Impact-Cushioning Support Structure for Personal Care Treatment Sheets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing personal care products optimized for skin treatment or hair removal often lack stability and support structures, particularly when using brittle materials like ceramic or semiconductor blades, which can break or deform upon impact.
Innovation Solution
A personal care product design incorporating a treatment sheet with a support structure, including a support material, sheet, or ring, to stabilize the brittle treatment sheet, using materials like polymeric adhesives, varnishes, inks, metals, ceramics, thermoplastics, or elastomeric polymers to prevent cracking and fragmenting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If brittle materials like ceramic or semiconductor are used for blades, then cutting performance and skin treatment effectiveness are improved, but the blades become prone to breaking and deforming upon impact
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies beforehand cushioning by providing a support structure (support sheet, support material, or support ring) that is positioned in advance to protect the brittle treatment sheet from impact forces. This support structure absorbs and distributes impact energy before it can reach the brittle blade material, preventing breakage and deformation while maintaining the cutting performance of the ceramic or semiconductor blades.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs composite materials by combining the brittle treatment sheet (ceramic or semiconductor) with a more ductile support structure (metal, plastic, or elastomeric polymer). This composite construction allows the brittle material to provide sharp cutting edges while the support material provides impact resistance and structural integrity, resolving the contradiction between cutting performance and impact resistance.
2Stability of the object's composition
If support structures are added to stabilize brittle treatment sheets, then stability and impact resistance are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses flexible shells and thin films by implementing the support structure as a thin support sheet or coating layer beneath the treatment sheet. This thin-film approach provides necessary structural support and impact protection without adding significant bulk or complexity to the device. The support material can be applied as a thin coating that bonds to the treatment sheet, maintaining a sleek profile while enhancing stability.
3Productivity
If the treatment sheet is made from brittle material with cutting edges, then hair removal and skin exfoliation effectiveness are improved, but the components may become dinged, deformed, broken, or disassembled when dropped
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure serves as beforehand cushioning that is positioned in advance to protect the treatment sheet during drops or impacts. This pre-positioned support absorbs impact forces before they can damage the brittle treatment sheet, ensuring that the cutting edges remain intact and functional, thereby maintaining both productivity and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the treatment sheet and support structure into a unified assembly where the support material is bonded to the背面 of the treatment sheet. This merging creates a composite component that functions as a single unit, preventing disassembly of components while maintaining the cutting effectiveness of the treatment sheet. The bonded assembly ensures that the treatment sheet remains stable and protected during use and impact.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The support structure enhances the stability of brittle materials, preventing damage and injury by absorbing impact forces, ensuring the product remains functional and safe even when dropped.
Implementation Method 1
the fluid of the support material includes a polymeric material and the polymeric material includes an adhesive
Implementation Method 2
The support structure enhances the stability of brittle materials, preventing damage and injury by absorbing impact forces
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AI summary
This invention relates to a novel of making a personal care product including the steps of providing a treatment sheet comprised of a first material and a first plurality of apertures and joining a support structure to the lower surface of the treatment sheet. The support structure includes a support material, a support sheet, a support ring, or any combination thereof. The support sheet includes a second plurality of apertures. The support sheet is disposed beneath the treatment sheet by aligning the first plurality of apertures and the second plurality of apertures. Fluid support material is solidified such that the treatment sheet and the support sheet are bonded together. The support ring is disposed on a housing (e.g., in a groove) below the support sheet or joined to the treatment sheet via the support material prior to solidifying.