Oral treatment device, system and method
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorsBrian Bloch, Michael Lefebvre
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Abstract
An oral treatment device that emits electromagnetic radiation onto surfaces of a user's teeth. The oral treatment device may include an intraoral mouthpiece and a handle extending therefrom, the handle containing the control circuitry required for operation of the device. The mouthpiece may include a lamp support structure, a lamp, a lens plate, and a guard component. The lamp may include an electromagnetic radiation source that includes a flexible sheet and a plurality of illumination elements located thereon. The illumination elements may be light emitting diodes printed with an electrically conductive. Additional electronic components such as a processor and a power source may also be included in the device.
Claims25
An oral treatment device comprising:
- a control circuit that comprises, in operable coupling, a power source, a first compressible electrical contact having a first electrical charge, and a second compressible electrical contact having a second electrical charge that is opposite the first electrical charge;
- an intraoral mouthpiece comprising:
- a lamp comprising a lamp longitudinal axis and a flexible sheet body having first and second electrical contacts located on the lamp longitudinal axis, the lamp longitudinal axis extending from a first lamp side edge of the flexible sheet body to a second lamp side edge of the flexible sheet body, the lamp configured to generate and emit electromagnetic radiation from a front surface of the lamp;
- wherein the lamp is mounted within the oral treatment device so that the first and second electrical contacts of the lamp are aligned and pressed into contact with the first and second compressible electrical contacts of the control circuit, respectively;
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- wherein a transverse plane contains the lamp longitudinal axis and the transverse plane intersects both of the first and second electrical contacts of the lamp and both of the first and second compressible electrical contacts.
An oral treatment device comprising:
- a control circuit that comprises, in operable coupling, a power source, a first electrical contact having a first electrical charge, and a second electrical contact having a second electrical charge that is opposite the first electrical charge;
- an intraoral mouthpiece comprising:
- a lamp comprising a flexible sheet body and a plurality of light emitters, the flexible sheet body having first and second electrical contacts;
- a lamp support structure comprising a lamp support surface having a concave curvature, the lamp mounted to the lamp support surface;
- a curved cover lens plate overlying the lamp, the lamp positioned between the curved cover lens plate and the lamp support surface, the curved cover lens plate comprising one or more protuberances extending from a convex rear surface of the curved cover lens plate that are aligned with the first and second electrical contacts of the lamp and press the flexible sheet body of the lamp against the first and second electrical contacts of the control circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.