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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:
Mar. 08, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 02, 1999
Applicant:
Werner Muller, Wetzlar-Nauborn, DE;
Inventor:
Werner Muller, Wetzlar-Nauborn, DE;
Assignees:
SmithKline Beecham GmbH & Co. KG, Wetzlar-Nauborn, DE;
Helmut Hung GmbH, Wetzlar-Nauborn, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C003/00 ; A46B009/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A toothbrush head suitable to direct incident radiation toward a surface of a tooth and to collect emitted radiation from the surface of the tooth, being made at least in past of a material which is transparent to the incident and/or emitted radiation. In preferred embodiments the head includes one or more radiation guiding cores of transparent material.