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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2005
Philippe Boyer, Marseilles, FR;
Alain Mazuir, Saint Maximin, FR;
Philippe Boyer, Marseilles, FR;
Alain Mazuir, Saint Maximin, FR;
Sopro, La Ciotat, FR;
Abstract
The medical, particularly dental imaging camera including an elongated housing () that can be held by a single hand of a user and provided, at its front end, with an imaging element, this housing () including a sensitive control element capable of freezing, on a display (), an image selected by the user, this control element having a detection area () situated on the housing () that is delimited by a surface discontinuity such as a recess or a relief (). The housing () encloses a sensor element associated with an electronic driving circuit and an electrostatic foam element whose one end is applied against the sensor element and whose opposite end is applied against an area of the inner face of the housing () located to the right of the detection area ().