公开(公告)号：US20210386524A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-16

申请号：US17446268

申请日：2021-08-27

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Peter WEBBER ,  Siobhan O'LEARY

IPC: A61C7/14 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/00 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B33Y80/00 ,  B33Y50/00 ,  B29C64/386 ,  B33Y50/02

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, computing device readable medium, devices, and systems having a dental attachment placement structure. One dental attachment placement apparatus includes a body having an attachment placement surface that is to be placed on an attachment affixing surface of a tooth and wherein the attachment placement surface includes a portion that is shaped to allow placement of an attachment at a particular position on the affixing surface of the tooth and a portion of the body having a contour that is shaped to correspond with a contour of an alignment surface of a tooth and when the contour of the body and the corresponding contour is aligned, the attachment is located at the particular position and can be secured to the affixing surface of the tooth.

公开(公告)号：US20190000593A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-03

申请号：US16022552

申请日：2018-06-28

Applicant: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： Bruce CAM ,  Peter WEBBER ,  Yuxiang WANG ,  Jun SATO ,  Jeeyoung CHOI

IPC: A61C7/10 ,  A61C7/28 ,  A61C7/08

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating a treatment plan for arch expansion where a polymeric shell appliance is utilized to generate one or more activation forces that facilitate tooth movement. The polymeric shell appliances may comprise one or more tooth receiving cavities, in which each of the plurality of tooth receiving cavities is shaped and arranged to provide a counter moment of each of the plurality of teeth.

公开(公告)号：US20240207020A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-27

申请号：US18600548

申请日：2024-03-08

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Peter WEBBER ,  Siobhan O'LEARY

IPC: A61C7/14 ,  A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/16 ,  B29C64/386 ,  B29C64/40 ,  B29L31/00 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  B33Y80/00

CPC classification number: A61C7/146 ,  A61C7/002 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/145 ,  A61C7/16 ,  B29C64/386 ,  B29C64/40 ,  B29L2031/7536 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  B33Y80/00

Abstract: Dental attachment placement apparatuses and methods for positioning and/or replacing dental attachments when bonding the dental attachments on a patient's teeth. The apparatuses may include a body configured for placement on the patient's dental arch. The body may include receptacles for receiving tooth registration anchors. Each tooth registration anchor may include a first end that is detachably connected to a corresponding dental attachment, and a second end that is shaped and sized to fit into a corresponding receptacle of the body to secure the tooth registration anchor to the body. The second end may be removable from the corresponding receptacle to detach the tooth registration anchor from the body.

公开(公告)号：US20240173102A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-30

申请号：US18435971

申请日：2024-02-07

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Peter WEBBER ,  Yan CHEN ,  Jihua CHENG ,  Bastien PESENTI ,  Chunhua LI ,  Jennifer C. CHEN

IPC: A61C7/08 ,  A61B1/00 ,  A61B1/24 ,  A61C7/14 ,  A61C7/16 ,  A61C13/15 ,  A61N5/06

CPC classification number: A61C7/08 ,  A61B1/0002 ,  A61B1/00045 ,  A61B1/24 ,  A61C7/146 ,  A61C7/16 ,  A61C19/003 ,  A61C2202/01 ,  A61N2005/063 ,  A61N2005/0661

Abstract: Dental attachment positioning apparatuses and methods of use. A dental attachment apparatus may include an orthodontic attachment having a surface shaped to conform to a contour of a buccal surface of a tooth, and one or more registration surfaces that are shaped to conform to one or more occlusal surfaces of the patient's teeth. The one or more registration surfaces may be configured to aid in proper positioning or orientation of the orthodontic attachment. When the attachment positioning apparatus is placed on the patient's dentition, the orthodontic attachment is positioned at a specified location with respect to the buccal surface of the tooth.

公开(公告)号：US20220338959A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-27

申请号：US17861143

申请日：2022-07-08

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Peter WEBBER

IPC: A61C7/12 ,  A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08

Abstract: A series of appliances including a first shell and a second shell can be designed to incrementally implement a treatment plan. The first and second shells can have cavities designed to receive teeth of a jaw. The first shell can be designed to interface with a first surface of a plurality of surfaces of an attachment structure to provide a first engagement force specific to a first stage of the treatment plan. The second shell can be designed to interface with a second surface of the plurality of surfaces of the attachment structure attached to the at least one tooth of the first jaw to provide a second engagement force specific to a second stage of the treatment plan.

公开(公告)号：US20220183795A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-16

申请号：US17549460

申请日：2021-12-13

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Peter WEBBER ,  Siobhan O'LEARY

IPC: A61C7/14 ,  A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08 ,  B29C64/386 ,  B29C64/40 ,  A61C7/16

Abstract: Dental attachment placement apparatuses with one or more replacement attachment systems for providing one or more replacement dental attachments. The replacement attachment systems may include a body that is configured to orient and align the apparatus with respect to the teeth. The apparatus may include one or more primary dental attachments coupled to the body, where the body is configured to position the primary dental attachments adjacent to the teeth for bonding. The replacement system can be configured to replace the primary dental attachments and align replacement dental attachments with respect to the teeth.

公开(公告)号：US20220110719A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-14

申请号：US17498739

申请日：2021-10-11

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Jennifer CHAVEZ ,  Peter WEBBER ,  Peter DORFINGER

IPC: A61C7/10

Abstract: Dental apparatuses, such as palatal expanders and aligners, and methods of forming them. The dental apparatuses may formed by printing different regions of the device with different properties, including hybrid regions formed between adjacent regions having different physical characteristics for performing different functions when worn by a patient as part of a dental treatment. The different regions may be joined together by a transition region configured to hold adjacent regions together during use and provide advantageous properties.

公开(公告)号：US20220110718A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-14

申请号：US17498736

申请日：2021-10-11

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Jennifer CHAVEZ ,  Peter WEBBER ,  Peter DORFINGER

IPC: A61C7/10 ,  A61C7/16 ,  G16H20/40 ,  B33Y80/00 ,  B33Y40/20 ,  B29C65/48

Abstract: Dental apparatuses, such as palatal expanders, attachment templates, mandibular repositioning aligners, and a variable property aligners, and methods of forming them. The dental apparatuses may have multiple regions having different physical characteristics for performing different functions when worn by a patient as part of a dental treatment. The different regions may be made of different materials, or different combinations of materials, based on rigidity, flexibility and/or other physical characteristics. The different regions may be joined together by a junction region configured to sufficiently hold adjacent regions together during use.

公开(公告)号：US20220110717A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-14

申请号：US17497892

申请日：2021-10-09

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Jennifer CHAVEZ ,  Peter WEBBER ,  Peter DORFINGER

IPC: A61C7/10 ,  A61C7/08 ,  B33Y80/00 ,  A61C7/00

Abstract: Dental apparatuses, such as palatal expanders, and methods of forming them. The dental apparatuses may have multiple regions having different physical characteristics for performing different functions when worn by a patient as part of a dental treatment. The different regions may be made of different materials, or different combinations of materials, based on rigidity, flexibility and/or other physical characteristics. For palatal expanders, the different regions can include a tooth engagement region adapted to engage with the patient's teeth and a palatal region adapted to exert an expansion force across the patient's palate. The different regions may be joined together by a junction or a transition region configured to sufficiently hold adjacent regions together during use.

公开(公告)号：US20210161622A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-03

申请号：US17177071

申请日：2021-02-16

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Peter WEBBER ,  Jennifer C. CHEN ,  Yan CHEN ,  Bastien PESENTI ,  Crystal TJHIA

IPC: A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/36 ,  A61C7/08 ,  G16H50/50 ,  A61C13/00

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, computing device readable medium, devices, and systems having a dental appliance binding structure. One method can include to create a treatment plan based on a virtual model of a jaw of a patient, wherein the treatment plan includes use of a dental appliance having a first surface that defines a plurality of cavities shaped to receive a plurality of teeth, modify the virtual model of the jaw in a first configuration to include a virtual binding structure on a second surface, the platform shaped to receive a specialized feature that provides one or more force characteristics, select a particular specialized feature as an attachment to the dental appliance, and adjust the virtual model of the jaw from a first configuration to a second configuration, based at least in part on a modeled force provided by the virtual binding structure and the particular specialized feature.