Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Joldert Maria Boersma

Mark Thomas Johnson

Klaas Kooijker

Paulus Cornelis Duineveld

Johannes Tseard Van Der Kooi

Fokke Roelof Voorhorst

Bastiaan Johannes De Wit

Lutz Christian Gerhardt

Bart Gottenbos

Jacqueline Van Driel

Alwin Rogier Martijn Verschueren

Ytsen Wielstra

Victor Martinus Gerardus Van Acht

Arnoldus Johannes Martinus Jozeph Ras

Ravindra Bhat

Fred Fraij

Bart-Jan Zwart

Peter Sofrides Viet

Theodoor Stolk

Boon Teck Tan

Antonius Johannes Joseph Wismans

Gertrude Riette Van Der Kamp

Aaldert Geert Zijlstra

Egbert Van De Veen

Thomas Petrus Hendricus Warmerdam

Luck Wee Png

Nathan Farrell

Stephanus Jacob Gerardus Tamminga

Timotheus Johannes Maria Van Aken

Gertrude Riëtte Bakker-Van Der Kamp

Arif Veendijk

Yao Hean Chiah

Wilhelmus Hendrikus Maria Bruggink

Wee Ann Chong

Jeffrey Groves

Hannes Uwe Floessholzer

Marc Leendert Verwillegen

David Alonso Canadas

Rico Paolo Ochoa Ramirez

Franciscus Maria Johannes Van Roemburg

Pieter Herman Klokman

Palani Pandurangan

Marie Sybien Nijboer

Pieter Horstman

Prakash S S

Joris Pieter Oosterhuis

Klass Kooijker

Desalegn Gebresilassie

Mun Kong Soo

Gertrude Rioette Van Der Kamp

Bastiann Johannes De Wit

Maaike Cornelia Johanna Wilhelmina Van Hulten

Joo Pheng Toh

Marie S Nijboer

Peter C Eshuis

David Paul Alonso Canadas

Jose Villar

Jason Daniel Miller

Le Gia Pham

Jay Wolfer

Priscilla BRANDÃO Silva

An oral irrigator having an irrigator tip, the tip including a handle portion, a tip portion, a channel in fluid communication with the tether and arranged within the handle portion and the tip portion, and an actuator located on or within the handle portion, the actuator arranged to at least partially altar a flow of a fluid through the channel. The oral irrigator further includes a housing, the housing having a reservoir in fluid communication with a pump sub-assembly, a sensor arranged to measure a first pressure or first electrical load within the pump sub-assembly, and a control unit arranged to control an operational current provided to the pump sub-assembly where operation of the actuator produces a second pressure or electrical load measured by the sensor and the control unit is arranged to alter the operational current of the motor in response to the change.

Irrigator fluidic communication

A skin treatment device especially for use for treating skin in terms of cleaning, exfoliating and/or massaging the skin. The device includes a housing and a skin treatment head releasably attached to the housing. The skin treatment head being rotatable around an axis element associated with the housing, wherein the housing encloses an actuator configured to rotate the skin treatment head, wherein the skin treatment head includes one or more brushes associated with a support element, wherein the device further includes a first thermally conductive element configured at a shortest distance to the one or more brushes selected from the range of 0-40 mm, and a thermoelectric element configured to heat in a first mode the first thermally conductive element to provide a hot surface.

Heating and cooling supply for facial brush

The invention relates to a portable textile treatment device comprising a heatable soleplate () intended to be in contact with a textile (TXT) for treating the textile. The heatable soleplate () comprises a soleplate opening (H). The device comprises a module (MD) comprising an image sensor () for taking an image of the textile to be treated through the soleplate opening (H), and a control unit () configured for a) executing an algorithm stored in said portable textile treatment device, using the taken image as an input of the algorithm, to obtain a classification of the textile, and for b) controlling, based on the classification, at least one operating parameter of the portable textile treatment device. The module (MD) and the control unit () are integrated within the portable textile treatment device. The image sensor comprises an active surface sensitive to light which is oriented with respect to the surface of the heatable soleplate (), with an absolute value of an orientation angle being in the range from 15 to 70 degrees. The portable textile treatment device further comprises thermal insulation means arranged in-between the heatable soleplate () and the module (MD) for insulating the module (MD) from heat dissipated by the heatable soleplate ().

Portable textile treatment device with image sensor and thermal insulation means

The invention provides an electronic domestic appliance () comprising a decalcifying apparatus () for purifying an aqueous liquid, wherein the electronic domestic appliance () comprises an electronic connector () for connecting to an external AC power source wherein the electronic connector () is functionally coupled with the DC power supply (), the electronic domestic appliance () further comprising a functional element () wherein purified aqueous liquid is applied and/or stored.

Electrosorption purification system with battery driven regeneration

The invention provides a skin treatment device especially for use for treating skin in terms of cleaning, exfoliating and/or massaging the skin. The device comprising a housing and a skin treatment head releasably attached to the housing. The skin treatment head being rotatable around an axis element associated with the housing, wherein the housing encloses an actuator configured to rotate the skin treatment head, wherein the skin treatment head comprises one or more brushes associated with a support element, wherein the device further comprises a first thermally conductive element configured at a shortest distance (d) to the one or more brushes selected from the range of 0-40 mm, and wherein the device further comprises a thermoelectric element configured to heat in a first mode the first thermally conductive element to provide a hot surface.

A system for adjusting the microclimate of a bed environment includes a multi-zone mattress-style support having individual heating zones, a heater for heating the individual heating zones, a cooler for cooling the multi-zone mattress-style support, and temperature sensors. The cooler includes the multi-zone mattress-style support at least one air duct with the multi-zone mattress-style support for transporting ambient air through the multi-zone mattress-style support.

Temperature-controlled multi-zone mattress-style support

A system for improving a person's sleep includes a bedding layer having a plurality of individually controllable thermally adjustable zones, a plurality of temperature sensors, where at least one temperature sensor per thermally adjustable zone is dispersed throughout the bedding layer. Further, a controller is configured to control the heating power of each thermally adjustable zone, and detect in which the body presence is detected.

System and a method for improving a person's sleep

A semi-free rotating crankshaft actuator () for an oral healthcare appliance comprises a chamber (), a spring loadable plunger (), and a crank mechanism (). The crank mechanism () comprises at least a drive pin () rotatably driven about a drive axis (), and a crank shaft () semi-freely rotatable about the drive axis, wherein the crank shaft () couples to the spring loadable plunger () and is partially driven about the drive axis () via (i) the drive pin () in a first operational mode, (ii) the spring loadable plunger () in a second operational mode, and (iii) the drive pin () in a third operational mode that comprises at least completing an incomplete actuation of the plunger () from an undesired end position to the desired end position in response to the crank shaft () pushing the plunger () from the undesired end position to the desired end position.

Semi-free rotating crankshaft actuator to pre-stress and fast release a spring loadable plunger for an oral healthcare appliance

An apparatus for preparing hot beverages includes a heater and a latent heat storage provision (LHSP) that is in thermal contact with the heater. The LHSP contains, or is configured to contain, a phase-change material. The apparatus further includes an electric circuit for powering the heater. The electric circuit includes a switch assembly that is configured cut power to the heater when a temperature of the LHSP fulfills a predetermined auto-power-down condition.

Apparatus for preparing hot beverages with auto-power-down mechanism

A vacuum cleaner () comprises an air inlet opening (), an air outlet opening () and a rotatable separator () for separating air and airborne particles. The separator () comprises at least one air entrance opening () located between the air inlet opening () and the air outlet opening (). The vacuum cleaner () is provided with air-guide means () for guiding at least part of the air towards the separator (). In use, the air-guide means () provides an at least partially closed boundary in axial direction for a column of rotating air () around the separator (). The minimum distance (Rag) of an edge () of the air-guide means () to the rotating axis () of the separator () is larger than a distance (Rs) of the air entrance opening () of the separator () to the rotating axis () of the separator ().

Vacuum cleaner

An apparatus for preparing a beverage from water and an instant product includes a water supply system for supplying water, a heating device for sterilizing water by heating it; and a cooling device for cooling water heated in the heating device. The cooling device uses water from the water supply system as cooling-water. The water that is sterilized in the heating device has preferably previously been used in the cooling device as cooling-water. The cooling device includes a counter flow heat exchanger.

Apparatus for preparing a beverage from water-cooled sterilized water and an instant product

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Joldert Maria Boersma