US 6,659,768 B1Granted

Oral cavity cleaning device

AssigneeRicoh Elemex Corporation

InventorsKazumasa Ito, Hiroshi Ikeda, Shin Yamazaki

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Abstract

A waste liquid tank B is connected to a cleaning head 60 through a waste tube 25. Squeezing means 61 is provided in a waste flow passage of from an end 60a of the cleaning head 60 to a suction port b of the waste liquid tank B to squeeze the waste flow passage. A pump A is driven with a cleaning head 60 introduced in the oral cavity to suck the residual matter in the oral cavity and to drain it into the waste liquid tank B in order to clean the oral cavity. When the residual matter cannot be sucked with a normal suction force, the waste flow passage is squeezed by the squeezing means 61 to increase the negative pressure in the waste tube 25. Thereafter, the squeeze is released to suck the residual matter at a breath with the increased negative pressure.

Claims6

Dependent claims

An oral cavity cleaning device comprising

a cleaning head;
a waste liquid tank;
a liquid feeding tank;
a pump driven with the cleaning head when the cleaning head is introduced in the oral cavity to suck residual matter in the oral cavity and to drain the residual matter into the waste liquid tank in order to clean the oral cavity;
and
squeezing means provided in a waste flow passage of from an end of the cleaning head to a suction port of the waste liquid tank to squeeze said waste flow passage to thereby increase a negative pressure downstream of the squeezing position and in order to suck the residual matter at a breath with the increased negative pressure by releasing the squeeze,
wherein the pump enables air to be taken through the suction port to suck the residual matter in the oral cavity and to drain the residual matter into the waste liquid tank, and also enables air to be blown out from a blow-out port and fed into the liquid feeding tank to feed a liquid in the liquid feeding tank into the cleaning head.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.