Patent
Personal care system comprising an electrical shaver and a cleaning device
| العنوان: | Personal care system comprising an electrical shaver and a cleaning device |
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| Patent Number: | 8,505,205 |
| تاريخ النشر: | August 13, 2013 |
| Appl. No: | 11/573872 |
| Application Filed: | June 21, 2005 |
| مستخلص: | 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. |
| Inventors: | Wevers, Dirk Hendrik (Drachten, NL); Baron, Sint (Drachten, NL); Raap, Gerben (Drachten, NL); Postma, Jan (Drachten, NL); Ypenburg, Renger (Drachten, NL); De Wit, Bastiaan Johannes (Drachten, NL); Brinkert, Jacob (Drachten, NL); Voorhorst, Fokke Roelof (Drachten, NL); Kooijker, Klaas (Drachten, NL); Blake, Alastair Ian (Drachten, NL) |
| Assignees: | Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, NL) |
| Claim: | 1. A personal care system comprising an electrical shaver and a cleaning device for cleaning a shaving head of the shaver, the shaving head having a carrying member wherein the cleaning device comprises: a container for a cleaning liquid; and a supporting member for supporting the shaver in a first position and a second position; and a displacing system configured to displace the supporting member relative to the container from the 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 the second position in which the shaving head, when the shaver is supported by the supporting member, is at least partially immersed in the cleaning liquid in the container, wherein the container comprises a contact member which protrudes from a container surface of the container to a position higher than remaining portions of the container surface for making a contact at a contact location that abuts against an inner portion of the carrying member for pushing the inner portion of the carrying member inward away from the container surface to tilt the carrying member so that a circumferential portion of the carrying member is moved towards the container surface, wherein the inner portion is away from the circumferential portion towards a central portion of the carrying member. |
| Claim: | 2. The personal care system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein in said first position, the shaving head is above a predefined level of cleaning liquid in the container, and in said second position the shaving head is at least partially below said predefined level. |
| Claim: | 3. The personal care system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the shaving head comprises at least one cutting unit having an external cutting member and an internal cutting member which is rotatable relative to the external cutting member by an electrical driving unit. |
| Claim: | 4. The personal care system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the shaving head comprises at least one exit opening for the cleaning liquid. |
| Claim: | 5. The personal care system as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the shaving head further comprises at least one cutting unit which is carried by a carrying member which is movable relative to the shaving head from a first position into a second position, wherein the carrying member comprises the exit opening, and wherein the exit opening is in a retracted covered position relative to the shaving head in said first position of the carrying member and in an exposed uncovered position relative to the shaving head in said second position of the carrying member. |
| Claim: | 6. The personal care system as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the supporting member comprises a receiving portion for accommodating the shaving head when the shaver is supported by the supporting member, said receiving portion having a contact member for holding the carrying member in its second position when the shaving head is accommodated in the receiving portion. |
| Claim: | 7. The personal care system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cleaning device further comprises a closing member for closing the container at least in the first position of the supporting member. |
| Claim: | 8. The personal care system as claimed in claim 7 , wherein in the first position of the supporting member the closing member is held in a closed position by a mechanical spring, and wherein in the second position of the supporting member the closing member is held in an opened position by a contact member. |
| Claim: | 9. The personal care system as claimed in claim 1 , the cleaning device further comprises a fluid sensor for detecting the cleaning liquid. |
| Claim: | 10. The personal care system as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the supporting member comprises a receiving portion for accommodating the shaving head when the shaver is supported by the supporting member, wherein the fluid sensor is mounted to the receiving portion. |
| Claim: | 11. The personal care system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the container comprises a bottom having a sedimentation portion with partition walls. |
| Claim: | 12. The personal care system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the supporting member comprises a holder for receiving and holding a housing or a grip portion of the shaver. |
| Claim: | 13. The personal care system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the supporting member defines a receiving space for accommodating the shaving head when the shaver is supported by the supporting member, and wherein the cleaning device further comprises an air flow generating system for generating an air flow in the receiving space in the first position of the supporting member. |
| Claim: | 14. The personal care system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cleaning device further comprises an electrical control unit for activating, after activation of the cleaning device by a user, the displacing system to displace the supporting member from the first position into the second position, for subsequently, after a predetermined cleaning period, activating the displacing system to displace the supporting member from the second position back into the first position, and for activating the shaver at least in the second position of the supporting member. |
| Claim: | 15. An electrical shaver suitable for use in a personal care system as claimed in claim 1 , the shaver comprising a shaving head which comprises at least one cutting unit, said cutting unit being carried by a carrying member which is movable relative to the shaving head from the first position into the second position, wherein the carrying member comprises an exit opening for a cleaning liquid, wherein the exit opening is in a retracted covered position relative to the shaving head in said first position of the carrying member and in an exposed uncovered position relative to the shaving head in said second position of the carrying member. |
| Claim: | 16. The personal care system of claim 1 , wherein the displacing system comprises a motor configured to displace the supporting member relative to the container between the first position and the second position. |
| Claim: | 17. The personal care system of claim 16 , wherein the displacing system further comprises transmission system for converting a rotational motion of the motor into a rectilinear motion of the supporting member along a guiding member. |
| Claim: | 18. A cleaning device suitable for use in a personal care system having a carrying member, the cleaning device comprising: a container for a cleaning liquid; a supporting member for supporting an electrical shaver in a first position and a second position; and a displacing system configured to displace the supporting member relative to the container from the 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 the second position in which the shaving head, when the shaver is supported by the supporting member, is at least partially immersed in the cleaning liquid in the container, wherein the container comprises a contact member which protrudes from a container surface of the container to a position higher than remaining portions of the container surface for making a contact at a contact location that and abuts against an inner portion of the carrying member for pushing the inner portion of the carrying member inward away from the container surface to tilt the carrying member so that a circumferential portion of the carrying member is moved towards the container surface, wherein the inner portion is away from the circumferential portion towards a central portion of the carrying member. |
| Current U.S. Class: | 30/415 |
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| Primary Examiner: | Alie, Ghassem |
| رقم الانضمام: | edspgr.08505205 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | USPTO Patent Grants |
| الوصف غير متاح. |