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US 2016/0256245 A1Published application
Tip for an optical scanner
Assignee3Shape A/S
InventorsMike VAN DER POEL, Casper RASMUSSEN, Finn HANSEN, Soren Greve JENSEN
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Abstract
Disclosed is a tip for an optical scanner, where said tip comprises a framework and an optical element. For some configurations the optical element is releasable attaching to the framework by a holding means of the tip. For some configurations the tip framework is formed in two materials of different thermal conductivities.
Claims15
A tip for a 3D scanner, wherein the tip comprises:
- a tip framework, where a first part of the framework comprises a first material and a second part of the framework comprises a second material where both the first and second part form a portion of the outer surface of the framework, and where the ratio between the thermal conductivity of the second material and the thermal conductivity of the first material is 5 or more;
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- an optical element arranged at said second part of the framework in thermal contact with the second material.
A tip for a 3D scanner for recording topographic characteristics of a surface of a body orifice, wherein the tip comprises:
- a framework having a proximal end for entering the body orifice and a distal end, where the outer surface of the framework in the distal end at least partly is made of a first material and the proximal end comprises a second part made in a second material, where the second part forms a portion of the outer surface of the framework, and where the ratio between the thermal conductivity of the second material and the thermal conductivity of the first material is 5 or more;
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- an optical element arranged at said second part in thermal contact with the second material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.