US4332558A
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Dental scaling apparatus
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1980-05-20
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Granted: 1982-06-01
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Expires: 2000-05-20
Abstract
Abstract An ultrasonically vibrated dental scaling apparatus with liquid feed through the scaling tool, in which the tool is mounted to one end of a tuned coupler having a piezoelectric transducer at the other end, and the liquid feed is through the member which drives the tool.
Inventors
- 👤 Leopold P. Lustig
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-23 11:24
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61C; A61C17/00; A61C17/16; A61C17/20; B; B23; B23Q; B23Q1/00; B23Q1/25; B23Q1/26; B23Q1/34
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
154 words
Apparatus for scaling teeth comprising an elongated hollow tubular scaling tool having a working end formed for contacting the surface of a tooth to be cleaned of calculus, and a canal extending through the other end, means to introduce a liquid via said other end of the tool for delivery to the working end, and drive means consisting essentially of an electromechanical oscillator and a mechanical coupling component which vibrates in a longitudinal mode fixed together at a first end of said coupling component, a bending-mode vibrator fixed and supported in an intermediate region of its vibrational mode to the second end of said coupling component, said tool being coupled at said other end to said bending-mode vibrator in a peripheral second region thereof which is remote from said intermediate region, so as to impose elastic wave oscillations on said tool for vibrating the working end at a frequency above the audible frequency range.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
154 words
Apparatus for scaling teeth comprising an elongated hollow tubular scaling tool having a working end formed for contacting the surface of a tooth to be cleaned of calculus, and a canal extending through the other end, means to introduce a liquid via said other end of the tool for delivery to the working end, and drive means consisting essentially of an electromechanical oscillator and a mechanical coupling component which vibrates in a longitudinal mode fixed together at a first end of said coupling component, a bending-mode vibrator fixed and supported in an intermediate region of its vibrational mode to the second end of said coupling component, said tool being coupled at said other end to said bending-mode vibrator in a peripheral second region thereof which is remote from said intermediate region, so as to impose elastic wave oscillations on said tool for vibrating the working end at a frequency above the audible frequency range.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
56 words
Apparatus according to claim 1 in which said bending-mode vibrator is a disc which vibrates in an umbrella mode, and said coupling component is substantially of conical shape tapered from a larger transverse section at said first end to a smaller transverse section at said second end where it is fixed to said bending mode vibrator.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
34 words
Apparatus according to claim 2 in which said coupling component has a mounting flange extending transversely from a region which is the locus of a node of the longitudinal vibration of said coupling component.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
45 words
Apparatus according to claim 1 in which said bending-mode vibrator is a disc which vibrates in an umbrella mode, and said coupling component includes a tapered member which is tapered down from said electromechanical oscillator to said fixed support region of said bending mode vibrator.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
19 words
Apparatus according to claim 1 in which said passage is through said second region of said bending mode member.
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