CN1822799A - Electric device for interdental cleaning and for treating teeth and gingivae - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention relates to an electric device (1) for interdental cleaning comprises an elongated casing (2), an electric motor (22) provided with an eccentric mass (23) and a tool holding fixture (5). The inventive device is characterised in that it comprises a long support structure (3) comprising all electric components including a cell (13) or a battery, thereby making it possible to obtain an electric interdental cleaning device which avoids the inconveniences of the actual state-of-the-art. A reusable small device which is particularly practical, easy to handle and takes into consideration, in particular ergonomic features is also disclosed.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of as claim 1 electric device that is used for the slot cleaning and is used for the treatment of tooth or gingiva as described in the preamble.
Background technology
U.S. patent documents US5,839,895 disclose a kind of electric device that is used for the treatment of tooth or gingiva already.This device has electromagnetic shaker and axle, and the end of axle links to each other with electromagnetic shaker.Vibrations are passed to the free-ended tip that is installed in axle through axle.This device is used for the vibrations massage, thereby can strengthen the therapeutic effect of oral cavity tissue.Can also apply medicine to oral cavity tissue by means of corresponding device thereof.The purposes of device has also been described for example: the filling of prefabricated tooth cavity, inlay or the cementation of veneer and the punishment of other clinical picture in the above-mentioned patent.US5,839,895 devices of describing are mainly used in dental practice, and the cleaning device that does not use as the individual.
U.S. patent documents US4,880,382 disclose the monoblock type oral hygiene system, and it has electric toothbrush, wherein the replaceable one-tenth massage elements of head toothbrushes, dental floss holder (floss hololer) or slot brush etc.The device of describing in this patent document is bigger, seems very heavy, and considers especially to be unsuitable for the slot zone from ergonomic factor.
U.S. patent documents US3,967,617 disclose a kind of mechanical type gingival massage equipment, and wherein, massage elements is depicted substantially oblong-shaped track in operating process, the basic quadrature of the longitudinal axis of this trajectory plane and equipment.Described equipment is by driving the motor rotation of eccentric free wheel.Make massage instrument be in vibrating state whereby.Massage instrument be connected with the co-axial bound fraction of motor shaft (couplingsection) on, and can tilt 45 the degree.The same volume of this equipment is big, heavy.
U.S. patent documents US4,458,702 disclose a kind of electronic dental floss, and this is that a kind of dental floss that utilizes cleans the spatial electric device of slot.In this case, dental floss is connected between two fixed arms of device, wherein arm links to each other with rotary actuator and by its driving, so arm can move up and down.Arm causes additional hygienic issues with fixedlying connected of device: can not change arm, and move up and down owing to the eccentric stiffener in the carrying sleeve provides accordingly, therefore also have wear problem.
At last, Deutsche Bundespatent prospectus DE 102 13 629 A1 have disclosed a kind of spatial device of slot that is used to clean, and it comprises the cleaning element that at least one is elongated, and this cleaning element can partly insert between the tooth.This elongated cleaning element has front portion, the mid portion of individual bristle of being referred to as (single brisfle) and is used for being installed to the installation base portion of the electronic slot cleaning device of realizing swing.This device is based on the electric toothbrush with aforesaid drawbacks.
Summary of the invention
The present invention provides a kind of modified model electric device that is used to clean the slot space and is used for the treatment of tooth and gingiva from aforementioned technical problem, and this device can overcome the defective of aforementioned prior art.In addition, the purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of compactness, especially be light and easy to use especially device from the human engineering angle, this device especially can transmit vibrations in the concentrated area, and is a kind of instrument of treatment oral disease of energy-saving type.
Purpose of the present invention can reach by the feature of claim 1.Dependent claims has been described preferred refinement of the present invention and further improved form.
Electric device of the present invention has the motor and the tool tray (tool carrier) of shell, band eccentric block.In operating process, the driven by motor eccentric block rotates, thereby produces vibrations, vibrations is directly passed to the instrument of treatment oral disease by tool tray.Because vibrations are directly passed to tool tray, and needn't pass through whole casing, the present invention especially be suitable for obtaining limited electric energy the place, utilize in the device (battery-operated appratus) of battery operation.This mode of instrument that vibrations are directly passed to the treatment oral disease can make motor very small and exquisite, and only needs very little energy.This mode also can make less battery and rechargeable battery work really long days.The diameter that is used for motor of the present invention is not more than about 6mm to 8mm basically, and length is preferably 12mm less than 20mm.Therefore, the structure of this electric device is very small and exquisite, can be placed in the handbag easily or is contained in the trousers pocket, so this device cleans slot or massage gingiva after can be used for having a dinner at every turn.
The technique effect that the feature of claim 2 is brought is configured to especially near the instrument calmodulin binding domain CaM that is placed on the tool tray, so that the almost harmless lost territory of the vibrations that eccentric block produces passes to described instrument for guaranteeing eccentric block.If be arranged in the zone that is covered by the calmodulin binding domain CaM of tool tray on the tool tray eccentric block or contiguous this zone part (claim 3), then can reach extraordinary effect.By being made of metal with instrument, tool tray is made of plastics the performance that can further improve device.In this case, give lighter instrument by the metal tools carriage that big quality constitutes with strong especially shock transfer, therefore, even instrument (for example slot burnisher) is introduced the slot space and remain there, the vibrations of slot instrument still are enough to isolate from the slot space food debris and its rejecting are gone out.
The technique effect that the feature of claim 5 is brought is, spoon (scoop) constitutes the part of shell, it is near the also upper shed of seal casinghousing part on the one hand, it can hold instrument on the other hand, make it to stretch out sealing transition zone simultaneously, thereby can prevent that enclosure interior from making moist and dustproof by the upper shed of shell.Furtherly, spoon also is used from the guiding tool tray with supporting construction one.
The technique effect that the feature of claim 6 is brought is, tool tray tilts towards the longitudinal axis of housing parts, can guarantee electric device easy to operate in the oral cavity like this.Owing to inclination, operator's hands can not hinder the zone, oral cavity, and the tool tray and the instrument that is fixed on have also been guaranteed this point than length there.If the inclination angle in 10 ° to 40 ° scopes, preferably this angle between 20 ° and 30 °, more preferably 25 ° (claim 7) then can reach good effect.
The technique effect that the feature of claim 8 is brought is, can make assembling simple especially, because assembling back supporting construction constitutes parts with the tool tray that has motor and seismic mass, these parts can be inserted in housing parts by the upper shed of housing parts.Fixing or realizing by supporting construction or by spoon in housing parts perhaps realizes by the two parts on the housing parts inboard.Can adopt special fluting spare or other fixture this moment, combine with spoon or supporting construction in detachable or non-removable mode and realize above-mentioned purpose.If housing parts forms cup-shaped sleeve near that end relative with tool tray, support section should be engaged on the inwall of housing parts by trough of belt spare or other fixed mechanism.Certainly, adopting the fixed mechanism be formed at the housing parts inboard to make supporting construction through spoon, fixing to keep tool tray also be feasible, and like this, the protruding bottom of advancing the supporting construction in the housing parts can freely be suspended in the housing parts.In this case, battery can be kept and imports the bottom.
The following hole in the last hole of the spoon that very feasible is will be passed by tool tray and the last hole of close housing parts is along the vertical coaxial setting (run concentrically) of housing parts, this means, housing parts and spoon and tool tray are provided with coaxially to each other, thereby they are on the common longitudinal axis.But the layout of this straight extension makes the controllability variation of electric device.Yet, if the corresponding hole of going up in tool tray and the spoon is arranged to be an angle with the longitudinal axis of housing parts, if and supporting construction also has the upper area of the inclination that is used for fixing tool tray, then the feature of claim 9 will be brought beneficial effect.Spoon itself can by fluting or other bindiny mechanism be fixedly joined to the bottom of the inclined upper or the supporting construction of supporting construction.In this embodiment, tool tray is assembled into (claim 10) in the supporting construction in advance with spoon.
As described in the feature of claim 11, pull bar is formed at the bottom of supporting construction, but in this embodiment, housing parts has by the upper shed of spoon sealing and the under shed that is closed by cap seal.In this embodiment, after the space of upper shed by housing parts with the bottom insertion housing parts of supporting construction, to cover again and screw on from below, the lower support structure is pulled to lid like this, be close to the last shell wall (claim 12) of housing parts up to the lower limb of the under shed of spoon with sealing means, it is fixing that the housing parts rotation is clamped and pasted to the lower support structure reliably then.The fixed mechanism that is formed on the housing parts that covers with lower opening is dismountable screw-threaded device or trough of belt device (claim 13), they are used to assemble and have the supporting construction of tool tray from the housing parts dismounting, so that change or insert again the battery that is installed in the supporting construction at any time.
According to the described device of the present invention of the feature of claim 14, its be further characterized in that supporting construction fixing as motor, motor switch, conductive path (conducting path), contact, comprise the electric components such as circuit of battery or accumulator.Therefore, we can say also that electric device of the present invention has modular structure.For example support structure configuration can be become elongated plastic material spare (plastic profile), it has battery holder, and the downside of this retainer has and electrically contacts part and switch accordingly, and side has corresponding cable thereon.The motor that has eccentric block is fixed in the top of supporting construction.Because all electric components all are arranged on the supporting construction " module ", owing in assembling process, can avoid loose contact, thereby can not have and guarantee the conduction contact difficultly.Adopt the result of this close-coupled modular structure to be, electric device of the present invention uses very convenient and small and exquisite.
Advantageously tool tray itself is configured to the conical truncated cone (claim 15), with the tubulose that provides corresponding, be suitable for cooperating in conjunction with sleeve, this sleeve for example patch tool carriage or other can with the bonded proper tools side of opening section.In addition, the upper end of tool tray can be provided with chamfering, can make the location of corresponding slot cleaning or massage adnexa very convenient whereby.Utilize the neighboring of tool tray can obtain big cross-sectional area, the result can guarantee that tool tray has high stability and enough hardness under big moment of flexure situation.
The described tool tray of claim 18 can preferably have the notch receiving portion, the spring that is engaged with in this notch receiving portion on the instrument of being formed at loads fluting part (spring-loaded notchedelements), and this fluting spare is used for guaranteeing that the instrument that is mounted in operating process can not deviate from.This notch receiving portion for example can form by respective openings on the neighboring of tool tray or recess, or is provided by respective cross-section extension or the recess on the inner rim.Can be engaged in the land from accessory wherein to the corresponding fluting spare of projecting inward or outside protrusion this moment.
The feature of claim 19 demonstrates a kind of favourable embodiment of the present invention.For this, for example can on tool tray, be provided with the lug of projection vertically downward, respective groove engagement on this lug and the supporting construction can stop whereby owing to act on the tool tray twisting (claim 19) that the moment on the slot cleaning attachment that is positioned causes.Tool tray is fixedlyed connected with supporting construction by these fluting parts.Certainly, also can adopt alternate manner, for example be threaded, gluingly connect, welding etc. is as fixation.
The upper area of the tool tray of opening also has the opening or the earial drainage opening (run-off opening) of fluting except having inner polygon gabarit laterally.Thus, by sealing middle cover sealing second area (claim 20), enter enclosure to prevent liquid and dust.
By means of the feature of claim 21 can be marvellously with simple mode obtain enclosure, towards tool tray at least to the accessory of water-stop.
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By illustrative embodiments is described further improvement of the present invention part and advantage are described below in conjunction with accompanying drawing.In the accompanying drawing:
Fig. 1 is the enlarged diagram of a preferred implementation of electric device of the present invention, and tool tray, supporting construction and spoon are partly extracted out from housing parts among the figure, so that show the assembly and disassembly situation better;
Fig. 2 is the enlarged perspective of supporting construction of the present invention, there is shown the situation that tool tray and electronic extention is housed but does not insert battery;
Fig. 3 is the longitudinal sectional view of the electric device shown in Figure 1 that assembled;
Fig. 4 is the detailed perspective view of tool tray, and this tool tray is fixed in the top of supporting construction by notch;
Fig. 5 is the longitudinal sectional view of electric device shown in Figure 3, there is shown toothpick and has inserted situation in the tool tray;
Fig. 6 is the longitudinal sectional view of electric device shown in Figure 3, is positioned with dental floss holder on the tool tray.
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In the following description, for avoiding repetition, same or analogous parts select for use identical Reference numeral to represent.Accompanying drawing only is used for explanation, does not represent protection domain.
In this illustrative embodiments, owing to adopt the compact module structure, the total height of electric device 1 during not with cleaning attachment only is 7 centimetres to 9 centimetres.In this case, can be with in the retained part 54 that inserts as the AAA set of cells of battery 13 in the hypomere 51 of supporting construction 3.Because compact to design, this device in travelling, after the working lunch in addition the Shi Junneng that goes out at night use easily, this with electric toothbrush is basically with existing that gear is connected and the device that uses is different in the bathroom.Because employing is battery-operated, device of the present invention needn't rely on electric lines of force.Do not need to use the expensive adapter that is used for the slot cleaning attachment in the electric toothbrush at this yet.
In this illustrative embodiments, adopt bi-component injection molding method that housing parts 45 is made injection molding spare.The zone 7 partly is made of duroplasts, should be made by polypropylene in the zone in this illustrative embodiments, and zone 8 is made of flexible plastic, should be made by TPE in the zone in this illustrative embodiments.Like this except shell 2 is had favorable durability and the impact strength, also make it to handle and have a good tactile property through meeting human engineering.Main by the zone 8 that flexible plastic constitutes as the finger and thumb of placing the user hands.In addition, whippy soft start button 9 is as the key surface that switches on and off the switch 14 that is positioned at thereafter.On duroplasts, can spray flexible plastic, perhaps flexible plastic can be expelled in the opening of form of film.A kind of way in back is particularly useful for start button 9 places, so that can start inner motor switch 14.
The housing parts 45 that is configured to be essentially slightly thin constriction column tube has the last shell edge 10 that curves slightly, and it and horizontal direction tilt, sealing upper shed 46, and by 11 boundary of circumferential sealing lip.In the lower end, housing parts 2 has horizontally extending, circular lower casing edge 12.Package header 6 among Fig. 3 circumference within it is provided with circumference annular ditch groove 55, this groove with the mode of closure, can not be split but rotatably with tapered edge 70 engagements at the housing parts 2 of the free end of housing parts 2.In addition, package header 6 has female thread 18, is used for external screw thread 20 engagements (referring to Fig. 3,5 and 6) with supporting construction 3.Bottom side 19 at package header also is provided with the passage (not shown), and passage is used to prevent that enclosure 59 pressure are excessive, when this situation for example can betide battery release gas.The bottom side 19 of package header is inside slightly lentiform arc.
In Fig. 1 and Fig. 3, supporting construction 3 is equipped with the battery 13 that electric power is provided to motor 22.Perspective part-view shown in Figure 2 shows the supporting construction 3 that battery is housed.Being fixed on the elongated supporting construction 3, being injection moulded in by thermoplastic integral body on the vertical side in the left side shown in Fig. 1,3,5 and 6 is electric on/off switch 14, and battery compartment 21 is set at the vertical side relative with switch 14.Supporting construction 3 also accommodates all essential cable and contacts, but they are not shown in the drawings.
Be provided with notch receiving portion 56 in the epimere 52 of the supporting construction 3 of side shown in Figure 2, when spoon 4 is positioned to be fixed together with supporting construction 3, the respective grooves oral hook (notch hook) 15 of spoon 4 will hook in the described notch receiving portion 56 (referring to Fig. 1).On the inclination epimere 52 of supporting construction 3 is the tool tray 5 that slightly is truncated cone shape in case the mode of twisting is connected.Tool tray 5 forms tubular sections 48, and motor 22 is pressed in the inwall 47 of tubular sections regularly.Driving shaft 57 stretches out from motor 22, and the eccentric block 23 that equally also is contained in the inwall 47 is fixed on the driving shaft.The diameter of motor 22 is very little, is about 6 millimeters in this illustrative embodiments.The power of electrical consumption only is about 0.1 watt.Because manipulation tool 31,37 required vibrations (Fig. 5 and 6) directly result from tool tray 5 places and are directly passed to instrument, can reach this low power consumption performance by eccentric block 23 particularly advantageously is set in tool tray 5.
In Fig. 3 and 5, can be clear that the longitudinal axis 49 of housing parts and extend through the angle α that forms between the longitudinal axis 50 of motor 22, eccentric block 23 and tool tray 5.The outer surface 53 of tool tray 5 passes the upper shed 46 of spoon 4, is supporting the flange 30 that stretches out from the inboard, edge of opening 46 up to the edge of opening 46.Accompany O-ring seals 24 between the top edge 17 of the flange 30 of tool tray 5 and upper shed 46, the sealing circle is used for can inside 59, and anti-sealing infiltrates.Fig. 4 shows the details of the tool tray 5 on the epimere 52 that is fixed on supporting construction 3 enlargedly.Adopted a plurality of peripheries vertically to protrude from the lug 25 of lower limb 30 herein from tool tray 5, these lugs be used for supporting construction 3 on respective groove (not shown) engagement, this structure also is used for assist location and prevents twisting except that the effect of playing fixed mechanism.Be provided with seal receptacle 29 on the flange 30 that circumference radially protrudes, when spoon 4 was fixed on the supporting construction 3, O-ring seals 24 was placed on the seal receptacle.
As shown in Figure 4, the conical outer surface 53 that slightly is basically that attenuates towards free end of tool tray 5 has chamfering 28 in the place, edge thereon.Whereby, make instrument 37 for example have or conically be easier to centring, thereby locate more convenient in conjunction with sleeve 38 around the cylindrical of tool tray 5.Instrument 37 have tubular section in conjunction with sleeve 38 (Fig. 6) as the opening of tubular sections 48, this tubular section can suitably be positioned on the outer surface 53.
At last, as seeing in conjunction with Fig. 6 and Fig. 3, the outer surface 53 of tool tray 5 is provided with notch receiving portion 27, this notch receiving portion is with around being equipped in conjunction with sleeve 38 no any (without any play) movably of tool tray 5, and with thereon fluting spare 39 1 is set is used from the axial restraint of instrument 37 and prevents and rotate.In this illustrative embodiments, notch receiving portion 27 directly communicates with square receiving portion 26, whereby can be simultaneously draws the current by pass of the liquid that square receiver 26 collects as row in the operating process.
Fig. 6 is the enlarged diagram that has the electric device 1 of forked dental floss holder 37.Dental floss holder 37 have be roughly columniform in conjunction with sleeve 38, this in conjunction with sleeve have the tongue-shaped member 40 of being located at the fluting that has notch spare 39 on the cylindrical wall and with the tongue-shaped member 40 opposed guide protrusions 41 of fluting.Protrude from and prevent twisting when being used on being installed to tool tray 5 in conjunction with the guide protrusions 41 on the inwall 66 of sleeve 38.For this purpose, be flat regional 44 (also can referring to Fig. 2) be located on the tool tray 5 as the part that cooperates with guide protrusions 41, this zone stretches at outer surface 53 upper edge longitudinal axis 50.
Dental floss holder 37 is placed on the tool tray that is roughly taper 5 of electronic teeth space cleaning device 1, notch spare 39 and notch receiving portion 27 engagements that are provided with for this purpose.Whereby, tool tray 5 combined sleeves 38 tightly seal and flush, and dental floss holder 37 is fixedlyed connected without doubt with tool tray 5, but the dismounting of available hands.
In addition, on flat front 61 as shown in Figure 4, be provided with square receiving portion 26 is for example admitted the instrument with square-section 31 that can see from Fig. 5 as bound fraction B calmodulin binding domain CaM 34.According to the present invention, in this case, rectangle should be interpreted as respective cross-section with chamfered edge or round edge.The cross section of square receiving portion 26 such as Fig. 3 and 5 inside that are shown in step 62 are extended to lower area 69 from last regional 63, thereby when insertion instrument 39, the transverse notch 32 that structure forms on the calmodulin binding domain CaM 34 of instrument 31 is pressed into the cross-sectional constriction zone together, and once more pressure is discharged into extension region 64 by means of the effect of fluting.In this case, the operator can know when toothpick 31 correctly is inserted in the square receiving portion 26.The toothpick 31 that is formed by the thermoplastic injection molding that meets food safety has toothpick tip 33 as shown in Figure 5.
As shown in Figure 5, be transitional region 35 after the calmodulin binding domain CaM on the toothpick 31 34, become triangular cross section at the cross section of this zone toothpick 31 from rectangular cross section.Be cleaning area 36 after transitional region 35, this zone has the triangular cross section at the more sharp-pointed edge of band 68, wherein the height of toothpick 31 longitudinally axis 50 68 reduce gradually from the edge to toothpick tip 33 so that penetrate the slot space easily.The side surface 65 of cleaning area 36 has groove or is configured to laterally perpendicular to longitudinal axis 50, to strengthen cleaning effect.
Shown in Fig. 3,5 and 6, tool tray 5 is made of tubular sections 48, and this tubular sections roughly is divided into two sections in example shown in Figure 3, promptly goes up zone 63 and lower area 69, and they are separated from each other in the water-stop mode by middle cover 42.In this illustrative embodiments, eccentric block 23 and motor 22 are preferred by pushing in the inwall 47 that is fixed on lower area 69.When electric device 1 energized, tool tray 5 and corresponding instrument 31,37 are in vibrating state.This vibrations make the dental floss swing of stretching between yoke 43 or make toothpick 31 swings, thereby only food debris are weeded out from the slot space as required.In addition, lip-deep aromatic substance and the health substance that is applied in the cleaning area 36 of dental floss or toothpick 31 can be uniformly distributed in the teeth space space.
Can assemble device 1 of the present invention according to the following steps.
At first, the motor 22 that will have the eccentric block 23 on the driving shaft 27 that is fixed on motor according to Fig. 3,5 and 6 is pressed in the space 69 of tubular tool carriage, and wherein eccentric shaft 23 at first penetrates in the space 69.The housing 71 of motor 22 is pressed in the space 69, and leading edge 72 contacts with step 73 in the inwall 47 on it.In this position, between the free end of eccentric block 23 and the middle cover 42 very short distance is only arranged, make eccentric block 23 in space 69, still can rotate freely.In this case, motor 22 forms substantially flush leading edge 72 at the free end towards supporting construction 3 of tool tray 5.Then, shift O shape circle 24 top of the outer surface 53 of tool tray 5 onto, up to the seal receptacle 29 of the flange 30 of being close to tool tray 5.But in Fig. 4, O shape circle 24 is not pushed into as yet.
For the tool tray 5 that will assemble in advance as mentioned above is fixed on the supporting construction 3, can be put into spoon 4 on the tool tray by its upper shed 46 this moment, makes top edge 17 and its inner surface that O shape circle 24 is pressed into the seal receptacle 29 of being close to flange 30.The slightly larger in diameter that should be noted that the upper shed 46 that limits top edge 17 here is in the diameter of outer surface 53, and makes the diameter of the diameter of flange 30 greater than upper shed 46.The top edge 17 that can guarantee spoon 4 like this keeps reclining flange 30 by O shape circle 24.O shape is enclosed 24 sealing tool carriages 5 and is made it towards spoon, causes water and dust can not enter enclosure 59 from here.
Again tool tray 5 and spoon 4 are pushed together the epimere 52 of supporting construction 3, make on the center ring (identification is not come out) on the tool tray 5 located supporting constructions.Then tool tray 5 is pushed towards support body 3, made the notch receiving portion 56 that is configured in the fluting hook 15 of spoon on 4 and supporting construction 3 be in engagement (Fig. 1 and 2).In this position, spoon 4 is pushed tool tray 5 to supporting construction 3 by top edge 17, and holds it in this position with the prestressing force way of contact (prestressed contact).On the one hand by the hook 15 of will slot make elasticity slightly, on the other hand by with 15 engagements of fluting hook after preset stress by spoon 4 O shapes enclose 24 and can obtain prestressing force, tool tray 5 is close to (abuts free from any play and rotationally fixedagainst) supporting construction with spoon 4 motionless and antitorquely like this.The hypomere 51 of supporting construction 3 protrudes downwards from the under shed 77 of spoon 4.
At this moment, conductive path (not shown), motor switch 14 and the cable of drawing from motor 22 are linked to each other with the contact chip of battery 13 in being arranged on retained part 54 (Fig. 3).If switch 14 is connected, battery 13 provides electric energy (Fig. 3) to motor 22, and motor is in rotation status.In this manner, if battery 13 is inserted in the battery retained parts 54, owing under this assembled state, can apply voltage, so can test under this state the function of the supporting construction 3 that assembles in advance in mode as mentioned above to all corresponding electric parts.If install 1 operation, then can as shown in Figure 1 the supporting construction that has assembled be inserted in the housing parts 45 without any problem.At first the following free end with the hypomere 51 of supporting construction 3 inserts by the upper shed 74 of housing parts 45.Certainly, when supporting construction 3 is correct with respect to the orientation of housing parts 45, as long as lead rib and just can make supporting construction 3 have the tram with respect to housing parts 45 by not shown, then can be with in the supporting construction 3 insertion housing parts 45.
According to Fig. 3,5 and 6 supporting construction is pushed in the housing parts 45 the not far part before the bottom 16 of spoon 4 stops at shell edge 10 or terminate in the shell edge place again.At this moment, package header 6 is inserted in the under shed 60 of housing parts 45 and it is rotated, mesh up to the female thread of package header 6 external screw thread 20 with supporting construction 3.When further rotational support structure 3, supporting construction is slowly spurred along package header 6 directions, because it rests on the under shed 60 of housing parts 45, makes the lower limb 16 of spoon 4 be pressed towards the last shell edge 10 of housing parts 45.In this position, finish the assembling of electronic shell, and can also prevent that water and dust from entering enclosure 59.This be it should be noted that package header 6 can be non-dismountable ground but is fixed in rotationally on the under shed 60 of housing parts 45.
At this moment, device has been ready to and can have operated.Can as shown in Figure 5 toothpick 31 be inserted into bound fraction B now.Land 34 is pushed square receiving portion 26, be affixed on the substrate 79 (Fig. 6) of square receiving portion 26 up to its free end neighbour, the transverse notch 32 that is configured in simultaneously on the toothpick 31 is clamped step 62 back lightly, guarantees that the toothpick 31 in the square receiver 62 can not come off and tilt. Narrow side 75,76 at toothpick 31 also is provided with the transverse notch (not shown) that protrudes from narrow side 75,76, and they by the short longitudinal side extruding of square receiving portion 26, cause toothpick 31 to be firmly fixed by all sides of square receiver 26 together.Owing to,, also can make toothpick 31 remain on the position that undoubtedly is fixed in the square receiving portion 26 even in operating process by adopting the thermal deformation plastics in certain limit that transverse notch 32 is pushed in square receiving portion 26 together.At this moment, just can manually from square receiving portion 26, extract toothpick out with bigger power.
Use with dental floss holder 37 according to shown in Figure 6 if install 1, then can will be pushed on the outer surface 53, mesh with spring mode and notch receiving portion 27 up to fluting part 39 in conjunction with sleeve 38.When using dental floss holder 37 as shown in Figure 6, the spring of band fluting part 39 loads on the opposite side that (spring-loaded) notch 40 is configured in conjunction with sleeve 38, each side has fluting part 39 if make, can be along a direction (illustrating with solid line) and other direction (being shown in broken lines) both direction insertion dental floss holder.Then, make these fluting parts 39 and be configured on the tool tray 5 and also be positioned at notch receiving portion 27 engagements of opposite side, thereby dental floss holder 37 is firmly held on the tool tray 5 and can come off.But preferably according to inserting dental floss holder 37 among Fig. 6 shown in the dotted line because in this position on bottom, oral cavity and top manipulation devices 1 best all.This is that dental floss holder can insert the both sides in oral cavity preferably like this because of device 1 and dental floss holder 37 S-shaped gabarits.If wish to have only on the device 1 installation site of a dental floss holder 37,, then notch receiving portion 27 should be arranged on the outer surface 53 of tool tray 5 and depart from 180 degree so that to the user position that offers the best.Also should be arranged in fluting part 39 and notch 40 in conjunction with departing from 180 degree on the sleeve 38 this moment.
Undoubtedly be fixed on the tool tray 7 in order to guide dental floss holder 37, be constructed to the mating holes that is mutually related with the outer surface 53 of receiving portion 5 with in conjunction with the diameter of the inwall 66 of sleeve 38.But this often is difficult to realize owing to the reason of making, and the outer surface 53 of tool tray can expand slightly and 1 tapered towards installing, and makes the maximum gauge in zone of tool tray place top edge 17 greater than the diameter in conjunction with the inwall 66 of sleeve 38.Therefore, when dental floss holder 37 is pulled on the outer surface 53 of tool tray 5, can make dental floss holder 37 and outer surface 53 form interference fits, dental floss holder 37 just can not twist and be firmly fixed on the tool tray 5 like this.At this moment, be engaged in fully in the notch receiving portion 27 of tool tray 5 at this position fluting part 39.
The mode of operation of device 1 is described below.
When starting electric device 1, the start button 9 on motor switch 14 direction mobile shell parts 45 outsides also keeps this position with hands.Constitute the start button 9 that spring adds film carrier and move, as long as, then keep on-state always with hands started by press button 9 towards motor switch 14.This switch 14 is called as instant shut-in.Its benefit is its ability energized when instrument 31,37 is positioned at suitable slot space, and only it just keeps on-state when starting switch 14.So also power saving.
At this moment, by battery 13, make electric current pass through motor 22, and make eccentric block 23 rotations that link to each other with driving shaft 57 by unshowned lead.Because the rotating speed of eccentric block 23 very fast (being about per minute 9000 changes) passes to motor 22 by driving shaft 57 with high-frequency vibration, and passes to tool tray 5 by motor through inwall 47, therefore tool tray is energized the generation high-frequency vibration.These vibrations are delivered to the instrument 31,37 of fixedlying connected with tool tray 5 immediately.
If the operator (not shown) for example resembled and toothpick 33 was inserted in the slot spaces Fig. 5 this moment, owing to locate to produce high-frequency vibration for 65 liang at the side surface of crown 35 and cleaning area 36, when cleaning area 36 contacted with dental part, food debris and other material that is deposited in the slot space were loosening.According to operation dental floss holder 37 shown in Figure 6, so the dental floss 78 that is clipped between two yokes 43 (only seeing a bare terminal end from the outside) is imported into the slot space, because strong motion, utilize dental floss can from tooth, reject material equally, and these materials are moved on to the side of yoke 43.Have the special cured of aroma, for example mint smell if instrument 31,37 scribbles, then having preferably, aroma and flavor deals with better effects if.
The step of changing battery is described below.
In order to change the battery in the electric device 1, can unclamp package header 6, do not mesh up to female thread 18 with external screw thread 20.If package header 6 and housing parts 45 rotationally and fixed-site ground is connected, then supporting construction 3 is upwards pushed up at the part 18,20 o'clock of unscrewing, just spoon 4 can be pulled down from housing parts 45.This moment, supporting construction 3 and spoon 4 were all pulled down from housing parts 45, and the new battery of reuse is changed used batteries.Such just as has already been described, can be undertaken by opposite step during assembling electric device 1.
Claims (14)
1. electric device (1) that is used to clean the slot space and is used for the treatment of tooth and gingiva, comprise shell (2), be configured with the eccentric block (23) that drives by motor (22) in this shell, the vibrations of eccentric block can pass to tool tray (5), the calmodulin binding domain CaM of this tool tray (A, B) combines with the instrument that is used for the treatment of oral disease as slot cleaner (31), dental floss holder (37), polishing sheet and polished silicon wafer and so on
It is characterized in that,
Described shell (2) is made of tube-like envelope part (45), and shell edge (10) locates to be provided with spoon (4) thereon, and the lower limb of this spoon (16) forms under shed (77); This spoon (4) has upper shed (46), described tool tray (5) from the inboard of described upper shed through the outside.
2. electric device as claimed in claim 1 (1),
It is characterized in that,
The longitudinal axis (50) and the described tool tray (5) of the described upper shed (46) of described spoon (4) form common longitudinal axis (50), and this longitudinal axis is with respect to longitudinal axis (49) inclination one angle (α) of described housing parts (45).
3. electric device as claimed in claim 2 (1),
It is characterized in that,
Described angle (α) is preferably between 20 ° to 30 ° in 10 ° to 40 ° scopes, more preferably 25 °.
4. electric device as claimed in claim 2 (1),
It is characterized in that,
Described tool tray (5) and described spoon (4) are fixed in the epimere (52) of supporting construction (3); This supporting construction (3) also has hypomere (51); The described hypomere (51) of this supporting construction (3) penetrates described housing parts (45), is located in described going up on the shell edge (10) up to described spoon (4); In this position, these parts are fixedly connected on the described housing parts (45) by the fixed mechanism that is mutually related (6,18,20).
5. electric device as claimed in claim 4 (1),
It is characterized in that,
The described epimere (52) of described supporting construction (3) is by described spoon (4) sealing; Described epimere (52) is also with respect to the described longitudinal axis (49) of described housing parts (45) angle (α) that tilts.
6. as the described electric device of each claim of front (1),
It is characterized in that,
Described tool tray (5) is fixed on the described supporting construction (3) by the fixture that is mutually related (15,56) with described supporting construction (3) centrally aligned and through described spoon (4).
7. electric device as claimed in claim 5 (1),
It is characterized in that,
The described hypomere (51) of described supporting construction (3) is supported on the described shell (45) through described spoon (4); The described hypomere (51) of described supporting construction (3) is configured to pull bar; The end structure relative with described tool tray (5) at described housing parts (45) has the under shed (60) that is sealed by package header (6); Between described package header (6) and housing parts (45), be provided with fixed mechanism (6,18,45,20), after described fixed mechanism is energized along the sealing direction, they draw the hypomere (51) of described supporting construction (3) towards shell pedestal (6), and it is sealed (45) to make described spoon (4) and package header (6) both be close to housing parts.
8. electric device as claimed in claim 7 (1),
It is characterized in that,
The last shell edge (10) of described housing parts (45) is provided with peripheral sealing lip (11), and the sealing lip interacts with sealing means and the described lower limb of being located on the described spoon (4) (16) in the make position of device (1).
9. electric device as claimed in claim 7 (1),
It is characterized in that,
Described fixed mechanism (18,20) is screw thread or the notch device that can take apart repeatedly.
10. electric device as claimed in claim 4 (1),
It is characterized in that,
On described supporting construction (3), accommodate electric component as switch (14), motor (22), lead, circuit, contact, battery/set of cells (13) or rechargeable battery/set of cells and so on.
11. electric device as claimed in claim 4 (1),
It is characterized in that,
Described tool tray (5) and described spoon (4) are fixed on the described supporting construction (3) in the mode that prevents to twist.
12. electric device as claimed in claim 1 (1),
It is characterized in that,
Described tool tray (5) is made of tubular sections (48), and described motor (22) is fixed on the inwall (47) of this tubular sections; Described eccentric block (23) stretches out from described motor (22) along the free-ended direction of described tool tray (5).
13. electric device as claimed in claim 12 (1),
It is characterized in that,
Described eccentric block (23) is set at described tool tray (5) and goes up, covered by the calmodulin binding domain CaM of described tool tray (5) (A, B) or adjacent areas with it.
14. electric device as claimed in claim 12 (1),
It is characterized in that,
Described tool tray (5) is made of metal, and described instrument (32,37) is made of plastics.
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