Braun Gmbh

The Procter Gamble Company

The Gillette Company

Kaz Usa, Inc.

Frank Kressmann

Fred Dieter Schnak

Dirk Freund

Brigitte Harttmann

Martin Giersiepen

Uwe Schober

Stefan Hubert Hollinger

Ulrich Heck

Dana Paul Gruenbacher

Stephan Gary Bush

Kirakodu S Nanjundaswamy

George M Cintra

Ingo Vetter

Leslie J Pinnell

Alexander Kaplan

David C Batson

Leo Faranda

Mark William Baize

David Leigh DeMuth

Joern Riemer

Alexandre Halbach

Gerrit R&ouml;nneberg

Frank Ziegler

Gerrit Rönneberg

Rainer Hans

Alexander Franz Doll

Robert Schäfer

Dietrich Lubs

Dieter Wunder

Christoph Rennefeld

Waltraut Müller

Robert SCHÄFER

The present invention provides for a fastenable device for oral area position detection that is fastenable to oral care implements.

Fastenable device for oral cavity position detection

A fastenable device includes a housing having a base portion, a head portion opposite to the base portion, and a body portion between the base portion and the head portion. The base portion has a first fastener in the form of a full ring integral to the housing and defining a through-hole. The head portion has a second fastener in the form of an open ring integral to the housing and defining a snappable recess. The device includes a frequency generator housed in the housing and electrically connected to an electrode pair disposed on the housing, for applying a voltage with at least two different frequencies between the electrodes.

A volatile composition dispenser is configured to be used in a vehicle. The volatile composition dispenser comprises a housing and a fan positioned at least partially within the housing. The fan is configured to intermittently activate to move a volume of air. The volatile composition dispenser further comprises a controller in electrical communication with the fan and positioned within the housing, and a replaceable unit configured to be attached to the housing and positioned at least partially within the housing.

Dispenser for dispensing volatile compositions

A handle for a small electric handheld appliance in which the handle comprises a motor assembly disposed in the handle. The motor assembly comprises a generally L-shaped magnetic yoke formed from two substantially perpendicular surfaces, such that the two substantially perpendicular surfaces define a concave receiving portion. The motor assembly also comprises an iron core and a coil winding disposed substantially in the concave receiving portion, such that the iron core and the coil winding are free from contact with one of the two substantially perpendicular surfaces when the motor is at rest.

Linear motor for a small electric handheld device

A circuit arrangement (S) for supplying a load (P), whose essential electric property is capacitance, from a DC voltage source (U) has a switch element (S), which in the operational state is alternately switched between the conductive and non-conductive state, and at least one component (L, L) whose essential property is inductance, the load (P) being coupled into the circuit arrangement (S) in parallel to the component (L, L) so that the load (P) and the component (L, L) form a parallel resonant circuit, the switch element (S) is connected between the parallel resonant circuit and a base voltage (GND) and the DC voltage source is to be applied in parallel (U) to the load. The circuit arrangement (S) according to the invention can be used to drive the capacitive load (P) in a bipolar manner, the supply of the load in the non-conductive phase of the switch element (S) being achieved by the component (L, L).

Circuit arrangement and method for supplying a capacitive load

Disclosed is a battery having an internally integrated voltage converter module. The battery includes at least one electrochemical cell having an internal bore, a voltage converter module electrically coupled to the at least one electrochemical cell and disposed within a portion of the internal bore, the voltage converter configured to convert a first voltage produced by the at least one electrochemical cell into a second, different voltage, a set of terminals being electrically coupled to the voltage converter, and a bypass circuit coupled between one of the terminals of the set of terminals and the at least one electrochemical cell to direct charging current applied from an external source to the at least one electrochemical cell.

Battery with an integrated voltage converter having a bypass circuit

The invention is directed to a method and a device for determining the blood pressure, in which a pressure sensor is applied to an individual's limb to detect the blood pressure prevailing in said limb. According to the present invention, the orientation of the limb is detected by means of an orientation sensing unit, and the detected blood pressure is corrected in an evaluating unit in response to the limb's detected orientation.

Method and measuring device for determining blood pressure

A battery that includes an electrochemical cell having an internal bore therethrough is described herein. The battery also includes a voltage converter module electrically coupled to the electrochemical cell and disposed within a portion of the internal bore The voltage converter is configured to convert a first voltage produced by the electrochemical cell into a second, different voltage.

Battery with integrated voltage converter

The invention is directed to a blood pressure monitoring device comprising a central parts mounting module and to a method of manufacturing this parts mounting module. According to the invention fluid channels are produced by gas injection into the interior of the parts mounting module, the walls bounding the fluid channels being completely formed by the material of the parts mounting module. The injection of gas continues for as long as a core of the parts mounting module is still in the liquid phase in the area of the fluid channel, whilst an outer area surrounding the core has already solidified, so that the pressure fluid expels the liquid core area, producing a tubular fluid channel.

Blood pressure monitoring device and method of manufacturing a parts mounting module of a blood pressure monitoring device

The invention is directed to a liquid crystal display having two opposed substrates, a liquid crystalline medium contained between the substrates, and a plurality of electrodes arranged on the substrates to produce a multiplicity of pixels. According to the invention, the electrodes are configured in such fashion that the pixels have round contours. The pixels may also have contours in the form of a polygon with more than four sides. Preferably pixels with roughly circular contours are produced.

Liquid crystal display

A method of heating water in an electric kettle including determining the temperature differential between a measured starting temperature and a preselected target temperature. If the determined temperature differential is equal to a reference temperature differential, then the kettle is heated at less than full power for a calculated period of time. If, on the other hand, the determined temperature differential is greater than the reference temperature differential, then the kettle is heated until the kettle temperature reaches a determined end temperature.

Method for heating liquid in an electric kettle

The invention is directed to a wrist blood pressure monitoring device comprising a pressure sensor for detecting a pressure signal, an applicator unit for applying the pressure sensor against the wrist area of a subject's lower arm, an evaluating unit for evaluating the pressure signal, and an inclination detecting device for detecting the inclination of the blood pressure monitoring device and for delivering an electrical inclination signal corresponding to the inclination. According to the invention, the inclination detecting device comprises at least one movable, in particular pendulum-type positioning element and an inclination sensing device cooperating with the positioning element and including at least one sensing element movable with the positioning element and formed in particular by an optically reflecting, wedge-shaped arc section of the positioning element, and at least one further sensing element having in particular a reflected light barrier. The sensing elements are configured such that the electrical inclination signal is derivable from the relative position of the relatively movable sensing elements.

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Eschborn, Germany

Frank Kressmann