Medical, especially dental handpiece
US4975056A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 12, 1989 |
| Grant date | Dec 4, 1990 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 12, 2009 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61B2017/1651
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A medical handpiece, and especially a dental handpiece, including a drivable worktool or implement which is rotatably supported with its shaft at one end of the handpiece and which projects from this handpiece end with its operating end. The implement possesses an elongate blind bore-like passageway which communicates with the outside at the work end of the implement through the intermediary of a discharge opening, and with which there is associated a supply line arranged within the handpiece for the infeed of cooling media to at least one radial through-opening of the implement which stands in communication with the elongate passageway; whereby the at least one radial through-opening is sealed with respect to the interior of the handpiece through the intermediary of a seal which encompassing the shaft of the implement and contacts against a wall portion of the handpiece.
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