Wireless Hair Clipper Inductive Charging System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Hair clippers in salons create clutter and safety hazards due to entangled electrical wires from multiple devices, necessitating a solution to organize and clean up the workspace.
Innovation Solution
A wirelessly charging hair clipper with an inductive charging system, featuring a receiving assembly and a transmitting assembly that form an electromagnetic connection with a charging platform, allowing the device to be charged without physical wires, thus reducing clutter and safety risks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional wired charging is used for hair clippers, then reliable power supply is ensured, but workspace clutter and safety hazards increase due to entangled wires
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the charging wire from the hair clipper device itself and separates it into a独立 charging base system. The hair clipper only contains the receiving coil, while the transmitting coil is located in the charging base, effectively removing the wire clutter from the workspace while maintaining reliable power supply through inductive coupling.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an electromagnetic field as an intermediary between the charging base and the hair clipper. The transmitting coil generates an electromagnetic field that induces current in the receiving coil, enabling wireless power transfer without physical wire connection, thus eliminating clutter while ensuring reliable power supply.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If wireless charging with inductive coupling is implemented, then wire clutter is eliminated, but charging distance and alignment precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs the receiving assembly to be located at a specific local position on the hair clipper handle, and the charging base is designed with a corresponding receiving area. This localized positioning ensures optimal electromagnetic coupling when the clipper is placed on the base, reducing sensitivity to alignment variations while eliminating wire clutter.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs multiple coils in both the transmitting and receiving assemblies, providing redundant magnetic pathways. This excessive action ensures that even with slight misalignments or variations in placement distance, sufficient electromagnetic coupling is maintained to enable reliable wireless charging.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution effectively eliminates wire clutter, enhancing safety and organization in the workspace by allowing the hair clipper to be charged wirelessly, maintaining functionality similar to traditional wired clippers while preventing entanglements and hazards.
Implementation Method 1
Wireless charging uses magnetic induction where a device can be placed on a surface to have it charged automatically. Induction chargers typically use a transmitter induction coil to create an electromagnetic field within the charging station, and a receive induction coil within the electrical device that takes power from the electromagnetic field and converts it back into electrical current to charge the battery.
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AI summary
A wirelessly charging hair clipper is provided. The hair clipper includes a housing that includes a plurality of blades that are driven by an electric motor to allow the plurality of blades to oscillate from side to side relative to one another to cut hair. The housing supports a receiving assembly that is electromagnetically coupled to a transmitting assembly of a charging platform to form an inductive charging system. The housing of the hair clipper is configured to be placed against the charging platform, wherein the transmitting assembly transmits a current by an electromagnetic field to the receiving assembly to recharge a battery electrically connected to the receiving assembly, thereby wirelessly charging the hair clipper. The wirelessly charging hair clipper is configured to prevent clutter by eliminating electrical wires that are constantly entangled.