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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2005
Dirk Hendrik Wevers, Drachten, NL;
Sint Baron, Drachten, NL;
Gerben Raap, Drachten, NL;
Jan Postma, Drachten, NL;
Renger Ypenburg, Drachten, NL;
Bastiaan Johannes DE Wit, Drachten, NL;
Jacob Brinkert, Drachten, NL;
Fokke Roelof Voorhorst, Drachten, NL;
Klaas Kooijker, Drachten, NL;
Alastair Ian Blake, Drachten, NL;
Dirk Hendrik Wevers, Drachten, NL;
Sint Baron, Drachten, NL;
Gerben Raap, Drachten, NL;
Jan Postma, Drachten, NL;
Renger Ypenburg, Drachten, NL;
Bastiaan Johannes De Wit, Drachten, NL;
Jacob Brinkert, Drachten, NL;
Fokke Roelof Voorhorst, Drachten, NL;
Klaas Kooijker, Drachten, NL;
Alastair Ian Blake, Drachten, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A personal care system includes an electrical shaver and a cleaning device for cleaning a shaving head. The cleaning device further includes a displacing system for displacing its supporting member relative to a cleaning fluid container from a first position in which the shaving head, when the shaver is supported by the supporting member, is not in contact with the cleaning liquid in the container, to a second position in which the shaving head is at least partially immersed in the cleaning liquid in the container. The cleaning device does not need any pump for displacing the cleaning liquid. Rather, activation of the shaving head that causes, e.g., rotation of a cutting unit, provides a sufficient pumping effect for the cleaning liquid when the shaving head is immersed in the cleaning liquid.