Braun Gmbh

Thomas Brum

Uwe Schaaf

Frank Ziegler

Holger Port

Alexander Kl&ouml;s

Thomas Meinke

Werner Port

Takeshi Hotta

Kenji Ohi

A motor and a personal-care device having the motor. The motor has a motor carrier made at least partially from a sheet metal material, a movable motor part, and a spring element that couples the movable motor part with the motor carrier. The sheet metal material comprises at least one coupling area where the sheet metal material is folded so that its two layers are facing each other while each of the two layers comprises a slot, the slots being aligned with one another. A connection extension of the spring element extends through the aligned slots.

Motor with spring-mounted movable motor part and personal care device comprising such a motor

The invention is directed to a drive mechanism for driving a working unit, movable in a rotary oscillating manner, of domestic appliances, particularly dry shavers. The drive mechanism of the invention includes a permanent magnet motor which has a stator with an exciter winding and a rotor with at least one permanent magnet positioned in the stator field and rotatably mounted on a shaft, a reset device for returning the rotor to a position of rest in such a way as to enable the rotor to oscillate about the position of rest, a coupling device for coupling the rotor to the working unit, wherein the coupling device is connected to the rotor in spaced relationship to the rotor shaft, a detecting device for detecting the oscillatory motion of the rotor, and an actuating unit for actuating the permanent magnet motor in response to the detected oscillatory motion, provision being made for frequency control elements for actuating the permanent magnet motor with a frequency corresponding approximately to the resonant frequency of the rotor.

Drive mechanism for oscillating electric products of personal use, particularly dry shavers

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