System and a method for treating a part of a body

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10576647-B2
Application number	US-201415032126-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 24, 2014
Priority date	Nov 6, 2013
Publication date	Mar 3, 2020
Grant date	Mar 3, 2020

Abstract

The present application relates to a system for treating a part of a body to be treated. In particular, the present invention relates to a system for cutting hair on a part of a body to be treated. The system has a hand-held treating device having a treating unit. The system also has an imaging module configured to generate information indicative of the position of the treating device relative to the part of the body to be treated based on an image of a part of the body and the treating device. A controller is configured to change an operating characteristic of the treating device in dependence on the information generated by the imaging module. The present application also relates to a treating device configured to be used in a system as described above and a method for treating a part of a body to be treated.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hair cutting system for hair cut treating a part of a body said system comprising:
a hand-held-hair cutting treating device comprising:
a cutting unit comprising:
a stationary treating element comprising a stationary blade with a stationary blade edge; and
a moveable treating element comprising a moveable blade with a blade edge, said blade edge of said moveable blade being arranged parallel to the stationary blade edge, wherein the moveable blade is moveable in a reciprocal direction to the stationary blade; and

a guide, reciprocally moveable with regard to the cutting unit, comprising:
a guide face comprising:
comb teeth, extendable from one end of the cutting unit, defining a leading edge of the guide, wherein the guide face is configured to:

contact said part of the body; and
space said cutting unit from said contacted part of the body;

a driver configured to:
drive the moveable blade in a direction traverse to the reciprocal direction of the moveable blade; and

a position identifier comprising:
an imaging module configured to:
generate information indicative of a position of the hair cutting treating device relative to the part of the body to be treated; and

a controller configured to;
receive said information generated by the position identifier;
adjust at least one operating characteristic of the treating device in dependence on the information generated by the position indicating device; and
adjust operation of the treating device in dependence on the adjusted at least one operating characteristic.

2. The hair cutting system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the at least one operating characteristic of the hair cutting treating device is adjustable in response to a user input, and
the controller is configured to:
determine one or more adjustments of the at least one operating characteristic made in response to the user input; and
form a profile of the part of the body to be treated based on the one or more adjustments of the operating characteristic and information indicative of the position of the hair cutting treating device relative to the part of the body to be treated.

3. The hair cutting system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the controller is configured to:
modify a reference profile of the part of the body to be treated in response to a user input; and
generate a new reference profile based on the modification of the reference profile.

4. The hair cutting system according to claim 3 , wherein the controller is configured to:
form the reference profile based on the user input together with the information indicative of the position of the treating device relative to the part of the body to be treated.

5. The hair cutting system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the controller is configured to:
change a distance between the stationary blade edge and the movable blade edge in the reciprocal direction.

6. The hair cutting system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the controller is configured to:
adjust a distance between the stationary blade edge and the moveable blade edge in the reciprocal direction.

7. The hair cutting system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the controller is configured to:
adjust a distance between the cutting unit and the guide face.

8. The hair cutting system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the guide face is configured to be moveable to follow contours of the part of the body to be treated, and
wherein the controller is configured to:
adjust an extent of movement of the guide face about the treating unit.

9. The system according to claim 8 , wherein said extent of movement of the guide face is a linear movement.

10. The hair cutting system according to claim 7 ,
wherein the controller is configured to:
adjust an extent to which the comb teeth extend from the one end of the cutting unit.

11. The hair cutting system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the controller is configured to:
adjust a shape of the treating device in dependence on the determined position of the treating device.

12. A hair cutting system comprising:
a cutting device comprising:
a first blade including a first blade edge,
a second blade including a second blade edge, said second blade configured to be one of: transversely movable and linearly movable, with respect to the first blade edge; and

a guide comprising:
a plurality of teeth projecting linearly forward of said first blade edge, said guide being removable attachable to said cutting device;
a driver configure to:
drive the second blade traverse to the first blade;

a means to position said second blade edge linearly from said first blade edge; and

a position identifier comprising:
a position indicating device comprising:
an imaging module configured to:
generate an image of said cutting device and an object, wherein said image contains therein positions of said cutting device and said object; and

provide the determined positions to a controller, wherein said controller is configured to:

receive the determined positions of the cutting device and the position of the object;
determine a relationship between the cutting device and the object; and
alter a condition of the cutting device based on the determined relationship, wherein said altered condition changing an operation of the cutting device with respect to cutting hair on said object.

13. The hair cutting system of claim 12 , wherein said altered condition of the cutting device is one of: an altered linear distance between the second blade and the first blade edge, an altered speed of a transverse movement of the second blade edge with respect to the first blade edge, and an altered shape of said cutting device.

14. The hair cutting system of claim 12 , wherein said altered condition of the cutting device comprises an altered distance between said guide teeth and said first blade edge.

15. The hair cutting system of claim 12 , wherein said altered condition of the cutting device is based on said relationship between the cutting device and the object with respect to a reference profile of said object.

Assignees

• Koninklijke Philips Nv

Inventors

• Uit De Bulten Raymon Henk
• Homan Pascal
• Hoexum Everhardus Johannes
• Vonk Arjan Sander
• Berntsen Luc
• Niessen Eduard Matheus Johannes

Classifications

• B26B19/20

  with provision for shearing hair of preselected or variable length · CPC title

• B26B21/4081

  Shaving methods; Usage or wear indication; Testing methods · CPC title

• B26B19/388 Primary

  Sensors; Control · CPC title

• B26B21/4056

  Sensors or controlling means · CPC title

• A45D44/02

  Furniture or other equipment specially adapted for hairdressers' rooms and not covered elsewhere (hairdressers' chairs A47C1/04) · CPC title