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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 14, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Juergen Wohlgemuth, Darmstadt, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
433132 ; 415904 ;
Abstract
A controllable turbine drive for a dental handpiece has an adjustment member which rotates with the rotor disc and is deformable due to the centrifugal forces to constrict an exhaust channel extending along the disc to change the effective cross section of the channel so that with an increased speed of rotation, the effective cross section decreases and with a decreased speed, the effective cross section is increased. The member may be an elastic ring which is restrained by a rim formed by a recess on one side of the rotor disc or it may be an elastic spring washer, which has an upturned peripheral flange and which is bent or elastically deformed.