Connector for electric appliances

US6190184A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Braun Corporation · DE

Inventors

• Jochen Cimbal · Friedberg, DE
• Thomas Schamberg · Usingen, DE
• Helmut Durr · Frankfurt am Main, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 13, 1998
• Grant date: Feb 20, 2001
• Expiry date: Mar 13, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R2103/00
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention is directed to an electric appliance for personal use such as a dry shaving apparatus, a hair cutting machine or epilator, having a housing to accommodate an electric motor, a storage cell charging circuitry, at least one rechargeable storage cell designed to be connected to the electric motor, and a connector compartment in which a connector equipped with connector pins is pivotally mounted, wherein the connector pins are movably carried in a connector housing surrounding the connector pins, wherein the connector housing with the connector pins therein is arranged for pivotal movement out of and into the connector compartment, and wherein, with the connector in a position in which it is pivoted out of one of the broad sides of the housing, provision is made for the connector pins arranged side by side parallel to said broad side to be movable out of and into the connector housing by means of an actuating element movably disposed in the interior of the connector housing.