About this role
Icd Logo Blue2Icd Logo Blue2 | - 27 Oct 2026 Development of a highly efficient motor driver for an electric toothbrush / Development of a highly efficient motor driver for an electric toothbrush Logo PhilipsLogo Philips - Philips - Drachten - college, wo - <6 months, 6 months - 1 year Electronics/electrical engineering Are you the enthusiastic, talented graduate(s) electronics engineering we're looking for? You will be joining the Innovation Team Oral HealthCare R&D department at Philips Drachten. An impactful multi-disciplinary team of experienced and passionate professionals, that works with internal and external teams from all over the globe. You get the opportunity to work on an innovative method and device for consumer's mouth health detection and its improvement.
- Description of assignment Develop a demonstrator for a toothbrush that is capable of driving the motor by various signals.
- Using an easy user interface (e.g. on a PC), the driving method needs to be selected to enable a one-to-one comparison method.
- Investigate the effect on efficiency, sound, stability and other parameters.
- Defining the parameters to investigate is part of the assignment.
Main subjects of the assignment
- Create an overview of driving methods including the current state.
- Define improvement directions such as efficiency, sound level, etc.
- Make a flexible strategy which enables to demonstrate various driving methods by changing setting.
- Design and build development board for driving a motor which is built in a product.
- Perform measurements on driving methods and verify with theoretical analysis.
- Evaluate reasonable options and select the best option for a prototype.
- Design and build protypes for testing the selected driving method in a full toothbrush.
- Define design requirements, specifications and constraints for the product.
- Verify the concept in a simplified consumer research study.
- Those designs will require ...