EP2145558A1 - Haarentfernungsvorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP2145558A1
EP2145558A1 EP08012880A EP08012880A EP2145558A1 EP 2145558 A1 EP2145558 A1 EP 2145558A1 EP 08012880 A EP08012880 A EP 08012880A EP 08012880 A EP08012880 A EP 08012880A EP 2145558 A1 EP2145558 A1 EP 2145558A1
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Bernhard Kraus
Frieder Grieshaber
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D26/00—Hair-singeing apparatus; Apparatus for removing superfluous hair, e.g. tweezers
    • A45D26/0023—Hair-singeing apparatus; Apparatus for removing superfluous hair, e.g. tweezers with rotating clamping elements
    • A45D26/0028—Hair-singeing apparatus; Apparatus for removing superfluous hair, e.g. tweezers with rotating clamping elements with rotating discs or blades
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D26/00—Hair-singeing apparatus; Apparatus for removing superfluous hair, e.g. tweezers
    • A45D2026/008—Details of apparatus for removing superfluous hair

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  • the present invention relates to epilation devices and in particular to epilation devices that have a housing, a roll-like epilation implement having clamping units for successively clamping and plucking hair, a powered motor coupled to the epilation implement, and a motor control.
  • DE 10 2004 013 755 A1 describes a device in which a roll-like epilation implement is rotated with a circumferential speed of 0.6 meters per second or lower relative to the housing and in particular with a circumferential speed of 0.15 meters per second or lower.
  • DE 10 2004 013 755 A1 also refers to EP 0 532 106 A1 , in which an epilation device is described that is rotated with a circumferential speed of about 2 meters per second.
  • the low speed of the epilation implement as described by DE 10 2004 013 755 A1 serves to increase the amount of epilated hairs that are epilated with the hair root so that a more enduring hair removal effect is achieved in contrast to epilation devices that rotate with a higher circumferential speed such as 2 meters per second.
  • the epilation device has a housing, a roll-like epilation implement having clamping units for successively clamping and plucking hair, which roll-like epilation implement is mounted to the housing, a powered motor operatively coupled to the roll-like epilation implement, and a motor control.
  • the epilation device further has at least a fast operation mode in which the motor is controlled by the motor control such that the clamping units are moved with a circumferential speed of more than 2.5 meters per second relative to the housing and in particular with a circumferential speed of about 3.0 meters per second relative to the housing or more.
  • a roll-like epilation implement in particular means a cylindrical epilation implement that has on its surface openings, where through each opening at least a movable clamping element extends so that a clamping unit is formed by the opening and the clamping element.
  • the epilation implement is rotated around its longitudinal centre axis and the clamping element is concurrently moved in succession from an open position to a clamping position in which hairs are clamped between the movable clamping element and e.g. a sidewall of the opening.
  • Such an epilation implement is e.g. described in international patent application WO 2006/037392 A1 , the content of which is included into the present description by reference.
  • the roll-like epilation implement could also be a deformed or a curved cylindrical epilation implement, one example for a bent cylindrical epilation implement is described in US 2007/093853 A1 . But the roll-like epilation implement should not be confined to implements having essentially a cylindrical cross-section.
  • a roll-like epilation implement is also given by rod-like elements that are arranged one after the other on a base body having a non-cylindrical cross section and where the rod-like elements form a closed chain that is continuously moved along the outer surface of the base body as is e.g. described in WO 01/95758 A1 .
  • Circumferential speed means the speed of the clamping units at the surface of the roll-like epilation implement in use direction relative to the housing.
  • the epilation device has a sensor that is arranged to measure the speed of the epilation device relative to a surface over which the epilation device is drawn.
  • the motor control is arranged to vary the circumferential speed of the clamping units in dependence on a speed signal provided by the sensor.
  • the circumferential speed is varied such that the clamping units clamp and pluck hairs in an essentially gap-less manner in a use direction of the epilation device and in another embodiment, the circumferential speed is varied such that a preset plucking efficiency is steadily achieved.
  • At least a clamping unit comprises a clamping element that is made at least partially from an elastomeric material or has a coating of an elastomeric material covering the surface of the clamping element at least partially.
  • the epilation device is provided with a switch for selectively switching into the fast operation mode.
  • the motor control is arranged to automatically switch to the fast operation mode if the load of the motor rises above a threshold value.
  • the plucking speed of an epilation device (which is the circumferential speed of the clamping units relative to the housing; the drawing speed of the epilation device is not taken into account) was in the order of about 2 meters per second (m/s). Additionally it was described in DE 10 2004 013 755 A1 that it would be advantageous to reduce the plucking speed to about 0.6 m/s or even lower to a plucking speed of 0.15 m/s to achieve optimal efficiency and enduring hair removal results as the percentage of roots that are plucked together with the hair is increased by the low plucking speed.
  • An epilation device as proposed has thus at least a fast operation mode in which the motor control controls the powered motor to move the clamping units of the roll-like epilation implement such that the circumferential speed of the clamping units relative to the housing of the epilation device lies above 2.5 m/s and in particular at least about 3 m/s.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic depiction of an epilation device 100 as proposed.
  • the epilation device 100 has a roll-like epilation implement 10 that has clamping units 11 arranged on its circumference.
  • the roll-like epilation implement 10 is operatively coupled to a motor 30, which motor 30 is energized by an accumulator 31.
  • the motor 30 may alternatively (or additionally) be energized by a power cable (not shown) that can be connected to mains voltage.
  • the motor 30 is controlled by a motor control 20.
  • a switch element 50 is arranged on the housing 101 of the epilation device 100 to allow a user to selectively switch the device on or off or to selectively switch from a low speed mode to a fast speed mode, in which the circumferential speed of the clamping units 11 relative to the housing 101 of the epilation device 100 is above 2.5 m/s, in particular where the circumferential speed of the clamping units 11 relative to the housing of the epilation device 100 is about 3.0 m/s or even faster.
  • the epilation device 100 is brought into contact with a subject's skin 90 and is moved over the skin 90 in a use direction U as is schematically shown in Fig. 1 .
  • the clamping units 11 arranged on the circumference of the roll-like epilation implement 10 are moved along the circumference of the roll-like epilation implement 10 in a direction R, e.g. by rotating the whole roll-like epilation implement 100, which in particular can be realized in the form of an epilation cylinder, as is generally known in the art.
  • Hairs 91 growing on the skin will eventually be clamped by the clamping units 11 and plucked from the skin. A long lasting hair removal is achieved by plucking out the hairs together with the respective root section of the hair.
  • the roll-like epilation implement could be realized as an epilation cylinder as is known in the art and is described e.g. in WO 2006/037392 A1 .
  • the clamping units 11 may be arranged on a chain as is described e.g. in WO 01/95758 A1 so that also non-cylindrical roll-like epilation implements 10 can be realised.
  • Fig. 2 is a schematic depiction of another embodiment of an epilation device 100 as proposed. Most features of the epilation device in Fig. 2 are the same as in Fig. 1 and will not be described again.
  • the epilation device 100 according to Fig. 2 has an additional sensor 40 that is arranged to measure the speed of the device relative to the subject's skin.
  • the sensor 40 could be realised as an optical speed sensor as is known from a computer mouse.
  • the sensor 40 could alternatively be realised as a mechanical speed sensor such as a roll that is in frictional contact with the skin and translates its movement into a speed signal.
  • the sensor 40 is connected with the motor control 20 so that a speed signal determined by the sensor 40 can be transmitted to the motor control 20.
  • the epilation device 100 also has a memory unit 21 for storing e.g. a preset efficiency value.
  • the efficiency value can be set by the user through a selection knob 51, which may be arranged at the housing 101 of the epilation device 100.
  • the switching element 50 as depicted in Fig. 1 may be arranged to also fulfil the functionality of the selection knob 51 or the selection knob 51 is additionally or alternatively provided to the switching element 50 arranged at the housing 101 of the epilation device 100.
  • a certain efficiency of the epilation device 100 is given by the density of the plucking events in the use direction U.
  • the motor control 20 can vary the circumferential speed of the clamping units in dependence on the speed of the device in the use direction U, which speed is derived from the speed signal delivered by the sensor 40.
  • the epilation device 100 further has a motor load determination unit 22 that in the shown embodiment determines the motor load from the current the motor 30 requires driving the roll-like epilation implement 10.
  • the motor load determination unit 22 is connected to the motor control 20 so that the determined motor load value can be transmitted to the motor control 20. If the epilation device 100 is brought into contact with the skin 90, then the load rises due to the friction between roll-like epilation implement 10 and the skin 90 and due to the plucking events.
  • the motor control 20 compares the motor load value determined by the motor load determination unit 22 with a threshold value, which is e.g.
  • the slow operation mode can be chosen so that the device makes only a low noise acceptable to a user.
  • the motor control 20 can be arranged to control the motor 30 in such way that a gapless plucking is achieved or so that a constant efficiency is achieved on basis of a speed signal delivered by a sensor provided to measure the speed with which the epilation device is drawn over a surface also independently from the existence of a fast operation mode of more than 2.5 m/s.
  • a slow mode e.g. between 0.5 m/s - 1.5 m/s, in particular 1 m/s
  • a faster or regular mode e.g.
  • An epilation device would then comprise a housing, a roll-like epilation implement having clamping units for successively clamping and plucking hairs, the roll-like epilation implement being mounted to the housing, a powered motor operatively coupled to the roll-like epilation implement, a motor control, and a sensor arranged to measure the speed of the epilation device relative to a surface over which the epilation device is drawn during operation, whereas the motor control is arranged to vary the circumferential speed of the clamping element in dependence of a speed signal provided by the sensor.
  • the motor control could then further be arranged to vary the circumferential speed of the clamping units either such that the clamping units clamp and pluck hairs in an essentially gap-less manner in a use direction of the epilation device or such that a preset plucking efficiency is steadily achieved.
  • An exemplary diameter of a roll-like epilation implement 10 realized as an epilation cylinder is about 2 cm and an exemplary circumferential width of a clamping unit 11 is about 4 mm. Due to mechanical restrictions and for efficiency reasons, each clamping unit 11 is often axially spaced to all other clamping units 11 of the roll-like epilation implement 10. Thus, only one clamping unit 11 is arranged at a given axial position with respect to the use direction U of the epilation device 100, which use direction U is perpendicular to the axial extension of the roll-like epilation implement 10.
  • the clamping unit 11 Given a circumferential speed of the clamping unit 11 relative to the housing 101 of the epilation device 100 of 2 m/s and assuming an intuitively chosen drawing speed of 20 cm/s of the epilation device 100 over the skin, the clamping unit 11 will clamp hairs at positions that are 6 mm apart from the respective previous clamping position. As the circumferential width of the exemplary clamping unit 11 in use direction is 4 mm, a gap of 2 mm remains that has not undergone a clamping and plucking event.
  • the circumferential speed of the clamping unit 11 is increased in the fast operation mode so that after a rotation of the roll-like epilation implement 10, the clamping unit 11 is clamping and plucking hairs at a distance of 4 mm with respect to the previous clamping and plucking position.
  • this leads to an essentially gap-less clamping and plucking of hairs in the use direction U.
  • this results in a circumferential speed of the clamping units 11 relative to the housing 101 of the epilation device 100 of 3 m/s.
  • an improvement of the efficiency is achieved with a circumferential speed of the clamping units 11 with respect to the housing of 2.5 m/s or a larger circumferential speed such as 2.6 m/s, 2.7 m/s, 2.8 m/s or 2.9 m/s.
  • a circumferential speed of 3.2 m/s or even more, such as 3.4 m/s or 3.6 m/s would then allow to reduce the circumferential width of the clamping units 11 to still achieve an essentially gap-less clamping and plucking of hairs.
  • a reduced circumferential width of the clamping units 11 leads to reduced surface areas of the clamping elements of a clamping unit 11 that are pinched together to clamp hairs, which in turn reduces the noise generated by the epilation device 100.
  • reduction of the width of the clamping unit is one measure to counteract noise increase.
  • the clamping elements of the clamping units 11 can be at least partially made of an elastomeric material such as a synthetic elastomeric material or a natural elastomeric material such as rubber or can be at least partially coated by such a material.

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EP08012880A EP2145558B1 (de) 2008-07-17 2008-07-17 Haarentfernungsvorrichtung
AT08012880T ATE499855T1 (de) 2008-07-17 2008-07-17 Haarentfernungsvorrichtung
PL08012880T PL2145558T3 (pl) 2008-07-17 2008-07-17 Urządzenie do depilacji
DE602008005293T DE602008005293D1 (de) 2008-07-17 2008-07-17 Haarentfernungsvorrichtung
CN2009801277860A CN102098940B (zh) 2008-07-17 2009-06-18 脱毛装置
PCT/EP2009/004394 WO2010006675A1 (en) 2008-07-17 2009-06-18 Epilation device
JP2011517766A JP5547185B2 (ja) 2008-07-17 2009-06-18 脱毛装置
US12/985,376 US20110130770A1 (en) 2008-07-17 2011-01-06 Epilation Device

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CN102098940A (zh) 2011-06-15
JP2011527623A (ja) 2011-11-04
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