US 12,262,804 B2
Depilating device
Ype Bernardus Brada, Leeuwarden (NL); Maurits Koenen, Eindhoven (NL); Bart-Jan Zwart, Groningen (NL); Joost Tomas Glazenburg, Groningen (NL); Geert Willem De Goeij, Drachten (NL); Hermanus Mathias Joannes Rene Soemers, Mierlo (NL); and Franciscus Jozef Bosman, Drachten (NL)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/782,698
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Dec. 28, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/087898
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 6, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/130385, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19219802 (EP), filed on Dec. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0014597 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. A45D 26/00 (2006.01)
CPC A45D 26/0052 (2013.01) [A45D 26/0023 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A depilating device, comprising:
a depilating body which is rotatable about a rotation axis extending in a longitudinal direction with respect to the depilating body and which is provided with at least one hair-catching space, wherein a size of the at least one hair-catching space in the longitudinal direction is variable through compression and extension of the depilating body in the longitudinal direction; and
an actuating mechanism configured to act on the depilating body so as to cause compression and extension of the depilating body in the longitudinal direction during rotational movement of the depilating body about the rotation axis, wherein the actuating mechanism includes a force-inducing member which is compressible and extensible in the longitudinal direction and which is configured to determine a level of a force exerted by the actuating mechanism on the depilating body in the longitudinal direction when a size of the force-inducing member in the longitudinal direction is varied while the at least one hair-catching space of the depilating body is in a closed condition,
wherein a force-displacement characteristic of compression and extension of the force-inducing member in the longitudinal direction is stronger than a force-displacement characteristic of compression and extension of the depilating body in the longitudinal direction.