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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1987
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1985
Ernst-Otto Fleer, Bensheim, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Abstract
A dental handpiece arrangement having a drive motor mounted in a motor cartridge which is connectible to a supply hose supplying various fluids and electrical power, a coupling member being mounted on the cartridge at one end and a sleeve member being telescopically received on the cartridge and either being an extension of a dental grip piece or an adapter for receiving conventional grip pieces characterized by an illumination arrangement which can either be a light source in the coupling member connected by optical waveguides extending through the sleeve member and the grip piece or can be an electrical connector connected to an electrical lead extending through the sleeve member to a light source either in the sleeve member or the grip piece so that both existing conventional grip pieces with or without the sleeve member can be utilized with the cartridge and coupling member regardless of the type of illumination arrangement being provided therein.