Visual Electric Toothbrush with Interdental Cleaning and Camera
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electric toothbrushes struggle to effectively clean tooth gaps due to the difficulty in visualizing and accessing these areas, leading to incomplete cleaning and potential gum damage or injury.
Innovation Solution
A multi-functional visual electric toothbrush that integrates an electric toothbrush head, an oral viewer with a camera system, and interdental cleaning appliances like dental floss or a water pick, allowing for targeted cleaning under visual conditions by providing real-time observation of the cleaning process on a display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If conventional electric toothbrushes are used for cleaning, then large-area cleaning is achieved, but tooth gaps cannot be effectively cleaned due to lack of visualization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines a conventional electric toothbrush with an oral viewer (endoscope) and interdental cleaning appliances into an integrated system. The oral viewer is connected to both the toothbrush handle and the interdental cleaning tool, allowing simultaneous visualization and cleaning of tooth gaps. This merging resolves the contradiction by enabling both large-area cleaning (via the electric toothbrush) and precise tooth gap cleaning (via the interdental appliance with visual guidance).
Solution Approach 2:
The oral viewer acts as an intermediary that bridges the gap between the user and the difficult-to-observe tooth gaps. By providing real-time visual feedback through a display device, the oral viewer enables the user to see and accurately target food debris in tooth gaps, thereby improving cleaning precision without sacrificing the efficiency of large-area cleaning.
2Ease of operation
If interdental brushes or dental floss are used without visualization, then tooth gaps can be accessed, but gum damage or injury may occur due to inability to observe the cleaning area
Solution Approach 1:
The oral viewer provides real-time visual feedback of the tooth gap cleaning process through a display device. This feedback mechanism allows the user to observe the cleaning action and adjust accordingly, preventing gum damage or injury while maintaining ease of access to tooth gaps. The visual feedback enables precise control of the interdental cleaning appliance.
3Ease of operation
If manual cleaning of deep tooth gaps is attempted without visualization, then cleaning can be performed, but cleaning effectiveness is reduced due to operating by feeling rather than sight
Solution Approach 1:
The oral viewer serves as an intermediary that extends the user's visual capability into deep tooth gaps. By providing real-time images of the cleaning area on a display device, the oral viewer transforms blind manual cleaning into visually-guided precision cleaning, significantly improving cleaning effectiveness while maintaining ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a multi-functional visual electric toothbrush, including a main unit, an oral viewer, an interdental cleaning appliance and an electric toothbrush head. The oral viewer is connected to the main unit, the interdental cleaning appliance is connected to the front end of the oral viewer, and the electric toothbrush head is connected to a toothbrush driving mechanism. A circuit system and a control system of the main unit can not only transfer the energy of a power supply to the toothbrush driving mechanism, so as to drive the electric toothbrush head to work for large-area oral cleaning, but also connect a lighting system, an observation system and a switch of the oral viewer to control the oral viewer to work. The interdental cleaning appliance may be used cooperatively with the oral viewer to perform targeted cleaning on difficult-to-clean food debris in an oral cavity.