Panasonic Corporation

Fumio Taniguchi

Jyuzaemon Iwasaki

Toshio Ikuta

Yasuo Ibuki

Hiroshi Shigeta

Yasunori Ueda

Yoichi Takaoka

Daisuke Sone

Yasuhide Matsuoka

Atsuhiro Saito

Kotaro Yanagi

Hiroshi Nomoto

Harumi Fukuki

Hiroyuki Kameoka

In a washing apparatus for washing a head portion of a depilation apparatus, it enables to increase design freedom of pipe arrangement from an overflow prevention unit to a washing fluid tank and to downsize the apparatus by effectively utilizing a space below the overflow prevention unit. A tray for holding a head portion of the electric shaver and an overflow preventing unit to maintain fluid level of the washing fluid in the tray at a predetermined level are integrally formed to adjoin each other via a partition wall in an anteroposterior direction of the washing apparatus. A bottom face of the overflow prevention unit is inclined downward in a widthwise direction of the washing apparatus, and an outlet is provided on a side wall in the widthwise direction in a deepest portion of the overflow prevention unit. A second exhausting path for exhausting the washing fluid from the outlet of the overflow preventing unit is arranged along a side wall of the tray.

Washing apparatus for washing a head portion of a depilation apparatus

In a battery charger for charging a built-in secondary battery of a compact electric apparatus such as an electric shaver, an erroneous detection due to incomplete mounting of the compact electric apparatus on a mounting base is prevented with a simple and inexpensive configuration. A detection structure for detecting mounting of the compact electric apparatus on the mounting base comprises a charge contact member, a common contact member and a signal contact member which are electrically connected to a positive power source line, a negative power source line and a control signal line of the compact electric apparatus, respectively. A detection contact which electrically connects the signal contact member to the common contact member when the compact electric apparatus is not mounted on the mounting base is integrally formed on the signal contact member. When compact electric apparatus is mounted on the mounting base, the detection contact is displaced corresponding to mounting of the compact electric apparatus so that the signal contact member is electrically disconnected from the common contact member. Thereby, it is possible to detect that the compact electric apparatus is mounted on the mounting base.

Battery charger and detection structure for detecting mounted compact electric apparatus

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Moriyama, Japan

Fumio Taniguchi