# US 7,611,315 B2 · Motor element, in particular medical handpiece with a collet chuck

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- Number: US 7,611,315 B2
- Document ID: US7611315B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 11/399,280
- Filed: 2006-04-06
- Published: 2007-05-24
- Granted: 2009-11-03
- Earliest claimed: 2005-04-07
- Assignees: Kaltenbach & Voight GmbH & Co.
- Inventors: Josef Duesing
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7611315B2

## CPC

- A61B 17/162: {Chucks or tool parts which are to be held in a chuck}
- A61C 1/147: {in a straight handpiece}
- Y10T 279/17461: Nonresilient member biased by a resilient member
- Y10T 279/17521: Reciprocating cam sleeve
- Y10T 279/17529: Fixed cam and moving jaws
- Y10T 409/309464: and draw bar
- A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D)
- A61C: DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE (non-driven toothbrushes A46B; {tongue scrapers A61B17/24;} preparations for dentistry A61K6/00; preparations for cleaning the teeth or mouth A61K8/00, A61Q11/00)
- Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION

## Abstract

In the case of a motor element, in particular of dental technical handpiece or a motor spindle, which at least in its front region has an elongated shank, rotatably mounted in which there is a hollow drive shaft, arranged in whose front end region there is a collet chuck for a tool that is connected in its rear end region by means of a coupling to a rod that extends towards the rear and is pretensioned towards the rear or towards the front by means of the force of a spring and can be displaced towards the front or towards the rear against the force of the spring by means of an actuating mechanism, with the spring being stayed on the draw rod towards the rear and being stayed against an inner first shoulder of the drive shaft towards the front, arranged at the front end region of the spring there is at least one supporting element that is elastically pretensioned radially outwards and springs out behind the shoulder when the draw rod is pushed with the spring from the front into the drive shaft, and the supporting element reaches a position located behind the shoulder.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A motor element comprising:
an elongated shank;
a hollow drive shaft rotatably mounted in the elongated shank;
a collet chuck for a tool arranged in a front end region of the hollow drive shaft; and
a coupling that connects the collet chuck to a rod that extends rearwardly, wherein the rod is pretensioned rearwardly or frontwardly by a spring on the rod and can be displaced frontwardly or rearwardly against the spring by an actuating mechanism, the spring being rearwardly stayed on the rod and being frontwardly stayed behind an inner first shoulder of the drive shaft,
wherein one or more spring arms are arranged at a front end region of the spring, the one or more spring arms are elastically pretensioned radially outwards and spring out behind the inner first shoulder when the rod and spring are plugged into a receiving hole of the drive shaft front end region and the one or more spring arms are seated in a position located behind the inner first shoulder, and the spring is rearwardly stayed on the rod against a bushing affixed to the rod, the spring pretensioning the rod toward the rear due to an axial staying of the spring arms on the inner first shoulder of the drive shaft.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

Motor element according to claim 1, wherein the inner first shoulder is formed by an annular groove.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

Motor element according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of spring arms are provided and arranged so that the spring arms are distributed over a periphery of a guide bushing.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

Motor element according to claim 1, wherein each of the one or more spring arms includes a front end which, in a relaxed state, takes up a radial measure with regard to a longitudinal central axis of the hollow drive shaft that is greater than a radial measure of a receiving hole of the hollow drive shaft that is cylindrical over an entire length of the hollow drive shaft.