Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Tomoyuki Inoue

Hidekazu Sueyoshi

Jyuzaemon Iwasaki

Masaaki Sato

Takeshi Shiba

Naoki Yamaguchi

Shunsuke Komori

Kazuhiko Kaneuchi

Makoto Fukutani

Toshihiro Takeuchi

Kotaro Yanagi

Gakuei Shibata

Nariyoshi Nakamura

Naoki Taniguchi

Photocatalyst microparticles are provided in a photocatalyst layer coming into contact with a base film, the photocatalyst microparticles are irradiated with ultraviolet rays, and voids are formed in a boundary region between a protective layer and the photocatalyst layer.

Transfer film and method for manufacturing transfer film

An electric shaver including a hand gripconfigured to be gripped by a user's hand, and a blade headprovided on an upper end of the hand grip. The blade head carries at least one shaving unitcomprising an outer blade foiland an inner bladedriven in a shearing engagement manner with the outer blade foil. The outer blade foil has a plurality of holes in which hairs are introduced. The outer blade foil is elongated and has a length, and is curved along a width direction to form a generally C-shaped cross section, and is curved convexly and uniformly along its length to have a longitudinal curved outline. A radius of curvature of the longitudinal curved outline is 150 mm to 350 mm.

Electric shaver

A depilating device includes at least one pair of depilating claws which are provided on a circumferential surface of at least one rotating cylinder and which are configured to open and close to pinch and pull out hair due to a rotation of the at least one rotating cylinder. A plate has an outer surface and inner surface which is configured to face the circumferential surface of the at least one rotating cylinder and has at least one slit through which the hair passes toward the circumferential surface of the at least one rotating cylinder. The slit extends along a substantially rotational direction of the at least one rotating cylinder.

Depilating device

An epilating device has a rotary cylinder carrying a plurality of pinching row units arranged around the cylinder. An actuator bar is connected to movable blades in each row unit and is caused by a driven mechanism to move the movable blades towards the adjacent blades for pinching body hairs therebetween and plucking the hairs as the cylinder rotates. After the actuator bar is released from the driven mechanism, the bar is urged by a return spring to move the blades away from the adjacent blade to be ready for subsequent hair pinching. All the actuator bars spaced circumferentially around the cylinder and provided respectively for the row units are coupled commonly to the one return spring so that the epilating device can have an increased number of the row units around the cylinder only at a minimum number of the springs.

Hand-held epilating device

A hair removing device and method. The device includes a rotatable cylinder having a hair removing unit provided with a plurality of detents configured to engage and disengage each other. The hair removing unit is configured to pull out hair through rotation of the rotatable cylinder. Also provided is a driving source configured to rotate the rotatable cylinder, a drive transmission configured to transmit driving force from the driving source to the rotatable cylinder, a housing having a handheld configuration and configured to house at least the driving source and at least a portion of the drive transmission, and a water-resistant member affixed to the housing at substantially a middle, portion of the drive transmission and configured to substantially water-resistantly seal the driving source.

Hair removing device and method

An epilating device including a plurality of blades, a blade moving member, and an actuator. The plurality of blades are configured to pluck hairs and includes at least one movable blade which is configured to oscillate to grip and release the hairs. The blade moving member is configured to be reciprocally and linearly moved to oscillate the at least one movable blade. The actuator is configured to move the blade moving member reciprocally and linearly without contacting the blade moving member.

Epilating device

A hand-held epilating device capable of increasing plucking efficiency. The epilating device has a housing to be grasped by a hand of a user, and a plucking cylinder carrying at least one set of pinching elements for catching and pinching body hairs therebetween. The plucking cylinder has a longitudinal axis and is driven to rotate about the longitudinal axis to pluck the body hairs from the user's skin. The plucking cylinder is supported to the housing so as to effect a periodical movement relative to the housing within a plane parallel to the longitudinal axis. Thus, the area of the skin covered by the plucking cylinder can have increased chances of being in contact with the pinching elements as the pinching elements move periodically relative to the skin together with the plucking cylinder, thereby improving the plucking efficiency.

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Hikone, Japan

Tomoyuki Inoue