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公开(公告)号:US20250127389A1
公开(公告)日:2025-04-24
申请号:US18913038
申请日:2024-10-11
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Yossef Y. Atiya , Ido Tishel , Avi Kopelman , Ofer Saphier , Nadav Fain , Eddy Pincu , Tal Verker , Nir Makmel , Asaf Pellman
Abstract: An intraoral scanner includes a probe housing disposed at a distal end of an elongate wand. The probe housing forms an interior volume. The intraoral scanner further includes a distributed projector disposed in the interior volume. The distributed projector includes a diode module including a laser diode configured to emit a beam of light. The distributed projector further includes a lens module including a first pattern generating optical element configured to generate structured light based on at least a first portion of the beam of light. The lens module is disposed at least a threshold distance from the diode module.
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公开(公告)号:US12268474B2
公开(公告)日:2025-04-08
申请号:US18610122
申请日:2024-03-19
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Yossef Atiya , Tal Verker , Nir Makmel
IPC: A61B5/00 , A61C9/00 , F21V8/00 , G01B11/24 , G01B11/245 , G02B5/04 , G02B6/00 , G02B6/26 , G02B13/16 , G02B23/24
Abstract: An intraoral scanner comprises a housing, a light source for generating light, an optics system for focusing the light, a detector for detecting returning light reflected off an intraoral object, and a focus shifting mechanism configured to shift a focal plane of the optics system. The optics system is configured such that, after having passed through the optics system, an outermost chief ray of the light with respect to an optical axis of the optics system is divergent to the optical axis and an outermost marginal ray of the light with respect to the optical axis is parallel or divergent to the optical axis.
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公开(公告)号:US12251186B2
公开(公告)日:2025-03-18
申请号:US18449660
申请日:2023-08-14
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Ariel Shalev , Eran Green , Zakhar Ginzburg , Matthew Durban , Roee Gorfinkel , Ofer Saphier , Tal Verker , Nir Makmel , Eran Ishay , Raphael Levy
Abstract: Removable barrier devices for covering an intraoral scanner. The barrier device includes a cover that is adapted to fit over a probe of the scanner. The cover includes a distal portion having walls defining an internal cavity for accommodating a distal end of the probe and formed of a first material, wherein at least one of the walls includes at least one window for allowing transmission of an optical signal between the probe and an external environment. The cover also includes a proximal portion coupled to the distal portion. The barrier device also includes a flexible sleeve adapted to cover a handle of the scanner, the flexible sleeve coupled to the proximal portion of the cover at an interface region configured to prevent fluid from passing through the barrier device between the cover and the sleeve.
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公开(公告)号:US20240156577A1
公开(公告)日:2024-05-16
申请号:US18418211
申请日:2024-01-19
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Ofer Saphier , Yossef Atiya , Arkady Rudnitsky , Nir Makmel , Sergei Ozerov , Tal Verker , Tal Levy
IPC: A61C9/00 , A61B1/00 , A61B1/24 , G02B27/42 , G06T7/521 , G06T7/586 , G06T7/80 , G06T17/00 , H04N9/31
CPC classification number: A61C9/006 , A61B1/00096 , A61B1/00172 , A61B1/00193 , A61B1/24 , G02B27/4222 , G02B27/4227 , G06T7/521 , G06T7/586 , G06T7/80 , G06T7/85 , G06T17/00 , H04N9/3161 , G06T2207/10024 , G06T2207/10028 , G06T2207/10052 , G06T2207/30036
Abstract: A dental scanning system comprises an intraoral scanner and one or more processors. The intraoral scanner comprises one or more light projectors configured to project a pattern (comprising a plurality of pattern features) on a dental object, and two or more cameras configured to acquire sets of images, each comprising at least one image from each camera. The processor(s) are configured to determine a correspondence between pattern features in the pattern of light and image features in each set of images by determining intersections of projector rays corresponding to one or more of the plurality of pattern features and camera rays corresponding to the one or more image features in three-dimensional (3D) space based on calibration data that associates the camera rays corresponding to pixels on the camera sensor of each of the two or more cameras to the projector rays.
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公开(公告)号:US11478132B2
公开(公告)日:2022-10-25
申请号:US16841632
申请日:2020-04-06
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Avi Kopelman , Michael Sabina , Nir Makmel , Adi Levin , Arad Zulti , Arthur Hsieh
Abstract: Apparatuses, including sleeves, intraoral scanning systems to use these sleeves, and methods of using the sleeve, that authenticate the sleeve for use with an intraoral scanning system. Authentication may include verifying that the sleeve is new (unused) and/or verifying that the sleeve is appropriate and/or intended for use with the intraoral scanning system. Once authenticated, operation parameters of the intraoral scanning system can be automatically set based on information from a scanned identifier on the sleeve.
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公开(公告)号:US20220125317A1
公开(公告)日:2022-04-28
申请号:US17570285
申请日:2022-01-06
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Yossef Atiya , Tal Verker , Nir Makmel
IPC: A61B5/00 , G02B13/16 , G02B6/26 , F21V8/00 , G01B11/24 , G01B11/245 , A61C9/00 , G02B5/04 , G02B23/24
Abstract: An apparatus for dental imaging comprises a light source for generating light, an optics system for focusing the light, and a probe head. The light source, the optics system and the probe head are arranged such that the light passes through the optics system, passes through the probe head, and exits the probe head. The optics system is configured such that chief rays of the light before entering the probe head are divergent to each other, wherein an angle defined by a marginal ray of an outermost beam of the light is complementary to an angle defined by an extreme off-axis chief ray of the light with respect to the optical axis.
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公开(公告)号:US10588515B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-17
申请号:US14741172
申请日:2015-06-16
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Yossef Atiya , Tal Verker , Nir Makmel
Abstract: An apparatus for dental confocal imaging comprises an illumination module for generating an array of light beams, an optics system for confocal focusing of the array of light beams and a probe head with a light-guiding part having an entrance face and an exit face. The illumination module, the optics system and the probe head are arranged such that the array of light beams from the illumination module passes through the optics system, enters the light-guiding part via the entrance face and exits the light-guiding part via the exit face. The optics system is configured such that, after having passed through the optics system, the outermost marginal rays of the outermost light beams with respect to the optical axis of the optics system are parallel or divergent to the optical axis.
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公开(公告)号:USD806248S1
公开(公告)日:2017-12-26
申请号:US29583886
申请日:2016-11-09
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Designer: Nir Makmel , Rami Boltanski
Abstract: The design consists of the features of shape and configuration of the article shown in the drawings. The portions shown in stippled lines do not form part of the design.Figure 1 is a bottom perspective view of the article;Figure 2 is a top perspective view thereof;Figure 3 is a front perspective view thereof;Figure 4 is a rear perspective view thereof;Figure 5 is a first side view thereof;Figure 6 is a second side view thereof;Figure 7 is a top view thereof; andFigure 8 is a bottom view thereof.
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公开(公告)号:US12262869B2
公开(公告)日:2025-04-01
申请号:US18351479
申请日:2023-07-12
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor: Avi Kopelman , Michael Sabina , Nir Makmel , Adi Levin , Arad Zulti , Arthur Hsieh
Abstract: Apparatuses, including sleeves, intraoral scanning systems to use these sleeves, and methods of using the sleeve, that authenticate the sleeve for use with an intraoral scanning system. Authentication may include verifying that the sleeve is new (unused) and/or verifying that the sleeve is appropriate and/or intended for use with the intraoral scanning system. Once authenticated, operation parameters of the intraoral scanning system can be automatically set based on information from a scanned identifier on the sleeve.
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公开(公告)号:USD1064272S1
公开(公告)日:2025-02-25
申请号:US29955760
申请日:2024-08-02
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Designer: Roee Gorfinkel , Ariel Shalev , Nir Makmel , Benny Gordon , Eddy Pincu , Osnat Zac , Eran Ishay
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