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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2011
Matthias Huisinga, Weinheim, DE;
Ralf Klug, Eschborn, DE;
Judith Von Dahlen, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Michael Maichel, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Stefan Sindlinger, Dieburg, DE;
Thomas Steiner, Trebur, DE;
Matthias Huisinga, Weinheim, DE;
Ralf Klug, Eschborn, DE;
Judith Von Dahlen, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Michael Maichel, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Stefan Sindlinger, Dieburg, DE;
Thomas Steiner, Trebur, DE;
Braun GmbH, Kronberg, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to an epilation head for an epilation device, in particular for plucking hair from human skin having a rotating cylinder and rotating around a rotational axis, the rotating cylinder having a number of plucking units for grasping and plucking out hair and having a skin oriented surface, wherein each plucking unit includes a movable clamping unit, a stationary clamping unit. The movable clamping unit and the stationary clamping unit form a closable plucking gap. The movable clamping units have a skin contacting surface and the total area of the skin contacting surfaces of the movable clamping units is greater than 5% of the area of the skin oriented surface.