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Dental treatment installation

US4305126A · kind A · utility

22Cited by
3References
18Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 5, 1979
Grant dateDec 8, 1981
Priority date
Expiry dateOct 5, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61C1/0015
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A dental treatment installation comprises a plurality of dental treatment instruments, a plurality of tools having different operating parameters and replaceably mountable in the instruments, and a main control device arranged to be supplied with the operating parameters of a selected instrument and optionally with further operating parameters, and to compute therefrom the operating point for the drive of the selected instrument and also the working data of the selected tool. The main control device includes stores which store the operating parameters of the tools under corresponding tool addresses or operating data addresses for the automatic control of the combined tool and instrument operation. A tool receiving station has receiving locations in which the tools are replaceably mounted and means is provided for transmitting automatically from said station to said main control device the tool address specific to a particular tool upon extraction of the latter from its receiving location.

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