Braun

Provided is a cutting element (10) for an electric shaver. The cutting element includes a substrate (12), and a film layer (18) on the substrate. The film layer is configured to enable a colored spectral composition of visible light, provided by constructive interference of light reflected from lower and upper surfaces (22, 26) of the film layer, to be reflected from the cutting element when white light is incident thereon. Further provided is an electric shaver including such a cutting element, and a method of manufacturing the cutting element.

A head for an oral care implement comprises a carrier with a mounting surface and a plurality of cleaning elements extending from the mounting surface of the head. The cleaning elements being arranged in at least two concentric simple closed curves comprising an outer closed curve and an inner closed curve. Each cleaning element of the outer curve and inner curve has a longitudinal length extension extending from the mounting surface to a free end of the cleaning element, and a cross-sectional area extending substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal extension, the cross-sectional area being elongated, having a longer axis and a shorter axis. The outer closed curve consists of a plurality of a first type of cleaning elements having an aspect ratio of the longer axis to the shorter axis of at least 2.5. An angel β measured between two center lines, each center line tangentially touching an outer contour of two adjacent ends of neighboring first type cleaning elements, respectively, the center lines crossing each other in the center point of the outer closed curve, is less than 5°, preferably from about 1° to about 3°.

A head for an oral care implement comprises a carrier with a mounting surface and a plurality of cleaning elements extending from the mounting surface of the head. The cleaning elements being arranged in at least two concentric simple closed curves comprising an outer closed curve and an inner closed curve. Each cleaning element of the outer curve and inner curve has a longitudinal length extension extending from the mounting surface to a free end of the cleaning element, and a cross-sectional area extending substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal extension, the cross-sectional area being elongated, having a longer axis and a shorter axis. The outer closed curve consists of a plurality of a first type of cleaning elements having an aspect ratio of the longer axis to the shorter axis of at least 2.5, and the inner closed curve consists of a plurality of a second type of cleaning elements having an aspect ratio of the longer axis to the shorter axis of at least 2.

A head for an oral care implement comprises a carrier with a mounting surface and a plurality of cleaning elements extending from the mounting surface of the head. The cleaning elements being arranged in at least two concentric simple closed curves comprising an outer closed curve and an inner closed curve. Each cleaning element of the outer curve and inner curve has a longitudinal length extension extending from the mounting surface to a free end of the cleaning element, and a cross-sectional area extending substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal extension, the cross-sectional area being elongated, having a longer axis and a shorter axis. The outer closed curve consists of a plurality of a first type of cleaning elements having an aspect ratio of the longer axis to the shorter axis of at least 2.5. An angle α measured between a tangent lying on a curvature of the outer closed curve and the longer axis of the first type of cleaning element is from about 25° to about 45°, preferably from about 30° to about 35°.

A head for an oral care implement comprises a carrier with a mounting surface and a plurality of cleaning elements extending from the mounting surface of the head. The cleaning elements being arranged in at least two concentric simple closed curves comprising an outer closed curve and an inner closed curve. Each cleaning element of the outer curve and inner curve has a longitudinal length extension extending from the mounting surface to a free end of the cleaning element, and a cross-sectional area extending substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal extension, the cross-sectional area being elongated, having a longer axis and a shorter axis. The outer closed curve consists of a plurality of a first type of cleaning elements having an aspect ratio of the longer axis to the shorter axis of at least 2.5. The sum of the lengths of the longer axes of the plurality of first type of cleaning elements is larger than the length of the outer closed curve, the length of the outer closed curve being defined by the center-points of each cleaning element arranged on the outer closed curve.

The present disclosure is concerned with a skin treatment device having a treatment light source, a light emission window comprising a window element arranged for getting into skin contact during operation, a first sensor arranged for providing a first sensor signal indicative of an amount of hemoglobin in a skin area underneath the light emission window, and a processor coupled with the first sensor for communicating the first sensor signal in a user-perceptible manner by means of an indicator and/or for controlling a function of the skin treatment device in dependence on the first sensor signal.

An adaptor for being coupled to a drive shaft of an oral care device handle having an essentially cylindrical drive shaft coupling end and for being coupled to an oral care device attachment is provided, the adaptor comprising: a second separable coupling part configured for coupling with a first separable coupling part provided at a motion transmitter of the oral care device attachment; and a coupling unit having a top plate and one at least partly deformable essentially cylindrical wall element, or at least two elastic or deflectable wall elements, extending from the top plate, wherein the coupling unit defines an essentially cylindrical receiver receptacle for receiving and coupling with the essentially cylindrical drive shaft coupling end.

Provided is a hair-guiding element (10) for an electric shaver. The hair-guiding element has a skin-contacting surface (12) for contacting skin, and a cutting element-facing surface (14) for facing a cutting element (16), with the cutting element-facing surface facing in an opposite direction with respect to a direction faced by the skin-contacting surface. The hair-guiding element's periphery provides the hair-guiding element with a toothed profile comprising teeth (20) arranged along a main axis (MA) of the hair-guiding element, with the teeth each comprising part of the skin-contacting surface and part of the cutting element-facing surface. Further provided is a hair-cutting assembly (10, 16) comprising the hair-guiding element and the cutting element, and an electric shaver comprising such a hair-cutting assembly. Additionally provided is a method of manufacturing the hair-guiding element.

Provided is an etching method that includes providing a metallic substrate (100) on which an etch-resistant material is arranged to mask the metallic substrate, through which etch-resistant material apertures (126) are defined. The etch-resistant material comprises a continuous region (128) that extends continuously between and surrounds the apertures. The etching method includes etching the metallic substrate, with the etching including delivering an etchant to the metallic substrate through the apertures so that discrete recessed regions in the metallic substrate are initially etched beneath the apertures. The etch-resistant material is resistant to the etchant. The etching is continued until at least some of the discrete recessed regions merge beneath the continuous region of the etch-resistant material so that the continuous region extends over a location of the metallic substrate located in-between the initially formed discrete recessed regions, at which location metallic material of the metallic substrate is removed when the discrete recessed regions merge to form one or more merged etched regions (130). The etching leaves behind a portion (132) of the metallic substrate, which portion of the metallic substrate still remains beneath the one or more merged etched regions. Also provided is a method of manufacturing a foil, comb or blade for an electric shaver, with the method comprising implementing the etching method. Further provided is an article obtainable by the etching method or the method of manufacturing the foil, comb or blade.

Provided is a hair-guiding element (10) for an electric shaver. The hair-guiding element has a skin-contacting surface (12) for contacting skin, and a cutting element-facing surface (14) for facing a cutting element (16), with the cutting element-facing surface facing in an opposite direction with respect to a direction faced by the skin-contacting surface. The hair-guiding element's periphery provides the hair-guiding element with a toothed profile comprising teeth (20) arranged along a main axis (MA) of the hair-guiding element, with the teeth each comprising part of the skin-contacting surface and part of the cutting element-facing surface. Slots (26, 26', 28, 28') separate neighboring teeth (20) from each other along the main axis (MA). The slots include pairs of slots (26, 28; 26', 28'). Each of the pairs of slots includes a longer slot (26; 26') and a shorter slot (28; 28'). Further provided is a hair-cutting assembly (10, 16) comprising the hair-guiding element and the cutting element, and an electric shaver comprising such a hair-cutting assembly. Additionally provided is a method of manufacturing the hair-guiding element.