Camera-Guided Nasal Hair Trimmer for Safe Precise Cutting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing nasal hair trimmers, both manual and electric, pose risks of puncturing the nostrils and lack real-time visual feedback, leading to incomplete trimming and potential injury.
Innovation Solution
A visual nasal hair trimmer with a protective cover and integrated camera that allows real-time observation of the nasal cavity, featuring a rotary driver and trimming cutter to prevent puncturing and enable precise trimming.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If electrically rotated blades are used to trim nasal hairs, then trimming efficiency is improved, but the risk of puncturing inner walls of nostrils increases
Solution Approach 1:
The protective cover is segmented into multiple protection strips with grooves between them. These segmented structures guide nasal hairs into specific trimming zones while preventing the rotating blade from contacting the nasal cavity walls, thus maintaining trimming efficiency while reducing puncture risk
Solution Approach 2:
The protective cover acts as an intermediary component between the rotating blade and the nasal cavity. It provides a physical barrier that allows the blade to trim hairs through the grooves while preventing direct contact with sensitive nasal tissues, resolving the contradiction between trimming effectiveness and safety
2Device complexity
If traditional nasal hair trimmers are used without visual functionality, then device complexity is reduced, but the precision of trimming deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The trimmer is designed with multi-functionality by integrating a camera module into the handle. This allows the device to perform both trimming and visual observation functions simultaneously. The camera captures real-time images of the nasal cavity, enabling users to see hair growth patterns and trimming progress, thereby improving precision without significantly increasing complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The camera creates a visual copy (image) of the nasal cavity interior, allowing users to observe the trimming process remotely through a screen. This copying function enables precise control of the trimming operation without requiring direct visual access to the nasal cavity, maintaining device simplicity while enhancing trimming precision
3Device complexity
If traditional nasal hair trimmers are used without real-time visual feedback, then device complexity is reduced, but the risk of injury to nasal cavity lining increases
Solution Approach 1:
The camera module provides real-time visual feedback of the nasal cavity interior to the user through a connected screen. This feedback mechanism allows users to monitor the trimming process continuously, observe the position of the rotating blade relative to nasal tissues, and adjust their actions accordingly, significantly improving safety while maintaining reasonable device complexity
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a visual nasal hair trimmer, which relates to the field of personal cleaning tools. The visual nasal hair trimmer includes a housing. A protective cover is mounted at one end of the housing, the protective cover defines a plurality of nasal hair grooves, and a trimming cutter is arranged in the protective cover. A rotary driver connected to the trimming cutter is arranged in the housing. The rotary driver is connected to a main control module. The main control module is connected to a camera and is configured to transmit an image signal collected by the camera to a handheld terminal. The camera is located in a central cavity of the trimming cutter. A shooting hole is defined in the protective cover.