Patents Assigned to Braun GmbH
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Patent number: 11980520Abstract: A handle for an oral-care implement for safe and hygienic use by multiple users includes an electrical motor and a detachable head. The handle has a display for displaying instructions to control functional operation of the handle, a microcontroller for controlling the motor and the display, and at least one switch to allow a user to control the functional operation of the handle, including causing the output element to vibrate in at least one oral-hygiene mode having an oral-hygiene frequency and causing the output element to vibrate in a disinfection mode when the handle is being disinfected before or after being used for the oral-hygiene routine. The disinfection mode has a modulated frequency, different from the oral-hygiene frequency, and alternating up and down between a low modulated frequency and a high modulated frequency, wherein the high modulated frequency is at least 50 percent greater than the low modulated frequency.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Joern Utsch, Ulrich Stoerkel, Bianka Becker-Salzsaeuler, Boris Atlas, Michael Anthony Kaminski, Todd Lynn Watterson, Darcie Ann Ohlman, Andrea Schuering, Alexander Hilscher, Kervin Heinrich Kuechler, Andreas Maennchen, Erwin Paul Mark
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Patent number: 11974661Abstract: A toothbrush head or a brush carrier having at least one carrier element including at least one shape-shifting tuft mounted thereon. The shape-shifting tuft raises from a mounting end on a mounting surface of the carrier element generally along an extension direction towards a free end of the shape-shifting tuft. The shape-shifting tuft has a length from the mounting base to the free end and comprises a plurality of fibers.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Jens Alinski, Karen Lynn Claire-Zimmet, Niclas Altmann, Ulrich Störkel
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Patent number: 11897151Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutter system for an electric shaver and/or trimmer, comprising a pair of comb-like cutting elements with cooperating toothed cutting edges and movably supported relative to each other by a support element, wherein lateral ends of at least one of the cutting elements are provided with lateral protection elements having rounded and/or chamfered edge contours for soft skin engagement, wherein the lateral protection element is enveloping and covering a gap movably receiving the other cutting element and/or enveloping the support element.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Braun GMBHInventors: Alois Koeppl, Reinhold Eichhorn, Jana Schmitt, Martin Fuellgrabe
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Patent number: 11877639Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with epilator having an epilator head that has a head housing and a skin contacting unit arranged for being pivotable with respect to the head housing around a first axis and a handle arranged for being held by a user's hand, wherein the epilator head is pivotably connected with the handle and is arranged for being pivotable with respect to the handle around a second axis, the first axis and the second axis being essentially perpendicular to each other and the first axis and the second axis have a distance to each other and wherein the epilator head comprises a neck portion that is connected with the handle to establish a separable but otherwise fixed connection and the head housing comprises a cylindrically or spherically shaped neck wall, which neck wall is arranged to immerse into a hollow defined by the neck portion when the head housing pivots around the second axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Braun GMBHInventors: Pedro Sanchez-Martinez, Judith Von Dahlen
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Patent number: 11881799Abstract: A motor unit having a motor having a stator and an armature, the armature being arranged for relative driven motion with respect to the stator. A motor control unit has a supply circuit for providing a supply voltage at the motor to provide a set power level to the motor for driving the armature into motion. A measurement circuit is measuring a value of a physical variable indicative of a current flow through the motor, The motor control unit is arranged to interrupt the provision of the supply voltage by the supply circuit and to dynamically brake the motor during a braking time interval and further to measure the value of the physical variable during the braking time interval.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Andre Thunot, Torsten Klemm
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Patent number: 11865358Abstract: The present application is concerned with a skin treatment device that has a handle section arranged to be held in a human user's hand, a treatment head section having a skin treatment unit and a skin contact frame having a skin contact surface, the skin contact frame at least partially encircling a skin treatment area and a vibration generation unit being coupled with the skin contact frame to vibrate at least a portion of the skin contact frame at an ultrasonic frequency.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Braun GMBHInventors: Frank Beerwerth, Uwe Bielfeldt, Dalibor Dadic, Felix Heinemann, Alois Koeppl, Anette Friedrich
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Patent number: 11865733Abstract: The present invention relates to cutting body hair such as beard stubbles of multidays' beard. More particularly, the present invention relates to a cutter system for an electric shaver and/or trimmer, comprising a pair of cooperating cutting elements with two rows of comb-like cutting teeth at opposite edges thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Braun GMBHInventors: Roman Röder, Andreas Peter, Bernhard Sikora
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Patent number: 11859687Abstract: A motor and a personal-care device having the motor. The motor has a motor carrier made at least partially from a sheet metal material, a movable motor part, and a spring element that couples the movable motor part with the motor carrier. The sheet metal material comprises at least one coupling area where the sheet metal material is folded so that its two layers are facing each other while each of the two layers comprises a slot, the slots being aligned with one another. A connection extension of the spring element extends through the aligned slots.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Frank Ziegler, Thomas Meinke, Thomas Brum, Kenji Ohi, Takeshi Hotta
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Patent number: 11832715Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a skin treatment device, comprising a shaver handle housing, a detachable brush head pivotably supported by the shaver handle housing about at least one brush head pivot axis (I) and a gearing mechanism. The shaver handle housing comprises a drive unit for driving at least one drive pin in a rotatory oscillating manner with a first amplitude about an oscillation axis (II) which is at least substantially perpendicular to the at least one brush head pivot axis (I). The brush head comprises a brush rotatable about a brush axis (III) which is at least substantially perpendicular to the at least one brush head pivot axis (I). The brush comprises at least one driven element coupled to the at least one drive pin by means of the gearing mechanism, wherein the gearing mechanism translates the rotatory oscillating movement of the drive pin into a rotatory oscillating movement of the driven element with a second amplitude which is smaller than the first amplitude of the drive pin.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Braun GMBHInventors: Thorsten Piesker, Xinwu Lai, Tiandong Guo
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Patent number: 11793619Abstract: A personal hygiene device has a drive unit having a support, a stator fixedly mounted at the support, and an armature spring-mounted at the support for driven linear oscillating motion along a first longitudinal direction parallel to or coinciding with an x-axis of an x-y-z coordinate system. The armature has a center of gravity located in rest at a coordinate [xa, ya, za], and a drive shaft fixedly coupled with the armature and having a center of gravity located in rest at a coordinate [xd, yd, zd]. A first treatment head assembly, detachably connected to the drive shaft, has a center of gravity located in rest at a coordinate [xt1, yt1, zt1]. A secondary mass element, spring-mounted at the support for essentially linear oscillating motion along the first longitudinal direction, has a center of gravity located in rest at a coordinate [xm, ym, zm].Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Norbert Schaefer, Uwe Schober, Robert Schäfer, Matthias Paschold, Tobias Schwarz
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Patent number: 11794362Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutter system for an electric shaver and/or trimmer, comprising a pair of comb-like cutting elements each with at least one row of cutting teeth and movable relative to each other, wherein one of said cutting elements has thickened and/or rounded tooth tips overhanging the tooth tips of the other cutting element, characterized in that wherein said overhanging rounded tooth tips include a composite thickening which includes an outer shell surrounding an inner core, said shell and said core being made from different materials and wherein said shell is made from metal.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Braun GMBHInventors: Alois Koeppl, Reinhold Eichhorn, Jana Schmitt, Martin Fuellgrabe
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Patent number: D1002670Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Devran Albay, Susanne Eichel, Dominik Langhammer
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Patent number: D1006452Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Christine Hallein, Soren Jan Wasow, Zhou Pei, Tan Than Chong, Zhao Long
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Patent number: D1008951Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Devran Albay, Moritz Carlo Honisch, Dominik Langhammer, Rüdiger Boss, Fritz Schubert
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Patent number: D1010223Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Braun GMBHInventors: Rüdiger Boss, Philipp Goeder, Bernhard Sikora, Wolfgang Stegmann
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Patent number: D1014975Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Devran Albay, Jens Alinski, Niclas Altmann, Rüdiger Boss, Karen Lynn Claire-Zimmet, Christine Hallein, Dominik Langhammer, Ulrich Störkel
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Patent number: D1019146Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Devran Albay, Moritz Carlo Honisch, Dominik Langhammer, Niclas Altmann, Siegfried Bauernfeind, Bianka Becker-Salzsäuler, Ulrich Störkel
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Patent number: D1020089Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Braun GMBHInventor: Björn Kling
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Patent number: D1020093Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Braun GMBHInventors: Lingxuan Kong, Gregor Ptok, Renke Joris Thye, Bernhard Sikora, Wolfgang Stegmann
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Patent number: D1020095Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Braun GMBHInventors: Rüdiger Boss, Björn Kling, Lingxuan Kong, Wolfgang Stegmann