Abstract: A piece of mechanized surgical equipment is provided, which includes an instrument holder having an element for receiving and retaining a surgical instrument for mechanized use. Also provided is a surgical instrument for mechanized use and configured to be mounted on the instrument holder. The element for receiving and retaining is mobile between an unlocking position, in which the element enables insertion of the instrument into the instrument holder or withdrawal thereof, and a locking position, in which the element prevents the withdrawal of the instrument from the instrument holder. Furthermore, the equipment includes a case in which an active blade of the instrument can be removably housed, the case having an engaging element for engaging with the receiving and retaining element so as to cause the element to move from the unlocking position to the locking position, or vice versa.

Abstract: The invention relates to an endodontic instrument used for working on a canal in a tooth, having a base from which an active portion for working on the canal extends longitudinally, characterized in that said active portion has at least one slot extending longitudinally and forming a passage for fluid.

Abstract: An endodontic instrument includes a handle to be secured to an instrument holder and an active part to be introduced into a root canal. The active part includes a plurality of faces and at least one edge formed by the intersection of two adjacent faces. At least two of the adjacent faces have a surface with a roughness characterized by an arithmetic mean deviation with respect to the mean line Ra, chosen so that 0.5 ?m<Ra<4.5 ?m, so that the edge formed by the intersection of said two faces has the profile of an irregular jagged line in the space having at least one deviation greater than 0.5 ?m with respect to the mean line.

Abstract: A piece of mechanized surgical equipment is provided, which includes an instrument holder having an element for receiving and retaining a surgical instrument for mechanized use. Also provided is a surgical instrument for mechanized use and configured to be mounted on the instrument holder. The element for receiving and retaining is mobile between an unlocking position, in which the element enables insertion of the instrument into the instrument holder or withdrawal thereof, and a locking position, in which the element prevents the withdrawal of the instrument from the instrument holder. Furthermore, the equipment includes a case in which an active blade of the instrument can be removably housed, the case having an engaging element for engaging with the receiving and retaining element so as to cause the element to move from the unlocking position to the locking position, or vice versa.

Abstract: The invention relates to an endodontic instrument used for working on a canal in a tooth, having a base from which an active portion for working on the canal extends longitudinally, characterized in that said active portion has at least one slot extending longitudinally and forming a passage for fluid.

Abstract: A dental handpiece (1) includes mechanical components, in particular, a tool-holder assembly for the attachment and for the rotational driving of a dental instrument about a drive axis (6) and an assembly for the transmission of such movement. The mechanical components are mounted in the interior of a body (2) having a head (4) and a handle (3). The mechanical components of the handle and the head of the handpiece are electrically connected by an elastic and electrically conducting connecting device.

Abstract: A head assembly for attaching to a dental instrument has a body, a rotary shaft with a pinion thereon, at least one retractable catch latching lever and a retractable catch. The rotary shaft has a central bore suitable for receiving a shank of the dental instrument therein. The latching lever has a peg engageable with an annular latching groove of the shank of the dental instrument. The catch has a positioning plane coinciding with the drive flat of the instrument. The body has a circular opening closed off by a push button cooperative with the rotary shaft so as to release the shank of the dental instrument.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for axial retention of a dental instrument shank and for transmitting the rotational driving of the instrument. The device is arranged in a head of a contra-angle or handpiece. The shank has an annular groove in which at least one stud is able to engage radially, and a flat permitting rotational driving of the shank. The rotational movement is communicated by an output pinion of a mechanical transmission assembly coupled to a drive motor and arranged in a sleeve joined to the head of the contra-angle. The device is formed by a shaft traversed axially by the instrument shank, at least one elastic lever, and at least one pin. There is cooperation of the pin or pins with the flat provided on the instrument shank.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for designing and producing a package intended for the protection and/or transportation of a product. All of the digital design steps for the package are integrated in the method for digitizing the product, which includes a step of laminating a virtual key form of the product used to define geometrical data of each layer of the package to be cut. Then, the cutting is carried out followed by the stacking of the layers of the package defined by the design steps for said package to form a real package. The invention also relates to the package obtained by the method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for holding a dental instrument in the head of a contra-angle, an instrument of the type comprising, in its upper part which is inserted into the head of the contra-angle, a lateral flat for rotating it and an annular groove for axially retaining it, characterized in that the shank receiving the handle of the instrument, comprises a transverse cutback (7d), offset with respect to the longitudinal axis (7e) of the shank, made in the end of the shank and emerging in the bore (7b), the width (1) of the cutback being such that it allows the handle of the instrument to be engaged so that, on the one hand, the lateral flat of the handle is in contact with the wall (7f) of the cutback, closest to the longitudinal axis (7c), so as to ensure rotational coupling, and that, on the other hand, the shoulder of the flat of the handle abuts against the bottom (7c) of the longitudinal bore (7b) of the shank, in order to act as an axial stop in the direction of insertion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a contra-angle for implantology or surgery with a head for holding and rotating an instrument about its longitudinal axis, and a handpiece containing, in a non-limiting manner, a connection providing the connection with an external motor drive, and a reducing assembly with an output gear. The contra-angle is formed of removable subassemblies, and principally of a subassembly called the intermediate support, including an input gear meshing with the output gear of the reducing assembly and an end gear mounted on the same rotating shaft and inside a hollow cylindrical body. The intermediate support is mounted so as to slide freely along an axis inside a central part of a head body and enabling positioning in the head and rotational driving of a removable head cartridge, when all the subassemblies are mounted together to form the contra-angle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for attaching instruments. The device includes a rotary shaft intended to accept the instrument and rotationally drive it. The device also has at least one peg that can be retracted elastically until it can fit into the latching groove, thus axially retaining the instrument. A catch rotates as one with the rotary shaft and, in combination with the rotary shaft, gives the shape combined with that of the driving flat of the shank of the instrument. There is the particular feature of retracting radially or longitudinally if the flat is correctly orientated and resuming the position in which it rotationally drives the instrument. The flat of the instrument generally adopts the appropriate position when turned as soon as the slightest rotational force is applied to it. The instrument is released by action on a push-button, which moves the peg aside or radially retracts it.

Abstract: A canal preparation device includes a contra-angle having a head which is provided with a support for receiving an instrument for treating a canal. The instrument is provided with a shank, and the shank of the canal instrument includes a rotational drive. The base of the head of the contra-angle is provided with a snap-fastening connection which cooperates with the shank of the instrument so that, simply by pushing, the rotational-drive of the shank is engaged in the head, and the shank and the head are snap-fastened together.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dental handpiece (1) of the type comprising mechanical components, in particular a tool-holder assembly for the attachment and rotational driving of a dental instrument about a drive axis (6) and an assembly for the transmission of movement, said mechanical components being mounted in the interior of a body (2) having a head (4) and a handle (3), characterized in that it comprises means of electrical connection between the mechanical components of the handle and the head of the instrument, which means are constituted by an elastic and electrically conducting connecting device.

Abstract: A driven appliance, such as a contra-angle handpiece for surgical instruments, in particular for dental surgery, includes a handle, a neck and a head for receiving an instrument. The handle and the neck of the contra-angle handpiece each receive a drive shaft, respectively, an input shaft and an output shaft, which are linked to each other by a gear train. The input shaft and the output shaft are slidingly mounted in their respective bodies, which forms a sheath for the two shafts. The shafts are maintained and supported on stops arranged on the corresponding sheathes through a single elastic element which is housed in the bend linking the handle to the neck.

Abstract: A canal preparation device comprising a support (1), a treatment instrument (2) equipped with a shank (3), with a contra-angle (4) provided with a head (5), characterized in that the shank (3) of the canal instrument (2) is furnished with a rotational-drive means (6) and in that the head (5) of the contra-angle is provided at its base with a snap-fastening means collaborating with the shank (3) of the rotational-drive means (6) in such a way that, simply by pushing, with the shank (3) of the rotational-drive means (6) engaged in the head, the shank (3) and the head (5) are snap-fastened.

Abstract: The invention concerns an driving appliance, called contra-angle handpiece, for surgical instruments, in particular in dental surgery, consisting of a handle (1), a neck (2) and a head (3) wherein the instrument is fixed; each of the parts of said contra-angle handpiece receiving therein a drive shaft respectively called output shaft (4) for the handle (1) and input shaft (8) for the neck (1), linked to each other by a gear train (21). The invention is characterized in that the output (4) and input (8) shafts of the appliance are mounted sliding in their respective bodies forming a sheath and maintained supported on a stop (11, 12) arranged on their corresponding sheath through a single elastic element (13) housed in the bend linking the handle (1) to the neck (2).

Abstract: A support for a dentistry handpiece or contra-angle is connected to a dental unit, such as a motor, including apparatus for the supply of water and air for spraying the working point of the supported handpiece of contra-angle and, if desired, apparatus for supplying electric current to bulbs situated in the head of the handpiece or contra-angle for lighting in the working point and/or fibre optics. The rear face of the support is provided with a projecting ring of insulating material and the motor includes an annular hollow form for receiving the ring when the support is mounted to the motor.

Abstract: The cutting shank of an instrument to be received in the head of a contra-angle of a dentistry handpiece is clamped in position with a pushed-button control device which is displacable counter to a tensioning spring. The control device generally takes the form of at least one reversal element for receiving pressures responsive to movements of the push-button and for converting such movements into a traction movement exerted by the reversal element on the pusher which is used to control the collet chuck which receives the shank of the instrument.

Abstract: Atomizing process and device for dentistry handpieces or angle pieces, characterized in that it involves generating, in the region of the receptacle of the tool in the handpiece or angle piece, a suction effect putting the vicinity of the cutter receptacle under a slight vacuum under the effect of an air cone of which the apex is situated at the point where the tool is working, the other function of this air cone being to direct the cooling fluid by means of an effect of the COANDA type, thereby reducing the consequences of turbulences attributable to the rotation of the tool or instrument.