US 12,465,738 B2
Tattoo machine with magnetic and friction power source connector
Jadeanne Parcon, Corona, CA (US); Rodney Aguiar, Orange, CA (US); and Franco Vescovi, Orange, CA (US)
Assigned to Bishop Tattoo Supply, Inc., Orange, CA (US)
Filed by Bishop Tattoo Supply, Inc., Orange, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/304,751.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/384,661, filed on Nov. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0165383 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. A61M 37/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 37/0076 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tattoo machine and wireless battery power supply comprising:
a tattoo machine; and
a wireless battery power supply;
wherein said tattoo machine comprises a body, a motor, and a power supply connection end;
wherein said wireless battery power supply comprises a battery and a tattoo machine connection end;
wherein said tattoo machine connection end and said power supply connection end are configured to matingly and electronically engage one another;
wherein said tattoo machine connection end comprises a depressed cavity at the bottom of which is a power supply positive connector, a power supply negative connector, and a magnetic material portion;
wherein said power supply connection end comprises a backplate protrusion;
wherein said backplate protrusion comprises one or more O-ring grooves, one or more O-rings, a tattoo machine positive connector, a tattoo machine negative connector, and a magnet;
wherein when said tattoo machine connection end and said power supply connection end are matingly and electronically engaged with on another:
(i) said backplate protrusion is substantially within said depressed cavity;
(ii) said one or more O-rings frictionally contact an interior surface of said depressed cavity;
(iii) said magnet and said magnetic material portion are magnetically coupled;
(iv) said power supply negative connector is engaged with said tattoo machine negative connector;
(v) said power supply positive connector is engaged with said tattoo machine positive connector; and
(vi) said tattoo machine connection end and said power supply connection end may be purposefully pulled apart by overcoming friction of said one or more O-rings and by overcoming magnetic coupling of said magnet and said magnetic material portion.