Cordless handpiece for dental treatment

Claim 2

A cordless handpiece for dental treatment with replacement contra angle and straight tools, comprising a joint mounted on the tip portion of a handpiece body so as to replaceably attach and detach a straight tool or a contra angle tool to and from the tip portion, a coreless motor housed in said handpiece body and connected directly to a driving shaft of said straight tool or to a driving shaft of said contra angle tool, storage battery housed in said handpiece body for driving said coreless motor, an electrode likewise housed in the distal end of said handpiece body for charging said batteries and a switch for controlling turning on and off said motor, wherein said motor, batteries and electrode are located on the same axis and said joint comprises a set sleeve fitted rotatably over a sleeve at the tip portion of said handpiece body, a ball groove provided at one end of said sleeve circumferentially of the sleeve passing through the thickness of said sleeve, a locking ball nesting in said groove and adapted to bring the lower end thereof into abutment against the housing of said straight tool for the housing of said contra angle tool, an eccentric groove corresponding to said locking ball and formed on the inner surface of said sleeve, and a set screw passing through the thickness of said sleeve and set in the thickness of said sleeve whereby said contra angle and straight tools are readily replaceable by loosening said set screw and rotating said set sleeve.

Claim 3

A handpiece according to claim 1, wherein said straight tool includes an engagement stepped portion formed on the outer circumference of a tool bar holding cylinder at the tip of the cylinder by forming slits therein along the lengthwise extension thereof so as to impart elasticity to the cylinder, a sloping surface formed in the reduced portion rearwardly of said engagement stepped portion, a rotating tube shaft fitted over said tool bar holding cylinder, a sloping surface always in contact with said sloping surface formed on the inner circumference of said rotating tube shaft at the tip of the shaft, a connecting bar inserted into the rear portion of said cutting bar holding cylinder, a receptive portion formed by cutting off the tip of said connecting bar, an engaging tongue member portrudently provided at the top of said receptive portion, said engaging tongue member being formed so as to enable the tongue member to engage with an engagement portion formed on one side of the rear part of tool bar for exclusive use in a contra angle tool inserted into said tool holding cylinder, a knock pin by which to connect said rotating tube shaft and connecting bar integrally to said cylinder, a ball bearing means and a compression spring means mounted on the outer circumference of said tube shaft, and a cap being provided outwardly of said ball bearing so as to move back and forth freely and bring the stepped portion formed on the inner circumference of said cap at the tip of the cap in opposition with said engagement stepped portion and support said sloping surface resiliently by said sloping surface by means of said bearing means and said compression spring means.