Patent ID: 8615886

Claim:
A shaving implement comprising: a blade assembly including at least one blade configured for direct contact with a skin surface without an intervening micro-screen, the blade assembly configured for a wet shaving process in which a primary cutting motion of the blade assembly is derived when the at least one blade is drawn across the skin surface using a handle portion configured to couple to the blade assembly; an energy-imparting device configured to impart energy; an activation device configured to impart a signal; circuitry, within the handle portion, including a controller coupled to an information storage device storing operational information indicative of operating parameters pertaining to power signals, the stored operating parameters define at least one of a magnitude of a power level delivered from the circuitry to the energy-imparting device, a duration during which the circuitry imparts power signals to the energy-imparting device, and a time variation of the power level of power signals transferred from the circuitry to the energy-imparting device, the controller configured to read the operational information from the information storage device in response to receiving the signal from the activation device, and the circuitry configured to transfer the power signals to the energy-imparting device according to the read operational information to cause the energy-imparting device to impart energy to provide at least one of vibrations and heat to enhance the wet shaving process according to the read operational information.