US 11,937,995 B2
Cap, image capturing device, data generation system, and data generation method
Keisuke Sorimoto, Kyoto (JP); and Mikinori Nishimura, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to J. MORITA MFG. CORP., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by J. MORITA MFG. CORP., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Jan. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/149,641.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-004242 (JP), filed on Jan. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0212806 A1, Jul. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 1/24 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/05 (2021.01); A61B 5/107 (2006.01); A61C 9/00 (2006.01); A61C 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61C 9/0053 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00006 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/00137 (2013.01); A61B 1/00172 (2013.01); A61B 1/00193 (2013.01); A61B 1/24 (2013.01); A61B 5/1076 (2013.01); A61B 5/1079 (2013.01); A61C 9/006 (2013.01); A61C 9/0066 (2013.01); A61C 13/0003 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cap mountable on and detachable from an image capturing device constituting an intraoral scanner that obtains, as three-dimensional data, a shape of a tooth in an oral cavity, the cap comprising:
a housing having an opening that permits connection to at least a part of the image capturing device;
a light inlet disposed in the housing and located opposite to the opening; and
a reflector that reflects light from the light inlet toward the opening, wherein
the housing, when connecting to the part of the image capturing device, has a longitudinal length shorter than a longitudinal length of a housing of a specific cap that is mounted on the image capturing device and that can obtain three-dimensional data of a tooth including an occlusal portion, and
the longitudinal length of the housing of the cap is the length at which the image capturing device can obtain three-dimensional data of a tooth where the occlusal portion is missing and a portion extending from the occlusal portion toward an alveolar bone remains.