Hair cutting device

• US 8,028,418 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2006
• Issued: 10/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sagawa, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Alie; Ghassem
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel; Bharat C
• Application Number:
  US11/420,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20060265880A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,953 Days
• Field of Search: 30/439.2, 30/439, 30/341, 30/437, 30/438, 30/439.1
• US Class Current: 30/43.92
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 19/048 Complete cutting head being movable

Abstract

In a hair cutting device, a head portion is connected such that the head portion can laterally tilt and vertically move. The head portion is stably supported in a front-rear direction, connected to an upper portion of a main body grip portion, and resiliently biased upward. An upper end of the main body grip portion is formed with an opened space into which a lower portion of the head portion is inserted. Front and back surfaces of the head portion have a pair of left and right shaft portions which are connected to an inner surface of the opened space such that the shaft portions can turn and vertically move and come into slide contact with the inner surface of the opened space. A contact portion which is provided lower than the pair of shaft portions comes into slide contact with the inner surface of the opened space.

Claims

1. A hair cutting device comprising:

a head portion,

an outer blade formed with a plurality of blade holes,

an inner blade that slidably contacts an inner surface of the outer blade, and

a motor which drives the inner blade,

wherein the head portion is connected to an upper portion of a main body grip portion having a controller such that the head portion can laterally tilt and vertically move, the head portion is resiliently biased upward,

wherein an upper end of the main body grip portion is formed with an opened space into which a lower portion of the head portion is inserted,

wherein both front and back surfaces of the head portion have a pair of left and right shaft-bushing portions provided by an annular member, which are connected to an inner surface of the opened space of the main body grip portion such that the left and right shaft-bushing portions can laterally rotate relative to the main body grip portion, vertically move relative to the main body grip portion, and slidably contact the inner surface of the opened space,

wherein a contact portion which is provided lower than the pair of left and right shaft-bushing portions and slidably contacts the inner surface of the opened space,

wherein the annular member is mounted on an outer surface of the lower portion of the head portion,

wherein the pair of left and right shaft-bushing portions respectively provided on both front and back surfaces of the annular member are supported by a bearing formed on the inner surface of the opened space of the main body grip portion such that the left and right shaft-bushing portions can laterally rotate and vertically move, and

wherein spring receivers are respectively provided on left and right ends of the annular member to receive push-up springs which resiliently bias the head portion upward.

2. The hair cutting device according to claim 1, wherein

the lower portion of the head portion is formed as a box-like accommodating body in which the motor is accommodated,

the pair of left and right shaft-bushing portions are disposed on an upper end of the accommodating body, and

the contact portion is disposed on a lower end of the accommodating body.

3. The hair cutting device according to claim 2, wherein

the head portion and the main body grip portion have waterproof structures which are independent from each other,

a through hole formed in the accommodating body of the head portion and a through hole formed in the opened space of the main body grip portion are water-tightly connected to each other through a waterproof tube,

a wire for electrically connecting the motor in the accommodating body of the head portion and the controller in the main body grip portion with each other is inserted into the waterproof tube, and

the contact portion provided on at least one of the front and back surfaces of the head portion is integrally formed together with a detent member of the waterproof tube.

4. The hair cutting device according to claim 3, wherein the detent member is inserted into and fixed to the accommodating body in a direction perpendicular to a sliding surface of the contact portion.

5. The hair cutting device according to claim 1, wherein the left and right shaft-bushing portions and the contact portion provided on the head portion are made of a material different from a material of the opened space of the main body grip portion.

6. The hair cutting device according to claim 1, wherein the left and right shaft-bushing portions are generally cylindrical and extend from the head portion to connect to the inner surface of the opened space of the main body grip portion.

7. The hair cutting device according to claim 6, wherein the left and right shaft-bushing portions are each configured to rotate about a rotational axis thereof in which the rotational axes are orthogonal to the inner surface of the opened space of the main body grip portion.