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.
Claims18
An oral care appliance, comprising:
- a removable proximate component configured to be actuated during at least one brushing cycle;
- a tag attached to the removable proximate component;
- and
- a distal component comprising:
- (i) a control system configured to actuate the removable proximate component according to the at least one brushing cycle;
- (ii) a memory module storing a brushing profile in association with a user identity;
- and
- (iii) a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable instructions to:
- determine the user identity using a signal from the tag;
- obtain the brushing profile of a user from the memory module using the user identity;
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- adapt the at least one brushing cycle automatically based on the brushing profile of the user.
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 removable proximate component, a tag attached to the removable proximate component, and a distal component, the method comprising:
- transmitting, from the tag to the distal component, a signal;
- storing a brushing profile in association with a user identity in a memory module;
- determining the user identity using the signal from the tag;
- obtaining a brushing profile of the user from the memory module using the user identity and 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 brushing profile of the user;
- and
- actuating the proximate component of the oral care appliance using the control system according to the at least one brushing cycle.
An oral care appliance, comprising:
- a removable proximate component configured to be actuated during at least one brushing cycle;
- a tag attached to the removable proximate component for identifying a user;
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- a distal component comprising:
- (i) a control system configured to actuate the removable proximate component according to the at least one brushing cycle;
- and (ii) a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable instructions to:
- receive a signal from the tag that identifies the user to the distal component;
- determine an oral action to provide using the signal;
- and
- adapt the at least one brushing cycle automatically based on the oral action to provide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.