Body care device
AssigneesTrisa Holding AG, Eveready Battery Company, Inc.
InventorsHanspeter Meier, Franz Fischer, Kevin Barry, Kelvin Stewart, Todd Zeigher
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Abstract
The inventive body care device having a handle and a treatment head, which is hingedly connected mechanically therewith, has a flexible zone for enabling an elastic deflection of the treatment head with respect to the handle and a deflection sensor, which is capable of generating an electric signal as a function of the elastic deflection. This signal can be used to control an automatic start and/or stop function, a use counter and/or operating states of an electric vibrational element integrated in the body care device.
Claims23
A body care device comprising:
- a base body having a handle, a treatment head, the treatment head being connected with the handle via a flexible zone, the flexible zone enabling an elastic deflection of the treatment head with respect to the handle during use of the body care device, a deflection sensor, the deflection sensor being connected to an electrical circuit,
- wherein the deflection sensor generates an electrical signal as a function of the elastic deflection, and
- wherein the flexible zone includes an actuating extension molded from a material, and when the flexible zone is elastically deflected by a force exerted thereupon, an opposing force is exerted by the actuating extension on the deflection sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.