Surgery – Instruments – Electrical application
Patent
1997-11-03
1999-05-04
Peffley, Michael
Surgery
Instruments
Electrical application
606 36, A61B 1741
Patent
active
058999000
ABSTRACT:
An epilator includes a pair of tweezers mounted at the leading end of a hollow wand body. An electrical circuit board for generating a radio frequency current is mounted in the trailing end of the wand body. The trailing end of the wand body is coated with a metabolized conductive coating to shield against electromagnetic interference. The tweezers are maintained in normally spaced apart relation to one another by a bias member that is compressed by a manually-operated actuator. The bias member includes an extension member that is in continuous contact with a first tweezer member and which makes contact with an electrical contact member mounted in the second tweezer member when the tweezer members are brought into hair-gripping relation to one another by actuator-driven compression of the bias member. The contact closes an electrical circuit through the circuit board so that the gripped hair is subjected to a radio frequency that deadens adjacent nerve cells and causes roots of the gripped hair to release their grip so that the hair is painlessly extracted. The wand includes a socket for releasable connection with a plug that is in electrical communication with a remote power source.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4174713 (1979-11-01), Mehl
patent: 5049148 (1991-09-01), Mehl
patent: 5169398 (1992-12-01), Glaros
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