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公开(公告)号:US20240389745A1
公开(公告)日:2024-11-28
申请号:US18794579
申请日:2024-08-05
Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
Inventor: Douglas HOHLBEIN
Abstract: An oral care implement is described. The oral care implement may include a head extending along a longitudinal axis and having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a side surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. A central bristle tuft may from a central portion of the first surface. A plurality of perimetric bristle tufts may from the first surface and arranged to circumferentially surround the central bristle tuft. The perimetric bristle tufts may have distal ends that slope downwardly towards the central bristle tuft. The perimetric bristle tufts may be wedge shaped.
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公开(公告)号:US20210161283A1
公开(公告)日:2021-06-03
申请号:US16701776
申请日:2019-12-03
Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
Inventor: Douglas HOHLBEIN , Daniel WAINLESS
IPC: A46B5/02
Abstract: An oral care implement having a head and a handle. A plurality of tooth cleaning elements extend from an exposed front surface of the head. The handle has an open thumb gripping passageway extending between an exposed first surface of the handle and an exposed second surface of the handle opposite the exposed first surface. The handle also has a plurality of slots defining open slot passageways from the exposed first surface of the handle to the exposed second surface of the handle. The open thumb gripping passageway may be defined by a ring component that is fitted into an aperture in a body component. The open thumb gripping passageway may be a void space in the handle. The open slot passageways may be elongated along the handle and may serve to reduce a total amount of virgin material needed to manufacture the oral care implement.
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公开(公告)号:US20190008271A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-10
申请号:US16066016
申请日:2015-12-28
Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
Inventor: Gerald Gontarz , Patrick JOHANSSON , John GATZEMEYER , Douglas HOHLBEIN , Daniel WAINLESS , Brian BLOCH , Najma KHAN
Abstract: A toothbrush includes a handle, a head at a distal end of the handle comprising a bristle plate, a hole extending through the bristle plate, a plurality of bristles at least partially disposed in the hole and extending from the hole in a direction away from the head, and a reservoir in fluid communication with the hole. Fluid in the reservoir enters the tuft holes and is wicked out of the head of the toothbrushes by capillaries formed between the bristles.
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公开(公告)号:US20180242725A1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-30
申请号:US15757984
申请日:2015-09-08
Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
Inventor: Douglas HOHLBEIN
CPC classification number: A46B9/028 , A46B9/025 , A46B9/04 , A46B9/06 , A46B2200/1066
Abstract: An oral care implement having a head with a front surface and a plurality of contact elements extending from the head. The plurality of contact elements are arranged in a pattern that may have the visual appearance of a flower. Specifically, the pattern may comprise a first set of contact elements arranged in a first loop about a reference axis and a second set of contact elements arranged in a second loop that surrounds the first loop. The pattern may also include a third set of contact elements arranged in a third loop that surrounds the second loop. Each of the contact elements of the first, second, and third sets may be inclined relative to the front surface of the head so as to diverge from the reference axis.
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公开(公告)号:US20170318955A1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-09
申请号:US15525726
申请日:2014-11-10
Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
Inventor: Douglas HOHLBEIN , Chi Shing WONG
CPC classification number: A46B15/0087 , A46B2200/1066 , B25G1/10
Abstract: A toothbrush handle includes a support structure formed of clarified polypropylene and a body formed of thermoplastic elastomer disposed on the support structure. The support structure includes a web having a thickness in a first direction orthogonal to an axis of the toothbrush handle of less than 2 millimeters and at least one rib depending from the web and having a thickness in a second direction, orthogonal to the axis and angled relative to the first direction, of less than about 2 millimeters. The body at least partially covers the web and the at least one rib. The handle has a light transmissivity of greater than 40% through a portion of the handle at which the body covers the web and the at least one rib.
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公开(公告)号:US20220133027A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-05
申请号:US17572962
申请日:2022-01-11
Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
Inventor: Gerald GONTARZ , Patrik JOHANSSON , John GATZEMEYER , Douglas HOHLBEIN , Daniel WAINLESS , Brian BLOCH , Najma KHAN
Abstract: A toothbrush includes a handle, a head at a distal end of the handle comprising a bristle plate, a hole extending through the bristle plate, a plurality of bristles at least partially disposed in the hole and extending from the hole in a direction away from the head, and a reservoir in fluid communication with the hole. Fluid in the reservoir enters the tuft holes and is wicked out of the head of the toothbrushes by capillaries formed between the bristles.
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公开(公告)号:US20210227963A1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-29
申请号:US16616187
申请日:2018-12-13
Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
Inventor: Fan Gang XIE , Wen Jin XI , Yanmei JI , Jiang ZHOU , Douglas HOHLBEIN
Abstract: An oral care implement having a head with a bristle bearing surface. The oral care implement may include a central bristle tuft extending from a central portion of the bristle bearing surface, the central bristle tuft terminating in a domed distal surface. Furthermore, the oral care implement may include a plurality of perimetric bristle tufts extending from the bristle bearing surface and arranged to circumferentially surround the central bristle tuft. Each of the perimetric bristle tufts may have an inclined distal surface that slopes downward towards the central bristle tuft. The bristle bearing surface of the head may have a total surface area (TSA), and the toothbrush may include a tooth cleaning element field having X number of tooth cleaning elements that collectively occupy a total cleaning element area (TCEA) such that 1 X × T C E A T S A = Z and L is in a range of 0.04 to 0.065.
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公开(公告)号:US20200269036A1
公开(公告)日:2020-08-27
申请号:US16864218
申请日:2020-05-01
Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
Inventor: Patrik JOHANSSON , Harsh Mahendra TRIVEDI , Douglas HOHLBEIN
IPC: A61N1/05 , A61N1/32 , A61N1/26 , A61C17/22 , C25B1/26 , C25B9/06 , C25B1/28 , A46B15/00 , A61C17/16
Abstract: An oral care implement having conductive protrusions. In one embodiment, the oral care implement includes a handle and a head coupled to the handle. Furthermore, the oral care implement includes a power source. A plurality of conductive protrusions may be electrically coupled to the power source. The plurality of conductive protrusions may include a base proximate the head and a distal end spaced from the head. Furthermore, at least one of the conductive protrusions may taper from the base to the distal end.
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公开(公告)号:US20200148439A1
公开(公告)日:2020-05-14
申请号:US16743305
申请日:2020-01-15
Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
Inventor: Thomas MINTEL , Douglas HOHLBEIN
Abstract: An oral care implement that includes a head having a face with a tuft hole therein. A plurality of bristles are disposed within the tuft hole and arranged in a bristle tuft that extends from the face of the head. The bristle tuft includes a first subset of the bristles and a second subset of the bristles. Each of the bristles has a longitudinal axis and a transverse cross-sectional profile having a major axis and a minor axis, the major axes of the bristles being longer than the minor axes of the bristles. The major axes of the bristles of the first subset may be non-parallel to the major axes of the bristles of the second subset.
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公开(公告)号:US20190307240A1
公开(公告)日:2019-10-10
申请号:US16464794
申请日:2016-12-06
Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
Inventor: Robert MOSKOVICH , Douglas HOHLBEIN
Abstract: A package for an oral care implement. The package may have an exposed outer surface, a package portion forming a first portion of the exposed outer surface, and a reusable cap forming a second portion of the exposed outer surface. The package portion may define a first cavity and the reusable cap may define a second cavity. The package portion may be formed by a backer panel and a cover panel that are coupled together to define the first cavity. The reusable cap may have a flange that is sandwiched between the backer panel and the cover panel to secure the reusable cap to the package portion. A personal care implement may be disposed within the package so that a first portion of personal care implement is located within the first cavity and a second portion of the personal care implement is located within the second cavity.
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