Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Versuni Holding B.v.

Philips Domestic Appliances Holding B.v.

Arjan Sander Vonk

Bastiaan Johannes De Wit

Everhardus Johannes Hoexum

Luc Berntsen

Eduard Matheus Johannes Niessen

Orhan Kahya

Raymon Henk Uit De Bulten

Albert Al-shorachi

Chengang Cao

Fermín Espín Franco

Rinse Hendrik Bosma

Robert Friso Burgers

Jamila Midhat

Anke Rieka Meulendijks

Johannes Tseard Van Der Kooi

Fokke Roelof Voorhorst

Jasper Zuidervaart

Matthijs Hendrikus Lubbers

Johan Pragt

Foppe Kramer

Roderik De Vries

Robert Alexander Santhagens Van Eibergen

Pascal Homan

Jan Spoelstra

Julien Philippe Latul

Coen Michiel Paul Schwering

Martijn Adriaan De Keijzer

Fermín ESPÍN Franco

Albert Al-Shorachi

Imogen Adams

Frans Rozeboom

A cleaning device designed to clean a surface includes a cleaner nozzle to face the surface to be cleaned and to perform a cleaning action on the surface, where the cleaner nozzle accommodates at least one rotatably arranged brush including flexible brush elements having tip portions which are intended to contact the surface. The cleaning device includes a force-actuable mechanism that is responsive to a change of a user force on the cleaning device acting to press the cleaner nozzle against the surface when the cleaner nozzle is in an operational position on the surface, and that is functional to cause a change of a value of at least one parameter of operation of the cleaning device, thereby enabling more intuitive handling of the cleaning device by a user.

Cleaning device and cleaner nozzle designed to be used in a cleaning device

A vacuum cleaner is described. The vacuum cleaner has a dirt inlet and a motor and fan for delivering suction to the dirt inlet. A cyclone unit separates particles from a suction flow. The cyclone unit has a vortex finder extending along a cyclone axis of rotation and an annular chamber formed around outside of the vortex finder. Air is delivered to the cyclone unit in a forward direction (i.e. in a direction from the dirt inlet to the cyclone unit). The cyclone axis of rotation is substantially parallel to the forward direction. An outlet from the vortex finder is at a backward end thereof such that the outlet is in an opposite direction to a forward component. A space beyond the vortex finder is a part of a dirt collection area, thus enabling a more effective collection of hairs and other debris.

Vacuum cleaner

A cleaning device for cleaning a surface is described. The cleaning device includes at least one cleaning element and a wetting system to supply a cleaning liquid to the at least one cleaning element. The wetting system is operable in one of at least one normal operation mode and a boost operation mode involving an increased supply rate of the cleaning liquid with respect to the at least one normal operation mode. During start-up of the cleaning device in a wet cleaning mode thereof, a start-up operation mode of the wetting system is determined to be one of the normal operation mode or the boost operation mode on the basis of assessment of an actual value of at least one parameter that is indicative of whether or not the at least one cleaning element is in a wet cleaning condition.

Determining a start-up operation mode of a wetting system of a cleaning device

A vacuum cleaning utensil has a brush arranged for rotating about a substantially vertical axis. Further, the vacuum cleaning utensil has a guide for pushing the brush towards a surface to be cleaned during only a part of the rotation of the brush. During another part of the rotation, the brush is released from the surface to be cleaned.

Vacuum cleaning utensil having rotating brush

A system for treating a part of a body to be treated includes a hand-held treating device and a position identifier configured to generate information indicative of the position of the treating device relative to the part of the body to be treated. A controller is configured to determine a path and/or angle of orientation of the treating device relative to the part of the body to be treated in dependence of the information generated by the position identifier. The controller is also configured to operate a feedback module to provide feedback to a user based on the path and/or angle of orientation of the treating device determined by the controller.

System and a method for treating a part of a body

The present invention relates to a hair clipping device () comprising: a housing (), a cutting assembly () for clipping hairs, a comb attachment () which is attachable to the housing (), a drive unit () for moving the comb attachment () relative to the cutting assembly () between different comb positions in order to set a hair cut-length, a control unit () for controlling the drive unit (), a memory unit (), and a user interface (). The user interface () is configured to receive from a user a first memory input indicative of a first comb position and to send a first memory signal to the control unit () in response to receiving the first memory input, and wherein the user interface () is configured to receive from the user a first recall input indicative of the first comb position and to send a first recall signal to the control unit () in response to receiving the first recall input, wherein the control unit () is configured to store position information regarding the first comb position in the memory unit () in response to receiving the first memory signal, and wherein the control unit () is configured to recall the position information regarding the first comb position from the memory unit () in response to receiving the first recall signal and to control the drive unit () to move the comb attachment () to the first comb position according to the position information regarding the first comb position.

Hair clipping device

The present application relates to a system for treating a part of a body to be treated. In particular, the present invention relates to a system for cutting hair on a part of a body to be treated. The system has a hand-held treating device having a treating unit. The system also has an imaging module configured to generate information indicative of the position of the treating device relative to the part of the body to be treated based on an image of a part of the body and the treating device. A controller is configured to change an operating characteristic of the treating device in dependence on the information generated by the imaging module. The present application also relates to a treating device configured to be used in a system as described above and a method for treating a part of a body to be treated.

A hair removing apparatus ( ) comprising two co-operating hair processing members ( ), formed by plate-shaped carriers and movable relatively to each other in a direction of movement (X). The two carriers are positioned with respect to each other, viewed in a Z direction substantially perpendicular to the carriers, by a plurality of positioning members ( ), which are spaced apart in the direction of movement. At least one of the two carriers has a comparatively low bending stiffness. As a result, a comparatively small and uniform gap is present between the two carriers, and the friction force acting on the carriers in a direction parallel to the direction of movement is also comparatively small. In one embodiment the positioning members ( ) each have an S-shaped or C-shaped tongue ( ), which is provided on a third carrier ( ), the first and second carriers ( ) being enclosed between the third carrier and contact elements ( ) of the tongues.

Hair removing apparatus comprising plate-shaped carriers which care positioned and movable with respect to each other

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Arjan Sander Vonk