Patent ID: 8319152

Claim:
A hair cutting head, for use in a hair cutting apparatus comprising: an elongated heated wire suitable for heating hair growing from a skin surface; when situated at a first position at which the skin would be damaged if the wire is stationary, and at least one blade, placed at one side of the elongated heated wire, the at least one blade being situated and configured to cut the hair which has been heated by the elongated heated wire; and a motion detector adapted to detect motion of the hair cutting head on the skin surface, wherein the elongated heated wire is heated to a temperature of at least 50° C., and wherein burning of the skin surface is prevented due to heating the elongated heated wire by motion of the wire, when motion is detected by said motion detector and wherein the elongated heated wire is displaced from the first position to a second position at which the skin is not damaged when motion is not detected by said motion detector.