Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Versuni Holding B.v.

Anke Gerda Sinnema

Klaas Kooijker

Jan Frederik Suijver

Jasper Zuidervaart

Wilko Westerhof

Peter Sofrides Viet

Bart-Jan Zwart

Jeroen Molema

Gertrude Riette Van Der Kamp

Geert Willem De Goeij

Joost Tomas Glazenburg

Tim Gerard Tibbe

Rogier Enrico De Haas

Gertrude Riëtte Bakker-Van Der Kamp

Bernardus Lubbertus Kuiper

Wilhelmus Hendrikus Maria Bruggink

Pawel Leshem

Pieter Herman Klokman

Johannes Josephus Blaak

Marie Sybien Nijboer

Martijn Oversteegen

Kasper Roelof Loopstra

Simon Renze Holwerda

Simon M Oversteegen

Tara Prasad Panda

Ben Sietzema

The invention discloses a beverage making device that includes a brew chamber that enables a beverage brewing process. The brew chamber has a beverage outlet that lets out a brewed beverage at the end of the beverage brewing process. A rinsing procedure is performed in which the brew chamber is rinsed with water prior to or after the beverage brewing process. During the rinsing procedure, a discharge of rinsing water from the brew chamber takes place at another position on the brew chamber than a position of a beverage outlet. The other position on the brew chamber than the position of the beverage outlet is an upstream position on the brew chamber as seen in a direction of water and brewed beverage through the beverage making device associated with the beverage brewing process. The rinsing water is discharged based on a control of operation of the beverage making device.

Discharge of rinsing water from a brew chamber of a beverage making device

A device has a water heating system, a first output for delivering hot water and a second output for delivering steam. A first hydraulic circuit with a first filter supplies the first output and a second hydraulic circuit with a second filter supplies the second output. The first filter comprises a scale inhibitor filter and the second filter comprises an ion exchange filter.

Device for delivering hot water and steam

There is disclosed an attachment () for a cutting head () of a hair cutting device (). The attachment () comprises first and second side portions () configured to cover, respectively, first and second sides () of a stationary cutting member () of the cutting head (), and an intermediate portion () interconnecting the first and second side portions () and configured to cover an outer surface () of a first wall portion () of the stationary cutting member (). The first and second side portions () are configured to protrude relative to the plurality of primary cutter teeth () of the stationary cutting member (), which define a cutting zone of the cutting head. The first and second side portions () and the intermediate portion () define a recess exposing the primary cutter teeth () of the stationary cutting member (). The recess is non-interrupted over a distance of at least 50% of the length of the cutting zone.

Hair cutting system and attachment

An apparatus for mixing a powder in a liquid includes a cavity for holding a powder, a passageway communicating with the cavity, and a flow actuator for inducing an oscillating gas flow in the passageway. As the gas flow oscillates in the passageway, the powder is drawn into the passageway from the cavity when the gas flows in a first direction during a suction phase, and the powder is expelled from the passageway towards a liquid by synthetic jetting when the gas flows in a second direction opposite the first direction during a blowing phase.

Apparatus for, and method of, mixing a powder in a liquid

A method for producing a drink, for example milk, from mixing a powder formula with a liquid, such as water, in an automated baby-milk machine. The method included preparing a drink concentrate by mixing the amount of formula necessary for the total amount of drink in a certain amount of hot liquid, and adding the right amount of liquid of a certain low temperature to the concentrate in order to reach the end volume of the drink at a safe drinking temperature.

Apparatus for producing a drink, and the use of the apparatus

An appliance for personal care, such as skin, dental or hair treatment, comprising a dispensing structure () for automatically dispensing a fluid. The dispensing structure () includes a fluid reservoir (), a discharge opening () and a fluid drive structure () for driving the fluid to be dispensed from the reservoir () and to and out of said discharge opening () in accordance with a dispensing rate/time profile (S). The fluid drive structure () is arranged for spurting at least once during said dispensing operation for squirting an additional quantity of the fluid to and out of the discharge opening () in addition to the fluid being dispensed in accordance with said dispensing rate/time profile (S).

Appliance for personal care with automatic fluid dispenser

Valve assembly () for fine tuning the temperature of some fluid that has been heated or cooled in a heat exchanging section of a beverage making apparatus (). The valve assembly () comprises a mixing valve (), having a first inlet () for fluid communication with an outlet of the heat exchanging section (), a second inlet () for fluid communication with a source of a hotter or colder version of aforementioned fluid, first and second closing means for altering a flow rate through the first and second inlet respectively, and control means arranged to control the first and second closing means in such way that an increase in flow rate through one of the inlets is matched by a substantially similar sized decrease in flow rate through the other inlet, so that the total flow rate through the mixing valve remains substantially constant.

Temperature control valve assembly and beverage preparing apparatus equipped therewith

An apparatus for producing a drink, for example milk, from mixing a powder formula with a liquid, preferably water, the apparatus preferably being an automated baby-milk machine. The apparatus is configured to prepare a drink concentrate by mixing the amount of formula necessary for the total amount of drink in a certain amount of hot liquid, and to add the right amount of liquid of a certain low temperature to the concentrate in order to reach the end volume of the drink at a safe drinking temperature.

An apparatus for preparing baby milk from water and dry formula includes a formula supply system having a reservoir for holding formula and a feeder for feeding formula out off the reservoir through an outlet opening in the reservoir. The apparatus further includes a scraper for guiding formula towards and through the outlet opening into the feeder. The scraper is arranged to move closely along an inner wall portion of the reservoir that borders on the outlet opening.

Apparatus for preparing baby milk from instant formula

The invention relates to an apparatus for preparing a beverage, for instance baby milk, from an instant product, such as formula, and water, which has been sterilized and cooled down to a temperature suitable for consumption. The apparatus comprises a water supply system for supplying water, a heating system for sterilizing the water, a cooling system for cooling down the sterilized water and a bypass, which allows sterilized water from the heating system to bypass the cooling system. Thanks to such configuration, hot water from the bypass can be added to cool water from the cooling system so as to bring the temperature of the cool water to a desired consumption temperature.

Apparatus for preparing a beverage from sterilized water of a predetermined consumption temperature

A cartridge for an appliance for personal care, such as skin, dental or hair treatment includes a main body, a dispensing structure for dispensing a substance, such as a liquid, a paste or a gel, and a cartridge detachably connected to the main body. The cartridge bounds a reservoir space for holding the substance to be dispensed and includes a flexible wall part bounding the reservoir space for allowing reservoir space volume to accommodate to a volume of the substance filled therein and volumes of the substance dispensed therefrom; a rigid wall part also bounding the reservoir space, and a rigid housing. The flexible wall part is connected to the rigid housing along a contour of the rigid wall part.

Cartridge for an appliance for personal care and an appliance comprising such a cartridge

An appliance for personal care, such as skin, dental or hair treatment, comprising a dispensing structure () for automatically dispensing a fluid. The dispensing structure () includes a fluid reservoir (), a discharge opening () and a fluid drive structure () for driving the fluid to be dispensed from the reservoir () to and out of said discharge opening () in accordance with a dispensing rate/time profile (S). The fluid drive structure () is arranged for spurting at least once during said dispensing operation for squirting an additional quantity of the fluid to and out of the discharge opening () in addition to the fluid being dispensed in accordance with said dispensing rate/time profile (S).

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Opeinde, Netherlands

Anke Gerda Sinnema