Patents by Inventor Anke Sinnema
Anke Sinnema has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9750271Abstract: A method for producing a drink, for example milk, from mixing a powder formula with a liquid, such as water, in an automated baby-milk machine. The method included preparing a drink concentrate by mixing the amount of formula necessary for the total amount of drink in a certain amount of hot liquid, and adding the right amount of liquid of a certain low temperature to the concentrate in order to reach the end volume of the drink at a safe drinking temperature.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Anke Sinnema, Simon M. Oversteegen, Peter S. Viet, Bernardus L. Kuiper
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Patent number: 9346180Abstract: An appliance for personal care, such as skin, dental or hair treatment, comprising a dispensing structure (30) for automatically dispensing a fluid. The dispensing structure (30) includes a fluid reservoir (10), a discharge opening (11) and a fluid drive structure (9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20) for driving the fluid to be dispensed from the reservoir (10) and to and out of said discharge opening (11) in accordance with a dispensing rate/time profile (Sx). The fluid drive structure (9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20) is arranged for spurting at least once during said dispensing operation for squirting an additional quantity of the fluid to and out of the discharge opening (11) in addition to the fluid being dispensed in accordance with said dispensing rate/time profile (Sx).Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Jeroen Molema, Anke Sinnema, Wilko Westerhof
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Publication number: 20150150294Abstract: A method for producing a drink, for example milk, from mixing a powder formula with a liquid, such as water, in an automated baby-milk machine. The method included preparing a drink concentrate by mixing the amount of formula necessary for the total amount of drink in a certain amount of hot liquid, and adding the right amount of liquid of a certain low temperature to the concentrate in order to reach the end volume of the drink at a safe drinking temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2015Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: ANKE SINNEMA, SIMON M. OVERSTEEGEN, PETER S. VIET, BERNARDUS L. KUIPER
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Patent number: 8991306Abstract: Valve assembly (8) for fine tuning the temperature of some fluid that has been heated or cooled in a heat exchanging section of a beverage making apparatus (1). The valve assembly (8) comprises a mixing valve (10), having a first inlet (21) for fluid communication with an outlet of the heat exchanging section (6), a second inlet (22) for fluid communication with a source of a hotter or colder version of aforementioned fluid, first and second closing means for altering a flow rate through the first and second inlet respectively, and control means arranged to control the first and second closing means in such way that an increase in flow rate through one of the inlets is matched by a substantially similar sized decrease in flow rate through the other inlet, so that the total flow rate through the mixing valve remains substantially constant.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2008Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Klaas Kooijker, Gertrude Riette Van Der Kamp, Pawel Leshem, Anke Sinnema
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Patent number: 8978928Abstract: An apparatus for producing a drink, for example milk, from mixing a powder formula with a liquid, preferably water, the apparatus preferably being an automated baby-milk machine. The apparatus is configured to prepare a drink concentrate by mixing the amount of formula necessary for the total amount of drink in a certain amount of hot liquid, and to add the right amount of liquid of a certain low temperature to the concentrate in order to reach the end volume of the drink at a safe drinking temperature.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2008Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Anke Sinnema, Martijn Oversteegen, Peter Sofrides Viet, Bernardus Lubbertus Kuiper
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Patent number: 8950316Abstract: An apparatus for preparing baby milk from water and dry formula includes a formula supply system having a reservoir for holding formula and a feeder for feeding formula out off the reservoir through an outlet opening in the reservoir. The apparatus further includes a scraper for guiding formula towards and through the outlet opening into the feeder. The scraper is arranged to move closely along an inner wall portion of the reservoir that borders on the outlet opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2007Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Anke Sinnema, Gertrude Riette Van Der Kamp, Klaas Kooijker
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Patent number: 8127662Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for preparing a beverage, for instance baby milk, from an instant product, such as formula, and water, which has been sterilized and cooled down to a temperature suitable for consumption. The apparatus comprises a water supply system for supplying water, a heating system for sterilizing the water, a cooling system for cooling down the sterilized water and a bypass, which allows sterilized water from the heating system to bypass the cooling system. Thanks to such configuration, hot water from the bypass can be added to cool water from the cooling system so as to bring the temperature of the cool water to a desired consumption temperature.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2007Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Marie Sybien Nijboer, Klaas Kooijker, Anke Sinnema, Peter Sofrides Viet
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Patent number: 8118194Abstract: A cartridge for an appliance for personal care, such as skin, dental or hair treatment includes a main body, a dispensing structure for dispensing a substance, such as a liquid, a paste or a gel, and a cartridge detachably connected to the main body. The cartridge bounds a reservoir space for holding the substance to be dispensed and includes a flexible wall part bounding the reservoir space for allowing reservoir space volume to accommodate to a volume of the substance filled therein and volumes of the substance dispensed therefrom; a rigid wall part also bounding the reservoir space, and a rigid housing. The flexible wall part is connected to the rigid housing along a contour of the rigid wall part.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2006Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Jeroen Molema, Wilko Westerhof, Anke Sinnema, Johannes Josephus Blaak
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Publication number: 20120005898Abstract: An appliance for personal care, such as skin, dental or hair treatment, comprising a dispensing structure (30) for automatically dispensing a fluid. The dispensing structure (30) includes a fluid reservoir (10), a discharge opening (11) and a fluid drive structure (9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20) for driving the fluid to be dispensed from the reservoir (10) and to and out of said discharge opening (11) in accordance with a dispensing rate/time profile (Sx). The fluid drive structure (9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20) is arranged for spurting at least once during said dispensing operation for squirting an additional quantity of the fluid to and out of the discharge opening (11) in addition to the fluid being dispensed in accordance with said dispensing rate/time profile (Sx).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: JEROEN MOLEMA, ANKE SINNEMA, WILKO WESTERHOF
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Patent number: 8028708Abstract: An appliance for personal care, such as skin, dental or hair treatment, comprising a dispensing structure (30) for automatically dispensing a fluid. The dispensing structure (30) includes a fluid reservoir (10), a discharge opening (11) and a fluid drive structure (9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20) for driving the fluid to be dispensed from the reservoir (10) to and out of said discharge opening (11) in accordance with a dispensing rate/time profile (Sx). The fluid drive structure (9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20) is arranged for spurting at least once during said dispensing operation for squirting an additional quantity of the fluid to and out of the discharge opening (11) in addition to the fluid being dispensed in accordance with said dispensing rate/time profile (Sx).Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2006Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Jeroen Molema, Anke Sinnema, Wilko Westerhof
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Publication number: 20100300302Abstract: Valve assembly (8) for fine tuning the temperature of some fluid that has been heated or cooled in a heat exchanging section of a beverage making apparatus (1). The valve assembly (8) comprises a mixing valve (10), having a first inlet (21) for fluid communication with an outlet of the heat exchanging section (6), a second inlet (22) for fluid communication with a source of a hotter or colder version of aforementioned fluid, first and second closing means for altering a flow rate through the first and second inlet respectively, and control means arranged to control the first and second closing means in such way that an increase in flow rate through one of the inlets is matched by a substantially similar sized decrease in flow rate through the other inlet, so that the total flow rate through the mixing valve remains substantially constant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2008Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Klaas Kooijker, Gertrude Riette Van Der Kamp, Pawel Leshem, Anke Sinnema
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Publication number: 20100139361Abstract: The invention relates to a calibration arrangement (10) for calibrating an apparatus that is arranged to prepare a beverage from water and an instant product, for different types of instant product. The calibration arrangement comprises: input means (20) for entering a setting into the apparatus, said setting providing the apparatus with dispense information of a particular instant product type, thereby enabling the apparatus to dispense appropriate amounts of said instant product; conversion means (15) for providing the settings for the respective instant product types. The conversion means (15) and the input means (20) function brand independently, that is without making use of or referring to a brand of the instant product type or some other type indication.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2007Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Anke Sinnema, Peter Sofrides Viet, Gertrude Riette Van Der Kamp, Matthijs Hendrikus Lubbers, Jacqueline Van Driel, Roland Van Straaten, Simon Martijn Oversteegen
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Publication number: 20100112152Abstract: An apparatus for producing a drink, for example milk, from mixing a powder formula with a liquid, preferably water, the apparatus preferably being an automated baby-milk machine. The apparatus is configured to prepare a drink concentrate by mixing the amount of formula necessary for the total amount of drink in a certain amount of hot liquid, and to add the right amount of liquid of a certain low temperature to the concentrate in order to reach the end volume of the drink at a safe drinking temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Anke Sinnema, Martijn Oversteegen, Peter Sofrides Viet, Bernardus Lubbertus Kuiper
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Publication number: 20090277024Abstract: A device (1) for supplying shaving aid (10) to cutting units (22) of an electric shaver (20) is designed as a stand-alone unit which is to be arranged separately from the shaver (20), and which is adapted to receiving the shaver (20). As a consequence of this design, this supplying device (1) may be designed such as to contain more shaving aid (10) than any supplying device that needs to be positioned inside the shaver (20), so that the need for a user to replenish the shaving aid (10) arises less frequently. The supplying device may further comprise means for performing at least one other function than supplying a shaving aid (10) to a shaver (20), for example a function of cleaning a shaving head (21) of the shaver (20) and/or a function of charging a battery of the shaver (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2005Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Anke Sinnema, Jasper Zuidervaart, Onno Hoitinga
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Publication number: 20090188394Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for preparing baby milk from water and dry formula. The apparatus comprises a formula supply system (3), which comprises a reservoir (6) for holding formula and feeding means (7) for feeding formula out off the reservoir through an outlet opening (9) in said reservoir. The apparatus furthermore comprises scraping means (10) for guiding formula towards and through said outlet opening (9) into the feeding means (7). The scraping means (10) are arranged to move closely along an inner wall portion (15) of the reservoir that borders on said outlet opening (9).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2007Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: KONINKLIJDE PHILIPS ELECTRONCICS N.V.Inventors: Anke Sinnema, Gertrude Riette Van Der Kamp, Klaas Kooijker
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Publication number: 20090183637Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for preparing a beverage, for instance baby milk, from an instant product, such as formula, and water, which has been sterilized and cooled down to a temperature suitable for consumption. The apparatus comprises a water supply system for supplying water, a heating system for sterilizing the water, a cooling system for cooling down the sterilized water and a bypass, which allows sterilized water from the heating system to bypass the cooling system. Thanks to such configuration, hot water from the bypass can be added to cool water from the cooling system so as to bring the temperature of the cool water to a desired consumption temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2007Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventors: Marie Sybien Nijboer, Klaas Kooijker, Anke Sinnema, Peter Sofrides Viet
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Publication number: 20090036795Abstract: In a technique for substance sampling and/or substance delivery via the skin barrier, the skin is domed and then a portion removed. Typically a contact portion of the apparatus effects doming of the skin and a cutting, grazing or scraping arrangement removes a portion of the domed skin. The doming of the skin and hence the skin removal is closely controlled. Samples may be taken via the removed portion of the skin and/or substances delivered therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.Inventors: Paulus Cornelis Duineveld, Fokke Roelof Voorhorst, Michel Allan Aurelius Schallig, Anke Sinnema
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Publication number: 20080216322Abstract: A cartridge for an appliance for personal care, such as skin, dental or hair treatment includes a main body (2), a dispensing structure (3, 11, 12) for dispensing a substance, such as a liquid, a paste or a gel, and a cartridge (3) detachably connected to the main body (2). The cartridge bounds a reservoir space (5) for holding the substance to be dispensed and includes: a flexible wall part (7) bounding the reservoir space (5) for allowing reservoir space (5) volume to accommodate to a volume of the substance filled therein and volumes of the substance dispensed therefrom; a rigid wall part (16) also bounding the reservoir space (5), and a rigid housing (6, 14). The flexible wall part (7) is connected to the rigid housing (6, 14) along a contour (23) of the rigid wall part (16).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2006Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Jeroen Molema, Wilko Westerhof, Anke Sinnema, Johannes Josephus Blaak
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Publication number: 20080189951Abstract: An appliance for personal care, such as skin, dental or hair treatment, comprising a dispensing structure (30) for automatically dispensing a fluid. The dispensing structure (30) includes a fluid reservoir (10), a discharge opening (11) and a fluid drive structure (9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20) for driving the fluid to be dispensed from the reservoir (10) to and out of said discharge opening (11) in accordance with a dispensing rate/time profile (Sx). The fluid drive structure (9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20) is arranged for spurting at least once during said dispensing operation for squirting an additional quantity of the fluid to and out of the discharge opening (11) in addition to the fluid being dispensed in accordance with said dispensing rate/time profile (Sx).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2006Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Jeroen Molema, Anke Sinnema, Wilko Westerhof
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Publication number: 20060150420Abstract: Shaving apparatus having a skin contact surface (9,15,16) accommodating at least one cutting unit (3) comprising an external stationary cutting member (4) and a matching internal cutting member (6) and a device (18-20) for providing a shaving aid to said skin contact surface (9,15,16), wherein shaving aid retaining means (35,48) are provided on at least part of said skin contact surface (9,15,16).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2004Publication date: July 13, 2006Inventors: Anke Sinnema, Albertus Van Der Borst, Martin Bakker, Geert-Jan Darwinkel