System and method for determining and notifying a user when to rplace a dental cleaning head
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsSTEVEN CHARLES DEANE, VINCENT JEANNE, GREGORY RUSS GODDARD, TOON HARDEMAN, MARTIN JOHN EDWARDS
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Abstract
A system and method of determining and notifying a user when to replace a worn dental cleaning head (104), comprises receiving, from a sensor (106), at least one measured value; calculating, using the measured value, a burn metric of the dental cleaning head; modeling, using the burn metric, an estimated lifetime of the dental cleaning head; determining, from the lifetime model, whether the dental cleaning head is in need of replacement; and notifying the user upon determining that the dental cleaning head is in need of replacement.
Claims15
A method of determining and notifying a user when to replace a dental cleaning head, comprising:
- receiving, from a sensor, at least one measured value;
- calculating, using the measured value, a burn metric of the dental cleaning head;
- modeling, using the burn metric, an estimated lifetime of the dental cleaning head;
- determining, from the lifetime model, whether the dental cleaning head is in need of replacement;
- and
- notifying the user upon determining that the dental cleaning head is in need of replacement.
A system for notifying a user when to replace a worn dental cleaning head, comprising:
- an application comprising program code stored on a non-transitory storage medium and programmed to:
- receive, from a sensor, data representing at least one measured value;
- estimate, from the received data, a burn metric of the dental cleaning head;
- model, using the estimated burn metric, an estimated life of the dental cleaning head;
- determine, from the lifetime model, whether the dental cleaning head is in need of replacement;
- and
- notify the user upon determining that the dental cleaning head is in need of replacement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.