Patent · US Expired

Dental handpiece

US4753595A · kind A · utility

7Cited by

7References

17Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Werner Schuss · Heppenheim, DE
Walter Weber · Lorsch, DE
Siegfried Goisser · Einhausen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 22, 1986
Grant date	Jun 28, 1988
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 22, 2006

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61C1/08
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A dental handpiece, which has a gripping part connectable to a supply hose and a head part with a head housing which is removably held at the free end of the gripping part, characterized by the gripping part having at least one light conductor with an end located adjacent to the connection between the two parts to project light therefrom and having an inclined free end surface engaging an inclined oblique surface of the head part with the surfaces extending so that the lower end thereof merges with the head housing. A lower portion of the end surface is formed by a carrier part which accepts the ends of the light conductors to project light into the area of the tool held by the housing of the head part.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.