The Procter Gamble Company

Braun Gmbh

Stephan Meschkat

Faiz Feisal Sherman

Katja Honnefeller

Jürgen Seng

Tobias Reimann

Gisa Nicolin

Juergen Korn

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

An apparatus for treating human skin includes an outer housing including a graspable portion, an applicator head and a cartridge connected to the applicator head. The cartridge includes a nozzle located in the applicator head. An image capture device 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 sealing assembly includes a support portion and a resiliently deformable sealing element supported by the support portion at a location within the applicator head. The sealing assembly has a closed configuration where the sealing element is sealed against the nozzle and an open configuration where the sealing element is removed outward away from the nozzle in a composition delivery direction to expose the nozzle for operation.

Handheld treatment apparatus with nozzle sealing assembly

Growing community of inventors

Bad Soden, Germany

Stephan Meschkat