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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2012
Georges Driesen, Weilrod, DE;
Bernd Trebitz, Butzbach, DE;
Eva Susanne Dominique Thurnay, Kronberg, DE;
Heidrun Schmelcher, Oberursel, DE;
Martin Haas, Frankfurt, DE;
Thomas Fritsch, Eppstein, DE;
Georges Driesen, Weilrod, DE;
Bernd Trebitz, Butzbach, DE;
Eva Susanne Dominique Thurnay, Kronberg, DE;
Heidrun Schmelcher, Oberursel, DE;
Martin Haas, Frankfurt, DE;
Thomas Fritsch, Eppstein, DE;
BRAUN GMBH, Kronberg, DE;
Abstract
A cleaning section for an electric oral hygiene device is disclosed. The cleaning section includes at least a first carrier mounted for driven rotation or oscillating rotation around a rotation axis; and at least a plurality of first cleaning elements mounted on the first carrier with their bases arranged on the vertices of a first star-shaped polygon around the rotation axis. All of the first cleaning elements are inclined in a circumferential direction such that the free end of each of the first cleaning elements is farther away in the circumferential direction than the base of the respective first cleaning element; and wherein at least one cleaning element property alternates between adjacent first cleaning elements or between clusters of first cleaning elements.