The Procter Gamble Company

Methode Electronics International Gmbh

Juergen Korn

Joseph Elias Khoury

Tobias Reimann

Stephan Meschkat

Hans-Juergen Walther

Armin Frick

An apparatus for treating human skin includes an outer housing including a graspable portion and an applicator head engagement structure. The apparatus includes an image capture device that captures images of the human skin through an opening in the applicator head. A processor analyzes the images of the human skin to identify skin deviations. A cartridge includes a nozzle located in the applicator head. The applicator head includes an outer housing engagement structure that engages the applicator head engagement structure with the cartridge inserted into the outer housing to inhibit removal of the cartridge from the outer housing. A cap engages the applicator head. The cap has a locked configuration connected to the applicator head where the applicator head is removable from the outer housing and an unlocked configuration connected to the applicator head where removal of the applicator head from the outer housing is inhibited.

Handheld treatment apparatus with cartridge assembly locking features

The invention relates to a force and angle sensor for measuring the angle of rotation of a shaft () and a force exerted on a torsion rod (), which interconnects two shaft parts () of the shaft (). In a housing (), through which the shaft () runs, are arranged a main circuit board () arranged non-rotatably in relation to the housing () and which has a central opening (), through which the shaft () runs, a first circuit board () for measuring the angle of rotation arranged non-rotatably on a first shaft part () on one side of the main circuit board (), said first circuit board having a central opening () through which the first shaft part () runs, and a second circuit board () for measuring the force connected non-rotatably to the other shaft part () on the other side of the main circuit board (), said second circuit board having a central opening () through which the other shaft part () runs. The planes of the main circuit board (), of the first circuit board () and of the second circuit board () each run perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the shaft (). Mutually opposing electrodes for measuring the angle of rotation and/or the force and for the capacitive measurement of the twist between the first circuit board () and the main circuit board () and/or the twist between the second circuit board () and the first circuit board () are arranged on the surfaces of the main circuit board () and of the first circuit board (), said surfaces being turned towards one another, and also on the surfaces of the main circuit board () and of the second circuit board, said surfaces being turned towards one another.

Capacitive force and angle sensor

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Oberheimbach, Germany

Juergen Korn