US 12,357,079 B2
Full bristle field jet-brush combination
Bart Gottenbos, Budel (NL); Quintin Oliver Williams, Eersel (NL); Mark Thomas Johnson, Arendonk (BE); and Lutz Christian Gerhardt, Eindhoven (NL)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/640,896
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Sep. 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/074764
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 7, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/043978, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19195519 (EP), filed on Sep. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0330687 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. A61C 17/22 (2006.01); A46B 9/02 (2006.01); A46B 9/04 (2006.01)
CPC A46B 9/04 (2013.01) [A46B 9/025 (2013.01); A61C 17/222 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A brush head for an oral cleaning device for cleaning teeth with a combination of brushing and emitting of a cleaning agent, the brush head comprising:
a platen with a first face,
a first bristle set extending from the first face for brushing the teeth,
a nozzle extending from the first face comprising an orifice for emitting the cleaning agent from the orifice towards a direction pointing away from the first face of the platen, and
an actuator for moving at least a part of the first bristle set relative to a path of the cleaning agent from the orifice such that the brush head is configurable to adopt a first configuration in which the path is at least partially blocked by said at least part of the first bristle set, and a second configuration in which the path is cleared of said at least part of the first bristle set.