Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Toshihiro Takeuchi

Jyuzaemon Iwasaki

Hidekazu Sueyoshi

Naoki Yamaguchi

Kenichi Muraki

Kazuyuki Ouchi

Hitoshi Ogawa

Yoshinobu Takegawa

Tetsuro Hashiguchi

Tomoyuki Inoue

Keiko Funatsu

Yuko Matsumura

Mika Asada

Yasuhiro Sato

Takeshi Matsusaka

Naoki Taniguchi

It is possible to change a shaving area width that can be shaved at a time in accordance with a shaving portion, and to swiftly cut hair. The shaver includes a plurality of outer blade frames which hold a blade block for cutting hair. The outer blade frames are arranged in a direction Y intersecting with a moving direction X of a movable blade of the blade block. At least one of the outer blade frames can slide in the moving direction X of the movable blade from an initial position. The shaver has a fixing unit which fixes the outer blade frame at a sliding position.

Shaver

A personal trimming system includes a main body having a motor and a part of a driving unit for converting a rotation of the motor into a reciprocating motion; and a head portion having a driven member moving in a reciprocating motion. The head portion is pivotably supported with respect to the main body, and a gap is provided between the main body and the head portion.

Personal trimming system

A depilating device including a housing, a depilation head detachably attached to the housing and including a hair removing device configured to remove hairs, a driving unit provided in the housing and configured to drive the hair removing device, and at least one overload clutch provided in the housing to transmit driving output by the driving unit to the hair removing device and configured to interrupt transmission of the driving when a torque required to operate the hair removing device is beyond a predetermined value.

Depilating 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 improved epilating device is capable of effectively removing the hairs at different skin portions of the human body. The epilating device includes a single housing which is shaped to be grasped by the hand of a user and which includes a drive source. The housing carries a first epilation module provided at its top with a first plucking head which is driven by the drive source to effect the plucking of the body hairs. The first plucking head has a length defining therealong a first epilation zone. Also carried on the housing is a second epilation module provided at its top with a second plucking head which is driven commonly by the drive source to effect plucking of the body hairs. The second plucking head has a length defining therealong a second epilation zone. The first and second epilation modules are shaped respectively to have individual top ends of different external dimensions along the lengths of the first and second plucking heads and to have the first and second epilation zones of different lengths. Thus, the first and second epilation module can be selected depending upon the intended skin portion for optimum hair plucking at that portion.

Epilating device for removal of body hairs

A depilator has a casing, a row of tweezers, and a skin tensioner which is driven independently from the skin tensioner. When using the depilator, the user grips the casing of the depilator. The skin tensioner swings back and forth between a home position and a tensioning position, thereby applying an appropriate tension to the skin during the depilation. The pain caused by plucking hair is reduced. The driving load of the skin tensioner can also be reduced.

Depilator

A hand-held depilating device capable of masking the pain of plucking the hairs. A plucking head has a plurality of pinching elements which arrange along a horizontal axis in a closely adjacent relation and are driven to close and open gaps between the pinching elements for pinching the hairs between the adjacent elements and release the hairs therefrom. A cycler or turning mechanism is included to cyclically move the plucking head in a direction crossing with the horizontal axis so as to define, in combination with the movement of closing and opening the pinching elements, repeated depilating cycles of introducing the hairs between the adjacent pinching elements, pinching the hairs therebetween, plucking the hairs from the skin, and releasing the hairs from between the pinching elements. Mounted to the top of the housing adjacent to the plucking head is a simulator which applies stimuli to the skin independently of the plucking head. The device includes a synchronous mechanism for synchronizing a timing of applying the stimuli with the depilating cycle. Thus, the stimuli can be made at an optimum timing or timings within the depilating cycle, thereby masking the hair plucking pain.

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Hikone, Japan

Toshihiro Takeuchi