US 11,896,450 B2
Articulator and articulator auxiliary device
Robert Grünenfelder, Vaduz (LI); Wolfgang Dawedeit, Bad Wildungen (DE); Alexander Schröck, Ispringen (DE); and Fabian Lüppens, Wörth (DE)
Assigned to Ivoclar Vivadent AG, Schaan (LI)
Filed by Ivoclar Vivadent AG, Schaan (LI)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/021,008.
Application 17/021,008 is a division of application No. 15/922,002, filed on Mar. 15, 2018, granted, now 11,432,913.
Prior Publication US 2020/0405458 A1, Dec. 31, 2020
Int. Cl. A61C 11/02 (2006.01); A61C 11/06 (2006.01); A61C 11/00 (2006.01); A61C 11/08 (2006.01)
CPC A61C 11/025 (2013.01) [A61C 11/003 (2013.01); A61C 11/06 (2013.01); A61C 11/081 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A process for calibrating a scanner to an articulator (10), comprising
providing a maxillary adaptor (50) clamped in a maxillary alignment member (70),
magnetically attaching the clamped maxillary adaptor (50) and maxillary alignment member (70) to a maxillary member (12) of the articulator (10),
bringing the articulator (10) into a zero position of an incisal pin (22), prior to or following closing centric brackets (20),
turning the articulator (10) and inserting a mandibular adaptor (52) into a mandibular alignment member (72), aligning the maxillary and mandibular alignment members (70,72) to each other, by form fitting,
magnetically attaching the mandibular adaptor (52) at the mandibular alignment member (72),
casting an articulation between the mandibular alignment member (72) and the mandibular adaptor (52) with a casting compound as a fixing material and curing the casting compound,
attaching scanning members (75,77,80) at the maxillary alignment member (70) or mandibular alignment member (72) or at both the maxillary and mandibular alignment members (70,72),
scanning an arrangement of alignment members (70,72) and adaptors (50,52) in the scanner and
acquiring from the scanner a relative position of the arrangement in relation to the articulator (10).