Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

U.S. Philips Corporation

Wiebe Wierda

Paulus Cornelis Duineveld

Fokke Roelof Voorhorst

Bastiaan Johannes De Wit

Matthijs Hendrikus Lubbers

Bart-Jan Zwart

Pieter Kingma

Stephanus Jacob Gerardus Tamminga

Margarita Zwanette Van Raalte

Jarno Beekman

Cornelis J Contant

Bernardus Lubbertus Kuiper

Mark Van Wijhe

Kasper Nicolaas Jansen

Matthijs Hendrikus

Henriette Marieke Seinen

A liquid containing system for a floor cleaning device, the liquid containing system comprising an outlet having a plurality of openings (H) to allow a liquid (W) to be extracted by means of capillary force when a mopping substrate, e.g. a cloth (C), is mounted against the plurality of openings (H), after filling the liquid containing system being substantially closed but for the plurality of openings (H).

Floor cleaning device

Drive coupling assembly () for a high-speed rotating brush, comprising:&#x2014;a coupling head () having a coupling head rotation axis (L) and including three drive surfaces () which are arranged to be rotationally symmetrical through 120&#xb0; with respect to said coupling head rotation axis; and&#x2014;a coupling member (), having a coupling member rotation axis (L) and including three first drive surfaces () which are arranged to be rotationally symmetrical through 120&#xb0; with respect to said coupling member rotation axis, wherein said coupling head () and said coupling member () are detachably couplable, such that, in a coupled condition, their rotational axes (L, L) are aligned and the coupling head is rotatable to drive each of its drive surfaces () in contact with a respective first drive surface () of the coupling member, to thereby exert both a torque and an axially directed force on the coupling member.

Drive coupling for high-speed rotating brush

A separation assembly for separating dirt and dust from air in a vacuum cleaner, through which assembly an air flow path extends from an inlet to an outlet. The air flow path extends through an upstream separator and a downstream separator. The downstream separator includes an air-permeable filter element bounding an inner space. The wall sections bounding the air flow path in the area of the downstream separator include at least a transparent section through which the filter element is visible. The inner space is located upstream of an area outside the filter element for filtering air flowing from inside the filter element to outside the filter element.

Separation assembly for a vaccuum cleaner with multi-stage dirt separation

A vacuum-cleaner-hose assembly includes a vacuum-cleaner hose (6, 36) and a swivel coupling (3, 33) for coupling the vacuum-cleaner hose (6, 36) to a housing (4) of a vacuum cleaner so as to allow it to be swivelled about a swivel axis (5) and at an angle relative to said swivel axis (5). The swivel coupling (3, 33) has a hose guide (8, 38) which surrounds a flexible portion (24, 54) of the vacuum-cleaner hose (6, 36) and holds said portion of the vacuum-cleaner hose (6, 36) in a curved position. Since the vacuum-cleaner hose is held in a curved position, the connection of the vacuum-cleaner hose to the swivel coupling can be arranged closer to that end of the swivel coupling which is to be connected to the vacuum cleaner, as a result of which the swivel coupling can be smaller and the swivel coupling or at least a combination of the swivel coupling and an adjoining coupling portion of the vacuum-cleaner hose projects less far in relation to the swivel axis of the swivel coupling.

Vacuum-cleaner-hose assembly having a swivel bend and vacuum cleaner

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Hoogeveen, Netherlands

Wiebe Wierda