Patent ID: 8801743
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A hair transplanting device comprising hair harvesting means and hair implanting means adapted to perform sequential removal of single hair follicles from a donor region and implantation of the same at a recipient zone of the scalp, said hair harvesting means comprising a tubular cutting head ( 1 ) with a frontal end ( 1 a ) bearing a conical knife edge cutting surface ( 1 d ) adapted to successively perform cutting of single hair follicles when brought in contact with the root of the hair follicle and manually rotated around the perimeter of the same and said hair implanting means comprising a hollow needle ( 2 ), a longitudinal groove ( 2 a ) being formed at a frontal portion of needle ( 2 ) with an obliquely cut free end ( 2 b ) adapted to receive a follicular hair unit, a push rod ( 7 ) being reciprocatingly movable axially along the interior of said hollow needle to effect placement of the follicular hair unit disposed within the groove ( 2 a ) of the frontal end of the needle within a predetermined position at the recipient zone of the scalp, and compression means adapted to activate a forward movement of said push rod ( 7 ) axially along the interior of said needle ( 2 ) and return spring means ( 10 ) adapted to activate a rearward movement of said push rod ( 7 ) back to rest position following conclusion of a single hair follicle implanting operation, characterized in that said hair harvesting means comprises a plurality of tubular cutting heads ( said hair implanting means comprises means of appropriately regulating and finely adjusting of the depth of intrusion of said needle ( the hair transplanting device is adapted to function electrically with said compression means, said compression means adapted to activate a forward movement of said push rod (