Kaltenbach & Voight, Gmbh & Co.

Kaltenbach & Voigt Gmbh & Co.

Kaltenbach + Voigt Gmbh

Kaltenbach & Voight Gmbh

Erich Bareth

Hans Loge

Bernhard Lingenhole

Thomas Braun

Bernhard Kuhn

Gerd Lohn

Eugen Mohr

Intraoral camera

Dental handpiece

The invention relates to a turbine handpiece (1), in particular for medical or dental-medical purposes, having a drive shaft (2), rotatably mounted in the forward end region of the handpiece (1), with which a tool can be connected by a mounting device, whereby there is arranged on the drive shaft (2), fixed for rotation therewith, a turbine wheel (4) in a turbine chamber (5), in which a delivery line (11) for a flowing pressure medium opens at an inlet opening (11a) and from which a discharge line (12) extends at an outlet opening (12a), whereby a apparatus (22) is provided which after a switching-off of the pressure medium supply, during the running on of the turbine wheel (4), prevents a release of the pressure medium rotating in the turbine chamber (5) through the discharge line. The latter is simplified and improved in that the apparatus (22) is arranged in the region of the turbine chamber (5) and in functional operation deflects the pressure medium rotating in the turbine chamber (5) past the outlet opening (12a).

Turbine handpiece

A clamping arrangement, especially for the clamping or gripping engagement of dental implements, consisting of a receiving sleeve which is rotatably supported in a handpiece and is connected with a rotary drive, which includes at least one rod-shaped elongated clamping element exerting a radially inwardly directed pressure against the shaft of the implement which is inserted into the receiving sleeve because of contact against an inclined track oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the clamping arrangement. The handpiece can pertain to a straight handpiece or to an angled handpiece (elbow) with an angled headpiece.

Clamping arrangement, especially for dental instruments

A clamping arrangement for the clamping engagement of implements, especially dental instruments, consisting of a mounting sleeve which is rotatably supported within a handpiece, and which is connected with a rotary drive, and which possesses clamping elements acting in a radially inward direction against the shank of the instrument which is inserted into the mounting sleeve. The handpiece can relate to a straight handpiece or an angled handpiece with an angle headpiece.

Clamping arrangement for the clamping engagement of instruments

There is disclosed a dental handpiece comprising a grip sleeve, a head portion provided at one end of the handpiece, a drive unit provided in the head portion for driving a dental implement, and a connecting portion arranged at an opposite end of the handpiece for rotation relative to the grip sleeve and releasably connected at one end to the grip sleeve. The connecting portion serves to convey operating media for the handpiece, and is adapted for connection at its other end to a supply tube for supplying the operating media. In order to provide built-in illumination in the region of the dental implement, an elongate photoconductive device is provided which extends generally longitudinally within the handpiece and includes, within the rotatable connecting portion, a light transmitting portion in the form of either a section of a strand like photoconductor, or an electrically operated bulb. The light transmitting portion is located, at least at the end of the connecting portion facing the grip sleeve, substantially centrally, whereby light can be transmitted along the photoconductive device, regardless of the rotational position adopted by the connecting portion relative to the grip sleeve.

A dental handpiece with a gripping sleeve-like base member which is detachably connected with a headpiece mounting a work tool, a connecting sleeve of the headpiece being insertable into the power-take off end of the base member, wherein a roll body is radially movably supported in each of one or more cutouts in the base member wall, inwardly extending therethrough with a portion of its volume, which is movable through the intermediary of a coupling element movably arranged on the base member, and which includes an inclined plane for the engagement with the roll body under the assumption of a clamping fit in contact against the connecting sleeve.

A device for clamping and unclamping dental tools as, for example, drills, in a dental handpiece with an angled head in which the tool is held by means of a two-part clamping unit. One part of this clamping unit has a collet for holding the tool, and the other part of the clamping unit has a driven rotary hollow shaft located in the head. The collet is movable lengthwise inside the hollow shaft. To assume its clamped or unclamped position, the collet and hollow shaft are threadable into one another. One of the two parts of the clamping unit has at least one key surface accessible from the exterior at the tool end of the head. The other part of the clamping unit has also at least one key surface accessible from the exterior. A U-shaped carrier is provided with a first flange having a stationary key with parts for engagement with the key surfaces located at the tool end of the head. The other flange of the carrier has a pin-shaped key projecting into the area between the two flanges and axially movable in a hollow space of an exterior attachment of this other flange against the action of a spring in the direction away from the first flange. The pin-shaped key can be rotated manually by means of a knob on the key and projecting from the attachment. The pin-shaped key has a handle mounted on the U-shaped carrier and is actuatable by finger pressure applied transversely to the longitudinal axis of the key to axially move the key against the action of the spring.

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Ummendorf, Germany

Erich Bareth