Braun Gmbh

The Procter Gamble Company

The Gillette Company

Jens Uwe Stoerkel

Tilmann Winkler

Franziska Schmid

Martin Vitt

Ulrich Pfeifer

Wolfgang Stegmann

Andreas Birk

Heidrun Annika Schmelcher

Kathi Ballmaier

Matthew Lloyd Newman

Andrew Joseph Horton

Li Wen

Jochen Erich Kawerau

Andreas Bresselschmidt

Siegfried Kurt Hustedt

Gerhard Schaefer

Alexander Timothy Chenvainu

Karen Lynn Claire-Zimmet

Martin Haas

William Ralph Brown, Jr

Benjamin John Wilson

Richard Darren Satterfield

Kathrin Koch

Scott Andrew Jackson

Martin Jay Marotti

Paul Albert Sagel

Ralph Edwin Neufarth

Christian Stief

Harald De Buhr

Lucy Abigail Zimmermann

Ivo Kunath

Siegfried Kurt Martin Hustedt

Juergen Mohr

Chris Blain

Cathy Wen

Cloyd Dixon, Jr

Hansjoerg Reick

Lutz Voigtmann

Christopher Thomas Ryan

Andrew M Uhe

Kathrin Schichtel

Bradley John Phillips

Stephen Alan Houghton

George Michael West

Steffi Raehse

Florian Stich

Daniel Rudersdorf

Daniel Jay Monroe

Roland Heckenthaler

Armin Andreas Tschol

Scott Jackson

Toothbrush

An oral composition capable of identifying a condition within the oral cavity by causing a visual contrast between the condition and the hard and soft tissues of the oral cavity has at least one disclosing agent. The disclosing agent can fluoresce in order to highlight conditions within the oral cavity.

Products and methods for disclosing conditions in the oral cavity

Methods of producing toothbrush handles having an inner cavity are provided.

Method for producing a toothbrush handle having an inner cavity

A personal care article, such as a toothbrush having an inner cavity made in one molding process.

Toothbrush having an inner cavity

Method for producing a toothbrush having an inner cavity

The invention relates to an injection molded part with a basic bodyinjection-molded from plastic, on the surfaceof which a decorationis two-dimensionally applied and is covered by an encapsulationof plastic by a second injection-molding operation. The basic bodyconsists of a transparent plastic and the decorationis applied with its visible sideto the surfaceof the basic body

Injection molded part

An oral care implement is described herein. The oral care implement includes a base and a first grip member. The base has a gripping region and an oral engaging region. The base has an aperture extending therethrough. The first grip member at least partially overlays the gripping region of the base and has a plurality of gripping elements. The first grip member also has a at least one opening exposing a guidance element. The guidance element includes a protrusion and a ring surrounding the protrusion.

An oral care implement is described herein. The oral care implement has a base having a handle region, an oral engaging region and a neck between the handle region and the oral engaging region. A recess surrounds the handle and/or the neck and has a first boundary and a second boundary, and the first boundary is further from a distal end than the second boundary. The first boundary has an angle of greater than about 90 degrees with respect to a mold parting line of the oral care implement. The base has a first material, and a collar made of a second material which is different than the first material, is disposed in the recess.

The invention relates to a toothbrush having a cleaning element formed of a plastic injection molded component, comprising an attachment segment for attachment in the head region of the toothbrush and a cleaning segment for cleaning teeth, and having at least one indentation in the region of the cleaning segment, around which the cleaning segment has an increased bending flexibility.

Toothbrushes are provided which have various features that may include one or more tooth cleaning elements having a variety of shapes and sizes, one or more gum treating elements having a variety of shapes and sizes, and/or one or more soft tissue/tongue treating elements having a variety of shapes and sizes.

Toothbrushes

A toothbrush having a handle portion and a neck portion connecting the handle portion with a head. The head has a brushing side and a rear side. The brushing side includes a plurality of bristle tufts for cleaning the teeth. The tufts are attachable in the head through tufting apertures, with each tufting aperture being assigned a blind-end hole having sidewalls and a bottom. The cross-sectional area of the head between a first bottom and the rear side differing from a cross-sectional area of the head between a second bottom and the rear side. The first bottom and the second bottom are arranged in the head in such a way that the minimum distance between the first bottom and the rear side as well as the minimum distance between the second bottom and the rear side are each in the range of between about 0.5 and about 2.5 mm.

Toothbrush and method of manufacturing it

Growing community of inventors

Kronberg, Germany

Jens Uwe Stoerkel