Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Bernd Laudahn

Yong Jiang

Boon Khian Ching

Hee Keng Chua

Boon Teck Tan

Kean Hao Raymond Lee

The invention relates to a garment sanitizing device () comprising a housing (), a chamber () within the housing to receive one or more garments () to be sanitized. The chamber () comprises a bottom wall, a top wall, and opposite first and second sides each extending from the bottom wall to the top wall. The housing contains a fan () and one or more heating elements (). The at least one heating element is configured to directly heat garments within the chamber by radiation, and the fan is configured to convey air via the at least one heating element to heat the air and to convey the heated air through the chamber to additionally heat the garments by the conveyed heated air. The at least one heating element () is disposed proximate the first side of the chamber to heat garments () within the chamber from the first side of the chamber by radiation, and the garment sanitizing device is configured such that hot air heated by the at least one heating element is conveyed into the chamber from the second side of the chamber. The invention also relates to a corresponding method of sanitizing a garment.

Garment sanitizer

Steam irons are known which provide steam to a fabric of a garment to be pressed through holes in a sole plate. The present invention relates to a steam iron comprising a main body (), a steam generating unit () and a sole portion (). The sole portion () comprises a steam cavity () and an outer rim () extending around the steam cavity (), the outer rim () having a fabric contact surface () and the steam cavity () having a permeable element () disposed therein. Therefore, steam supplied into the steam cavity () from the steam generating unit () is supplied to a fabric to be pressed when the fabric contact surface () is located against said fabric.

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Bernd Laudahn