Patents by Inventor Pierre Fredy KIRCHHOFER

Pierre Fredy KIRCHHOFER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230263606
    Abstract: An electric toothbrush handpiece having at least one interface for coupling to a brush attachment, at least one housing, at least one drive unit for driving the interface, which is received in the housing, and at least one energy store for supplying energy to the drive unit. The electric toothbrush handpiece includes at least one fix frame unit which is arranged in the housing and which is implemented as a single piece and which at least partially receives the drive unit and the energy store, wherein the frame unit forms multiple receptacle regions at least for the drive unit and the energy store, which receptacle regions are positioned in a defined manner relative to one another in particular both in an assembled state and in an unassembled state of the frame unit, wherein the frame unit extends axially over the entire drive unit and the entire energy store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: TRISA HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Martin ZWIMPFER, Pierre Fredy KIRCHHOFER, Herbert FISCHER
  • Patent number: 11666426
    Abstract: A brush attachment for a toothbrush handpiece, in particular for an electric toothbrush handpiece, has a head portion which includes a brush head, has an attachment portion which includes an interface receptacle, and has a neck portion arranged between the head portion and the attachment portion, wherein the interface receptacle is implemented by a universal interface receptacle for receiving at least two different interfaces of different toothbrush handpieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TRISA HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Martin Zwimpfer, Pierre Fredy Kirchhofer, Herbert Fischer
  • Publication number: 20200330202
    Abstract: A brush attachment for a toothbrush handpiece, in particular for an electric toothbrush handpiece, has a head portion which includes a brush head, has an attachment portion which includes an interface receptacle, and has a neck portion arranged between the head portion and the attachment portion, wherein the interface receptacle is implemented by a universal interface receptacle for receiving at least two different interfaces of different toothbrush handpieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: TRISA HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Martin ZWIMPFER, Pierre Fredy KIRCHHOFER, Herbert FISCHER