Dental device attachable to an electric toothbrush drive
US5461744A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 18, 1994 |
| Grant date | Oct 31, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 18, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T74/18888
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A dental device for an electric toothbrush drive having a drive shaft, the dental device including a housing, a motion converter arranged in the housing and including a rocker arm, a rotary oscillation plate having an eccentrically arranged plug-in opening, and a plug-in axle for operatively connecting the rotary oscillation plate to the rocker arm via the plug-in opening. A guide is provided for releasably and operatively connecting one end of the rocker arm to the drive shaft of the toothbrush drive, and a bearing is provided for rotatably supporting the rotary oscillating plate at the housing. The motion converter converts the movement of the drive shaft into rotational ocillatory movement of the rotary oscillation plate about the plug-in axle.
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