S.c. Johnson & Son, Inc.

Colgate Palmolive Company

The Schawbel Corporation

Scott W Demarest

Simon M Conway

Mark E Bartlett

Francis Tatu

Kit R Morris

Allen D Miller

Scott D Walter

Steven B Mineau

Brian Bloch

Matthew Abbondanzio

Thuan Chong Tan

Sarah E Heathcock

Michael Terranova

Paul E Furner

Mark David Lowenthal

Kevin Harrity

Jeffrey J Wolf

Renee Marie Riethmiller

Han Xin

Oscar Xoy

Hayes Urban

Patricia Leunis

Nathan R Westphal

Donald J Shanklin

Raymond E Clepper

Brian E Healy

Darren K Robling

David R Carlson

James E Buhler

Joseph E Reimer

Vijay Rajen

Trivikram Belagod

Zachary Nelson

Donald J Schumacher

Donald E McCumber

Ronald Rhea Dir

Dirk K Nickel

Patrik Johansson

Robert E Corba

Stacey Lavender

Scott P Mosby

Mark E Johnson

Mark Dobrovolny

John Martin

Stephen B Leonard

Cory J Nelson

David A Hoadley

Dennis William Gruber

Michael E Short

Charles Austen Angell

Aaron Vom Eigen

James V Bonnema

John J Gatzemeyer

Ragnhild Mariane Rokke

Kenneth W Michaels

Gang Liu

Yu Shi

James R Crapser

Thomas Jaworski

William J Mayer

John C Mehnert

Tyler D Duston

Stanley J Flashinski

Richard P Adams

Matthew C Grossman

Michael C Fryan

Kamran Faterioun

David J Houser

David L Berardelli

David J Schram

Donald W Hildebrandt

Justin Boyd Petro

Edwin Horton

John M Fritz

Dean R Holzberger

David O Brower

Karl A Kohler

Evaristo Delgado

Wen Der Wang

Russell H Petersen

Jo Fleming

Jose Porchia

Douglas A Soller

Mary Beth Adams

David P Mather

Jonathan N Mandell

Edward J Kunesh

Mahmoud Hassan

Matthew Brian Dubin

Mark Niederberger

Eric B Gach

Paul J Golko

Thomas Froehlich

Thomas J Szymczak

Marilyn M Johnson

Imre J Dancs

John A Heathcock

Gopal P Ananth

John D Hagarty

Rudolph M Gunzel, Jr

An oral care device for placement in the oral cavity. The oral care device may include a support component, a piezoelectric component, and/or sensor and/or a therapeutic element. The support component is configured for placement between one or more maxillary teeth and one or more mandibular teeth. The piezoelectric element is configured to generate electrical energy from relative movement of the maxillary teeth and the mandibular teeth. The sensor is configured to sense a condition in the oral cavity. The therapeutic element is configured to release a therapeutic into the oral cavity. The device may include any one or any combination of the piezoelectric component, the therapeutic element, and the sensor.

Oral care device

A teeth whitening system that emits electromagnetic radiation onto surfaces of a user's teeth and may also dispense a tooth whitening material for contact with the user's teeth. In one aspect, the teeth whitening system includes a mouthpiece comprising a wall and a bite platform extending from the wall that collectively define a first channel for receiving a user's teeth and an electromagnetic radiation source coupled to the mouthpiece and configured to emit electromagnetic radiation onto surfaces of the user's teeth that are positioned in the first channel. The teeth whitening system may also include an opening in the wall through which a tooth whitening material may be dispensed into the channel. The tooth whitening system may alternatively include apertures in the wall or bite platform through which a tooth whitening material can be dispensed.

Oral treatment system

A container () is provided that includes a chamber (), a dispensing passageway and a resilient valve (). The chamber contains a viscous fluidic material. The valve () is configured to transition from a normal state to a dispensing state upon a discharge pressure being applied to the chamber () to allow the viscous fluidic material to pass through the orifice () of the resilient valve and to be dispensed from the dispensing passageway as a string of the viscous fluidic material. The orifice () is open in the normal state. The valve is also configured to return from the dispensing state to the normal state upon cessation of the discharge pressure, whereby the resilient valve () assumes a pinching state while returning from the dispensing state to the normal state in which the string of the viscous fluidic material is pinched off by the orifice edge.

Valve apparatus and container including the same

An oral care device for placement in the oral cavity. The oral care device may include a support component, a piezoelectric component, and/or a therapeutic element. The support component is configured for placement between one or more maxillary teeth and one or more mandibular teeth. The piezoelectric element is configured to generate an electrical current from relative movement of the maxillary teeth and the mandibular teeth. The therapeutic element is configured to release a therapeutic composition into the oral cavity at least in part in response to receiving the electrical signal. The device may include the piezoelectric component, the therapeutic element, or both.

An oral treatment device that emits light onto surfaces of a user's teeth. In one aspect, the oral treatment device includes an intraoral mouthpiece. The mouthpiece comprises a lamp support structure comprising a lamp support surface and is formed of a first material. A flexible lamp is mounted to the lamp support surface so that a light emitting surface of the flexible lamp assumes a concave curvature, thereby forming a lamp assembly. A guard component is overmolded to the lamp assembly. In one embodiment, the oral treatment device may be a teeth whitening device.

Oral treatment device

Illuminated oral care device

A container has a container body extending along a longitudinal axis from a bottom end to a top end. The container body may define an internal cavity for holding a substance. The container body may include one or more shoulders, such as a first and/or second shoulder (e.g., axial shoulder). The shoulders may be located at the top end of the container. The container may include a neck located (e.g., nesting) between the first and second axial shoulder. The neck may be configured to accept a closure device. The neck may have an inner surface that defines a passageway into the internal cavity. The container may include one or more impact absorbing regions, such as a first axial impact absorbing region. The first axial impact absorbing region may be configured to absorb an axial force applied to the first axial shoulder and/or the second axial shoulder.

Container apparatus

Case for an oral device

Container

An oral treatment device that emits light onto surfaces of a user's teeth. In one aspect, the oral treatment device includes an intraoral mouthpiece. The mouthpiece comprises: a first light emitting surface configured to emit light onto a user's maxillary teeth, the first light emitting surface having a concave curvature; a second light emitting surface configured to emit light onto a user's mandibular teeth, the second light emitting surface having a concave curvature; the first and second light emitting surface located on opposite sides of a horizontal reference plane; the first light emitting surface inclined so that a first acute angle is formed between with the first light emitting surface and the horizontal reference plane; and the second light emitting surface inclined so that a second acute angle is formed between with the second light emitting surface and the horizontal reference plane.

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Caledonia, WI, United States of America

Scott W Demarest