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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ate Klaas Damstra, Drachten, NL;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B26B 1/938 ; B25F 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B26B 1/938 ; B25F 5/00 ;
Abstract
A hand-held electrical appliance ( ) for personal care or for use as an electric tool, has a housing ( ), manual actuating means ( ), at least one force sensor ( ) located in or on the housing ( ) for supplying a sensor signal representative of the grip force exerted by the hand of a user, and control means for controlling at least one operational parameter of the appliance ( ) in response to the sensor signal. In this way the user can consciously or unconsciously influence the motor speed or the spring load of the shaving heads of an electric shaver, or the motor speed of an electric drill.