Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Sjoerd Haites

Geert Veenstra

Sieds Bosch

Leonardus Hendrikus Gerardus Johannes Segeren

Simon Eme Kadijk

Fokke Roelof Voorhorst

Bastiaan Johannes De Wit

Hendrik Poel

Geert Geertsma

Shaving apparatus having at least one cutting unit with an external cutting member and a rotatable internal cutting member each the external and internal cutting members having cooperating cutting edges forming bearing surfaces of a first bearing, and a second bearing with bearing surfaces. To minimize the friction between the cutting edges, a support device having visco-elastic properties is provided between the two bearings. During operation, the distance between the bearing surfaces of the first bearing adjusts to the distance between the bearing surfaces of the second bearing. During cutting of hairs, the support device behaves as a stiff element whereas during periods in which no hairs are cut, the support device behaves relatively soft so that the cutting gaps between the cutting edges are closed.

Shaving apparatus

Shaving apparatus having at least one cutting unit with an external cutting member and a movable internal cutting member. An energy-dissipating system is provided between mutually movable parts of the internal or an external cutting member to reduce the bouncing effect between the internal and external cutting member after cutting a hair. Such an energy-dissipating system may for example be an element with visco-elastic properties.

A shaving apparatus with an external cutting member () and an internal cutting member which can be driven into rotation relative to the external member. The external cutting member () has an annular region () with hair-trapping apertures () and a skin support region () in a central area surrounded by the annular region. To improve the shaving performance, the skin support area is provided with ridges

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