Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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 wherein said cutting elements each include two rows of cooperating cutting teeth which are different from each other in terms of shape and/or size and/or position of said overhanging tooth tips.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutter system for an electric shaver and/or trimmer, including a pair of cooperating cutting elements movably supported relative to each other by a support structure, where one of the cutting elements is sandwiched between the other cutting element and the support structure, where the support structure includes at least one spacer defining a gap in which the sandwiched cutting element is movably received, the spacer and thus said gap having a thickness larger than the thickness of the sandwiched cutting element by an amount smaller than 40 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutter system for an electric shaver and/or trimmer, comprising a pair of cooperating cutting elements movably supported relative to each other by a support structure, wherein one of the cutting elements is sandwiched between the other cutting element and the support structure, wherein cutting teeth in a middle section of the row are different from cutting teeth in end sections of the row in terms of at least one of shape, size and position of the tooth tips.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal care device, in particular hair removal device such as an electric shaver, comprising an elongated handle for manually moving the personal care device in short and/or long strokes along a body surface, a working head attached to said handle for effecting a personal care treatment to said body surface, and a determination unit including at least one sensor for determining stroke length to differentiate between short and long strokes, wherein said determination unit is configured to determine velocity of the working head and/or the handle, to determine beginning and end points of strokes when the determined velocity gets zero and/or changes signs, and to determine stroke length from the distance between pairs of beginning and end points next to each other.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal care device, in particular hair removal device such as an electric shaver, comprising an elongated handle for manually moving the personal care device along a body surface, a working head attached to said handle for effecting a personal care treatment to said body surface, said working head being movably supported relative to said handle and/or including a working head element being movably supported relative to a working head basis to allow adaption of the working head and/or of the working head element to the body surface contour, wherein an adjustment device is provided for adjusting a movability characteristic of a suspension of said working head and/or of said working head element, wherein said adjustment device includes at least one actuator for adjusting at least one characteristic.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal care device, in particular hair removal device such as an electric shaver, comprising an elongated handle for manually moving the personal care device along a body surface, a working head attached to said handle for effecting a personal care treatment to said body surface, wherein an adjustment device including at least one adjustment actuator is provided for adjusting at least one treatment characteristic, wherein said adjustment actuator is configured and controlled to adjust said at least one treatment characteristic from a first setting to a second setting within a transition time period of not less than 0.1 seconds and not more than 1.5 seconds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hair removal device, such as an electric shaver or epilator, comprising a hair cutting unit, a motor for driving the hair cutting unit, a measurement unit for measuring motor current and/or induced voltage and a cutting activity determinator for determining cutting activity from the half cycles of the signal of said measurement unit, wherein a wear determination unit is provided for determining wear of the hair cutting unit from the cutting activity signal of said cutting activity determinator.

Abstract: An electric shaver, comprising an elongated handle for manually moving the personal care device along a body surface, a working head attached to said handle for effecting a personal care treatment to said body surface, at least one detector for detecting at least one behavioral parameter indicative of a user's behavior when handling the personal care device, and an adjusting mechanism for adjusting at least one working parameter of the working head in response to the detected behavioral parameter.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal care device, in particular a hair removal device such as an electric shaver, comprising a working head for effecting a personal care treatment to a body surface, a handle for manually moving the working head along the body surface, and an adjustment device for adjusting a mechanical setting and/or a mechanical function of the working head and/or a part thereof, wherein a hazard determination device is provided for determining hazards for the personal care device, wherein the adjustment device is configured to adjust the working head and/or a part thereof into a safe harbor mechanical setting and/or a safe harbor mechanical function in response to a hazard signal from the hazard determination device.

Abstract: A hair removal device, in particular an electric shaver, comprising a working head attached to a handle for moving the working head along a skin surface, said working head including at least a pair of short hair cutters and at least one trimmer neighboring at least one of said short hair cutters, wherein said short hair cutters and said trimmer are movable relative to said handle under a skin contact pressure.

Abstract: A hair removal device comprising a working head attached to a handle for moving the working head along a skin surface is provided. The working head includes at least one hair removal tool defining a skin contact contour of the working head, wherein the at least one hair removal tool is movable relative to the handle under a skin contact pressure by a support structure to allow for pivoting of the working head's skin contact contour relative to the handle. The support structure movably supporting the hair removal tool relative to the handle is configured to allow for pivoting of the skin contact contour relative to the handle about an angle of about +/?15° or more under a contact force of about 0.75 N or less and/or about an angle of about +/?20° or more under a contact force of about 1.5 N or less.

Abstract: A skin treatment device such as an electric shaver, having a housing forming an elongated handle for manually moving the device along a body surface, a working head attached to the handle for effecting a treatment to the body surface, at least one detector for detecting at least one treatment parameter of the device, and a feedback indicator for indicating feedback information based on the detected treatment parameter to a user during the personal care treatment. More particularly, such feedback indicator includes a light emitter configured to emit light signals onto a mirror in front of a user.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutter system for an electric shaver and/or trimmer, comprising a pair of cooperating cutting elements movably supported relative to each other by a support structure, wherein one of the cutting elements is sandwiched between the other cutting element and said support structure, wherein cutting teeth in a middle section of said row are different from cutting teeth in end sections of said row in terms of at least one of shape, size and position of said tooth tips.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutter system for an electric shaver and/or trimmer, comprising a pair of cooperating cutting elements movably supported relative to each other by a support structure, wherein one of the cutting elements is sandwiched between the other cutting element and said support structure, wherein said support structure includes at least one spacer defining a gap in which the sandwiched cutting element is movably received, said spacer and thus said gap having a thickness larger than the thickness of the sandwiched cutting element by an amount smaller than 40 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cutter system for an electric shaver and/or trimmer, comprising a pair of cooperating cutting elements, with a first cutting element and a second cutting element, a motor driving said second cutting element in a movement direction, a support structure supporting the pair of cooperating cutting elements, wherein a stacked sandwich arrangement is provided by the second cutting element being sandwiched between the first cutting element and said support structure.

Abstract: A device such as an electric shaver includes a working head attached to a handle for moving the working head along a skin surface, wherein at least one working tool is moveable relative to the handle under a skin contact pressure by a support structure to allow for pivoting of the working head's skin contact contour relative to the handle, wherein a biasing device is provided for biasing the working tool.

Abstract: 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.