CN212213876U - Scanning type laser depilator - Google Patents

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CN212213876U
CN212213876U CN202020383815.3U CN202020383815U CN212213876U CN 212213876 U CN212213876 U CN 212213876U CN 202020383815 U CN202020383815 U CN 202020383815U CN 212213876 U CN212213876 U CN 212213876U
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A scanning laser hair removal instrument, comprising: and the laser emitter is used for emitting a light beam to be coupled into the rectangular uniform light beam forming device, and the rectangular light beam after light homogenizing is incident on the light beam deflection device. The laser emitter is a pulse semiconductor laser, and the rectangular uniform light beam forming device consists of a lens, a rectangular light homogenizing rod, a lens and a rectangular optical fiber or a rectangular honeycomb lens pair. The edges of different rectangular light spots formed on the skin of a human body are connected through the parameter setting of the light beam deflection device and the control of the circuit control system on the rotation parameters of the light beam deflection device and the emission frequency of the laser emitter, and the rectangular light spots are connected into a gapless scanning area on the skin. The utility model discloses can realize that single operation large tracts of land, zero clearance moult, solve current portable laser appearance that moults because the facula area is little and the complex operation's that leads to problem.

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Scanning type laser depilator
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of optics, in particular to laser appearance that moults of scanning formula.
Background
Laser depilation is a very effective depilation technology, and it is according to selective light thermal dynamics principle, through the reasonable selection to parameters such as light beam wavelength, energy, pulse width for light is selectively absorbed by melanin in hair shaft and hair sheath, then conducts to hair papilla and hair follicle epithelial cell bellying through the thermal dispersion effect, makes hair follicle stem cell or hair papilla grow the position and takes place irreversible damage, thereby reaches the effect of losing hair for a long time. The laser depilation instrument is divided into a medical depilation instrument and a portable depilation instrument, and the medical depilation instrument can adopt a plurality of lasers to combine beams due to no volume limitation, so that a larger light spot is formed for depilation on the premise of ensuring enough optical power density; however, the portable laser depilation instrument has a limited number of lasers due to volume limitation, and cannot give consideration to both power density and spot size, so the portable laser depilation instrument usually has a small emergent spot size, and the depilation of a large part requires continuous movement of the depilation instrument, and because the spot is small, a gap between the spot and the spot may exist during the movement of the depilation and is not irradiated. Therefore, the whole process is relatively complicated to operate.
Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the utility model provides a laser appearance that moults of scanning formula to solve current portable appearance that moults because the light spot size is little and the complex operation's that moults problem that leads to.
The embodiment of the utility model provides an one of, laser appearance that moults of scanning formula, this appearance that moults includes:
and the laser emitter is used for coupling emitted light beams into the rectangular uniform light beam forming device, the rectangular light beams after light uniformization are incident on the light beam deflection device, and the edges of different rectangular light spots formed on the skin of a human body are connected through the parameter setting of the light beam deflection device and the control of the circuit control system on the rotation parameters of the light beam deflection device and the emission frequency of the laser emitter.
The utility model discloses even optical rod of pulse semiconductor laser outgoing light coupling income rectangle, rectangle optic fibre or rectangle honeycomb lens centering form the rectangle light beam, and the rectangle light beam incides on the light beam deflection device, and light beam deflection device is two mirrors or a commentaries on classics mirror that shakes. The circuit control system controls the rotation parameters of the light beam deflection device and the emission frequency of the laser emitter according to the position parameters of the vibrating mirror and the size of the light spots, so that the upper edges and the lower edges of rectangular light spots formed on human skin by adjacent emission light beams in the same row are connected, and the left edges and the right edges of the rectangular light spots in the adjacent row are connected; or the circuit control system controls the rotation parameter of the light beam deflection device and the emission frequency of the laser emitter according to the position parameter of the vibrating mirror and the size of the light spots, a certain interval distance is reserved between rectangular light spots formed on the skin of a human body by adjacent emitted light beams in the same column in a first time period, the rectangular light spots formed on the skin by the adjacent emitted light beams in a second time period are connected with the upper edge and the lower edge of the rectangular light spots in the first time period, and the left edge and the right edge of the rectangular light spots in the adjacent columns are connected.
The inclination angle of the reflecting surface of the rotating mirror is set according to the position parameters of the rotating mirror and the size of the light spots, so that the left edge and the right edge of the rectangular light spots between adjacent columns formed by the light beams on the skin of a human body are connected. The circuit control system controls the rotation parameter of the light beam deflection device and the emission frequency of the laser emitter according to the position parameter of the rotating mirror and the light spot size, so that the upper edge and the lower edge of the rectangular light spots formed on the skin of a human body by adjacent emission light beams in the same column are connected. Or the circuit control system controls the rotation parameter of the light beam deflection device and the emission frequency of the laser emitter according to the position parameter of the rotating mirror and the size of the light spot, a certain interval distance is reserved between rectangular light spots formed on the skin of a human body by adjacent emitted light beams in the same column in a first time period, and the rectangular light spots formed on the skin by the adjacent emitted light beams are connected with the upper edge and the lower edge of the rectangular light spots in the first time period in a second time period.
Through the invention of the utility model, the portable laser depilation instrument can be finally depilated in a large area by single operation without gaps, and the depilation operation process is simplified.
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The above and other objects, features and advantages of exemplary embodiments of the present invention will become readily apparent from the following detailed description read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Several embodiments of the present invention are illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings and in which:
fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a scanning laser hair removal device according to one embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic circuit control diagram according to one embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of rectangular spot scanning according to one embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of rectangular spot scanning according to one embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a scanning laser depilation instrument according to one embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a scanning laser depilation instrument according to one embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of a rectangular optical fiber structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a scanning laser depilation instrument according to one embodiment of the present invention.
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In accordance with one or more embodiments, a scanning laser epilator is shown in block diagram form in fig. 1. The depilating apparatus comprises: and the laser emitter 3 is used for coupling emitted light beams into the rectangular uniform light beam forming device 4, the rectangular light beams after light uniformization are incident on the light beam deflection devices 1 and 2, and the edges of different rectangular light spots formed on the skin of a human body are connected through controlling the rotation parameters of the light beam deflection devices 1 and 2 and the emission frequency of the laser emitter 3 by the parameter setting and circuit control system 5 (not shown in figure 1) of the light beam deflection devices 1 and 2. The laser emitter 3 is a pulsed semiconductor laser, in particular a semiconductor pulsed laser with a central wavelength of 810nm or 755 nm. The rectangular uniform light beam forming device 4 is composed of a lens 41, a lens 42, a lens 44 and a rectangular dodging rod 43, the lens 41 and the lens 42 focus light beams emitted by the laser emitter 3, the focused light beams enter the rectangular dodging rod 43, the rectangular dodging rod 43 dodges the light beams to form light beams with uniform rectangular light spots, and the lens 44 converges the rectangular light beams emitted by the rectangular dodging rod 43 to form quasi-parallel light beams which then enter the light beam deflection devices 1 and 2. The light beam deflection devices 1 and 2 are scanning galvanometers, the light beam deflection device 1 consists of a motor 11, a bearing 12 and a reflecting mirror 13, and the motor 11 drives the reflecting mirror 13 to rotate through the bearing 12; the beam deflection device 2 is composed of a motor 21, a bearing 22 and a reflecting mirror 23, wherein the motor 21 drives the reflecting mirror 23 to rotate through the bearing 22. The axial directions of the beam deflection devices 1 and 2 are perpendicular to each other, the beam deflection device 1 effects vertical deflection of the light beam, and the beam deflection device 2 effects horizontal deflection of the light beam. As shown in FIG. 2, the rotation parameters of the beam deflection device 1 and the beam deflection device 2 and the emission frequency of the laser emitter 3 are controlled by the circuit control system 5, the single-pulse emission light intensity of the pulse semiconductor laser 3 is more than or equal to 0.5J, the emission frequency is more than or equal to 0.1Hz, and the pulse width is more than or equal to 1 ns. The rotation parameters of the beam deflecting devices 1 and 2 and the emission frequency of the laser emitter 3 are set according to the position parameters and the spot size of the beam deflecting devices 1 and 2. The rotation speed of the beam deflection devices 1 and 2 is more than or equal to 2r/min, and the beam deflection devices can rotate continuously at a certain speed or rotate discontinuously with interval pause in the middle. As shown in fig. 3, the scanning area 7 of a scanning pattern of rectangular light beams on human skin 6 is composed of four rows of light spots, namely a light spot scanning row 71, a light spot scanning row 72, a light spot scanning row 73 and a light spot scanning row 74; each column consists of 8 rectangular light spots, e.g. spot scanning column 71 consists of light spot 711 and light spot 712. At time t11, the epilator emits a rectangular light beam to form a rectangular light spot 711 on the human skin 6, and at the next time t12, a rectangular light spot 712 is formed until the light spot scanning column 71 is scanned, and then the scanning of the light spot scanning column 72, the light spot scanning column 73, and the light spot scanning column 74 is performed. The edges of adjacent light spots are connected to form a gapless scanning area 7, for example, the upper and lower edges of the rectangular light spots 711 and 712 in the light spot scanning column 71 are connected, and the left and right edges of the rectangular light spots 711 and 712 in the light spot scanning column 71 and 72 are connected. As shown in fig. 4, in another scanning mode, the scanning area 7 is composed of four rows, namely a spot scanning row 71, a spot scanning row 72, a spot scanning row 73 and a spot scanning row 74; each column consists of 8 rectangular light spots, e.g. spot scanning column 71 consists of light spot 711 and light spot 712. At time t11, the epilator emits a rectangular light beam to form a light spot 711 on the human skin 6, and at the next time t12, a rectangular light spot 713 is formed, wherein the rectangular light spot 713 and the rectangular light spot 711 are separated by a distance of one light spot until the scanning of the light spot scanning column 71 is completed. The spot scanning column 72, the spot scanning column 73, and the spot scanning column 74 are scanned in the same manner. At time t11 ', the epilator emits a rectangular light beam to form a rectangular light spot 712 on the human skin 6, and at the next time t 12', a rectangular light spot 714 is formed, wherein the rectangular light spot 714 and the rectangular light spot 712 are separated by a distance of one light spot, and the rectangular light spot 712 is connected with the rectangular light spot 711 and the upper and lower edges of the rectangular light spot 713. Spot scan column 72, spot scan column 73, and spot scan column 74 are also scanned in this manner. By the method, the phenomenon that skin heat is accumulated due to over-dense scanning light spots can be avoided, and the painful experience of a user is relieved.
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a scanning laser epilator is shown in block diagram form in fig. 5. The depilating apparatus comprises: and the laser emitter 3 is used for coupling emitted light beams into the rectangular uniform light beam forming device 8, the rectangular light beams after light uniformization are incident on the light beam deflection devices 1 and 2, and the edges of different rectangular light spots formed on the skin of a human body are connected through controlling the rotation parameters of the light beam deflection devices 1 and 2 and the emission frequency of the laser emitter 3 by the parameter setting and circuit control system 5 (not shown in figure 5) of the light beam deflection devices 1 and 2. The laser emitter 3 is a pulsed semiconductor laser, in particular a semiconductor pulsed laser with a central wavelength of 810nm or 755 nm. The rectangular uniform light beam forming device 8 is composed of a rectangular honeycomb lens 81 and a rectangular honeycomb lens 82, light beams form rectangular light beams with uniform rectangular light spots in cross section after passing through the two rectangular honeycomb lenses, and the rectangular light beams are incident on the light beam deflection devices 1 and 2. The light beam deflection devices 1 and 2 are scanning galvanometers, the light beam deflection device 1 consists of a motor 11, a bearing 12 and a reflecting mirror 13, and the motor 11 drives the reflecting mirror 13 to rotate through the bearing 12; the beam deflection device 2 is composed of a motor 21, a bearing 22 and a reflecting mirror 23, wherein the motor 21 drives the reflecting mirror 23 to rotate through the bearing 22. The axial directions of the beam deflection devices 1 and 2 are perpendicular to each other, the beam deflection device 1 effects vertical deflection of the light beam, and the beam deflection device 2 effects horizontal deflection of the light beam.
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a scanning laser epilator is shown in block diagram form in fig. 6. The depilating apparatus comprises: and the laser emitter 3 is used for coupling emitted light beams into the rectangular uniform light beam forming device 9, the rectangular light beams after light uniformization are incident on the light beam deflection devices 1 and 2, and the edges of different rectangular light spots formed on the skin of a human body are connected through controlling the rotation parameters of the light beam deflection devices 1 and 2 and the emission frequency of the laser emitter 3 by the parameter setting and circuit control system 5 (not shown in figure 6) of the light beam deflection devices 1 and 2. The laser emitter 3 is a pulsed semiconductor laser, in particular a semiconductor pulsed laser with a central wavelength of 810nm or 755 nm. The rectangular uniform light beam forming device is composed of a lens 91, a lens 92, a lens 94 and a rectangular uniform optical fiber 93, the lens 91 and the lens 92 focus light beams emitted by the laser emitter 3, the focused light beams enter the rectangular uniform optical fiber 93, the rectangular uniform optical fiber 93 homogenizes the light beams to form light beams with uniform rectangular light spots in cross section, the lens 94 converges the rectangular light beams emitted by the rectangular uniform optical fiber 93 to form quasi-parallel light beams, and then the quasi-parallel light beams are incident on the light beam deflection devices 1 and 2. As shown in fig. 7, the rectangular homogeneous fiber 93 has a rectangular core 931. The light beam deflection devices 1 and 2 are scanning galvanometers, the light beam deflection device 1 consists of a motor 11, a bearing 12 and a reflecting mirror 13, and the motor 11 drives the reflecting mirror 13 to rotate through the bearing 12; the beam deflection device 2 is composed of a motor 21, a bearing 22 and a reflecting mirror 23, wherein the motor 21 drives the reflecting mirror 23 to rotate through the bearing 22. The axial directions of the beam deflection devices 1 and 2 are perpendicular to each other, the beam deflection device 1 effects vertical deflection of the light beam, and the beam deflection device 2 effects horizontal deflection of the light beam.
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a scanning laser epilator is shown in block diagram form in fig. 8. The depilating apparatus comprises: and the laser emitter 3 is used for coupling emitted light beams into the rectangular uniform light beam forming device 4, the homogenized rectangular light beams are incident on the light beam deflection device 10, and the edges of different rectangular light spots formed on the skin of a human body are connected through controlling the rotation parameters of the light beam deflection device 10 and the emission frequency of the laser emitter 3 by the parameter setting and circuit control system 5 (not shown in figure 8) of the light beam deflection device 10. The laser emitter 3 is a pulse semiconductor laser, in particular to a semiconductor pulse laser with the central wavelength of 810nm or 755nm, the rectangular uniform light beam forming device 4 is composed of a lens 41, a lens 42, a lens 44 and a rectangular dodging rod 43, the lens 41 and the lens 42 focus light beams emitted by the laser emitter 3, the focused light beams enter the rectangular dodging rod 43, the rectangular dodging rod 43 dodges the light beams to form light beams with uniform rectangular light spots in cross section, and the lens 44 converges the rectangular light beams emitted by the rectangular dodging rod 43 to form quasi-parallel light beams, and then the quasi-parallel light beams enter the light beam deflection device 10. The beam deflection apparatus 10 is a rotating mirror, and is composed of a motor 101, a reflecting element 102, and a bearing (not shown in fig. 8), wherein the reflecting element 102 is mounted on the bearing (not shown in fig. 8), and the motor 101 drives the reflecting element 102 to rotate through the bearing (not shown in fig. 8). The reflective member 102 has a reflective surface 1021, a reflective surface 1022, a reflective surface 1023, and a reflective surface 1024. The light beams are incident on different reflecting surfaces and are reflected at different angles, and four light spot scanning columns are formed on the skin of a human body. The circuit control system 5 controls the rotation parameters of the light beam deflection device 10 and the emission frequency of the laser emitter 3, so that the upper edges and the lower edges of rectangular light spots of adjacent emitted light beams in the same column are connected, and a continuous scanning area can be formed on the skin of a human body.
It is worth noting that while the foregoing has described the spirit and principles of the present invention with reference to several specific embodiments, it is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, nor is the division of aspects, which is for convenience only as the features in these aspects cannot be combined. The invention is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

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1. A scanning laser hair removal apparatus, comprising:
and the laser emitter is used for coupling emitted light beams into the rectangular uniform light beam forming device, the rectangular light beams after light uniformization are incident on the light beam deflection device, and the edges of different rectangular light spots formed on the skin of a human body are connected through the parameter setting of the light beam deflection device and the control of the circuit control system on the rotation parameters of the light beam deflection device and the emission frequency of the laser emitter.
2. A scanning laser depilation instrument as claimed in claim 1, wherein the laser emitter is a pulsed semiconductor laser, the single pulse has an emission intensity of not less than 0.5J, an emission frequency of not less than 0.1Hz, a pulse width of not less than 1ns, and a central wavelength of 755nm or 810 nm.
3. A scanning laser hair removal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said rectangular uniform beam shaping means is comprised of a lens and a rectangular dodging rod, a lens and a rectangular fiber or a rectangular honeycomb lens pair.
4. A scanning laser hair removal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said beam deflection means is two galvanometers, the axial directions of the galvanometers being perpendicular to each other.
5. A scanning laser hair removal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said beam deflection means is a rotating mirror, and the angle of inclination of the reflecting surface of the rotating mirror is set according to the positional parameters of the rotating mirror and the spot size, so that the left and right edges of the rectangular spots formed on the skin of the human body between the adjacent columns of the light beam are connected.
6. A scanning laser hair removal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said beam deflection means is rotated continuously or intermittently at a rate of greater than or equal to 2 r/min.
7. A scanning laser depilation instrument as claimed in claim 1 or 4, wherein the circuit control system controls the rotation parameters of the vibrating mirror and the transmission frequency of the laser transmitter in accordance with the position parameters of the vibrating mirror and the spot size such that the upper and lower edges between the rectangular spots formed on the skin of the human body by the same column of adjacently transmitted beams are connected and the left and right edges between the rectangular spots of the adjacent column are connected.
8. A scanning laser depilation instrument as claimed in claim 1 or 4, wherein the circuit control system controls the rotation parameter of the vibrating mirror and the transmission frequency of the laser transmitter in accordance with the position parameter of the vibrating mirror, the spot size, the spacing distance between rectangular spots formed on the skin of the human body by adjacent transmitted beams of the same column during a first time period, the rectangular spots formed on the skin by adjacent transmitted beams during a second time period being connected to the upper and lower edges of the rectangular spots of the first time period and the left and right edges of the rectangular spots of the adjacent column.
9. A scanning laser depilation instrument as claimed in claim 1 or 5, wherein the circuit control system controls the rotation parameters of the rotary mirror and the transmission frequency of the laser transmitter in dependence on the positional parameters of the rotary mirror, the spot size, so that the upper and lower edges between rectangular spots formed on the skin of a person by adjacent transmitted beams of the same column are connected.
10. A scanning laser depilation instrument as claimed in claim 1 or 5, wherein the circuit control system controls the rotation parameters of the rotary mirror and the transmission frequency of the laser transmitter in accordance with the position parameters of the rotary mirror and the spot size, so that the rectangular spots formed by the adjacent transmission beams of the same column on the skin of the human body are spaced apart by a certain distance in a first time period, and the rectangular spots formed by the adjacent transmission beams on the skin are connected with the upper and lower edges of the rectangular spots in the first time period in a second time period.
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