Custom cranial remodeling devices manufactured by additive manufacture
AssigneeCranial Technologies, Inc.
InventorsTimothy R Littlefield, Jerold N Luisi, George E Kechter
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Abstract
A custom cranial remodeling device to correct a deformed head of a subject comprises an inner layer shaped to contact the head of the subject at predetermined areas, the inner layer is deposited by an additive manufacturing device and an outer layer deposited by the additive manufacturing device. The inner layer and the outer layer are each formed by the additive manufacture device utilizing a device data file derived from a subject data file, the subject data file representative of the shape of the deformed head, the device data file determining the shape of the cranial remodeling device to correct the shape of the deformed head.
Claims16
A subject specific cranial remodeling device custom manufactured to modify a deformed head shape of a current subject, comprising:
- an interior surface shaped to modify said deformed head shape of said current subject as head grows, said interior surface comprising additive manufacture deposited material;
- an outer surface comprising additive manufacture deposited material;
- said interior surface and said outer surface specific to said deformed head shape of said current subject and each having a shape and contour lines provided by a device data file representative of a current subject specific shape of said subject specific cranial remodeling device;
- and said device data file comprising at least said outer surface having said contour lines calculated from one or more mathematically defined predetermined anthropometric locations and calculated curvatures on said deformed head shape of said current subject.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.