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Electric tongue cleaner
| Details |
Inventors: Murayama, Ronald K.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Buiz; Michael
Assistant Examiner: Ngo; Lien
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Lyon & Lyon LLP
An electrically powered device for cleaning the dorsal surface of the tongue, including a handle having a longitudinal axis, and an elongate member extending from the handle and terminating in a cleaning head adapted to reciprocate in a predetermined direction. An electric motor is provided within the handle adapted to operate at a predetermined frequency and thereby reciprocate the elongate member. The cleaning head includes agitation members and one or more cleaning members, such as elongate blades or banks of bristles. The agitation are arranged substantially perpendicular to the predetermined direction of reciprocation, while the cleaning members extend across the width of the cleaning head. The elongate member has a predetermined configuration that is tuned to resonate when reciprocated at a predetermined frequency, preferably within the sonic range, i.e. between about 1,000 and about 20,000 cycles per minute, thereby inducing a resonance action in the cleaning head. The arrangement of the agitation members and the resonance action result in a agitation cleaning effect that loosens plaque from within the surface of the tongue and substantially enhances cleaning thereof. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention is directed to an electrically powered device for cleaning the surface of the tongue.
In a preferred embodiment, the device includes an electrically powered handle having a longitudinal axis, and an elongate member extending axially from the handle and terminating in a cleaning head adapted to reciprocate in a predetermined direction.
The cleaning head includes a plurality of agitation members for loosening debris within the surface of the tongue, and/or one or more cleaning members for removing debris from the surface of the tongue.
An electric motor is provided within the handle adapted to operate at a predetermined frequency and thereby reciprocate the elongate member in the predetermined direction at the predetermined frequency.
Preferably, the agitation members are arranged on the cleaning head substantially perpendicular to the predetermined direction of reciprocation, and the cleaning member extends across the cleaning head substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the handle.
One or more of the agitation members and/or the cleaning member may be an elongate blade or an elongate bank of bristles.
The elongate member preferably is a tongue cleaning attachment that may be detachably mounted on the handle.
The tongue cleaning attachment preferably has a predetermined configuration that is tuned to resonate when reciprocated at a predetermined frequency, preferably within the sonic range, i.
e.
between about 1,000 and about 20,000 cycles per minute, thereby inducing a resonance action in the cleaning head.
In a preferred embodiment of the handle, an eccentric counterweight is attached to the motor, the counterweight being adapted to produce sonic vibrational energy.
The sonic energy may be transmitted to the tongue elongate member, i.
e.
through the handle and the elongate member, thereby reciprocating the cleaning head.
During use, the cleaning head is placed in contact with the surface being cleaned, preferably the dorsal surface of the tongue
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