Patents Assigned to Braun GmbH
  • Personal care device with separable coupling in drive train
    Patent number: 11635111
    Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with a personal care device having a head portion having a driven treatment head, a handle portion having a drive unit for providing a motion having a motion direction, and a drive train extending between the drive unit and the driven treatment head for transmitting the motion from the drive unit to the driven treatment head, the drive train having a separable coupling. The separable coupling has a first coupling part having a first coupling element, a second coupling part having a second coupling element, the first and the second coupling elements being separably engaged with each other, and a resilient element biasing the first coupling element and the second coupling element against each other so that the first and second coupling elements are engaged in a gap-free manner along the motion direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Pedro Sanchez Martinez, Holger Budke
  • Electric beard trimmer
    Patent number: 11633868
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Alois Koeppl, Reinhold Eichhorn, Jana Schmitt, Martin Fuellgrabe
  • Folded cardboard box
    Patent number: 11584562
    Abstract: A folded cardboard box has four longitudinal walls and a separation wall dividing the box's interior into first and second sections. The separation wall has a through-hole and a flap element at an open end of the first section. The flap element has a first flap portion at one of the longitudinal walls and a second flap portion at an adjoining longitudinal wall. The flap element can be flapped from a first state in which each of the first and second flap portions are aligned with the respective wall into a second state in which the flap element projects into the first section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Michael Klein, Kieran Geiss
  • Electrically-driven device constructed to receive a plurality of attachments
    Patent number: 11548176
    Abstract: An electrically-driven device includes a handle and a head, wherein the head includes a head base coupled to the handle and movable in at least two dimensions relative to the handle and a first head attachment and a second head attachment, wherein each one of the first and second head attachments are releasably engageable, one at a time, with the head base, each one of the first and second head attachments includes a skin treatment implement constructed to treat skin or a cutting unit constructed to cut hair, and the first head attachment is different from the second head attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Krauss, Thorsten Piesker, Johannes Stimpel, Anja Weigel, Wolfgang Stegmann
  • Personal care device
    Patent number: 11548177
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Fuellgrabe, Stefan Fuerst, Christian Neyer, Johannes Julian Weinkauff, Lucy Abigail Zimmermann
  • Multi-component plastic housing
    Patent number: 11534282
    Abstract: A multi-component housing having a length and comprising at least a first component comprising a first plastic material, a second component comprising a second plastic material, and a third component comprising a third plastic material. The housing includes at least one tolerance-elimination element made of the second plastic material and longitudinally attached to the first component along the housing's longitudinal axis. The tolerance-elimination element has an average length extending parallel to the housing's longitudinal axis, which average length is at least ten times less than the length of the housing. The third component at least partially forms an outer surface of the housing, so that the tolerance-elimination element is at least partially overmolded by the third plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Kunz, Werner Huebscher, Kris Lueckel, Sven Schäfer, Stefan Gehard Triebig
  • Compression dressing
    Patent number: 11478382
    Abstract: There is provided herein a compression dressing comprising a first cushion layer (1) and a second support layer (2) wherein the two layers (1,2) are connected to each other in the unstretched state by means of a stich-bonding process via an elastic sewing thread, the stich length being 1.5 to 3mm/U at a sewing thread tension of at most 4 cN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Karl Otto Braun GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Uwe Ludwig, Ferdinand Tamoue, Marita Meister
  • Hair removal device
    Patent number: 11478943
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Fuerst, Reinhold Eichhorn, Martin Fuellgrabe, Thomas Verstege, Renata Burghardt
  • Personal care device with pivotable treatment head
    Patent number: 11472048
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with a personal care device with a treatment head being pivot-mounted around a pivot axis, the personal care device having a pin having a pin head, a cam element having a cam surface, a spring element biasing the pin head and the cam surface against each other, wherein the cam surface is shaped such that it defines a rest position at which the biasing spring force provided by the spring element with which the pin head and the cam surface are pushed against each other has a non-zero minimum value, and wherein a pivoting of the head around the pivot axis causes the pin head to move along the cam surface and the cam surface is further shaped such that the spring force pushing the pin head and the cam surface against each other increases with increasing pivoting angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Weschta, Peter Junk, Martin Diehl, Pedro Sanchez Martinez, Alexander Hasse
  • Electric shaver
    Patent number: 11458644
    Abstract: An electric shaver, comprising an elongated housing receiving an electric motor and/or an electric power source, a working head attached to said housing, wherein said housing includes an elongated base element and a cover element closing said base element and surrounding a connection connecting said electric motor and/or said electric power source to said working head, wherein said cover element is sealed to said base element and/or to said connection by at least one seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Erndt
  • Hair removing appliance
    Patent number: D967526
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventor: Björn Kling
  • Hair removal device
    Patent number: D967535
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Rüdiger Boss, Björn Kling, Lingxuan Kong, Wolfgang Stegmann
  • Electric dry shaver
    Patent number: D967537
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Lingxuan Kong, Gregor Ptok, Renke Joris Thye, Bernhard Sikora, Wolfgang Stegmann
  • Battery operated toothbrush
    Patent number: D972303
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Christine Hallein, Soren Jan Wasow, Zhou Pei, Tan Than Chong, Zhao Long
  • Toothbrush head
    Patent number: D972846
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Niclas Altmann, Anke Renz, Bianka Becker-Salzsäuler, Heidrun Schmelcher, Fritz Schubert, Ulrich Störkel
  • Electric dry shaver
    Patent number: D976490
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Philipp Goeder, Gregor Ptok, Bernhard Sikora, Wolfgang Stegmann
  • Electric dry shaver
    Patent number: D976492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Philipp Goeder, Gregor Ptok, Bernhard Sikora, Wolfgang Stegmann
  • Electric dry shaver
    Patent number: D979842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Philipp Goeder, Gregor Ptok, Bernhard Sikora, Wolfgang Stegmann
  • Electric dry shaver head
    Patent number: D981045
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Philipp Goeder, Gregor Ptok, Bernhard Sikora, Wolfgang Stegmann
  • Electric dry shaver head
    Patent number: D981046
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Braun Gmbh
    Inventors: Philipp Goeder, Gregor Ptok, Bernhard Sikora, Wolfgang Stegmann