Adaptive brushing cycle
AssigneeWillo 32 SAS
InventorsAlexandre Georges Gabriel Laurent, Hugo De Gentile, Jil Abed Michel Chabaro
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Abstract
An oral care appliance for cleaning teeth of a user and a method of adapting a brushing cycle of the oral care appliance are disclosed. Specific embodiments disclosed herein adapt the at least one brushing cycle based on a variety of factors, either alone or in combination, such as the time elapsed since a last brushing event and the identity of a user.
Claims32
An oral care appliance comprising:
- a mouthpiece configured to be actuated during at least one brushing cycle;
- a control system configured to actuate the mouthpiece according to the at least one brushing cycle;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable instructions to:
- determine a time elapsed since a last brushing event;
- and
- adapt the at least one brushing cycle automatically based on the time elapsed since the last brushing event.
The oral care appliance according to 3, the non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions to:
- adapt the at least one brushing cycle by modifying at least one of the operational characteristics.
A method, in which each step is conducted by a computerized system, of adapting at least one brushing cycle of an oral care appliance having a mouthpiece, the method comprising:
- determining a time elapsed since a last brushing event performed by the oral care appliance using a control system of the oral care appliance;
- automatically adapting the at least one brushing cycle using the control system of the oral care appliance, based on the time elapsed;
- and
- actuating a mouthpiece of the oral care appliance using the control system according to the at least one brushing cycle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.