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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1995
Eiji Okada, Tokyo, JP;
Other;
Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to make an engaging section between a holder section and a toothbrush section of a motor-driven toothbrush more simple, manufacture thereof easier and also minimize the production cost as well as to achieve minimization and weight reduction thereof, and also to improve the reliability of insertion. For this purpose, an engaging/receiving hole or bore is formed in the toothbrush section of the motor-driven toothbrush, and a projection of the holder section is inserted into the engaging hole for fixing the toothbrush section to the holder section. Also the engaging projection is formed on said holder section and the toothbrush section is made of resilient material to provide the engaging hole having a round cross-section into which the projection is inserted. Furthermore the engaging hole is provided with a round cross-section into which the projection formed in said holder section is inserted, said engaging hole having a larger diameter section in the entrance side thereof and a smaller diameter section in the bottom side thereof, and at least one resilient engaging section projecting to a center of the engaging hole is continuously provided in at least one of the larger diameter section in the entrance side of the engaging hole and the smaller diameter section in the bottom side of the engaging hole.
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