The Gillette Company

Braun Gmbh

The Procter Gamble Company

Uwe Jungnickel

Dominik Langhammer

Benedikt Heil

Jens Alinski

Christine Hallein

Karen Lynn Claire-Zimmet

Kathi Ballmaier

Sven Alexander Franke

Niclas Altmann

Marlis Hübner

Soeren Jan Wasow

Andreas Reuschenbach

Wolfgang Stegmann

Armin Tschol

Jochen Ganninger

Frank Roland Gliemroth

Torsten Klemm

Ingo Vetter

Jens Störkel

Holger Schulz

Sören Wasow

Jochen Erich Kawerau

Alexander Hilscher

Erwin Paul Mark

Franziska Schmid

Ulrich Stoerkel

Norbert Schaefer

Bernhard Kraus

Georges Driesen

Phong Duy Vu

Andreas Birk

Christian Neyer

Ulrich Störkel

Heidrun Annika Schmelcher

Michael Schmid

Matthew Lloyd Newman

Fiona Harrington

Markus Morgott

Angelika Beruda

René Guebler

Kathrin Lange

Andre Lerch

Gerald Görich

Andreas Bresselschmidt

Joerg Kotitschke

Soren Wasow

Hansjoerg Reick

Marcel Denis Knorr

Martin Brust

Britta Stockinger

Christian Peter Mandl

Martin Simeth

John Kit Carson

Alexander Franz Doll

Kris Lueckel

Olaf Sörensen

Bertholt Ludwig Schroeder

Bert Schrempel

John Joseph Mertz

Francis Pinto

Jörg Kotitschke

Mattthew Lloyd Newman

Lance Ataalla

Simone Bertrand

Marlis Huebner

Eva Kaiser

Christine Hielscher

Markus Margott

Gerald Gorich

Nicolas Goetz

Soeren Wasow

Marlis Hubner

Gerald GÖRICH

Bertholt Schroeder

Ballmaier Kathi

Maritn Brust

A storage case for storing a power-driven personal care implement includes a primary cavity and a primary cover, preferably movably connected to the primary cavity. The primary cavity and the primary cover define a primary compartment configured to store the power-driven personal care implement therein. The primary cover is configured to set the primary compartment in an open position or a closed position. The storage case includes a secondary cavity and a secondary cover, preferably movably connected to the secondary cavity. The secondary cavity and the secondary cover define a secondary compartment separate from the primary compartment. The secondary cover is configured to set the secondary compartment in an open position or a closed position. The secondary compartment is configured to store a power source electrically unconnected to any electrical conductors.

Storage case for storing a power-driven personal care implement and personal care kit

Toothbrush

Toothbrush head

Toothbrush handle

A handle connection mechanism with a handle having a distal end and a proximal end opposite the distal end. The proximal end has a hollow portion. A connector has an outer lateral surface and a recess therein. The recess forms a cavity within the connector. A spring-loaded ball-snap element having a ball and a spring is configured to apply a radial force onto the ball. The spring-loaded ball-snap is positioned within the cavity of the connector. The spring applies a force onto the ball in a direction towards the outer lateral surface of the connector. A head is repeatedly attachable to and detachable from the handle via the connector. A portion of the connector having the spring-loaded ball-snap element therein outwardly extends from the proximal end of the handle and the ball slightly extends beyond the outer lateral surface surrounding the ball.

Handle connection mechanism

A handle for a personal care implement comprises a connector for repeatedly attaching and detaching a head to and from the handle, the handle further comprising a core structure, the core structure and the connector being unitarily made to form a core-connector unit, wherein the core-connector unit is made from a fiber-reinforced material.

Handle for a personal care implement and personal care implement

Handle for battery operated toothbrush

A handle for a personal care implement includes a core structure as a first component, a second component made from a polymeric material comprising a polymer base material and a filler material, the second component at least partially covering the core structure, and a third component at least partially covering the core structure and/or the second component.

A handle for a personal care implement includes a connector for repeatedly attaching and detaching a head to and from the handle. The handle has a longitudinal extension extending between a proximal end closest to the head and a distal end opposite to the proximal end, the handle further having a core structure, the core structure and the connector being unitarily made to form a core-connector unit. A second component at least partially covers the core structure, wherein the core structure has a longitudinal extension extending along the longitudinal extension of the handle, the core structure comprising at least two protrusions interlocking with the second component.

A personal care guidance system for guiding a user through a personal care routine, the system including a personal care implement having a section at least partially made from a magnetic and/or ferromagnetic material, and a magnetic personal care guide to which the personal care implement is magnetically attachable and detachable. The magnetic personal care guide includes a guidance tool, the guidance tool being activated by detaching the personal care implement from the magnetic personal care guide.

Personal care guidance system and magnetic personal guide

A head for an oral care implement comprises a mounting surface and at least one tuft extending from the mounting surface. The tuft comprises a first group of filaments and at least a second group of filaments. The first group of filaments is surrounded by the second group of filaments. The filaments of the first group have a first length and the filaments of the second group have a second length, the first length being different from the second length. The difference in length between the first length and the second length is about 1.1 mm to about 1.9 mm.

Head for an oral care implement

A method for manufacturing a handle for an electrically operated personal care implement comprises the following steps: providing a metal tube housing having a metal wall with an opening therein and an inner surface defining an inner cavity for accommodating an energy source; providing a hard switch component comprising a frame with a recess; attaching the frame of the hard switch component to the inner surface of the metal wall, the frame surrounding the opening and providing an undercut between the recess and the inner surface, the undercut being open towards the opening; and at least partially over-molding the opening to form a soft switch component in the undercut, thereby forming with the hard switch component a switch assembly for activating the energy source, the switch assembly sealing the opening from the inner surface of the metal wall.

Method for making a handle for an electrically operated personal care implement

A replaceable head for removeable connection with a manual toothbrush handle, the head comprising: a first end, a second end opposite to the first end, a neck having a hollow portion therein and extending between the first end and the second end, and a bristle carrier disposed adjacent to the first end. The second end comprises a second-end opening leading into the hollow portion of the neck and terminates with a second-end edge comprising a chamfered surface structured and configured to mate with a corresponding chamfered surface of the handle when the head is connected thereto. The neck's hollow portion is defined by an inner wall comprising a recess for receiving a spring-loaded ball associated with a connector of the handle.

Manual toothbrush having replaceable head

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Königstein, Germany

Uwe Jungnickel