Braun Gmbh

The Procter Gamble Company

The Gillette Company

Alexander Hilscher

Peter Trawinski

Martin Stratmann

Armin Schwarz-Hartmann

Wolfgang Vorbeck

Hansjörg Reick

Horst Mannebach

Christian Neyer

Ulrich Stoerkel

Uwe Jungnickel

Alexander Timothy Chenvainu

Erwin Paul Mark

Peter Hilfinger

Joern Utsch

Christian Peter Mandl

Paul Albert Sagel

Norbert Schaefer

Benedikt Heil

Phong Duy Vu

Marlis Hübner

Andreas Birk

Franziska Schmid

Ulrich Störkel

Phillip Maurice Braun

Heidrun Annika Schmelcher

Martin Haas

Kathi Ballmaier

Britta Stockinger

Marc Philip Ortins

Jochen Ganninger

Felix Koenig

Mark Edward Farrell

Martin Simeth

Leo Faranda

Jochen Erich Kawerau

Ivo Kunath

Matthias Schiebahn

Frank Stefan Skopp

Andreas Maennchen

Michael Anthony Kaminski

Todd Lynn Watterson

Andrea Schuering

Kervin Heinrich Kuechler

Darcie Ann Ohlman

Boris Atlas

Bianka Becker-salzsaeuler

Bert Schrempel

Jose Tadeo Vergara De Castro

Thomas Hoenig

Marlis Huebner

Frank Müller

Marc Phillip Ortins

Christine Hielscher

Eva Kaiser

Simone Bertrand

Wolfgang Göcking

Wolfgang Goecking

Karen Lynn ClaireZimmet

Philip Maurice Braun

Hans Rolf Trawinski

Vadim Denishenko

Ballmaier Kathi

Thomas Hönig

Felix König

Karen Lynn Clairezimmet

Peter Hans Rolf Trawinski

A handle for an oral-care implement, the handle comprises an electrical motor arranged to drive an output element structured and configured to couple the handle and a head attachable to and detachable from the handle; and a microcontroller for controlling the motor and to cause the output element to vibrate in (a) at least one oral-hygiene mode during which the oral-care implement is being used for an oral-hygiene routine, wherein the output element is vibrating at a substantially constant frequency, and (b) a disinfection mode during which the handle is being disinfected, before or after being used for the oral-hygiene routine, wherein the output element is continuously vibrating at a modulated frequency alternating within a frequency range of between about 140 Hz and about 250 Hz, for a duration of the disinfection mode.

Handle for oral-care implement for safe and hygienic use by multiple users and method of disinfecting the same

A handle for an oral-care implement for safe and hygienic use by multiple users includes an electrical motor and a detachable head. The handle has a display for displaying instructions to control functional operation of the handle, a microcontroller for controlling the motor and the display, and at least one switch to allow a user to control the functional operation of the handle, including causing the output element to vibrate in at least one oral-hygiene mode having an oral-hygiene frequency and causing the output element to vibrate in a disinfection mode when the handle is being disinfected before or after being used for the oral-hygiene routine. The disinfection mode has a modulated frequency, different from the oral-hygiene frequency, and alternating up and down between a low modulated frequency and a high modulated frequency, wherein the high modulated frequency is at least 50 percent greater than the low modulated frequency.

Handle for oral-care implement having display and procedure for cleaning and disinfecting the same

A head for an oral care implement has a mounting surface and at least one tuft mounted thereon. The tuft has a longitudinal axis and a cross-sectional area extending in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The tuft comprises a plurality of substantially cylindrical filaments. Each filament has a longitudinal axis and a cross-sectional area extending in a plane that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The cross-sectional area of an individual filament has a substantially non-circular shape. The plurality of filaments is arranged such that the cross-sectional area of the tuft has a scaled-up shape of the individual filament's cross-sectional area.

Head for an oral care implement

In one embodiment, an oral-care system is provided. The oral-care system includes an electric toothbrush having a motor, a power source in electrical communication with the motor, and a bristle holder operatively connected to the motor. A display is in data communication with the electric toothbrush.

Personal care products and methods

A storage device for tooth cleaning attachments of a tooth cleaning device is provided. The storage device includes a storage body for storing the tooth cleaning attachments. The storage body has a storage base with at least one storage depression for receiving a tooth cleaning attachment in flat-lying alignment.

Toothbrush charging station with brush storage device

A consumer device presentation unit is disclosed. The consumer device presentation unit includes at least a first electric consumer device including at least a first rechargeable energy storage; at least a first autonomous energy provision unit; and a charge module coupled at least to the first autonomous energy provision unit and the first electric consumer device.

Customer device presentation unit

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.

Dental cleaning device

An electric toothbrush is disclosed. The electric toothbrush includes at least one switch element and a control unit. The at least one switch element is operable by a user to switch the toothbrush to an on/off state, and operable by a user during the time that the at least one switch element is in its on state to select a brushing mode from a set of at least a first brushing mode and a second brushing mode. The control unit is arranged to control the electric toothbrush such that when the at least one switch element is operated to select a particular brushing mode in the on state, the toothbrush will then operate in that particular selected brushing mode when the at least one switch element is thereafter switched to an off state and then subsequently switched back to an on state, provided that the toothbrush was in the off state for a time period less than a threshold period (T).

Electric toothbrush

An oral hygiene implement comprising having a handle, head, and a neck extending between the handle and the head is described. The head has a plurality of cleaning elements and/or massaging elements attached to the head. The oral hygiene implement also has a force sensor and an output source. The output source provides a plurality of output signals which correspond to a plurality of conditions to a user.

Pressure indicator for an oral care instrument

The invention is directed to a method and a device for cleaning teeth wherein a variety of cleaning tools are coupled to a common handle section for the individual cleaning of teeth. It relates in particular to a handle section of an electric dental cleaning device, with a coupling section for coupling various cleaning tools thereto, as well as said cleaning tools. According to the invention the handle section detects a coding provided on the respective cleaning tool attached. In dependence upon the respective coding detected, various functions of the dental cleaning device are controlled.

Method and device for cleaning teeth

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.

Application substance reservoir for toothbrushes and electric toothbrush

This disclosure relates to toothbrushes and to methods of operating toothbrushes. In some embodiments, a method of operating a toothbrush includes measuring an actual cleaning time of a first teeth cleaning process, comparing the actual cleaning time of the first teeth cleaning process to a standard cleaning time, and determining a target cleaning time of a second, subsequent teeth cleaning process. In certain embodiments, the target cleaning time of the second teeth cleaning process is the standard cleaning time plus additional time when the actual cleaning time of the first cleaning process is less than the standard cleaning time.

Indicating teeth cleaning time

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Kronberg, Germany

Alexander Hilscher