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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2013
Applicant:
Biolase, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
John Berger, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Dmitri Boutoussov, Dana Point, CA (US);
Assignee:
BIOLASE, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A handpiece for a medical instrumentation device is formed with manually deformable ribs on an outer sleeve. The ribs align with conductive surfaces inside the handpiece that make contact with an internal flexible electronic circuit to activate the device when force is applied to the ribs. Removing the force deactivates the device.