Braun Aktiengesellschaft

Gustav Gassner

Peter Hilfinger

Karl Herzog

Gottfried Voigt

Lothar Pacher

The present invention is directed to an appliance for oral hygiene, in particular an oral irrigating apparatus 10, comprising a hand-held unit 12 and a base unit 14 interconnected by a fluid conducting hose 19 and electrical conductors 21, 23. By means of an operating means 33 arranged on the handle section 28 of the hand-held unit 12, two operating parameters, particularly the On/Off state and the jet pressure of the oral irrigating apparatus 10, can be varied.

Electrically powered appliance for oral hygiene

Electric power driven toothbrush

An oscillating-armature electric motor comprises an armature which, during operation of the motor, moves along a path of oscillatory movement that includes a substantial range of movement in which the armature poles are located remote from the stator poles. When the poles are remote from each other, the efficiency of electrical to mechanical energy conversion would be low. The stator winding is energized in dependence upon the position of the motor, to avoid wasteful electrical energy dissipation during that part of the armature swing in which the aforementioned efficiency would be low. During the part of the armature swing in which the efficiency is high, the energization is great enough to establish a range of armature movement which goes beyond the high-efficiency armature positions to predominantly comprise low-efficiency armature positions.

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Kelkheim, Germany

Gustav Gassner