Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

U.S. Philips Corporation

Gerald Kauer

Christian Mikula

Harald Duller

Paul Gruber

Jan Vaupot

Stefan Hans Sauer

Herbert Piber

Michael Janny

Jan Peter Elkhuizen

Ingolf Ronald Eberhart

Ingrid Hiet-Brink

Johannes Kostner

An air-based fryer apparatus () includes a shield () for use in a cooking apparatus (), the cooking apparatus having a food preparation chamber () to receive a food support (), a system () for circulating a flow of hot air inside the food preparation chamber () and a heating element () to heat at least the circulated air. The shield (), disposed between the heating element () and the food support (), comprises a plurality of inclined surfaces () and a plurality of apertures () between the inclined surfaces () through which the flow of hot air can pass. The inclined surfaces () block a direct line of sight through the apertures () in the shield () from the heating element () to the food support () to prevent air flowing from the food support () to the heating element () through the apertures without being deflected by the inclined surfaces.

Shield for air-based fryer apparatus

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 personal care apparatus having a hair trimmer, a main part and a head part. The head part being connected to the main part in a region of the main part that is adjacent to the head part and is pivotable relative to the main part. A personal care tool is provided on the head part and comprising a toothed cutting mechanism that has at least one drivable toothed blade and a spring of a U-shaped configuration has a cross-member connected to the head part and two sides co-operating with at least one position extension connected to the main part in the region of each of its two sides. The spring acts between the head part and the main part, and the head part is pivotable by the spring in synchronization with varying displacing forces that act on the head part in the course of a personal care process.

Personal care apparatus with an automatically pivotable head part

A toothbrush ( ) has a cleaning member ( ) equipped with a drivable bristle holder ( ) for holding main bristles ( ) and with a drivable interdental bristle holder ( ) for holding interdental bristles ( ),the interdental bristle holder ( ) being coupled to a drive element ( ) with the aid of a coupling element ( ) and, of the coupling element ( ) and the drive element ( ) at the coupling element ( ) is at least partly elastically deformable parallel to the longitudinal bristle direction ( ) of the interdental bristles ( ) held by the interdental bristle holder ( ).

Toothbrush having main bristles and having transversely and longitudinally adjustable interdental bristles

A shaving apparatus (1) is provided which includes a housing (5), a shaving-head frame (6), which is detachably mounted on the housing (5), a lower cutter (12), a foil-type upper cutter (11) cooperating with a cutting area (14) of the lower cutter (12) and mounted in a foil-cutter frame (21) which is pivotably mounted in the shaving-head frame (6), which upper cutter has at least two aperture fields (31, 32) which differ as regards the form of the hair-entry apertures (33, 34), and a control member (35) for actuating the foil-cutter frame (21), which control member is coupled to the foil-cutter frame (21) via an actuating device (36), the control member (35) is movably mounted on the housing (5) of the shaving apparatus (1), and the actuating device (36) comprises an actuating frame (38) which engages underneath the foil-cutter frame (21) at a location remote from the foil-type upper cutter (11), which actuating frame is mounted in the shaving apparatus (1) so as to be pivotable about a pivotal axis (43) parallel to the pivotal axis (26) of the foil-cutter frame (21).

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Ferlach, Austria

Gerald Kauer