Oral treatment device

US9901744B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Colgate-Palmolive Company · US

Inventors

• Scott W. Demarest · Racine, US
• Francis Tatu · Town of DeWitt, US
• Mark Bartlett · North East, US
• Evaristo Delgado · Fanwood, US
• Kathryn Neal · Piscataway, US
• Patrik Johansson · Medford, US
• Mark Lowenthal · Piscataway, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 22, 2015
• Grant date: Feb 27, 2018
• Expiry date: Dec 22, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N2005/0663
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An oral treatment device that emits light onto surfaces of a user's teeth. In one aspect, the oral treatment device includes an intraoral mouthpiece. The mouthpiece may comprise a lamp support structure comprising a lamp support surface; first and second lamps, each of the first and second lamps comprising a plurality of light emitters that generate light which is emitted from a rear surface of the lamp; each of the first and second lamps mounted to the lamp support surface, thereby forming a lamp assembly, each of the first and second lamps operably coupled to a control circuit having a power source; and a lamp retaining component coupled to the lamp support structure, a lower portion of the first lamp and an upper portion of the second lamp retained between the lamp retaining component and the lamp support surface of the lamp support structure.