Patents Assigned to Braun GmbH
  • Patent number: 10502291
    Abstract: An electrically driven device includes a housing, an electric motor with a drive shaft having a first rotary axis and a drive pin connected to the drive shaft eccentrically with respect to the rotary axis, and a driven shaft having a second rotary axis and mounted in the housing for performing a pivoting about the second rotary axis. The driven shaft is coupled to the drive shaft by a gear mechanism including a scotch yoke mechanism converting a rotary motion of the drive shaft into a reciprocating motion of the driven shaft. The scotch yoke mechanism includes a cross slider having a sliding support extending perpendicular to the first rotary axis and receiving the drive pin either directly or through a sliding block with a bearing receiving the drive pin. The cross slider is guided in the housing by at least two pivotable links. The driven shaft is coupled to the cross slider by an arm, converting a rotary motion of the drive shaft into a reciprocating of the driven shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: BRAUN GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas (NMN) Fritsch, Andreas (NMN) Kramp, Norbert (NMN) Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10493642
    Abstract: A beard trimmer which has a handle, a motor and a removable head portion. The head portion has at least a first long hair cutter unit for trimming hair. The first long hair cutter unit has first, non-foil type outer cutter and a first inner cutter, with the first outer cutter stacked onto the first inner cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Udo Bady, Bernhard Sikora, Wolfgang Stegmann, Matthias Wetzel, Juergen Behrendt
  • Patent number: 10486318
    Abstract: A beard trimmer which has a handle, a motor and a removable head portion. The head portion has first long hair cutter unit for trimming the hair length that is provided with a non-foil type outer cutter and an inner cutter. A first comb unit is provided having comb elements located adjacent to multiple cutting slots of the outer cutter. One comb element is provided on each of the opposite sides of the outer cutter. Each comb element provided with a row of comb teeth and comb slots separating the comb teeth from another. Each of the comb teeth has a tooth skin contact surface which is located on an elevated upper level relative to a cutter skin contact surface of the outer cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Udo Bady, Bernhard Sikora, Wolfgang Stegmann, Matthias Wetzel, Juergen Behrendt
  • Patent number: 10485984
    Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with a skin treatment device having at least a first LED, at least a first controllable current source, in particular a first controllable constant current source, for driving the first LED, a control unit for controlled switching of at least the first controllable current source between a first state in which current is provided to the first LED and a second state in which no current is provided to the first LED, and at least a first current sensor that is connected or connectable with the first LED so that the first current sensor and the first LED form a current path at least in the second state of the first controllable current source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Beerwerth, Christian Neyer, Felix Heinemann, Dalibor Dadic, Uwe Bielfeldt
  • Patent number: 10486316
    Abstract: The invention refers to a coupling for transmitting a driving movement from an oscillating transmitter of an electric shaver to a cutter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Erndt, Philipp Berger, Cirilo Javier Perez Lopez, Diana Kappes, Detlef Gleich, Michael Jöst
  • Patent number: 10485612
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a hair removal device for removal of red hairs that has a light emission unit having a substrate and a plurality of first LED dies emitting at a peak emission wavelength in a wavelength range of between about 480 nm and about 510 nm, the first LED dies being mounted on the substrate on an area in the range of between about 0.2 cm2 and about 100 cm2, wherein the hair removal device is arranged to emit a treatment light pulse by the first LED dies having a pulse length in the range of between about 30 ms and about 200 ms, and the first LED dies have a radiant flux such that a radiant fluence on the skin of a user in the range of between about 3 J/cm2 and about 6 J/cm2 is achieved by application of the treatment light pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Beerwerth, Christian Neyer, Dalibor Dadic, Felix Heinemann
  • Patent number: 10485641
    Abstract: A personal hygiene device has a drive unit, an energy storage, such as a rechargeable battery, a determination unit for repeatedly or constantly determining an energy storage level of the energy storage, and a control unit arranged for providing energy from the energy storage at the drive unit during an on state of the device and for gradually reducing the energy level from a nominal energy level to a first reduced energy level during a first energy level reduction time period when the determined energy storage level has fallen below a first energy storage level threshold but is above a second energy storage level threshold and for continuing provision of the first reduced energy level while the device stays in an on state and the determined energy storage level stays above the second energy storage level threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: BRAUN GMBH
    Inventors: Kris Lueckel, Kervin Heinrich Küchler, Egle Kiiver
  • Patent number: 10478980
    Abstract: An electric shaver having a cutter head with a plurality of cutting rotors driven by a drive train connectable to a motor. The number of tooling rotors is significantly increased while at the same time the size of the tooling rotors is significantly reduced, thus being able to define an approximately smooth surface by the front faces of the tooling rotors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Uwe Fischer, Christian Schuebel, Martin Kluge, Martin Fuellgrabe
  • Patent number: 10478981
    Abstract: An electric shaver having at least one drivable cutter element and at least one rinse opening having a horn shape for rinsing water through the interior of the shaver head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Krauss, Johannes Stimpel, Wolfgang Stegmann
  • Patent number: 10470857
    Abstract: A personal care device having a handle having an engagement portion and a persona care attachment are described. The personal care attachment has a housing attached to the engagement portion and a contact element carrier. The contact element carrier is movably coupled to the housing. A plurality of contact elements is arranged on the contact element carrier, and wherein the personal care attachment is driven at a frequency of between about 150 Hz to about 175 Hz and has a sound intensity level of less than about 75 dB(A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Schaefer, Uwe Schober, Joern Utsch, Andreas Kramp, Frank Ziegler, Benedikt Heil, Marlis Hübner
  • Patent number: 10457888
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lubricating member for a razor cartridge comprising a lipophilic structurant and a silicone polyether block copolymer and optionally a liquid phase, which can be manufactured in a simple one batch process without thermal degradation and exhibiting improved lubricating and skin care properties over a sustained period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Alison Fiona Stephens, Poppy Clea Reese
  • Patent number: 10433636
    Abstract: A personal hygiene device has a handle, a treatment head mounted for relative movement of at least a portion thereof with respect to the handle against a restoring force when a treatment force is applied in at least one direction onto the treatment head, a treatment-force-measurement unit for determining the applied treatment force comprising a light-emitting element, a light-sensitive element, and a light-changing element arranged at least partly in the light path between the light-emitting element and the light-sensitive element, wherein the light-changing element and at least one of the light-emitting element and light-sensitive element are arranged to be moved relatively to each other when at least the portion of the treatment head is moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: BRAUN GMBH
    Inventors: Jannik Scheele, Martin Haas, Norbert Schaefer, Robert Schäfer, Sven Alexander Franke, Uwe Schober, Ingo Vetter, Frank Ziegler
  • Patent number: 10424857
    Abstract: A connector is disclosed comprising at least one contact clip. The contact clip comprises an electrically conductive substrate having a longitudinal axis, a first terminal located at a first end of the substrate, wherein the first terminal comprises at least two contact tongues between which a longitudinal slot is formed, which contact tongues are elastically deformable with respect to each other in a first direction which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and a second terminal located at a second end of the substrate. The connector may further comprise a chassis and a PCB. In addition, a device comprising an energy consumer, an electrical energy source, a PCB and at least one connector is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Erndt, Michael Steghaus, Jan Christian Langsdorf, Torsten Klemm
  • Patent number: 10421202
    Abstract: An elongated outer blade for a slit cutter is disclosed. The outer blade extends along a first axis and comprises a number of slits and webs disposed between the slits. The webs have an upper surface, a lower surface and side surfaces extending between the upper and lower surfaces. At least some of the webs are provided with a concave clearance formed between a side surface and the lower surface forming an edge with the side surface. Further, a shaver having such an outer blade and a method for producing an outer blade using etching are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Erndt, Thorsten Piesker, Ines Herzenstiel
  • Patent number: 10421203
    Abstract: A personal care appliance comprises a head, a display device, and a drive unit including a motor for driving a removable tool element in the head via a drive transmitter. The head has at least one coupling element for coupling different types of tool elements with the drive transmitter. The tool elements comprises at least two of the following tool elements: a skincare unit, a long-hair cutting unit, a beard-trimming unit, a brush, and a short-hair cutting unit, wherein at least one mode button is provided for changing operating parameters of the motor and is configured to indicate upon activation at least one of the tool elements at the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Cirilo Javier Perez Lopez, Andreas Erndt, Gerd Laschinski, Wolfgang Stegmann
  • Patent number: 10413748
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a skin treatment device, in particular a temporal hair removal device, having a light emission unit having a substrate, a plurality of first LED dies mounted on the substrate on an area of at least 0.2 cm2, in particular of at least 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Beerwerth, Christian Neyer, Dalibor Dadic, Felix Heinemann
  • Patent number: 10398217
    Abstract: A personal hygiene device, in particular a toothbrush, has a handle, a treatment head mounted for relative movement with respect to the handle against a spring force when a treatment force is applied in at least one direction onto the treatment head, a treatment-force-measurement unit for determining the applied treatment force comprising an electrically powered coil, a coil core element, and a control circuit for determining a parameter indicative of the inductance of the coil, wherein the coil core element is arranged to be moved with respect to the coil when the treatment head is moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: BRAUN GMBH
    Inventors: Norbert Schaefer, Martin Haas, Daniel Dietzel, Christian Probst, Stefan Meier
  • Patent number: D861351
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: BRAUN GMBH
    Inventors: Devran Albay, Moritz Carlo Honisch, Dominik Langhammer
  • Patent number: D868373
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Björn Kling, Robert Schmidt, Wolfgang Stegmann, Renke Joris Thye
  • Patent number: D868377
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Philipp Goeder, Gregor Ptok, Bernhard Sikora, Wolfgang Stegmann