Electric shaver
AssigneeBraun GmbH
InventorsJoachim Krauss, Johannes Stimpel, Wolfgang Stegmann
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Abstract
The present invention generally relates to cleaning and washing shavers with water or other fluids. More particularly, the present invention relates to electric shavers having a shaver head and at least one rinse opening for rinsing water through the interior of said shaver head.
Claims15
An electric shaver comprising a handle portion, a shaver head supported by said handle portion and including at least one drivable cutter element, wherein said shaver head comprises an interior of said shaver head, and at least one rinse opening for rinsing water or other fluids through said interior of said shaver head,
- said electric shaver further comprising a first automatic valve and a second automatic valve, said automatic valves are configured to be controlled such that in a first mode of operation one of said valves is opened and the other valve is closed to achieve one-way washing in said interior of said shaver head, and in a second mode of operation both of said valves are opened at the same time to achieve through-flow with water or fluid entering into said interior of said shaver head, wherein at least one of said first and second automatic valves is adapted to automatically open said at least one rinse opening with said interior of said shaver head when a predetermined velocity and/or predetermined volume of rinsing fluid in said at least one rinse opening is reached and/or exceeded.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.