JP2867497B2 - Dental handpiece chuck device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a highly safe dental equipment handpiece chuck device in which a cutting tool is easily attached and detached.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, various devices have been proposed as attachment / detachment devices for cutting tools of dentist handpieces. However, vibrations or the like generated in the handpiece during treatment or when the handpiece turbine rotates at high speed. The chuck mechanism is loosened by centrifugal force or the like, and the cutting tool comes out, which is one of the causes of a medical accident or the like, such as injuring the patient unintentionally.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) However, a chuck mechanism in which a cutting tool can be easily attached and detached, is mechanically safe when the tool is mounted thereon, and does not drop off during treatment has not yet been proposed. .

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such conventional problems, and aims to propose a highly secure chuck mechanism.

(Means for Solving the Problems) A chuck mechanism for a dental handpiece according to the present invention has a cylindrical rotary cylinder rotatably supported in a head, and is inserted into the rotary cylinder. And a collet provided with a tapered surface having a tapered surface with a reduced tip, a tapered surface which is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder and in contact with the tapered surface of the lock member, and a plurality of slits formed in an upper portion. A chuck and a spring for urging the lock member in a direction of contacting the collet chuck, thereby fastening a cutting tool to the collet chuck, and enabling the collet chuck to slide in the rotary cylinder a predetermined distance in the axial direction. In addition, a gap for improving the tightening is provided, and when the cutting tool is further tightened, the cutting tool is cut into the body of the cutting tool by a notch step portion to further provide a retaining function.

(Operation) In the chuck device according to the present invention, when the lock member is pushed down against the urging force of the spring when the cutting tool is mounted, the tightening of the collet chuck is released, and the cutting tool is moved below the collet chuck in this state. Easy to insert from. When the lock member is released, the collet chuck with a slot is elastically compressed around the cutting tool inserted by the bias of the spring by the tapered surface of the lock member, and the cutting tool is firmly tightened and fixed. Is done.

On the other hand, when a force is applied to pull out the tool, there is a gap below the collet chuck, so that the collet chuck can slide and the tapered surface of the lock member compresses the collet chuck more strongly. Work, tightening force to prevent the tool from coming off.

Furthermore, since the notch of the notch step portion bites into the body of the tool, a double retaining mechanism is provided.

(Embodiment) FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a dental handpiece chuck apparatus according to the present invention, in which a cutting tool 23 (FIG. 4) is not inserted.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a head of a handpiece, and a cylindrical rotary cylinder 8 rotatably supported by bearings 3 provided at upper and lower portions is installed at the center of the inside of the case 2. Rotating blades 4 are mounted in the middle between the bearings 3 that support the rotating cylinder 8, and the rotating cylinder 8 rotates at high speed by blowing compressed air to the rotating blades 4.

The upper and lower bearings 3, 3 have an anti-vibration structure with respect to the case 2 via O-rings 18.

A lock member 9 which is hollow and has a through hole at an upper end portion is slidably inserted into the interior of the rotary cylinder 8 rotatably held in this manner.

The lock member 9 has a so-called reverse-tapered tapered surface 13 whose inner diameter becomes narrower and its inner side becomes wider toward the tip.

The upper end surface of the lock member 9 is always pushed up by the spring 7, but is held with a slight gap between the lower end surface of the protrusion 28 on the lower surface of the skull 20. The skull 20 is slidably fitted into the case, and is constantly pushed up by the coil spring 32. When the cutting tool 23 is attached or detached, the skull 20 is pressed against the finger against the bias of the coil spring 32. The lock member 9 can be pushed down and detached by pushing down.

The lock member 9 and the rotary cylinder 8 are urged in directions away from each other by a spring 7 inserted into the cylinder,
Since the rotating cylinder 8 is held so as not to move in the vertical direction, a force is constantly applied to the lock member 9 to push it upward. A collet chuck 5 having an upper part protruding into the lock member 9 and a lower part fitted into the rotary cylinder 8 is inserted into the rotary cylinder 8.

The collet chuck 5 has a cylindrical shape, has a plurality of slits 6 in an upper portion, and has a cutout step 10 on the inner surface of the cylinder, into which a cutting tool 23 is inserted. The notch step 10 functions as a stopper to prevent the cutting tool 23 from slipping out when it is bitten into the outer periphery of the cutting tool 23 and a pulling force is applied to the cutting tool. However, as shown in FIG. In the department,
The bite is strong and doubles the function of retaining. An outer peripheral surface of the collet chuck 5 has a step-like stopper portion 21 formed in an upper portion.
The collet chuck 5 is lifted by contacting the step 22 on the upper part of the thirteen. The collet chuck 5
The lower portion of the stopper 21 has a tapered surface 13 of the lock member 9.
Is provided with a tapered surface 31 that abuts the surface. This tapered surface
31 abuts against the tapered surface 13 of the lock member 9 urged upward by the spring 7 to elastically compress and deform the slit groove 6 in the upper part of the collet chuck 5 and act to tighten from outside. FIG. 3 shows an overall perspective view of the collet chuck 5.

The lower part of the collet chuck 5 is a stepped hole at the lower part of the rotary cylinder 8.
The stepped portion 15 is fitted into the stepped portion 24, and the receiving surface 26 of the stepped portion 15 is lifted by the bias of the spring 7 and comes into contact with the contact surface 25 of the stepped hole 24. A detent pin 24 of a detent member projecting into the stepped hole 24 is driven into the rotary cylinder 8, and its tip engages with a vertical groove 27 provided on the outer peripheral surface of the stepped portion 15 of the collet chuck 5. The collet chuck 5 and the rotary cylinder 8 are fixed in the rotation direction, and the rotation of the rotary cylinder is transmitted to the collet chuck 5 via the pin 14. On the other hand, the pin 14 can slide up and down in the vertical groove 27.

A stepped hole is provided at the lower end of the rotary cylinder 8, and a retaining member 16 is screwed into the hole so that the collet chuck 5 does not come off from the lower end. A gap 12 is provided between the upper surface of the retaining member 16 and the lower surface of the stepped portion 15 of the collet chuck 5, and the collet chuck 5 slides in the rotary cylinder 8 in the axial direction by a certain distance of the gap 12. It is possible.

Here, attachment and detachment of the cutting tool 23 will be described. Cutting tools
When attaching 23, slide the skull 20
When pressed against the lock member 9
When the lock member 9 is further pushed down, the lock member 9 is pushed down into the rotary cylinder 8 against the spring 7.

The lock member 9 and the collet chuck 5 are released from contact with each other by the taper surface 13 and the taper surface 31 due to the force of the spring 7, and the slot 6 of the collet chuck 5 is restored to its original shape and the head tends to open. Become.

Next, the cutting tool 23 is inserted into the collet chuck 5 from below, and when the tool 23 is released until the head of the tool 23 comes into contact with the lock member 9, the skull 20 is restored by the spring 32. Due to the urging force, the lock member 9 and the collet chuck 5 have a tapered surface 13 and a step-like projection 11.
And comes into a state as shown in FIG. At this time, the stopper portion 21 of the collet chuck 5 and the step portion 22 of the lock member 9 are configured to be held at a slight distance without abutting on each other. This is because the cutting groove 23 of the collet chuck 5 is bent due to the insertion of the cutting tool 23, so that the head becomes slightly thicker, and the tapered surface 13 and the tapered surface 31 come into contact with each other.
The stopper 22 does not contact the stopper 21.

A case in which the cutting tool 23 is attached and a pulling force acts on the cutting tool 23 during the treatment operation will be described. When the cutting tool 23 is mounted and used as shown in FIG. 4 and a pulling force is applied in the downward arrow A direction, the collet chuck 5 firmly tightens the cutting tool 23. It is pulled in the direction of arrow A. The collet chuck 5 moves in the lower A direction by the gap 12 formed between the lower end of the stepped portion 15 of the collet chuck 5 and the retaining member 16 because there is room to move in the lower A direction. When the collet chuck 5 moves downward A,
Although the tapered surface 13 of the lock member 9 is in contact with the tapered surface 31 of the collet chuck 5, as shown in FIG. 4, the stopper portion 21 and the step portion 22 are not in contact with each other. It descends downward along the surface 13 and elastically compresses and deforms the slot 6 so that the collet chuck 5 is tightened more firmly to prevent the cutting tool 23 from coming off.

In addition, the notch step 10 on the inner surface of the collet chuck 5
However, in the case where an acute step is formed as shown in FIG. 2, in addition to the tightening of the slit groove 6 by the tapered surface 13, the step 10 forming the acute angle becomes the body of the cutting tool 23. It functions as a retainer by biting into. As described above, the method for preventing the collet chuck from slipping off according to the present invention includes the wedge action by the tapered surface 13 and the tapered surface 31, the tightening of the slot 6 by elastic compression, and the body of the cutting tool 23 by the notch step 10. Has a double retaining function due to biting of

The case where the cutting tool 23 is removed will be described. In FIG. 4, when the skull 20 is pressed by a finger against the bias of the spring 32, the lower protrusion 28 of the skull 20 comes into contact with the lock member 9, and further the skull 20 against the force of the spring 7. When the lock member 9 is pressed, the lock member 9 is pressed and lowered, and the tapered surface 13 comes out of contact with the tapered surface 31 of the collet chuck 5, so that the slot 6 is opened and the tightening of the cutting tool 23 is released, If the cutting tool 23 is pulled out, it can be easily removed.

(Effects of the Invention) As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, not only can the cutting tool be easily attached / detached by merely pressing the skull with a finger, but also the cause of the medical accident Also for the retaining function of the cutting tool during the treatment, the taper surface and the wedge action by the tapered surface, the tightening by the elastic compression of the slot groove, and the double retaining of the notch stepped portion With the function, the safety has been remarkably improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a dental handpiece chuck device according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a main part of a portion where the lock member contacts the collet chuck, FIG. 3 is an overall perspective view of the collet chuck, and FIG. 4 is a head cross-sectional view of the handpiece when a cutting tool is inserted. . In the figure, 1: Head of handpiece, 2: Case, 4: Rotating blade, 5: Collet chuck 6: Slot, 7: Spring 8: Rotating cylinder, 9: Lock member 10: Notch step, 12: Gap 13: tapered surface, 14: detent pin 15: stepped part, 16: retaining member 20: skull, 21: stopper part 22: stepped part, 23: cutting tool 27: vertical groove, 28: protrusion 31 : Tapered surface, 32: spring.

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-64-80356 (JP, A) JP-A-62-11443 (JP, A) JP-A-3-53215 (JP, U) JP-A-63 106408 (JP, U) (58) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) A61C 1/14

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A cylindrical rotary cylinder rotatably supported in a head, and a tapered surface which is slidably inserted into the rotary cylinder and has a tapered surface formed at a lower end portion thereof with a reduced end. And a plurality of slits are formed in the upper portion in the axial direction and are inserted into the rotating cylinder and the lock member, and the outer peripheral surface of the upper portion is in contact with the in-cylinder tapered surface of the lock member. A collet chuck provided with a tapered surface, a notch step provided on the inner surface of the cylinder of the collet chuck, a detent member for integrally rotating the collet chuck and the rotary cylinder, and a collet chuck provided inside the rotary cylinder. A gap provided between the stopper member and the stopper member that can slide a predetermined distance in the axial direction, and a taper surface of the collet chuck is urged in a direction in which the taper surface of the collet chuck contacts the taper surface of the lock member. Spring to tighten cutting tools Dental handpiece chuck device comprising a. 2. The dental handpiece chuck device according to claim 1, wherein a notch step forming an acute angle is provided on the inner surface of the cylinder of the collet chuck.