Patents by Inventor Roger Gaillard

Roger Gaillard 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).

  • Patent number: 4493646
    Abstract: A device for connecting to the body of a dentistry counter-angle the unit for transmitting the rotary movement of the major axis of the counter-angle to the oblique shaft contained in the head of the counter-angle. The transmission assembly is placed inside a socket (5), forming a case, the socket itself being fixed to the body of the counter-angle by means of a bayonet attachment, consisting of at least one pin (16), fixed to the inner wall of the body of the counter-angle, and of at least one L-shaped slot (12), formed on the socket. Application to the rapid assembling and dismantling of dentistry equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1985
    Inventors: Bernard Lacour, Hubert Euvrard, Roger Gaillard, Jean C. Boinot
  • Patent number: 4475889
    Abstract: An angle-drive head of a dental handpiece with the housing thereof removable. A speed-increasing pinion is provided for meshing with a drive pinion of the angle-drive. A shaft connected to the pinion extends axially in the head and has a speed-increasing pinion for developing a greater speed. A speed-increasing device removably coupled to the head has a third speed-increasing pinion and a fourth pinion is coupled thereto. A tool-receiving jaw is provided in the device for coupling to the fourth speed-increasing pinion for being rotationally driven therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1984
    Inventors: Philippe Garcia, Roger Gaillard
  • Patent number: 4311169
    Abstract: This air-water mixer for the atomizer of a dental hand piece comprises a body formed with a circular chamber into which open an air supply conduit, a water supply conduit and an outlet conduit for the fluids. One wall of this chamber consists of the inner face of a selector ring mounted for free rotation in the chamber, the inner face of the ring comprising a flat sector adapted to close the inlet port of one and/or the other supply conduits in predetermined positions of the ring, and an inclined sector permitting the free passage of fluid between one and/or the other of the supply conduits and the outlet conduit in other predetermined positions of the ring, this mixer being particularly suited for a dental hand piece provided with an air-water atomizing conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1982
    Assignee: Micro-Mega, S.A.
    Inventor: Roger Gaillard