Kevin A. Miller,Patrick A. Headstrom,Bethany Joyce Johnson,Ian Gordon Blanch,Tijn Pieter Lodewijk Huttenhuis
申请号：
US13883679
公开号：
US20140011159A1
申请日:
2011.12.09
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2014
代理人:
摘要：
The power appliance (10) for cleaning teeth includes a drive system (16) and a substrate (10) for supporting a field of bristles (14) which contact teeth for cleaning. The drive system is connected to the substrate, moving the substrate in operation to produce an action of the bristle field against the teeth. The assembly, which includes internal stiffeners (60, 62, 64) in one embodiment, has two physical states, including a first state in which the substrate is softened so as to be formable to conform to the geometry of the teeth, and a second hardened state following its conformance to the teeth in which the substrate is sufficiently rigid to effectively transmit a driving motion to the bristles.
