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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8133053 | Electric motor for use in a dental, dental-medical or dental-technical handpiece and stator therefor In an electric motor for use in a dental, dental-medical or dental-technical handpiece, having a rotatably mounted rotor and a stator surrounding the rotor, the stator is surrounded by a sheathing having an inner sleeve, on the outside of which there are arranged fu... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7997899 | Dental, dental-medical or dental-technical handpiece with electric motor In a dental, dental-medical or dental-technical handpiece, having an elongate grip sleeve there are provided at the rearward end of the grip sleeve coupling elements for the connection of the handpiece to a supply hose to be connected with a dental supply arrangemen... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7284981 | Functional handpiece having a light emission element at its forward end Functional handpiece 1 having an elongate handpiece body which has at its rearward end a connection element for connection with a flexible supply line, and has at its forward end a light emission element of a light permeable material for the illumination of the trea... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7234240 | Electrical hair care or removal appliance The invention is directed to an electrical appliance, in particular an appliance for hair removal or hair care, with at least one electric power unit, an electric circuit connected thereto and including an On/Off switch, and a fluid circuit feeding a fluid from a re... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7214255 | Aerosol method and apparatus for making particulate products Provided is an aerosol manufacture facility including an aerosol generator (600), an aerosol heater (604), an aerosol cooler (604), a particle collector (606), a precursor liquid supply system (608), a carrier gas supply system ( | 05/08/2007 |
| 7080980 | Dental hygiene device A dental hygiene system provided with interchangeable dental heads permits power-enhanced brushing and concurrent fluid irrigation to optimize a user's personal dental hygiene efforts. The system has a handle assembly with an irrigation nozzle in close proximity to ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6964076 | Electric toothbrush In one aspect, the present invention is directed to an electric toothbrush. The toothbrush includes a housing, an electric motor, a first transmission and a second transmission. The electric motor is connected to the housing has a motor output member for rotation ab... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6902337 | Dentifrice dispensing electrical toothbrush A dentifrice dispensing electrical toothbrush using a replaceable dual-channel brush head. The dual-channel brush head has a first channel for housing a drive shaft for bristle oscillation and a second channel for dispensing the dentifrice material. The brush head i... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6721986 | Electric toothbrush In one aspect, the present invention is directed to an electric toothbrush. The toothbrush includes a housing, an electric motor, a first transmission and a second transmission. The electric motor is connected to the housing has a motor output member for rotation ab... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6616446 | Working device for drilling, cutting and screwdriver instruments used for medical purposes The invention concerns an electric drive device for medical applications, especially for driving drills, cutting instruments and screw drivers. Such endo-instruments have predetermined working rotation areas and comprise maximally permissible torque load ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6582405 | Electrically-driven dental injector An electrically-driven dental injector used in orally injecting such an injection liquid as an anesthetic in dental treatment. Electrically-driven dental injectors includes one having a mechanism for disengaging a pinion (82) from a rack (48) in order to ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6446294 | Electric toothbrush An electric toothbrush is provided which includes an elongate body having an interior cavity, a power source mounted within the cavity, an elongate drive shaft driven rotatably by the power source, a camwheel mounted on the drive shaft, a yoke with projec... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6425761 | Drive system for dental handpiece A drive system for dental handpieces, having a rotor (12) secured to a motor shaft (11), an anti-friction bearing system (13, 14), including an inner bearing race (17), an outer bearing race (18) and a plurality of rolling elements (19) arranged between t... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6132213 | Dental tool holder Dental handpiece with an instrument section (1) for accepting a dental tool and with a second, hose section (2) which is capable of being detachably coupled to the instrument section and to which a media delivery line for the delivery of certain supply me... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6126442 | Motorised handpiece Motorised handpiece, more particularly for used by dentists or dental technicians, the rotary movement of a motor being transmitted to a tool which can be clamped with the aid of a clamping mechanism. To this end, the rotary movement of the motor is trans... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6042377 | Dental handpiece with detachable motor A dental handpiece having a detachable motor. The dental handpiece includes a handpiece body having a dental tool, a driving section detachably connected to the handpiece body, the driving section further including a motor for operatively driving the dent... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5980248 | Motor controller for a dental handpiece A motor controller for a dental handpiece comprising a torque detection means for detecting the load torque applied to a cutting tool, and a control means for stopping a cutting tool drive motor, reducing the rotation speed of the motor or temporarily rev... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5944523 | Dental assembly having multi-movement motor A motor and handpiece assembly for driving a dental tool has a contra-angle and a motor. The contra-angle has a handle, a neck connected to the handle, and a head connected to the neck and adapted to hold the dental tool. The motor is adapted to drive the... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5924864 | Handpiece for medical purposes, in particular for a medical or dental treatment device, preferably for a cutting treatment of a dental root canal In the case of a handpiece (3) for medical purposes, preferably for a cutting treatment of a dental root canal, with a tool holder (5) arranged in the front end region of the handpiece (3), with a retaining coupling (16) for detachable fastening of the to... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5689159 | Surgical tool system with brushless, sensorless motor A powered medical instrument includes a manually operable foot switch coupled to a motor control unit which in turn is coupled to an autoclavable handpiece containing a brushless sensorless electric motor driving a tool. The motor control arrangement incl... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5639236 | Root canal dental handpiece This invention is a new handpiece for performing semi-automatic root canal procedures. The handpiece is a lightweight, low rpm, cordless and rechargeable file motor. The file is spun in a counter clockwise direction while the entire handpiece is moved in ... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5538423 | Apparatus for controlling operational parameters of a surgical drill The present invention relates to a dental drilling system having a programmable control unit. The control unit controls operating parameters of the drilling system, such as the direction of rotation, the speed of rotation and the torque of a tool bit of a... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5504961 | Electric toothbrush with drive release An electric toothbrush includes a handle section having a motor drive and a drive shaft coupled to the motor drive by a translating device, and a brush section having bristle assembly and a transmission shaft unit coupled to the drive shaft and driven by ... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5311633 | Electric power driven toothbrush The invention is directed to an electric power driven toothbrush having a four-bar linkage (8) disposed in the handle section, the input end thereof being driven by an electric motor (2) through a train of spur gears, while the output end thereof drives i... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5054149 | Electric toothbrush An electric toothbrush comprises two main casings, a battery/motor casing and a brush drive casing, both casings being made of plastics material and one casing telescopically fitting over the other. The casing contains a battery, a motor and a motor shaft... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5040977 | Self powered dental plaque-removing device This invention provides a self-powered dental hygiene device having an outer housing with three sections, a battery section at one end, an intermediate electric motor section and at the second end a transmission section with a head end section at the dist... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4989287 | Electric toothbrushes An electric toothbrush has a reciprocating connecting rod in a brush member. The brush member is constructed as a brush head at its front end and has there two rows of rotatable bristle holders which each engage with a cam in a transversely running groove... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4827550 | Removable head mechanism for automatic cleaning device A cleaning apparatus is provided for transmitting powered motion to an operating member having a removable head mechanism contained within a hollow housing. A motorized base, including a base drive shaft, is locked onto a head drive shaft of the removable... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4681540 | Dental handpiece arrangement An improved dental handpiece arrangement utilizes a drive cartridge containing the drive motor. The drive cartridge coacts with a coupling member and can be utilized with either a tubular adapter which enables use with one type of dental grip piece or can... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4661060 | Dental handpiece A dental handpiece with a built-in electric motor for the drive of a dental treating implement which is arranged at one end of the handpiece. The implement is suppliable with a cooling medium through a cooling medium conduit in the handpiece; whereby the ... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4619614 | Rotational coupling device for a dental handpiece having a built-in battery A rotational coupling device for a cordless dental instrument including a motor housing which has a pair of semi-annular projections integrally provided at a rear end thereof with a pair of arc-shaped recesses formed between the coupling projections and s... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4568283 | Medical handpiece A handpiece for medical treatment having a brushless micromotor mounted in a handpiece casing for driving a cutting tool and having a coolant passageway formed on the outer periphery of a cylindrical yoke fixed to the frame of the handpiece body. In this ... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4564781 | Electrical bell type motor The present invention relates to an electrical bell type motor for driving a surgical tool, with a stator comprising a magnet having the shape of a circular cylinder and a rotor comprising a wire coil of lacquered wire forming a hollow circular cylinder, ... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4507085 | Dental instrument with handpiece The dental instrument with handpiece comprises an intermediate section (4) containing a micromotor. A handpiece (1) with a head (2) carrying a tool (3) is plugged in the front end of the intermediate section (4) so as to form a unit block therewith. At th... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4504227 | Dental handpiece set There is disclosed a dental handpiece set which comprises a handpiece housing, a power supply module detachably coupled to one end of the housing for supplying power to operate the handpiece, a motor unit which is selected from a set of different types of... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4493643 | Dental handpiece having non-contact rotational speed detection device A dental handpiece having therein a non-contact rotating speed detection device which includes an electromagnetic induction pulse generator including a permanent magnet provided close to the rotor in the head of a dental handpiece and a coil wound around ... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4355977 | Cordless handpiece for dental treatment The disclosure relates to improvements in a cordless handpiece for dental treatment having storage batteries and an electric motor incorporated therein. The improvements are that the cutting tool is increased in cutting performance and that the replacemen... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4279596 | Dental handpiece A dental handpiece, which has a drive motor part with a drive shaft for rotation in a housing, and a grip section connected to the housing and having a head part with a socket for receiving and mounting a tool for rotation, and a drive train coupled to th... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4235595 | Handpiece with continuous shaft and bell rotor A surgical bone operation instrument that has a straight tube-shaped shaft and arrangement coaxially in relationship to the longitudinal axis of the instrument to form a continuous channel from one end of the instrument to the other including the end part... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4183140 | Dental stain remover A dental stain remover apparatus for removing stains from teeth comprising a drive casing with a removable handle mounted to the drive casing at an angle to the axis of the drive casing, the drive casing forming a chamber which receives a motor and defini... | 01/15/1980 |
