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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2014
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Yu-Wen Chang, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Gregory Russ Goddard, Kenmore, WA (US);
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An oral care appliance comprises: a fluid pump assembly (); a source of liquid (); and a source of gas (), wherein the pump is in operative communication with the sources of liquid and gas to produce a series of gas-injected fluid pulses, directed to a nozzle assembly () from which the resulting pulses are directed to the teeth. The individual pulses have a pulse width in the range of 0.001-0.5 seconds, a pulse height from 0.1-10 Newtons, and a rise/fall time range of 0.5-250 ms, a repetition rate in the range of 2 Hz to 20 Hz. The gas/liquid mixture range from 40-95% volume to volume, gas to liquid.