A powered toothbrush apparatus with capacitive touch control is disclosed. The tooth brush includes a head portion having an oscillating tuft block driven by a motor, a handle portion, and an elastically deformable capacitive touch control panel mounted in the handle portion. In one embodiment, the control panel includes a plurality of capacitance sensor buttons each having movable sensor targets paired with a corresponding capacitance sensor electrically connected to a programmable microprocessor. Applying finger pressure on the control panel adjacent a sensor target changes capacitance of the sensor button. The microprocessor detects the change in capacitance, which controls the operating mode of the toothbrush including on/off, motor speed, brushing mode such as pulse, or other. A related operating method is disclosed.本發明揭露具有電容式觸摸控制的一電動牙刷設備。該牙刷包括具有由一馬達所驅動之一擺動毛簇塊的一頭部部份、一柄部部份、以及安裝在該柄部部份中的一彈性可變形電容式觸摸控制面板。在一項實施例中，該控制面板包括複數個電容感應器按鈕，各者具有可移動的感應器目標，其係與電性連接到一可編程微處理器之一對應電容感應器成對。施加指壓在與一感應器目標相鄰之控制面板上，其係改變該感應器按鈕的電容。該微處理器檢測電容的變化，其係控制該牙刷的操作模式(包括開/關)、馬達速度、刷牙模式(譬如脈衝)、或其他者。本發明揭露一相關的操作方法。
