ORTHODONTIC ALIGNER MANUFACTURING AND QUALITY ASSESSMENT SYSTEM

WIPO Patent Application WO/2023/096876

A3

Implementations describe systems and methods for manufacturing and performing quality assessment of dental appliances. In one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a dental appliance comprises receiving, at a holder, a feature of the dental appliance, the feature comprising a first surface having a first shape, wherein the holder holds the feature of the dental appliance at a reference position. The method further includes automatically placing an object against the feature at the reference position using a robot arm, wherein the object comprises a second surface having a second shape that mates with the first shape. The method further includes applying pressure to press the object against the feature of the dental appliance and bonding the object to the feature of the dental appliance while applying the pressure.

NISHIMUTA JAMES (US)
SOLTERO BORREGO ENRIQUE (MX)
GUZMAN OLIVAS ENRIQUE JONATHAN (MX)
SATO JUN (US)
RODRIGUEZ TRUJILLO KEVIN DANIEL (MX)
BLANCO ROMO JOSE KIYOTAKA (MX)
ENRIQUEZ DE ANDA ERICK (MX)
PICKENS LANCE ROBERT (US)
WONG WESLY (US)
PEREZ VALLEJO GABRIELA (MX)
GARCIA CARMONA CARLOS ALBERTO (MX)
BARRAZA ALVAREZ OMAR (MX)
HURTADO SOLTERO MIGUEL ANGEL (MX)
TURNER DAVID (US)

PCT/US2022/050637

July 06, 2023

November 21, 2022

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ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC (US)

A61C7/00; A61B5/103; A61C5/00; A61C7/08; A61C7/36; A61F5/56; B29C33/38; B29C51/30; B33Y80/00; B65G47/90

WO2018005010A1

2018-01-04

CN214712864U	2021-11-16
US20210178639A1	2021-06-17

KIMES, Benjamin A. et al. (US)

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