Electrically operated handheld device for body care
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electric hand-held devices for body care, such as toothbrushes, lack the capability to extensively collect and evaluate operating data for monitoring and optimizing body care, and they often have standard settings that cannot be tailored to individual users due to the absence of advanced electronics, which are costly and prone to damage in wet environments.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a data transmission module with wireless, bidirectional data transmission capabilities, including a microcontroller, antenna, and non-volatile memory, allowing for the collection, evaluation, and display of operating and sensor data, as well as user-specific data implementation in customizable care programs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If advanced electronics are added to enable data collection and evaluation, then the functionality for monitoring and optimizing body care is improved, but the device cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a separate evaluation device that acts as an intermediary between the handheld body care device and the user. The handheld device collects operating data and transmits it to the evaluation device, which then performs the complex data evaluation and generates care programs. This mediator approach allows the handheld device to maintain simple electronics while still achieving advanced data collection and evaluation capabilities through the external evaluation device.
2Adaptability or versatility
If complex electronics are installed in the handheld device, then user-specific settings and data recording capabilities are improved, but the device becomes more vulnerable to environmental hazards such as moisture and shocks
Solution Approach 1:
The evaluation device serves as an intermediary that handles complex electronics outside the handheld device. The handheld device maintains minimal electronics for data collection and transmission, while the evaluation device performs data processing and user-specific setting management. This separation protects the handheld device from environmental hazards by minimizing its electronic components.
3Adaptability or versatility
If more electronics are added to the handheld device, then the functionality for data transmission and processing is improved, but the available space within the handheld device is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The evaluation device acts as an external intermediary that handles data processing and storage functions. The handheld device only needs minimal electronics for data collection and wireless transmission to the evaluation device. This separation allows the handheld device to maintain a compact form factor while still achieving advanced data transmission and processing capabilities through the external evaluation device.
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AI summary
The invention relates to an electrical hand-held device (1) for body treatment, having a treatment part (3) for performing at least one electrically operated body treatment function, and having a handle body (2) for holding the hand-held device (1). The hand-held device (1) further comprises an electronic component (38) for controlling the at least one electrically operated body treatment function. The electronic component (38) contains a data transmission module for wireless, bidirectional data transmission. The data transmission module comprises a microcontroller, at least one memory for storing data, and an antenna (40), wherein the data transmission module is designed to produce, in a contact-free manner, at least some of the electrical energy which is required for operation of said data transmission module.