to the main housing and adapted for carrying out a personal care operation to a body part of a user;
• wherein the main housing:
• has a main axis of extension;
• and
• accommodates a light indicator for indicating an operational condition of the personal care device, said light indicator having a light emitting surface extending circumferentially around the main housing as a closed-loop surface about the main axis of extension, the light indicator further including an optically transparent light guide and at least one light source;
• characterized in that:
• the light emitting surface of the light indicator is a closed-loop surface of the light guide which faces in a direction having a main component in an outward radial direction relative to the main axis of extension;
• the light guide has a light receiving surface arranged in an average axial position relative to the main axis of extension further away from the operative unit than an average axial position of the light emitting surface, and facing in a direction having a main component in an axial direction relative to the main axis of extension away from the operative unit;
• the at least one light source is arranged, in the axial direction, in a position adjacent to the light receiving surface such that, during operation, light generated by the light source is received by the light receiving surface;
• the light guide has a light guiding wall extending from the light receiving surface to the light emitting surface, wherein at least a portion of the light guiding wall including the closed-loop surface of the light guide extends as a closed-loop wall portion about the main axis of extension;
• and
• seen in cross-section comprising the main axis of extension, said light guiding wall is curved and gradually spreads out from an orientation with a main component parallel to the main axis of extension at the light receiving surface to an orientation with a main component perpendicular to the main axis of extension at the light emitting surface.