Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Koninklijkle Philips N.v.

Versuni Holding B.v.

Christian Mikula

Gerald Kauer

Paul Gruber

Juergen Holzbauer

Marcel Sladecek

Harald Duller

Peter Haefele

Christian Egger

Sebastian Alexander Kindermann

Walter Julius Weichsler

Mario Arnold Lutschounig

Rene Gasser

Mart Kornelis-Jan Te Velde

Andreas Kowalewski

Paula Andrea Allende Fritsch

Stefan Toonen

Stefan Hans Sauer

Jan Vaupot

Bernhard Schratter

Ernst Erich Petzl

Jan Peter Elkhuizen

Peter Sedlmaier

Kien-Vu Do

Christoph Winkler

Ming Shuo Zhang

Joachim Schettlinger

Ernst E Petzl

Thomas Otti

A kitchen apparatus, comprising a food preparation chamber, is provided. The kitchen apparatus also includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion movable relative to each other to enable the food preparation chamber to be opened and closed. At least part of a channel for receiving at least one wire, e.g. wire(s) connected to a food monitoring sensor, is located at an interface between the first housing portion and the second housing portion so as to permit routing of the at least one wire received in the channel into the food preparation chamber.

Kitchen apparatus for accommodating a wired food monitoring sensor

A cooking device is for cooking food on a support (e.g. in a basket) within a cooking chamber. A required cooking time is determined based only on the time-evolution of the cooking chamber temperature and a power of the heating device. A first, less accurate, estimate of the required cooking time is determined within a first period, e.g. 90 seconds, of the turning on of the heating device and a second, more accurate, estimate of the required cooking is determined later, but e.g. within five minutes of the turning on of the heating device.

Cooking device and cooking method

Disclosed is a horizontal juice extractor () comprising a main body delimiting a food processing chamber () comprising a juice outlet (), a food entry section () having a food inlet () and a food compression section () extending from the food entry section and having a food pulp outlet (); a spindle () extending through the food processing chamber for transporting food from the food entry section through the food compression section, said spindle comprising a body () and a helical member () extending from said body; and a drivetrain () adapted to rotate the spindle, wherein the food compression section () is located in between the food entry section () and said drivetrain (). The food entry section () comprises said juice outlet () at or near a distal end of said main body relative to the drivetrain, wherein the juice outlet () is vertically displaced relative to the food inlet ().

Horizontal juice extractor

A method of operating a flashlamp in a skin treatment system comprises the steps of charging capacitor, discharging the capacitor through a flashlamp, and interrupting the discharge of the capacitor through the flashlamp at a predetermined time based on at least one condition caused by the discharge of the capacitor through the flashlamp.

Skin treatment system

A juice extractor includes a hopper, food processing chamber, and a drivetrain releasably coupled to the food processing chamber. The releasable coupling includes a lever arrangement which pivots to operate a locking member, to thereby open or close a bayonet type coupling. The locking member includes a locking wheel having a ring of notches adapted to receive projections at a mating part of the food processing chamber. Rotation of the locking wheel moves the ring of notches into and out of alignment with the projections.

Juice extractor

A hand-held skin treatment device comprises a source of electromagnetic radiation, an energy supply electrically coupled to the source and a controller arranged to control the energy supplied to the source of electromagnetic radiation. The source, the energy supply and the controller are enclosed in a watertight housing allowing use of the hand-held skin treatment device in a wet environment. To provide sufficient cooling of the source, the device comprises an internal heat exchanger in heat conducting relation with the source, an external heat exchanger outside of the watertight housing, and a heat path from the internal heat exchanger to the external heat exchanger that passes hermetically through a wall of the watertight housing. With this device, users can conveniently integrate their skin treatment activities with the daily washing routine in a shower or bath. The device is especially useful in the context of hair removal.

Electromagnetic skin treatment device

A method of operating a flashlamp () in a skin treatment system () comprises the steps of establishing a conductive path between the flashlamp () and a charged capacitor () causing a free discharge within the flashlamp, and interrupting said conductive path so as to cut off the current through the lamp when the current density drops below a predetermined current density threshold level (Ix) or when the energy applied to the skin reaches a certain maximum (E).

Juicer

To allow trimming body hair by pulling as well as pushing with the same hair trimmer device (), its comb unit () is positioned over the trimming head () in at least two different positions (), one () pulling and one pushing position (). In particular, in the different comb positions (), the tips () of the comb unit's fins () point in the direction of the respective movement. Preferably, the comb unit () is removably attached. In a preferred embodiment, the trimming head () includes shaving means () besides trimming means ().

Hair trimmer device with comb unit

A pouch has an upper spout portion which is heat sealed to the opening of the pouch. The upper spout portion has two curved gripping elements and a receiving assembly that projects inside the pouch. The receiving assembly is configured to connect with a bellows pump that seats into the upper spout portion and can be removed by pinching the two curved gripping elements together. This action in turn allows a user to remove the bellows pump easily as desired.

Spout assembly for a replaceable fluid reservoir used in personal care appliances

A pumping system for an oral composition, having selected rheological properties, useful in oral treatment. The pumping system has defined rheological characteristics to move such an oral composition from a reservoir to an outlet of the system at a given rate.

Pumping system for an oral composition

To provide a hair cutting device permitting the user to really know the remaining hair length without having to do trial cuts, a hair cutting device () with hair length indicator means () is proposed, wherein the hair length indicator means () comprises a fixed delimiter () and at least one movable delimiter () being movable with respect to the fixed delimiter (), such that the hair length is indicated by the distance (D) between the fixed () and the at least one movable delimiter (). Preferably, the hair length indicator means () comprises more than one movable delimiter (), all movable delimiters () being movable in circumferential direction and functionally couplable with a comb unit () such that a change between movable delimiters () is caused by attachment of the comb unit () to the hair cutting device ().

Hair cutting device with hair length indicator means

The invention relates to an appliance for personal care () comprising a fluid channel () having an inlet opening () and an outlet opening (), a coupling structure () for coupling an outlet opening () of a cartridge () for storing an auxiliary fluid to the inlet opening () of the fluid channel (), said coupling structure () comprising a contact element () with at least one orifice () forming the inlet opening () of the fluid channel (), which contact element () is connectable to the outlet opening () of the cartridge (), and a sealing element () which is moveable relative to the contact element () between a first position in which it covers the orifice () and a second position in which it is released from said orifice (), said sealing element () comprising engagement means () for engaging with means () in the cartridge and moving the sealing element () to the first position upon disconnection of the cartridge () from the appliance (). The invention furthermore relates to a cartridge () for use with an appliance for personal care (), said cartridge comprising a space for storage of an auxiliary fluid and an outlet opening for coupling the cartridge to said appliance, wherein the cartridge comprises means () for cooperating with the engagement means () of the sealing element () of the coupling structure (), and to a system comprising such an appliance and such a cartridge.

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Christian Mikula