Dentistry – Apparatus – Having motor or means to transmit motion from motor to tool
Patent
1998-02-20
2000-11-21
Lucchesi, Nicholas D.
Dentistry
Apparatus
Having motor or means to transmit motion from motor to tool
433125, 433126, A61C 108
Patent
active
061494305
ABSTRACT:
The invented dental apparatus and method for its manufacture involves an integrally molded, polymeric, unitary, hand piece having fluid conduits formed therein during the molding process for conducting fluid, e.g. air, under pressure from a proximal end having an industry standard couple to a distal end including an integrally molded head piece for housing a rotary, preferably canister-type turbine to which a dental bur may be removably secured. Preferably, an integrally molded venturi chamber fluid-interconnects a pressurized one of the conduits and an inlet to the turbine's impeller and an outlet of the turbine's impeller is fluid-connected at an outlet of the canister to an exhaust one of the conduits. Optionally, one or more chip-air source conduits and a light valve may extend within the elongate interior of the hand piece to provide intra-oral, in-process cleaning, cooling and lighting functions. Preferably, the hand piece is injection molded via a lost-material, e.g. a lost-metal, process similar to investment casting. The invented hand piece, in its preferred embodiment, is autoclavable and disposable.
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Hoyt Joshua K.
Nemetz Annette M.
Rux Bruno Rudolf
Lucchesi Nicholas D.
Ora Innovations, Inc.
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