US 12,257,031 B2
Dental lighting system
Matthias Proske, Hohenschaeftlarn (DE); Joerg Ostenrieder, Ebenhausen (DE); Thomas Wolf, Munich (DE); and Patrick Scholl, Munich (DE)
Assigned to die:haptiker GmbH, Taufkirchen (DE)
Filed by die:haptiker GmbH, Taufkirchen (DE)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/957,852.
Claims priority of application No. 22176228 (EP), filed on May 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0380694 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/24 (2006.01); A61C 1/08 (2006.01); A61G 15/10 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/0088 (2013.01) [A61G 15/10 (2013.01); A61B 1/06 (2013.01); A61B 1/24 (2013.01); A61C 1/088 (2013.01); A61G 2203/20 (2013.01); Y10S 362/804 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A dental lighting system for selectively illuminating a treatment site on a patient sitting on a treatment chair, comprising:
at least one monitoring device configured to determine characteristics of a treatment site on a patient; and
at least one lighting unit configured to generate an illuminated area onto the treatment site by emitting a first light beam in an upright state in which the treatment chair is in an upright position and by emitting a second light beam in a lying state in which the treatment chair is in a lying position, wherein
the at least one lighting unit is configured to set a shape of the illuminated area based on the characteristics of the treatment site.