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| 20090031510 | Application Substance Reservoir for Toothbrushes and Electric Toothbrush - An application substance reservoir for a toothbrush is provided. The reservoir has a data carrier and may be filled with toothpaste or another application substance. An electric toothbrush is also provided. The data carrier of the application substance reservoir may contain, for example, information regarding the prevailing filling level of the application substance reservoir and the type of application substance. The electric toothbrush has a data receiver for reading the data stored in the data carrier, a data transmitter for writing to the data carrier, and a control unit which may display the filling level in the application substance reservoir or the particular application substance used. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20100175207 | ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH - The present invention relates to an electric toothbrush, specifically the toothbrush handle of an electric toothbrush, with a handle housing, with a preferably rod-shaped drive transmitter which protrudes from a first side of the handle housing and on which a brush attachment can be secured, and with a drive motor for moving the drive transmitter, wherein the drive transmitter is mounted, by means of a bearing device in the interior of the handle housing, in the manner of a rocker arm such that the drive transmitter can be pivoted to-and-fro transverse to its longitudinal axis by the drive motor. The invention further relates to the whole toothbrush, comprising such a toothbrush handle part and a brush attachment secured to the drive transmitter thereof. According to the invention, the bearing device holds the drive transmitter so as to pivot about a rotation point lying outside the handle housing. Said rotation point is offset particularly far out from the handle housing, such that it comes to lie between the bristle array of the brush attachment and the front end of the handle in the area of the lips. In this way, an efficient cleaning movement with a large cleaning amplitude in the area of the bristle array can be combined with a low vibration amplitude of the toothbrush in the area of the lips. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100281637 | Dental Cleaning Device - An electric toothbrush with a removable brush section having a transponder communicating with a handle portion of the toothbrush via a non-contacting inductive coupling. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100319145 | TRANSMITTING DATA BETWEEN A TOOTHBRUSH AND A TERMINAL - Data is transmitted between an electric toothbrush and an external terminal, for example, a data processing and/or display unit, in some cases through an adapter connected to the toothbrush handle in place of a releasable attachment such as a brush head or application substance container. In some cases the data is transmitted wirelessly, such as in accordance to a wireless USB standard. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110094107 | Small Electrical Appliance For Removing Hairs - The invention relates to a small electrical appliance for removing hairs, with a handpiece extending in the direction of a center axis and provided with front and rear sides and side faces, and with an operating head which is secured on the handpiece via a retaining device and has an operating unit. The operating unit is composed of at least one operating element which is set in motion via a drive member by an electrical drive motor formed in the small appliance, such that, when the operating unit slides along the skin surface of a user, hairs are removed by the operating unit. The retaining device is connected to the handpiece via guide means in such a way that, when a force (F | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110122987 | Replaceable Accessory for a Small Electrical Appliance and Method of Monitoring the Usage of the Accessory - The invention is directed to an accessory for a small electrical appliance, such as a brush attachment for an electric toothbrush or a shaving component for an electric shaving apparatus, including a data memory and a transponder. The accessory furthermore includes an electronic circuitry which modifies a value stored in the data memory each time it receives a corresponding signal. Also described is a method of determining the end of the period of use of the accessory. | 05-26-2011 |
