Dental treatment apparatus

US4180812A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• KALTENBACH & VOIGT GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Kurt Kaltenbach · Biberach, DE
• Martin Saupe
• Stefan Beier · Biberach, DE
• Hermann Gmeinder · Biberach, DE
• Hartmut Braetsch · Schemmerhofen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 31, 1978
• Grant date: Dec 25, 1979
• Expiry date: Mar 31, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T74/20888
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A dental treatment apparatus having a plurality of dental instruments releasably retained in an instrument-holding device. A control and display arrangement controls the operation of an instrument upon extraction from the holding device, and displays the magnitude of an operating parameter of the instrument on a display device. A control data store is arranged to store pre-determined fixed control data values for the operating parameters of the instruments. To enable the user to alter the predetermined fixed values, a forward-backward counter is connected to the data store which can also store the altered values. A data converter is connected to the counter and to the display device for converting the instantaneous value stored in the data store to a corresponding service datum instantaneous value to be displayed by the display device.