The Procter Gamble Company

Braun Gmbh

Christian Ellsaesser

Tobias Schwarz

Riccardo Dessi

Julius Hoppert

A personal care device, such as an electric toothbrush, has a handle having a longitudinal axis and a treatment head connected to a carrier. The carrier extends within the handle and is mounted at the handle for pivoting motion around a pivot axis against a restoring spring force. A drive unit, such as a linear actuator, is mounted on the carrier, and at least one electrical connector is arranged between the handle and the carrier to convey electrical energy from an energy source fixedly mounted with respect to the handle to the drive unit. The electrical connector can be realized as an elastic metal sheet element having a spring constant for providing at least a part of the restoring spring force.

Personal care device

A special electric component, such as a motor, an accumulator, or an electric subassembly, having at least one soldering pin for solder-joining the special electric component to a printed circuit board. The soldering pin has a connection end that comprises a front section at a free end of the soldering pin and a first section adjacent the front section. The front section has a width that is smaller than the width of the first section. A printed circuit board assembly and an electric device comprising at least one special electric component.

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Kelkheim, Germany

Christian Ellsaesser