EP2097039A1 - Adapter, method for data transmission between a toothbrush and a terminal, and electric toothbrush - Google Patents
Adapter, method for data transmission between a toothbrush and a terminal, and electric toothbrushInfo
- Publication number
- EP2097039A1 EP2097039A1 EP07819180A EP07819180A EP2097039A1 EP 2097039 A1 EP2097039 A1 EP 2097039A1 EP 07819180 A EP07819180 A EP 07819180A EP 07819180 A EP07819180 A EP 07819180A EP 2097039 A1 EP2097039 A1 EP 2097039A1
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- Prior art keywords
- toothbrush
- interface
- data transmission
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61C—DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE
- A61C17/00—Devices for cleaning, polishing, rinsing or drying teeth, teeth cavities or prostheses; Saliva removers; Dental appliances for receiving spittle
- A61C17/16—Power-driven cleaning or polishing devices
- A61C17/22—Power-driven cleaning or polishing devices with brushes, cushions, cups, or the like
- A61C17/221—Control arrangements therefor
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61C—DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE
- A61C17/00—Devices for cleaning, polishing, rinsing or drying teeth, teeth cavities or prostheses; Saliva removers; Dental appliances for receiving spittle
- A61C17/16—Power-driven cleaning or polishing devices
- A61C17/22—Power-driven cleaning or polishing devices with brushes, cushions, cups, or the like
- A61C17/24—Power-driven cleaning or polishing devices with brushes, cushions, cups, or the like rotating continuously
- A61C17/26—Power-driven cleaning or polishing devices with brushes, cushions, cups, or the like rotating continuously driven by electric motor
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61C—DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE
- A61C17/00—Devices for cleaning, polishing, rinsing or drying teeth, teeth cavities or prostheses; Saliva removers; Dental appliances for receiving spittle
- A61C17/16—Power-driven cleaning or polishing devices
- A61C17/22—Power-driven cleaning or polishing devices with brushes, cushions, cups, or the like
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61C—DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE
- A61C17/00—Devices for cleaning, polishing, rinsing or drying teeth, teeth cavities or prostheses; Saliva removers; Dental appliances for receiving spittle
- A61C17/16—Power-driven cleaning or polishing devices
- A61C17/22—Power-driven cleaning or polishing devices with brushes, cushions, cups, or the like
- A61C17/225—Handles or details thereof
- A61C17/227—Handles or details thereof with reservoirs, e.g. for toothpaste
Definitions
- Adapter method for data transmission between a toothbrush and a terminal and electric toothbrush
- the present invention relates to an adapter for data transmission between a toothbrush and an external terminal, for example a data processing and / or display device.
- the invention further relates to a method for data transmission between an electric toothbrush and the external terminal and a suitable electric toothbrush.
- an electric toothbrush with a USB interface via which the toothbrush can be connected to a computer in order to load into the toothbrush music files in MP3 format, which are picked up by the toothbrush Use can be played.
- a toothbrush is known, on the hand part of an examination head with a video camera and an ultrasonic device for dental examination is plugged.
- a cable connection is provided to transfer the images generated by the examination head on a screen.
- a toothbrush is known from DE 100 01 502 A1, whose handpiece has a special interface for data communication with a computer. As a result, cleaning data captured by movement and pressure sensors are to be transferred to the computer in order to control a game which is displayed by the computer on a screen.
- the invention has for its object to provide an adapter, a method for data transmission of the aforementioned type and a suitable electric toothbrush, which avoid the disadvantages of the prior art and the latter in an advantageous Further educate way, ie it should be possible with simple means, the data communication between an electric toothbrush and an external data processing and / or display device.
- the adapter is intended for an electric toothbrush with a handpiece, to which an attachment brush can be placed and / or to which an application substance container can be connected, and which has a data transmission device with an interface for data transmission between the handpiece and the attachment brush and / or the application substance container. It is proposed to use for the data communication between an external terminal and the toothbrush the existing interface, which is provided for data transmission between the handle of the toothbrush and the brush attachment or the application substance container.
- the with the toothbrush, preferably the handpiece, connectable adapter has a toothbrush interface, which is adapted to the existing interface of the toothbrush. Thus, it is not necessary to additionally provide a special communication interface on the toothbrush which is compatible with the external terminal.
- the interface of the toothbrush and adapted thereto toothbrush interface of the adapter are formed without contact working.
- the toothbrush handpiece may include a data receiver transmitter with an antenna coil suitable for communicating with a transponder chip on the brush and / or the applicator container.
- the toothbrush interface of the adapter is preferably provided with a corresponding data transmission means and an antenna coil.
- the adapter has a terminal interface different from the toothbrush interface and, for example, PC compatible.
- the terminal interface of the adapter may preferably be a USB interface or wireless USB interface.
- the toothbrush interface of the adapter may include releasable attachment means conforming to a brush attachment coupling portion of the toothbrush handpiece are.
- the adapter can be simply placed in place of the attachment brush on the attachment brush coupling part of the toothbrush handle.
- the non-contact data transfer means may be integrated as well as the said fastening means in a coupling piece which is positively and / or frictionally placed on the handpiece side coupling piece for the attachment brush.
- the data transmission means of the adapter are brought into a defined arrangement with respect to the handpiece side data receiver / transmitter. The same applies to the coupling of the adapter to an application material container coupling part of the toothbrush handpiece.
- the data transmission takes place via a special data transmission interface, which is additionally provided on the toothbrush, and which is compatible with an external terminal, for example a known "wireless USB" interface.
- control of the toothbrush can be individualized, modified and / or supplemented.
- a desired language for the user guidance or a timer signal can be selected and corresponding control data can be imported into a control device of the toothbrush.
- display graphics and texts, but also timer melodies can be transmitted to the control device of the toothbrush.
- a software update in the control device of the toothbrush can be dubbed.
- cleaning and / or operating data determined and / or stored by the control device of the toothbrush can be transferred to the external data processing and / or display device.
- a cleaning history and / or cleaning statistics which includes, for example, the cleaning time and / or the contact pressure during cleaning, can be transferred to the external data processing and / or display device in order to be evaluated there graphically or in another way.
- a dentist and / or an evaluation software installed on the data processing device can make recommendations for improving the cleaning behavior on the basis of the transferred data.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of an electric toothbrush and an adapter for data transmission between the electric toothbrush and an external data processing and / or display device
- FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of the functional components for data transmission between a control device of the electric toothbrush and an external data processing and / or display device.
- the electric toothbrush 1 shown in FIG. 1 contains an attachment brush 6 and a handpiece 2 which, in a manner known per se, contains a drive motor which drives a drive shaft 3 projecting from the handpiece 2 at the front side. Furthermore, the handset 2 includes an electronic control device 5 (see Figure 2), which controls the operation of the toothbrush 1, and is connected for this purpose with an on / off switch 4 and a drive motor 15.
- the electric toothbrush may additionally have one or more displays 23 (cf., FIG. 2). On the drive shaft 3, the replaceable attachment brush 6 can be placed, which has a brush tube 7, which carries a bristle field 8.
- a transponder 16 with a data memory is provided on the attachment brush 6, in which various data can be stored, for example identification data identifying the attachment brush, cleaning data, such as the cumulative cleaning time of the attachment brush, or for the special attachment brush provided control data for controlling the toothbrush drive.
- the transponder 16 contains known data transmission means with an antenna, preferably in the form of a coil 21.
- the electronic control device 5 in the handpiece 2 is connected to a data transmission device 14 which is likewise connected to an antenna coil 13.
- the handpiece 2 or the electronic control device 5 can send data to the transponder 16 in the attachment brush 6 or, conversely, receive it.
- the data transmission device 14 and the antenna 13 thus form an interface which is provided for data communication between the handpiece 2 and the attachment brush 6.
- the handpiece 2 can be designed to receive an application substance container in the form of a toothpaste pouch 9, which can be connected to a conveying device, not shown in the figure, in the handpiece 2 in order to convey the toothpaste stored in the toothpaste pouch 9 to the bristle field 8.
- the toothpaste bag 9 can also be provided with a transponder having a data memory and an antenna, and the handset have a further data transmission device and antenna via which the handpiece 2 or the electronic control device 5 send data to the transponder in the application substance container or vice versa can receive.
- the adapter 11 also shown in Fig. 1 is designed so that the toothbrush 1 can communicate via its interface (s) with an external data processing and / or display device 10, such as a PC.
- an external data processing and / or display device 10 such as a PC.
- the adapter 11 is placed on the handpiece 2 of the electric toothbrush 1 instead of the attachment brush 6 or the toothpaste bag 9.
- the adapter 11 has, on the one hand, a toothbrush interface 17 compatible with the interface of the handpiece and, on the other hand, a terminal interface 18 compatible with the external data processing and / or display device 10, for example a USB interface or a known wireless USB interface ,
- the adapter 11 includes a coupling piece 12, which is positively and / or frictionally connected to the brush attachment coupling part 19 of the handle 2, to which the attachment brush 6 is otherwise connected.
- the coupling piece may also be adapted to a toothpaste bag coupling part of the handpiece.
- a modulator / demodulator 22 is preferably provided in the coupling piece 12 of the adapter 11, which can communicate with the data transmission device 14 of the toothbrush 1.
- the modulator / demodulator 22 is connected to an antenna coil 21 (see Figure 2).
- the data transmission between the handpiece 2 of the electric toothbrush and the external data processing and / or display device 10 or the brush attachment 6 or the application substance container 9 takes place, for example, in a conventional manner by means of a high-frequency carrier signal which is modulated with an information signal.
- the data transmission device 14 in the handset 2 generates a carrier signal having a frequency of, for example, 13.56 MHz, which is modulated with an information signal of, for example, approximately 212 kHz.
- the modulator / demodulator 22 arranged in the adapter 11 demodulates the signal emitted by the handset 2 and initiates the information signal the external data processing and / or display device 10 on.
- the modulator / demodulator 22 shorts its antenna coil 21 in time with the information signal to be transmitted.
- the data transmission device 14 in the handset 2 generates an unmodulated high-frequency carrier signal, which is deprived of energy by the short-circuited antenna coil 21 of the adapter 11 in time with the information signal to be transmitted, ie, the carrier signal is amplitude modulated in this way with the information signal.
- the data transmission device 14 in the handset 2 forwards the information signal to the control device 5.
- the data transfer between the electric toothbrush and the external data processing and / or display device without adapter for example, using the known "wireless USB" standard in the frequency range of 2 , 4 GHz
- this toothbrush then has a suitable data transmission interface.
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EP (1) | EP2097039A1 (en) |
JP (1) | JP2010511445A (en) |
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