US 12,190,749 B2
Apparatuses for simulating dental procedures and methods
Dyon Bode, Copenhagen (DK); Dennis Brinkman, Copenhagen (DK); Niels Van Den Braber, Copenhagen (DK); and Karel Van Gelder, Copenhagen (DK)
Assigned to SIMtoLIFE B.V., Amsterdam (NL)
Appl. No. 17/633,703
Filed by SIMtoLIFE B.V., Amsterdam (NL)
PCT Filed Aug. 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/071871
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/028260, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. PA201970503 (DK), filed on Aug. 9, 2019; application No. PA201970504 (DK), filed on Aug. 9, 2019; application No. PA201970505 (DK), filed on Aug. 9, 2019; application No. PA201970506 (DK), filed on Aug. 9, 2019; application No. PA201970507 (DK), filed on Aug. 9, 2019; and application No. PA201970508 (DK), filed on Aug. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0319355 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. G09B 23/28 (2006.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0346 (2013.01)
CPC G09B 23/283 (2013.01) [A61B 34/10 (2016.02); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 3/0346 (2013.01); A61B 2034/102 (2016.02); A61B 2034/105 (2016.02)] 20 Claims
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1. A dental procedure simulator comprising:
a support structure,
a display screen,
a computer configured to simulate a dental procedure or treatment,
a linkage suspended from said support structure, said linkage being controlled by said computer to simulate a medical procedure or treatment by providing haptic force feedback,
a handpiece operably coupled to said linkage and configured to be held in a hand of a user and to be manipulated by the user in a predefined workspace (W) of the dental procedure simulator in real space,
a phantom upper jaw and a phantom lower jaw movably supported by said support structure and arranged in said workspace (W),
wherein said phantom upper jaw is movable relative to said support structure,
said dental procedure simulator comprises rotary position sensors configured to sense the position and orientation of said phantom upper jaw and said phantom lower jaw relative to said support structure,
said computer being configured to display on said display screen a virtual environment comprising at least one virtual tooth co-located with said phantom upper jaw or with said phantom lower jaw.