公开(公告)号：US11202497B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-21

申请号：US16775314

申请日：2020-01-29

Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company

Inventor： Eduardo Jesus Jimenez ,  Kenneth Waguespack ,  Douglas Joseph Hohlbein ,  Anthony Baxter ,  Marisol Rodriguez ,  Alberto Mantilla ,  Ellis Junior Smith ,  Chad Leighton Helland

IPC: A46B5/00 ,  A46B7/06 ,  A46B9/04 ,  A46B9/06 ,  A46B3/20 ,  A46B9/10

Abstract: A method of forming an oral care implement. The method may include providing a body having a base and a bridge extending from a distal end of the base, the bridge terminating in a free end, mounting a plurality of tooth cleaning elements to the bridge, bending the bridge toward a proximal end of the base, and coupling the free end of the bridge to a proximal end of the base, thereby forming a head of an oral care implement.

公开(公告)号：US10477952B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-19

申请号：US15766602

申请日：2015-10-09

Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company

Inventor： Eduardo Jimenez ,  Kenneth Waguespack ,  Douglas Hohlbein ,  Anthony Baxter ,  Marisol Rodriguez ,  Alberto Mantilla ,  Ellis Junior Smith ,  Chad Leighton Helland ,  Dario Alejandro Narvaez Lopez ,  Mauricio Issa

IPC: A46B9/04 ,  A46B5/00 ,  A46B7/02

Abstract: An oral care implement in one embodiment includes an elongated body comprising a head portion supporting plurality of tooth cleaning elements and a handle portion. The tooth cleaning elements are disposed on longitudinally extending bristle carrier sections hingedly coupled together about a common pivot axis. The axis may be formed by a flexible web. A slidable actuator mounted in the handle portion is mechanically coupled to the bristle carrier assembly by an elongated operating rod. Moving the actuator in opposing rearward and forward directions opens or folds the bristles on the carriers outwards or inwards respectively about the common pivot axis. In the folded position, the bristles are configured for interdental cleaning of the teeth. In the open or extended position, the bristles are configured for general purpose cleaning of the teeth.

公开(公告)号：US10582761B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-10

申请号：US15768764

申请日：2015-10-22

Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company

Inventor： Eduardo Jimenez ,  Kenneth Waguespack ,  Douglas Hohlbein ,  Anthony Baxter ,  Marisol Rodriguez ,  Alberto Mantilla ,  Ellis Junior Smith ,  Chad Leighton Helland

IPC: A46B5/00 ,  A46B9/04 ,  A46B9/06 ,  A46B7/06 ,  A46B9/10 ,  A46B3/20

Abstract: An oral care implement having movable and fixed tooth cleaning elements. The oral care implement may include a handle and a head coupled to the handle. The head may include a base that is coupled to the handle and a resilient bridge coupled to the base. The resilient bridge may be flexible between a normal state in which a portion of the resilient bridge is spaced from the base by a gap and a flexed state in which a portion of the resilient bridge is moved toward the base. Tooth cleaning elements may be coupled to the resilient bridge. Furthermore, the resilient bridge may include one or more apertures through which tooth cleaning elements that are fixed to the base may extend.