公开(公告)号：US20240108440A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-04

申请号：US18478975

申请日：2023-09-29

申请人： Align Technology, Inc.

发明人： Jeremy RILEY ,  Jun SATO ,  Mitra DERAKHSHAN ,  Chunhua LI ,  Ryan KIMURA ,  Siyi LIU ,  Damin XIA ,  Kangning SU ,  Somesh PERI ,  Yuxiang WANG

IPC分类号： A61C7/10 ,  A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08

CPC分类号： A61C7/10 ,  A61C7/002 ,  A61C7/08

摘要： Dental appliances and methods for expanding the lower dental arch. The appliances may be removable mandibular expander devices for efficient arch expansion while being comfortable to wear and easy to use. The appliances may include a lingual portion that is shaped and sized to apply an expansion force to lingual surfaces of one or more teeth. The shape and size of the lingual portion may be configured to distribute the forces among posterior and/or anterior teeth. A series of expander devices may be designed to provide the expansion forces in a stepwise fashion toward a target lower arch configuration according to a treatment plan

公开(公告)号：US20230363704A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-16

申请号：US18316228

申请日：2023-05-11

申请人： Align Technology, Inc.

发明人： Zijie ZHU ,  Wesly WONG ,  Byong-Ho PARK ,  Fred TING ,  Yaser SHANJANI ,  Zhichao ZHANG ,  Kangning SU ,  Hongling CHEN ,  Jun SATO ,  Srinivas KAZA ,  Maria LVOVA ,  Olga LIKHACHEVA

IPC分类号： A61B5/00 ,  A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08

CPC分类号： A61B5/4833 ,  A61C7/002 ,  A61C7/08

摘要： Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for electronic devices associated with monitoring a patient's use of an intraoral dental appliance. The monitoring electronics may communicate with near-field communication (NFC) signals. An NFC booster is disclosed to improve NFC data transfer between the electronic devices that monitor patient usage and communication devices. NFC boosters may be included within dental appliance cases and/or mobile phone cases. Also described are method and apparatuses for mounting the monitoring electronics onto the dental appliance. Also described are compact sensors, e.g., capacitive sensors, that may be included as part of a monitoring electronics unit.

公开(公告)号：US20240216106A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-04

申请号：US18404867

申请日：2024-01-04

申请人： Align Technology, Inc.

发明人： Jeeyoung CHOI ,  Palak MITTAL ,  Yuxiang WANG ,  Xiaogang WANG ,  Zhaonan SUN ,  Yi-Lin CHIU ,  Kangning SU ,  Bastien PESENTI ,  Christopher E. CRAMER ,  Ravi PATEL ,  Ken WU ,  Konstantin STOLYAROV ,  Vladimir CHISTYAKOV

IPC分类号： A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G16H10/60

CPC分类号： A61C7/002 ,  A61C7/08 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G16H10/60 ,  G06T2207/10116 ,  G06T2207/20081 ,  G06T2207/20084 ,  G06T2207/30036

摘要： Apparatuses and methods for assessing a dental x-ray image and predicting tooth eruption and/or exfoliation. The apparatuses may use one or more trained neural networks to assess a patient's x-rays as well as dental measurements determined from the patient's x-rays to predict approximately when a permanent tooth may erupt to replace a baby tooth. The neural networks may be trained using a data training set of x-ray images and accompanying dental measurement data.

公开(公告)号：US20210259812A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

申请号：US17249254

申请日：2021-02-25

申请人： ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.

发明人： Siobhan O'LEARY ,  Peter WEBBER ,  Jun SATO ,  Crystal TJHIA ,  Jessica H. SCHILTZ ,  Jeremy RILEY ,  Ken WU ,  Kangning SU ,  Yuxiang WANG ,  Zhaonan SUN ,  Andrei SOLDATOV

IPC分类号： A61C7/14 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/00 ,  B33Y80/00

摘要： A dental attachment placement device comprises a plurality of registration elements shaped for placement on a plurality of teeth and one or more flexible arms for biasing the registration element to a tooth. A first a first flexible arm may extend from a registration element on a lingual side. The first flexible arm may have a connected end and a distal end. The distal end may be configured to extend at least part way over the tooth and apply a lingual force to bias the registration element against the tooth.

公开(公告)号：US20230301752A1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-28

申请号：US18189102

申请日：2023-03-23

申请人： ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.

发明人： Yuxiang WANG ,  Yaser SHANJANI ,  Zhou (Jonelle) YU ,  Crystal TJHIA ,  Kangning SU ,  Manlio Fabio VALDIVIESO CASIQUE ,  Luyao CAI ,  Jun SATO ,  Viswanath MEENAKSHISUNDARAM ,  Siyi LIU ,  Pavel POKOTILOV ,  John DEWS-FLICK ,  Sudharshan ANANDAN

IPC分类号： A61C7/00 ,  A61C9/00

CPC分类号： A61C7/002 ,  A61C9/004

摘要： A method for use in additively manufacturing an orthodontic aligner may include receiving a digital model of an aligner, processing the digital model of the aligner to modify the digital model based on predicted deviations during fabrication to generate a first updated digital model of the aligner, determining that whether the predicted deviations of a physical aligner additively manufactured based on the first updated digital model of the aligner are acceptable, and outputting the first updated digital model of the aligner for fabrication of the physical aligner by additive manufacture of the physical aligner.

公开(公告)号：US20210259810A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

申请号：US17249253

申请日：2021-02-25

申请人： ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.

发明人： Siobhan O'LEARY ,  Peter WEBBER ,  Jun SATO ,  Crystal TJHIA ,  Jessica H. SCHILTZ ,  Jeremy RILEY ,  Ken WU ,  Kangning SU ,  Yuxiang WANG ,  Zhaonan SUN ,  Andrei SOLDATOV

IPC分类号： A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/00 ,  B33Y80/00

摘要： A dental attachment placement device comprises a plurality of articulated registration elements shaped for placement on a plurality of teeth, which can facilitate placement, accommodate tooth movement, and improve alignment of the registration elements with the teeth, so as to accurately position an attachment for placement. An orthodontic device may include a plurally of registration element. A plurality of first flexible arms may extend from each registration element on a lingual side. The first flexible arm may have a connected end and a distal end. The distal end may be configured to extend at least part way over the tooth and apply a lingual force to bias the registration element against the tooth. A plurality of attachment supports may each be located on a buccal side of the plurally of registration elements and include an attachment frame that is releasably coupled to an attachment.

公开(公告)号：US20210259809A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

申请号：US17249218

申请日：2021-02-24

申请人： ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.

发明人： Siobhan O'LEARY ,  Peter WEBBER ,  Jun SATO ,  Crystal TJHIA ,  Jessica H. SCHILTZ ,  Jeremy RILEY ,  Ken WU ,  Kangning SU ,  Yuxiang WANG ,  Zhaonan SUN ,  Andrei SOLDATOV

IPC分类号： A61C7/08

摘要： A dental attachment placement device comprises a plurality of articulated registration elements shaped for placement on a plurality of teeth, which can facilitate placement, accommodate tooth movement, and improve alignment of the registration elements with the teeth, so as to accurately position an attachment for placement. The plurality of registration elements may comprise one or more attachment supports and one or more retention supports extending from the plurality of registration elements. A dental attachment can be removably coupled to the attachment support. The plurality of registration elements and attachment supports may be located on opposing sides of one or more teeth in order to maintain placement prior to adhering the attachment to the tooth. In some embodiments, each of the plurality of registration elements comprises a tooth registration surface shaped to engage the tooth with a specific position and orientation for accurate positioning of the attachment.