Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Zerobrush, Inc.

L'oreal

Ultreo, Inc.

Cypris Medical, Inc.

Philips Oral Healthcare

Optiva, Inc.

Grez, Joseph

Richard Taylor

Scott E Hall

Joseph W Grez

Kevin Arnold Miller

Nidhi Pai

Akash Pai

Scott Craig Thielman

Carolina Canamaque

Juan F Sadder

Mark E Bartlett

Adam Paul Vallee

Scott P Mosby

Joseph Michael Recco

Francis George Tatu

James N Larimer

Craig D Hanela

Adam David Hensel

John Streeter

Amanda Kay Woodcock

Jeffrey William Ladwig

Gerald Keith Brewer

Joshua M Kornfeld

Mara Applebaum

Bruce E Taber

James Christopher McInnes

Daniel Bayeh

William E Bryant

Jerry Wood

Piet C J Van Rens

Jeffrey Raymond Gueble

David A Ballard

George A Barrett

Devin M Nelson

Kurt Sadek

D I Stephan Leitner

Frederick Jay Bennett

Aaron Reed Biesbrock

Andreas Loibnegger

Kevin T Underwood

Paulus L W M Barten

Gregory Martin

Josaiah Clark

Ralf E Adam

William Anderson

Molly Findley

Paul Albert Sagel

Andreas Lolbneggar

Paul L W M Barten

The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for customizing dental care. In one aspect, personalized toothbrush devices are 3-D printed for a plurality of users. A 3-D dental model of a respective user's mouth is obtained, and a configuration for a mouthpiece of a respective personalized toothbrush device is determined. The respective personalized toothbrush device is 3-D printed, and includes a top cleaning tray, a bottom cleaning tray, and a set of cleaning elements, each customized based at least in part on the 3-D dental model of the respective user's mouth. Each personalized toothbrush device is 3-D printed for each respective user of the plurality of users, and is different from every other user's personalized toothbrush device.

Methods of designing and fabricating customized dental care for particular users

The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for customizing dental care. In one aspect, a personalized dental care device includes a first customized mouthpiece including a top cleaning tray and a bottom cleaning tray, each customized based at least in part on an electronic 3-D dental model of a respective user's mouth. The personalized dental care device includes one or more power mechanisms, configured to couple with the first customized mouthpiece, and to transmit energy to at least one cleaning tray of the first customized mouthpiece. The personalized dental care device is configured to be operated in a plurality of modes. Each respective mode of the plurality of modes is associated with a different method for providing oral care.

Hair coloring appliances include an elongate handle and a consumable assembly removably couplable to the handle. The consumable assembly has a manifold chamber with a fluid inlet in selective fluid communication with a first formulation fluid source, a plurality of outlet nozzles configured to discharge a first formulation from the manifold chamber, and a distribution protrusion extending into the manifold chamber and configured to direct the flow of the first formulation from the fluid inlet to each of the plurality of outlet nozzles.

Formula delivery appliance

A suturing system including apparatus and methods for disposing stitches in a substrate comprising a thread carrier which inserts a thread in the substrate at a first location and withdraws the thread from the substrate at a second location.

Suturing system

The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for customizing dental care. In one aspect, a dental care device is customized for a particular user, including: (1) a support plate having: (a) a first portion configured to be inserted into a mouth; and (b) an attachment mechanism configured to attach the dental care device to a drive assembly; and (2) an elastomer (elastic polymer) portion enclosing the first portion of the plate, the elastomer portion including a plurality of cleaning tips and shaped in accordance with dental details of the particular user.

A formula delivery system can be used in conjunction with hair and scalp treatment appliances to supply a hair treatment formulation to the appliance. In one aspect, the formula delivery system delivers hair coloring formulation to the appliance. Formula delivery systems of the present disclosure generally include at least one fluid container configured to retain a volume of formulation for delivery of the formulation to a hair coloring appliance. In this regard, the formula delivery system may be configured to removably couple to an inlet member of the appliance that allows the appliance to draw the formulation from the fluid container for use within the appliance.

Formula delivery device

A formula delivery appliance can be used for treatment of the hair and scalp, such as an appliance used to color hair. The appliance may include a consumable assembly incorporating various components of the hair and scalp treatment appliance, a portion of which may be consumed and then replaced by a user. In this regard, the consumable assembly may include one or more formulation delivery packets, nozzles, manifold chambers, distribution protrusions, and the like. The hair treatment appliance may also include a rotatable coupling having a driven gear and a drive gear, where the driven gear may selectively engage the drive gear. In another aspect, the hair treatment appliance may also include a fluid container to retain a volume of formulation for delivery to the appliance.

Powered applicator brush for hair

The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for creating customized dental care. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a dental model of a particular user's teeth and determining, based on the dental model of the particular user's teeth, a configuration for a set of cleaning elements to be included with the toothbrush device. The method further includes forming the toothbrush device for the particular user based on the dental model of the particular user's teeth, whereby the toothbrush device includes: (i) a cleaner body, personalized for the particular user based on the dental model of the particular user's teeth, that defines a cleaning cavity shaped for receiving the particular user's teeth, and (ii) the set of cleaning elements, integrally formed with the cleaner body, that contact and clean the particular user's teeth during application of the toothbrush device, whereby the cleaning elements have the determined configuration.

Methods of making personalized toothbrush devices

Systems, devices, and methods for customized dental care

A drive shaft coupling is provided, such as a coupling used with a formula delivery appliance. The drive shaft coupling generally includes a drive gear and a driven gear, with one of the drive gear and driven gear having a biasing member to allow axial translation. The drive shaft coupling is generally configured to transfer rotation from the drive gear to the driven gear. In one aspect, the drive shaft coupling is capable of alignment and coupling of the drive gear and driven gear upon the radial sliding of the coupling from a non-engagement position to an engagement position.

Drive shaft coupling

A method for tuning resonant spring assembly systems used in appliances such as power toothbrushes, particularly leaf spring systems, includes the step of measuring the frequency-dependent amplitude of the appliance workpiece, and then removing a portion of the spring member so as to decrease its spring rate sufficiently that the resonant frequency of the spring member closely approximates the drive frequency of the appliance.

Apparatus for converting side-to-side driving motion to rotational motion with a spring assembly and system for tuning the spring assembly

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Fall City, WA, United States of America

Richard Taylor