Dental handpiece
AssigneeKaltenbach & Voigt GmbH & Co.
InventorSiegfried Schlachter
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Abstract
A dental handpiece, having provided at one end thereof at least one outlet opening for the discharge of a streaming medium. The outlet opening has a light-emitting element associated therewith. As a consequence thereof, by means of one and the same handpiece there can also be implemented the function of the illuminating of the treating location.
Claims22
A dental handpiece with a bent canula arranged at its forward end, and at the forward end of which canula is located at least one discharge opening for the discharge of a flowing medium, characterized in that a light emitting element is arranged directly behind said discharge behind said discharge opening of the canula, which is formed by the free end of a light conductive fiber optic bundle, with the fiber optic bundle being positioned in front of a light source and extending therefrom to a position behind a front piece constructed of a transparent material, such that light from the light source is carried by the fiber optic bundle to the transparent front piece and is projected therethrough from the free end of the fiber optic bundle, and said at least one discharge opening being arranged in said transparent front piece, with at least one media passageway extending through the front piece to said at least one discharge opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.