Patent ID: 8046864

Claim:
A toothbrush body comprising one after the other, along a longitudinal axis running along a longitudinal center plane: a head part having a bristle-accommodating side; a neck part; and a handle part, the toothbrush body being bounded by a top side comprising the bristle-accommodating side, an underside located opposite the top side, and two broad sides extending from the top side to the underside, the toothbrush body being formed from at least one hard component and at least one soft component, the at least one hard component functioning as a basic carrying structure for the at least one soft component, the basic carrying structure comprising: a neck-part element; and a handle-part element, the handle-part element comprising two supporting strips running substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis and a row of recesses arranged between the supporting strips, the recesses passing through from a structure top side of the basic carrying structure to a structure underside of the basic carrying structure, the basic carrying structure forming hole walls of the recesses, and the at least one soft component being injection-molded at the hole walls and forming at least a part of the two broad sides.