Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Roel Alexander Rethmeier

Willem Maat

Marcus Franciscus Eijkelkamp

Martijn Frans Johan Nab

Siegfried Sablatschan

Kin Fatt Phoon

Paulus Cornelis Duineveld

Martinus Bernardus Stapelbroek

Albert Jan Aitink

Everhardus Johannes Hoexum

Geert-Jan Darwinkel

Luca Iaccarino

Luc Berntsen

Reinier Alexander Tijssen

Boon Teck Tan

Hendrik Klaas Paauw

Arjen De Boer

Arjan Teodor Van Wieringen

Hock Soon Tiew

Daan Hendrik Gosenshuis

Yen Leng Pang

Asok Kumar Kasevan

Barry Eng Keong Tay

Pieter Johannes Werkman

Bernhard Schratter

Roland Van Straaten

Tamilselvan Thirumazhisai Sankaralingam

Ajit Pal Singh

Jingqi Hou

Franciscus Maria Johannes Van Roemburg

Auke Meint Jan Veninga

Taikang Xiao

Boon Tek Tn

Chaitra Belle

Geert-Jan (Guus) Darwinkel

Reinier Alexander Tijsseh

Barry E K Tay

Hock S Tiew

A blade set for a hair cutting appliance includes a stationary blade and a cutter blade. The stationary blade has a blade base and a plurality of teeth extending from the blade base in a longitudinal direction. The teeth are arranged in a series alternating with tooth gaps therebetween, where the tooth gaps define hair entry slots. The teeth have a first side arranged to cooperate with the cutter blade to cut hair and a second side arranged as a skin-facing side. The teeth have processing edges at the first side at their longitudinal extension, where the smoothened processing edges have smoothened edge transitions.

Blade set and hair cutting appliance

A cutting unit having a blade carrier carrying a cutting blade, and a guard. The guard includes a blade-facing surface engaging the cutting blade at a cut location, a planar guard contact surface for contacting the user's skin, where the guard contact surface is angled with respect to the blade-facing surface, and a guard extender separate from the guard. The guard extender includes a planar extension contact surface cooperating with the guard contact surface to provide an extended contact zone across the guard and the guard extender for contacting a user's skin. The blade-facing surface and the guard contact surface converge towards a tip of the guard, such that a cutting direction extends along the guard contact surface towards the tip. The extended contact zone may provide for improved stability and reliable orientation of the cutting unit for cutting while limiting material use.

Cutting unit

A hair cutting device having a cutting unit, the cutting unit including a blade carrier carrying a cutting blade that has cutting teeth; a guard blade that has guard teeth. The blade is movable along the blade carrier relative to the cutting blade within a guard length range between a first guard position corresponding to a shortest hair cutting length of the cutting unit and a second guard position corresponding to the longest hair cutting length of the cutting unit. The blade carrier includes a stop configured to prevent movement of the guard blade past the first guard position and outside of the guard length range, thereby preventing the cutting length from being below the shortest cutting length.

Hair cutting device

A blade set for a hair cutting appliance includes a stationary blade and a cutter blade. The stationary blade has a blade base and a plurality of teeth extending from the blade base in a longitudinal direction. The teeth are arranged in a series alternating with tooth gaps therebetween, where the tooth gaps define hair entry slots. The teeth have a first side arranged to cooperate with the cutter blade to cut hair and a second side arranged as a skin-facing side. The teeth have processing edges at the first side at their longitudinal extension, where the processing edges have smoothened edge transitions.

A blade set assembly for a hair cutting appliance includes a stationary blade and a movable blade. The movable and stationary blades are arranged one on top the other and movable relative to each other. A guide unit is formed between the movable blade and the stationary blade, where the blades engage each other. The guide unit includes longitudinally spaced, laterally extending guideways, each defined between a stationary blade guide surface and a movable blade guide surface that overlap each other. Rolling elements are arranged at the guideways between the guide surfaces. The guide surfaces have a height extension greater than a radius of the rolling elements such that the guide surfaces overlap in a vertical direction. The guide surfaces provide for coupling in a longitudinal direction between the blades such that the guide unit provides for a set longitudinal distance for any force applied in the longitudinal direction.

Blade set assembly and hair cutting appliance

There is disclosed a cutting unit () for a hair cutting device (), comprising: a blade carrier () carrying a cutting blade; a guard () comprising: a blade-facing surface engaging the cutting blade at a cut location; a planar guard contact surface () for contacting skin of a user, wherein the guard contact surface () is angled with respect to the blade-facing surface; and a guard extender () separate from the guard (), wherein the guard extender () comprises a planar extension contact surface () configured to cooperate with the guard contact surface () to provide an extended contact zone () across the guard () and the guard extender () for contacting skin of a user. The blade-facing surface and the guard contact surface () converge towards a tip of the guard, wherein a cutting direction extends along the guard contact surface () towards the tip. The guard extender () is configured so that the extension contact surface () is rearward of the guard contact surface () with respect to the cutting direction X. The extension contact surface () has a transverse extent along an axis perpendicular to the cutting direction, and wherein there is a gap along the cutting direction X between the guard contact surface and at least a transverse portion of the extension contact surface. The extended contact zone may provide for improved stability and reliable orientation of the cutting unit for cutting while limiting material use.

The present invention relates to a heating device () for heating food () in a container (), in particular milk in a baby bottle. The heating device comprising a chamber () configured to contain a fluid () and to receive the container (), a heating unit () for heating the fluid, a temperature measuring element () for measuring the temperature of the fluid () over time to obtain a temperature profile () over time, and a controller () for controlling the heating unit () based on the obtained temperature profile of the fluid.

Heating device for heating food in a container, in particular milk in a baby bottle

A method of manufacturing a blade set assembly, a blade set assembly, and a hair cutting appliance, wherein the method includes providing a base component including a stationary blade, providing a movable component comprising a cutter blade, providing a coupling element, the coupling element being arranged to be interposed between the base component and the movable component, providing a plastic contact bridge, arranging the stationary blade and the cutter blade at a defined relative assembly position, securing the assembly position between the stationary blade and the cutter blade, involving attaching the plastic contact bridge to one of the base component and the movable component, attaching a retaining portion of the coupling element to the other one of the base component and the movable component, and penetrating the plastic contact bridge with at least one insertion end of the coupling element.

Blade set manufacturing method, blade set and hair cutting appliance

A cutting head () for a hair cutting appliance () comprises a blade set () including a stationary blade () and a cutter blade (). The stationary blade and the cutter blade comprise at least one toothed leading edge () jointly defined by respective teeth () thereof that extend in a longitudinal direction (X). The stationary blade further comprises a front face (), at the teeth () thereof, arranged to face a user's skin, when in operation. A skin protector () couples to a housing portion () of the cutting head, wherein the skin protector at least partially covers the front face () and is arranged to contact the skin, when in operation. The skin protector is movable between a first state and a second state with respect to the blade set () and includes an advanced position in the first state and a retracted position in the second state.

Cutting head and hair cutting appliance

A stationary cutting blade for a hair clipping device has a base body and a coined cutting teeth. The coined cutting teeth are spaced apart from each other, arranged on a front side of the base body, and each extend parallel to a longitudinal axis of the stationary cutting blade. A thickness ratio between the thickness of the base body and the thickness of the cutting teeth is larger than 1.1. Each cutting tooth has a substantially wedge-shaped cross-section with a scissor angle and a wedge angle, where the sum of the scissor angle and the wedge angle is smaller than 70&#xb0;.

Stationary cutting blade for a hair clipping device

A heating element and a method of manufacturing the heating element including an aluminum substrate, an electrically insulating layer based on a sol-gel precursor, and an electrically resistive layer with a thickness smaller than 2 &#x3bc;m. The features of this heating element solve the problem of the crack formation due to a mismatch of thermal expansion coefficient of the aluminum substrate and the resistive layer. Also an electrical domestic appliance including the heating element.

Thin-film heating element

A device for trimming hair includes a fixed cutting element, a mobile cutting element and a fixed guard, each including a plurality of teeth that extends in a similar direction. The mobile cutting element is moveable relative to the fixed cutting element such that hairs are cut when they enter a space between the teeth. The mobile cutting element is positioned between the fixed cutting element and the fixed guard, and when in use, the fixed guard is the component closest to the skin to be shaved in a certain direction. A length of the teeth of the fixed and mobile cutting elements and the fixed guard differ so that, during use, the fixed cutting element and the fixed guard may contact the skin but the mobile cutting element is restricted from fully contacting the skin to prevent damage or irritation of the skin.

Skin guard for hair trimmer

A steam generating apparatus includes a body for receiving water to be heated and has a first portion including a first metal, and a heating device having a second portion including a second metal. The heating device includes a heating plate connected with the body by forming an intermetallic layer between the first and second portions. A temperature sensor measures temperature indicative of pressure inside the body and thermally contacts the heating device outside the body. A method of controlling the pressure of steam in the steam generating apparatus includes setting the target water temperature for a first time period to a first set temperature; setting the target water temperature for a second time period to a second set temperature higher than the first set temperature; and setting the target water temperature for a third time period to a third set temperature lower than the second set temperature.

Apparatus and method for generating steam

A steam discharge unit () comprises a chamber () for accommodating a flow of a water-steam mixture and heating the water-steam mixture, an inlet () to the chamber (), and an outlet () from the chamber (). In order to avoid water droplets from exiting the chamber () through the outlet () along with a flow of steam, special measures are taken, which comprise a barrier () arranged inside the chamber (), in a flow path of a water-steam mixture from the inlet () to the outlet (), and a hydrophobic surface () arranged preferably close to the outlet (). In case water droplets remain inside the chamber () and tend to move towards the outlet (), an actual release of the water droplets from the chamber () cannot take place by virtue of the presence of the barrier () and the hydrophobic surface () as mentioned.

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Drachten, Netherlands

Roel Alexander Rethmeier