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US 12,653,656 B2Granted
Oral treatment device and related methods
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorLeighton Davies-Smith
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Abstract
An oral treatment device and a method of using the same. The oral treatment device includes an intraoral mouthpiece configured for placement into a mouth of a user, which includes a lamp having a top edge and a bottom edge, a plurality of first electromagnetic radiation emitting elements that emit light in a first wavelength when activated, and a plurality of second electromagnetic radiation emitting elements that emit light in a second wavelength when activated. The first electromagnetic radiation emitting elements are positioned along the lamp to emit light onto the user's teeth and the second electromagnetic radiation emitting elements are positioned along the lamp to emit light onto the user's teeth.
Claims10
An oral treatment device comprising:
- an intraoral mouthpiece comprising:
- an arcuate wall comprising a front surface;
- a lamp positioned adjacent to the arcuate wall and configured to emit electromagnetic radiation onto oral surfaces when the intraoral mouthpiece is positioned within a mouth of a user and activated, the lamp comprising:
- a top edge and a bottom edge;
- a plurality of first electromagnetic radiation emitting elements that emit a violet light when activated;
- and
- a plurality of second electromagnetic radiation emitting elements that emit a red light when activated;
- and
- wherein the plurality of second electromagnetic radiation emitting elements comprises a first row positioned adjacent to the top edge of the lamp to emit the red light onto the user's gums when activated, and wherein each of the plurality of first electromagnetic radiation emitting elements is located between the first row of the plurality of second electromagnetic radiation emitting elements and the bottom edge of the lamp to emit the violet light onto the user's teeth when activated,
- wherein the oral treatment device further comprises a bite platform extending from the front surface of the arcuate wall, and the intraoral mouthpiece further comprises an alignment feature located on the bite platform and extending from the front surface of the arcuate wall, the alignment feature having a top surface inclined upwardly with increasing distance beginning from the arcuate wall to a distal end of the bite platform,
- wherein the lamp further comprises a color measurement sensor that is configured to obtain a color measurement of a tooth of the user when activated, the color measurement sensor comprising a light emitter configured to emit light onto the tooth and a light receiver configured to receive reflected light that has reflected from the tooth to determine the color measurement of the tooth, and
- wherein the alignment feature is configured such that, when the intraoral mouthpiece is positioned within the mouth of the user, the tooth of the user is positioned on top of the alignment feature at a consistent distance from the color measurement sensor so that the color measurement is obtained from an identical location on the tooth each time the color measurement sensor is obtained.
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An oral treatment device comprising:
- an intraoral mouthpiece comprising:
- an arcuate wall comprising a front surface;
- a plurality of first electromagnetic radiation emitting elements that emit a first light having a first wavelength from the front surface of the arcuate wall when activated;
- and
- a plurality of second electromagnetic radiation emitting elements that emit a second light having a second wavelength from the front surface of the arcuate wall when activated;
- and
- wherein the plurality of second electromagnetic radiation emitting elements comprises a first row located adjacent to a top portion of the front surface of the arcuate wall to emit the second light onto a user's gums when activated, and wherein each of the plurality of first electromagnetic radiation emitting elements is located along the arcuate wall at a position between the first row of the plurality of second electromagnetic radiation emitting elements and a bottom portion of the front surface of the arcuate wall to emit the first light onto the user's teeth when activated,
- wherein the oral treatment device further comprises a bite platform extending from the front surface of the arcuate wall, and the intraoral mouthpiece further comprises an alignment feature located on the bite platform and extending from the front surface of the arcuate wall, the alignment feature having a lower surface inclined downwardly with increasing distance beginning from the arcuate wall to a distal end of the bite platform,
- wherein the lamp further comprises a color measurement sensor that is configured to obtain a color measurement of a tooth of the user when activated, the color measurement sensor comprising a light emitter configured to emit light onto the tooth and a light receiver configured to receive reflected light that has reflected from the tooth to determine the color measurement of the tooth, and
- wherein the alignment feature is configured such that, when the intraoral mouthpiece is positioned within the mouth of the user, the tooth of the user is positioned on top of the alignment feature at a consistent distance from the color measurement sensor so that the color measurement is obtained from an identical location on the tooth each time the color measurement sensor is obtained.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.