Lion Corporation

Ryu Ito

Kenji Kaneko

Satoshi Hayashi

Tsuneo Umezawa

Akiko Terai

Akiyoshi Umebara

A toothbrush capable of permitting tips of fillings thereof to enter or reach areas such as recesses between teeth, boundaries between teeth and gingivae, and the like to effectively remove dental plaque and the like and exhibit a soft feeling sufficient to prevent damage to gingivae. The toothbrush includes fillings made of a synthetic filament material. The fillings are each formed at both tips thereof into a pointed tapered shape and tied up into a plurality of bundles. The pointed tapered tips of the fillings are each formed with a length of 4 to 8 mm and a non-tapered section of each of the fillings is formed with a maximum diameter of 0.16 to 0.20 mm. Filling setting holes of a filling setting base provided at distal end of a handle of the toothbrush so as to set the bundles of the fillings thereon are formed with a diameter of 1.5 to 2.0 mm and spaced from other holes at an interval of 1.0 to 1.2 mm in the longitudinal direction of the handle.

Toothbrush

The invention relates to a brush which comprises a handle portion, a base portion formed with recesses for holding filaments or bristles, an insert which acts as holding means for holding the filaments or bristles in the recesses, and filaments or bristles held in the recesses by the insert. According to the invention, the base portion of the brush, and possible also the handle portion, is formed of a particular plastic which permits the insert which holds the filaments or bristles to press into the sides of the recesses with considerable pressure without cracking the sides so as to permit better holding of the filaments or bristles in the brush base. The plastic forming the base portion should be: a polyamide containing aliphatic, alicyclic and aromatic hydrocarbon units as basic components; a polyamide containing alicyclic and aromatic hydrocarbon units as basic components; a composition consisting of 30-0% by weight of polycarbonate and 70-10% by weight of polyethylene terephthalate; a composition containing 80-100% by weight of polybutylene terephthalate and 20-0% by weight of polyethylene terephthalate; or a composition consisting of 50-100% by weight of polyarylate and 50-0% by weight of polyethylene terephthalate.

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Kashiwa, Japan

Ryu Ito