US 11,998,411 B2
Mouthpiece with directed jets
Kevin Arnold Miller, Bellevue, WA (US); David Seward, Seattle, WA (US); David Desmarais, Renton, WA (US); Eric Healy, Lynnwood, WA (US); and Richard Tanaka, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/474,241.
Application 17/474,241 is a continuation of application No. 15/543,034, granted, now 11,116,614, previously published as PCT/IB2016/050402, filed on Jan. 27, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/109,297, filed on Jan. 29, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0401556 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. A61C 17/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61C 17/0211 (2013.01) 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An oral hygiene mouthpiece comprising:
a mouthpiece trough configured to fit over at least a front portion of a dental arch of teeth in a user's mouth, the mouthpiece trough having a buccal-side vertical member, a lingual-side vertical member and an occlusal-side horizontal member that extends between the buccal-side and the lingual-side vertical members, wherein the mouthpiece trough includes a fluidics inlet, a plurality of jet orifices on both the buccal-side and lingual-side vertical members, and a fluidics path disposed between the fluidics inlet and the jet orifices, and wherein an end region of the mouthpiece trough includes a vertically disposed plenum disposed on a rear surface of the end region; and
a directed jet orifice facing a rearward direction towards a back of the user's mouth and disposed on a rear surface of the vertically disposed plenum facing the back of the user's mouth, wherein the fluidics path is further disposed between the fluidics inlet and the directed jet orifice, wherein the directed jet orifice is configured for directing a fluid jet rearward towards a tooth beyond the end region of the mouthpiece trough.