The present invention is concerned with an electrically driven device, for example an electric hair removal device, such as a shaver.
EP 2 024 147 B1 discloses an electric shaver comprising a housing, an electric motor mounted in the housing and comprising a drive shaft having a first rotary axis, a drive pin connected to the drive shaft eccentrically with respect to the rotary axis, and at least one driven shaft having a second rotary axis and mounted in the housing for performing a movement relative to the housing. The driven shaft is indirectly coupled to the drive shaft by means of a gear mechanism converting a rotary motion of the drive shaft into a reciprocating motion of the driven shaft. The driven shaft is coupled to a cutter element of the shaver. The gear mechanism comprises a swing bridge. A further electric shaver comprising a gear mechanism with a swing bridge is known from U.S. Pat. No. 4,167,060.
Further dry shavers are provided with a motor in a body portion of the housing, a drive-train arranged in the body and drive pins arranged relative to the body combined with a shaver head that is flexibly connected to the body. Typically the transfer of the rotation of the eccentric drive pin of the motor into a lateral or linear movement is realized via a so called “oscillating bridge”, a combination of a four bar joint mechanism with a groove where the eccentric of the motor is rotating in. The oscillating bridge transfers rotation into linear oscillation, transmits the mechanical energy of the motor to the head with the cutting elements and provides a spring load to the drive system that improves the energy balance of the dynamic system. Relative movements of the head towards the components arranged in the body and angled head to body arrangements may cause restrictions for the efficient and effective flow of forces from the motor to the head and the cutting elements. Further, this may cause unwanted friction, noise, wear and tear, technical complexity which comes along with cost and installation space requirements resulting in a bulky head design. At the same time these type of drive systems tend to be soft in their mechanical power transmission properties, e.g. the output value of deflection divided through the input value of deflection results in values lower 0,9 (effectiveness<0,9). The value for effectiveness in known solutions is significantly affected by the product architecture of a shaver, and there in particular via the inclination of the head towards the body.
As angled product architectures make the power flow go around the corner, the known solutions either connect the motor with the head, which results in bulky and misbalanced heads, or implement the motor in an inclined position relative to the body, which results in bulky bodies or complicated inner product architecture, or the inclination is compensated in an oscillating bridge, which typically results in a bulky handle or in reduced effectiveness of the transmission.
It is an object of the present disclosure to provide an electrically driven device permitting more flexibility regarding the design of the device. It is a further object to reduce the force or torque required to drive the driven shaft and/or to reduce sound emissions and wear.
In accordance with one aspect there is provided an electrically driven device comprising a housing, an electric motor mounted in the housing and comprising a drive shaft having a first rotary axis, a drive pin connected to the drive shaft eccentrically with respect to the rotary axis, and a driven shaft having a second axis and mounted in the housing for performing a motor driven movement relative to the housing. The driven shaft may be indirectly, i.e. via another component part, coupled to the drive shaft by means of a gear mechanism converting a rotary motion of the drive shaft into a reciprocating motion of the at least one driven shaft. The gear mechanism may comprise a floating bearing coupled to the drive pin, an intermediate shaft pivotably mounted in the housing and a crank arm coupling the intermediate shaft to the floating bearing thereby converting a rotary motion of the drive shaft into a reciprocating pivoting of the intermediate shaft about a second rotary axis which extends in the longitudinal direction of the intermediate shaft. The gear mechanism further comprises at least one elastically deformable element coupled (directly or indirectly) to the housing and coupled (directly or indirectly) to e.g. the floating bearing, the intermediate shaft and/or the crank arm. The intermediate shaft may be coupled to the at least one driven shaft by means of a pivotable bridge such that the at least one driven shaft is offset with respect to the intermediate shaft. The coupling between the intermediate shaft and the at least one driven shaft transfers a force, a torque and/or at least one movement but may permit relative movement in another direction, e.g. plunging or rotation of the at least one driven shaft with respect to the intermediate shaft. The electrically driven device may be an electric shaver with the at least one driven shaft coupled to a cutter unit of the shaver. That is, the driven shaft may be adapted and arranged for driving a functional element of the device, like one or more cutter units. For example, the at least one driven shaft may be coupled to a non-foil type cutter element which is guided in a shaver head permitting a linear translational movement of the non-foil type cutter element within the shaver head.
According to a further aspect of the present disclosure, an electric shaver may comprise a shaver body housing, a shaving head housing that is connected to the shaver housing and which carries at least two shaving sub-assemblies with linearly movable cutting elements, a motor with a rotating shaft located in the shaver body housing, a gear mechanism converting a continuous rotation from the motor to an oscillating rotating movement and transferring said oscillating rotating movement to a single oscillating rotating intermediate shaft, with said intermediate shaft transferring the said movement from the shaver body housing to the shaver head, and a distributer plate transmitting the reciprocating rotating movement of the single oscillating intermediate shaft to the cutting elements. Preferably, said gear mechanism may be located close to the motor and said distributer plate may be located close to the cutting elements with said intermediate shaft connecting one or more component parts of the gear mechanism and the distributor plate.
The gear mechanism may comprise a scotch yoke mechanism, i.e. a slotted link mechanism, converting a rotary motion of the drive shaft into a reciprocating pivoting motion of the intermediate shaft.
The at least one elastically deformable element may be arranged such that the floating bearing and/or the crank arm is biased by the at least one elastically deformable element into a neutral position or center position. In this neutral position, the at least one elastically deformable element is preferably unstressed. In other words, energy is stored in the at least one elastically deformable element if the at least one elastically deformable element is deflected from the neutral position. On the other hand, energy is released from the at least one elastically deformable element as the floating bearing is moved towards this neutral position. During dynamic operation of the system comprising motor, gear mechanism, drive shaft and movable cutting elements this may decelerate this may decelerate the gear mechanism as the floating bearing moves away from the neutral position and/or may accelerate the gear mechanism as the floating bearing returns to the neutral position which disburdens the motor at the turning points (dead points) of the reciprocating movement of the intermediate shaft, i.e. it reduces the force or torque required to drive the driven shaft when the motor is in rotation. In addition, with the reversal of the movement of the crank arm, the intermediate shaft and the bridge being e.g. somewhat cushioned or less abrupt, this contributes to reducing sound emissions and wear.
The neutral or center position may be defined by the intermediate shaft and the drive pin being located in a common plane. Typically, in the neutral or center position, the orientation of the crank arm may be predominantly extending in this plane, too. That is, in the neutral or center position, the drive pin is in one of its turning points (dead points) relative to the floating bearing. With the motor and the drive pin performing one full rotation, the floating bearing passes the neutral position twice with the drive pin being in 180° spaced positions.
The at least one driven shaft is indirectly mounted in the housing by means of the intermediate shaft and the pivoting bridge which may carry of the at least one driven shaft. The intermediate shaft may be guided within the housing or a component part constrained to the housing, for example a frame or the like, thereby in directly guiding the at least one driven shaft via the pivotable bridge which couples the at least one driven shaft to the intermediate shaft.
The elastically deformable element may be a spring, for example a compression spring or a tension spring. In accordance with one aspect, the at least one elastically deformable element comprises two elastically deformable levers guiding the floating bearing on a path. For example, the levers may be arranged substantially parallel with each other, i.e. like a parallelogram. The elastically deformable levers may be leaf springs, for example with a high stiffness in a direction parallel to the first rotary axis and a lower stiffness in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first rotary axis. Further, the at least one leaf spring may comprise at least one tapered section with a reduced bending stiffness. In other words, the levers or the like may be tailored to be elastically deformable in a way allowing guiding of the floating bearing and at the same time storing energy upon deflection from the neutral position.
The at least one elastically deformable element coupled to the floating bearing has the effect that movement of the floating bearing caused by rotation of the eccentric drive pin periodically strains the elastically deformable element. With the floating bearing oscillating back and forth energy is stored in the elastically deformable element and released from the elastically deformable element depending on the angular position of the eccentric drive pin. If the electrically driven device is a shaver with cutter units reciprocating linearly the elastically deformable elements may be arranged such that energy is stored in the elastically deformable elements as the cutter units approach one of their turning points and such that energy is released if the cutter units are at or shortly behind their turning point. In other words, the elastically deformable elements decelerate the cutter units at the end of their linear movement in a first direction and accelerate the cutter units in a second, opposite direction. This contributes in reducing noise generated by the back and forth movement of the cutter units. In addition, the force or torque applied by the motor for driving the cutter units may be reduced. This may result in smaller motors and reduced energy consumption. Further, this may contribute in reducing wear.
In one arrangement the at least one elastically deformable element forms a unitary component part with the floating bearing, i.e. the at least one elastically deformable element and the floating bearing are made integrally as one piece. For example, the floating bearing and the elastically deformable element may be injection molded using an elastically deformable plastic material. In more detail, the floating bearing may comprise a slotted hole provided in a central portion bridging two elastically deformable levers of the at least one elastically deformable element.
The crank arm may be rotationally and axially constrained to the intermediate shaft. This increases dynamic stiffness of the gear mechanism. The crank arm and the intermediate shaft may be separate component parts or may be a single, unitary component part. Further, the intermediate shaft may be rotationally and axially constrained to the pivotable bridge. Again, the intermediate shaft and the pivotable bridge may be separate component parts or may be a single, unitary component part.
The intermediate shaft may be externally guided in the housing, e.g. by means of at least one bearing sleeve. As an alternative, the intermediate shaft may be a hollow shaft internally guided on a bearing pin.
The crank arm may be coupled to the floating bearing by means of a pin engaging a recess or hole. For example, the crank arm may be provided with a hole, e.g. a slotted hole, which is engaged by a pin provided on the floating bearing.
The first rotary axis may be inclined with respect to the second rotary axis. In more detail, the eccentric drive pin may extend parallel to the first rotary axis and the intermediate shaft and the at least one driven shaft may extend parallel to the second rotary axis. With the electrically driven device being an electric shaver this arrangement permits to provide the shaver head inclined or angled with respect to the shaver body. In addition, the gear mechanism with the intermediate shaft allows a design of a shaver or the like device with a constricted neck between a body portion and a head portion.
The pivotable bridge may be rotationally constrained to the at least one driven shaft. The at least one driven shaft and the pivotable bridge may be separate component parts or may alternatively form one single unitary component part. As a further alternative, the at least one driven shaft may be rotatable with respect to the pivotable bridge. Due to the arrangement of the at least one driven shaft on the pivotable bridge, a reciprocating pivoting of the pivotable bridge results in a back and forth movement of the at least one driven shaft. This back and forth movement of the at least one driven shaft is a movement on the circular path which is close to a linear movement.
The housing of the electrically driven device may comprise a bearing insert or bearing portion with the intermediate shaft extending through the bearing insert. A sealing may be provided between the bearing insert and the intermediate shaft. Taking into account that the intermediate shaft performs a reciprocating pivoting movement by a small angle, for example about 6°, the ceiling may comprise an elastically deformable sleeve fixed to the bearing insert and to the intermediate shaft. Such a sealing may contribute in closing off the housing or body portion of a shaver while a detachable shaver head may have to be cleaned in a cleaning liquid. In other words, the proposed device further improves sealing between different portions of the device, e.g. a shaver body and a shaver head. For example, a sealing separating an inner sealed compartment of the motor and elements of the transmission (body) with an outer unsealed area where the cutting parts and/or the shaving cartridge is located.
For example, the housing comprises a shaver body (handle) and an, e.g. detachable, shaver head. A neck portion may be arranged interposed between the shaver body and the shaver head. The electric motor, the drive shaft, the drive pin, the crank arm, the at least one elastically deformable element and the floating bearing may be located in the shaver body. Further, the at least one driven shaft and the pivotable bridge may be located in the shaver head. The intermediate shaft may extend through the neck portion and partially in the shaver body and partially in the shaver head.
The at least one driven shaft of the electrically driven device may be coupled to a cutter unit, for example a lower, non-foil type cutter block reciprocating with respect to the fixed file type upper cutter member.
Preferably, the gear mechanism converts a continuous rotary motion of the drive shaft into an at least substantially sinusoidal reciprocating displacement driven shaft.
The proposed solution transfers and transmits the continuous rotation of an electric motor via a single oscillatory rotating transmission shaft, namely the intermediate shaft, to an arrangement of one or more, typically two or more, cutting elements which perform an oscillatory linear counteracting movement.
Further, the drive system with the gear mechanism may provide for an angled arrangement of the electric motor main axis, i.e. the first rotary axis, relative to the intermediate transmission shaft, which allows an easy installation of the drive system into shaver-architectures which have an angled head. The proposed device is effective by having no or merely a low loss of movement and efficient by having a low loss of energy even though the distance between the power input, i.e. the eccentric drive pin of the motor, and the power output, i.e. the driven shaft which may be a drive pin of a cutter unit, is relatively long.
The device provides a drive-train which may be at least partially arranged in the body/handle to drive the cutting elements of a shaver arranged in a flexible and angled shaver head without the drawbacks of known devices. For example, the use of the intermediate shaft to transfer the mechanical power via an oscillatory rotating pin from the shaver body to the shaver head makes the stiffness of the transmission system independent of the distance between the motor and the cutting parts, while the stiffness of the transmission system, e.g. less than 0.1 mm/1000 rpm, is superior to known designs having a dynamical stiffness of e.g. 0.2 mm/1000 rpm. In addition, the angle between a shaver head and a shaver body is not resulting in a loss of effectiveness of the drive system.
Turning now to the first exemplary embodiment depicted in
A housing of the device is mainly omitted in the depicted embodiment to increase visibility auf the interior component parts. The housing may be a single component part or may comprise several component parts which are, preferably permanently, attached to each other. In the present embodiment, the housing is a multicomponent housing comprising a bearing insert 4. The housing bearing insert 4 may be part of a shaver body housing which may be coupled to a shaver head housing.
An intermediate shaft 5 is rotatably guided within bearing insert 4 by means of bearing sleeves 6. A bridge 7 is rotationally constrained to the intermediate shaft 5. In the embodiment depicted in the Figures, the bridge 7 is attached with a central portion to the intermediate shaft 5 with two arms extending in opposite directions off the bridge. Each of these opposite arms of the bridge 7 carries a driven shaft 8 defining a second rotary axis II. The intermediate shaft 5 extends along a third rotary axis III which may be parallel to the second rotary axis II. In the embodiment depicted in the Figures the first rotary axis I is inclined with respect to the second rotary axis II and the third rotary axis III. For example, the third rotary axis III may extend in a common plane with the first rotary axis I or in a plane parallel to the plane in which the first rotary axis I extends. The inclination g of the third rotary axis III with respect to the first rotary axis I may be less than g=60°, e.g. between g=10° and 35° and more preferably about g=25°. Although an exemplary inclination of about g=40° to about 50° is depicted in the Figures, a different inclination or no inclination may be chosen.
For example, the driven shaft 8 may be axially and rotationally constrained to the bridge 7. Each of the driven shafts 8 may be provided with a bearing sleeve 9 which in turn may be coupled to a cutter unit (not shown). The bearing sleeves 9 may be rotatable with respect to the respective driven shaft 8 and may be axially displaceable with respect to the driven shaft 8 against the bias of a spring 10. In the embodiment depicted in
The intermediate shaft 5 is coupled to the drive pin 3 by means of a crank arm 11 which is rotationally constrained to the intermediate shaft 5. The crank arm 11 in turn is coupled to the drive pin 3 by means of a floating bearing 12. The floating bearing 12 is a component part provided with a slotted hole or slot-like recess (R) as shown in
The floating bearing 12 is guided in the housing, e.g. in bearing insert 4, by means of two elastically deformable levers 14 which are provided as a unitary component part with the floating bearing 12. As an alternative, the floating bearing 12 may be a separate component part fixed or attached to the elastically deformable levers 14. As can be taken for example from
A sealing 15 is provided between the intermediate shaft 5 and the bearing insert 4.
The function of the electrically driven device will be explained in more detail below. In use, the motor 1 is activated such that the drive shaft 2 rotates about the first rotary axis I. Consequently, drive pin 3 rotates about the first rotary axis I, too. Rotation of the drive pin 3 results in a lateral displacement of the floating bearing 12 such that the floating bearing 12 pivots guided by elastically deformable levers 14. This movement of the floating bearing 12 generated by the eccentric drive pin 3 is a sinusoidal movement. This sinusoidal movement of the floating bearing 12 is transmitted to the intermediate shaft 5 by means of the crank arm 11. Thus, the intermediate shaft 5 performs a reciprocating pivoting which is transmitted via the bridge 7 to the driven shafts 8. The rotation of the driven shafts 8 about the intermediate shaft 5 is close to a linear reciprocating movement which may be transmitted to cutter units of a shaver.
As the floating bearing 12 is guided with respect to the housing by means of elastically deformable levers 14, lateral displacement of the floating bearing 12 in one direction stores energy within the elastically deformable levers 14 which is released from the elastically deformable levers 14 upon lateral movement of the floating bearing 12 in the opposite direction until the floating bearing 12 reaches of the unstressed home position. Periodically storing and releasing energy upon rotation of the eccentric drive pin 3 results in decelerating and accelerating the driven shafts 8. In more detail, the substantially linear movement of a driven shaft 8 is decelerated by the bias of the elastically deformable levers 14 as of the driven shaft 8 approaches the turning point of the substantially linear movement. On the other hand, the substantially linear movement of the driven shaft 8 is accelerated by the bias of the elastically deformable levers 14 at or shortly after the turning point, i.e. with the driven shaft 8 moving in the opposite direction.
The design of the gear mechanism with the floating bearing 12 guided by the elastically deformable levers 14 provides for a further advantage compared with a simplified mechanism which couples the intermediate shaft 5 to the drive pin 3 only by means of a crank arm. In such a simplified mechanism, continuous rotation of the drive pin 3 would not generate a perfectly sinusoidal reciprocating pivoting of the intermediate shaft 5 about its rotary axis III. In more detail, given that the crank arm would change its direction of movement caused by the drive pin 3 at positions of the drive pin 3 which are not exactly 180° spaced from each other, the crank arm would move faster in one direction compared to the opposite direction. However, with the gear mechanism according to the present disclosure having the floating bearing 12 guided by the elastically deformable levers 14 and the crank arm 11 translating this movement of the floating bearing 12 to the intermediate shaft 5, the movement of the crank arm 11 changes the direction of the reciprocating movement at positions of the drive pin 3 which are at least substantially spaced by 180°. This results in a perfect sinusoidal movement or a movement which is at least close to a perfect sinusoidal movement of the intermediate shaft 5.
An alternative embodiment of the electrically driven device is partially depicted in
The dimensions and values disclosed herein are not to be understood as being strictly limited to the exact numerical values recited. Instead, unless otherwise specified, each such dimension is intended to mean both the recited value and a functionally equivalent range surrounding that value. For example, a dimension disclosed as “40 mm” is intended to mean “about 40 mm.”
Every document cited herein, including any cross referenced or related patent or application and any patent application or patent to which this application claims priority or benefit thereof, is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety unless expressly excluded or otherwise limited. The citation of any document is not an admission that it is prior art with respect to any invention disclosed or claimed herein or that it alone, or in any combination with any other reference or references, teaches, suggests or discloses any such invention. Further, to the extent that any meaning or definition of a term in this document conflicts with any meaning or definition of the same term in a document incorporated by reference, the meaning or definition assigned to that term in this document shall govern.
While particular embodiments of the present invention have been illustrated and described, it would be obvious to those skilled in the art that various other changes and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It is therefore intended to cover in the appended claims all such changes and modifications that are within the scope of this invention.
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