Patent ID: 9050133
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: A61B,A61M

Abstract:
1. A skin treatment hand piece comprising a tip, wherein the tip comprises: a treatment head, coupled to a tubular fluid passageway that extends from a proximal end toward a distal end of the hand piece; and a tip opening, wherein the treatment head comprises a treatment surface that faces toward the tip opening, the treatment surface is within the tip opening and skin to be placed against the tip opening for treatment is outside the tip opening, and whereby when the hand piece is in use, the skin is drawn through the tip opening toward the treatment surface by a suction, there are a plurality of adjustable settings that alter a distance between the treatment surface and the tip opening, and for each of the settings, the treatment surface does not extend past the tip opening to outside the tip opening, and the distance between the treatment surface and the tip opening is greater than zero, the tip opening is provided by an adjusting collar rotatable about the tubular fluid passageway throughout the plurality of adjustable settings thereby adjusting the distance between the treatment surface and the tip opening, for a first setting of the plurality of adjustable settings, a minimum distance that can separate the tip opening and the treatment surface is greater than a distance from an end of the tubular fluid passageway to the treatment surface, such that the treatment surface within the tip opening does not extend past the tip opening and the distance between the treatment surface and tip opening is greater than zero, and a diameter of the tip opening is greater than a diameter of the treatment surface.