公开(公告)号：US20170112594A1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-27

申请号：US15399988

申请日：2017-01-06

申请人： Jack Keith HILLIARD

发明人： Jack Keith HILLIARD

IPC分类号： A61C7/08 ,  A61C9/00 ,  A61C7/00

CPC分类号： A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/002 ,  A61C9/0053 ,  B33Y80/00

摘要： The present invention is directed to a method of fabricating a successive set of patterns representing incremental stages of an orthodontic treatment plan, and then sending all or a portion of the successive patterns at the same time to the dentist. The dentist is provided with a vacuum machine for thermoforming a set of aligners as negative impressions of the positive teeth patterns. A polymeric sheet is inserted into a vacuum forming machine and sucked down over the positive pattern, forming a polymeric shell with cavities shaped to receive the teeth and resiliently bias or reposition at least some of the teeth into alignment with the aligner cavities. When the aligner is formed and while still on the stereolithographic plastic pattern, excess portions of the aligner polymeric material are trimmed using manual tools and/or a laser cutting machine.

公开(公告)号：US20080050692A1

公开(公告)日：2008-02-28

申请号：US11842411

申请日：2007-08-21

申请人： Jack Keith HILLIARD

发明人： Jack Keith HILLIARD

IPC分类号： A61C7/00

CPC分类号： A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/002 ,  A61C9/0053 ,  B33Y80/00

摘要： The present invention is directed to a method of fabricating a successive set of patterns representing incremental stages of an orthodontic treatment plan, and then sending all or a portion of the successive patterns at the same time to the dentist. The dentist is provided with a vacuum machine for thermoforming a set of aligners as negative impressions of the positive teeth patterns. A polymeric sheet is inserted into a vacuum forming machine and sucked down over the positive pattern, forming a polymeric shell with cavities shaped to receive the teeth and resiliently bias or reposition at least some of the teeth into alignment with the aligner cavities. When the aligner is formed and while still on the stereolithographic plastic pattern, excess portions of the aligner polymeric material are trimmed using manual tools and/or a laser cutting machine.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种制造表示正牙治疗计划的增量阶段的连续组合模式的方法，然后同时将全部或部分连续模式发送给牙医。 牙科医生设有一个真空机，用于将一组矫正器热成型为正齿图案的负压印。 将聚合物片材插入真空成型机中并且吸取正极图案，形成聚合物壳体，其具有成型为容纳齿的空腔并弹性地偏置或重新定位至少一些齿与对准器腔体对准。 当对准器形成并且仍然在立体光刻塑料图案上时，使用手动工具和/或激光切割机修剪对准聚合物材料的多余部分。