Patents by Inventor Stephan Leitner

Stephan Leitner 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).

  • Patent number: 5898999
    Abstract: A hair-cutting system (1) is provided comprising a hair-cutting apparatus (2) having a toothed cutting device (17), and comprising a comb device (20) which can be mounted onto the hair-cutting apparatus (2) and comprises a stationary comb section (22) and an adjustable comb section (23), and comprising positioning means by which the adjustable comb section (23) can be positioned with respect to the stationary comb section (22), the stationary comb section (22) and the adjustable comb section (23) are loaded relative to one another by means of at least one spring (48), and the positioning means comprise an adjustment device (50) arranged on the hair-cutting apparatus (2), which adjustment device is adjustable to a number of settings by the hand in which the hair-cutting apparatus (2) is held during operation, and coupling means (51) are arranged between the adjustment device (50) and the adjustable comb section (23) for automatically coupling the adjustment device (50) and the adjustable comb section (23) when
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Jaleleddine Chaouachi, Jurgen Holzbauer, Stephan Leitner, Siegfried Seufzer
  • Patent number: 5819415
    Abstract: A hair-cutting apparatus (1) is provided having a toothed cutting device (5) comprising a stationary first toothed cutter (6) with a first cutter-tooth row (7) and a second toothed cutter (9) with a second cutter-tooth row (10), which second toothed cutter is drivable so as to reciprocate about a pivotal axis (8), the first cutter-tooth row (7) of the first toothed cutter (6) extends linearly in a first row direction (23) and the second cutter-tooth row (10) of the second toothed cutter (9) comprises two row segments (24, 25) which in a central position of the second toothed cutter (9), starting from a center point (26), diverge with respect to the linear direction of the first cutter-tooth row (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Jan W. Bruggers, Stephan Leitner
  • Patent number: 5600890
    Abstract: A hair-cutting apparatus has a toothed cutting device comprising a stationary cutter with a row of cutter teeth and a reciprocable cutter with a row of cutter teeth, the cutter teeth of at least one of the two cutters are rounded at their distal ends except for the area of their shearing faces and in addition are wholly rounded over their entire tooth depth into the proximal tooth area except for the area of their shearing faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Stephan Leitner, Josef Ribitsch
  • Patent number: 5560104
    Abstract: A hair-cutting apparatus (1) is provided with a first cutter (10;6) and second cutter (12; 43) and in which are resiliently urged in a pressing direction (15), with a drive member (19) for driving the second cutter (12), and with a hinge device (20) between the drive member (19) and the second cutter (12; 43), the hinge device (20) comprises two limbs (21, 22) which are oppositely inclined relative to the pressing direction (15) and which are each connected to the drive member (19) and the second cutter (12) by a hinge (23, 24, 25, 26), the two connecting lines (27, 28) through the two hinges (23, 25 and 24, 26, respectively) of each of the limbs (21, 22) intersecting one another substantially in the area of the point of application (29) of the resultants of the frictional forces between the two cutters (10, 12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Jan W. Bruggers, Stephan Leitner