Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mold with weakened areas
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Application No.: US15913188Application Date: 2018-03-06
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Publication No.: US10702357B2Publication Date: 2020-07-07
- Inventor: Peter Webber , Rohit Tanugula , Shiva P. Sambu , Crystal Tjhia
- Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Lowenstein Sandler LLP
- Main IPC: A61C7/08
- IPC: A61C7/08 ; A61C9/00 ; B33Y30/00 ; B33Y10/00

Abstract:
A mold includes a first section, a second section, and a weakened region that joins the first section to the second section. The weakened region is breakable, deflectable, or deformable in response to a first threshold force to enable the first section to be removed from a shell independently of the second section after the shell is formed over the mold. The first threshold force is less than a second threshold force that would damage or permanently deform the shell. The first section is a first mold of at least a portion of one or more first teeth of a dental arch and the second section is a second mold of at least a portion of one or more second teeth of the dental arch.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180200031A1 MOLD WITH WEAKENED AREAS Public/Granted day:2018-07-19
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