A Method And Apparatus For Cosmetic Skin Care
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Abstract
The present method and apparatus seek to provide cosmetic skin care including application in concert or consecutively of various types of energy to bring about a welcomed combination of skin cleansing and skin re - juvenation and enhancing. There is thus provided, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the current method and apparatus an apparatus for cosmetic skin care including a brush-like head having a multiplicity of bristles attached to one or more carriers at least a portion of which is operative to apply forms of energy to the skin. At least one of the forms of energy is 212 RF energy while other forms include light energy, mechanical energy, ultrasound energy and any suitable combination thereof.
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66 Claims
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41. An apparatus for cosmetic skin care (100), the apparatus comprising:
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a brush-like head (102, 202, 502, 602, 702, 802, 902, 1002) including at least one carrier (106); and at least two types of bristles (108) arranged in clusters (230, 232, 234, 238, 530, 532, 538, 630, 632), each including a multiplicity of bristles (108) of the same type attached to the carrier (106), at least one type of bristles (108) operative to apply forms of energy to the skin (114) wherein at least one of the forms of energy is RF energy; at least one source of energy (118, 122) operative to supply the energy applying bristles (108); and a handle (104) attached to the head (102) and including at least one switch (128) to control the source of energy; and wherein the shortest distance (d) between the RF energy applying bristles closest to each other and each being from a different cluster is more than the combined lengths (l) of the bristles (d<
l1+l2)) to avoid shorting of RF energy applying bristles. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66)
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