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US 2023/0389778 A1Published application
Sheath for a tip of a scanning device and system thereof
Assignee3Shape A/S
InventorsAlexander Bruun CHRISTIANSEN, Pétur Gordon HERMANNSSON, Søren Greve JENSEN, Mike VAN DER POEL
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Abstract
The present invention provides in a first aspect a sheath for an intraoral scanning tip, where polarization is not substantially altered during scanning.
Claims21
(canceled)
A disposable sheath for a tip of an intraoral scanning device, wherein the sheath is adapted for single-use, the sheath comprising:
- a rigid hollow body obtained by injection-molding, wherein the body is made of one or more polymers adapted to be of single-use, the hollow body comprising a distal sheath-end and a proximal sheath-end, wherein the proximal sheath-end forms a sheath-opening that is dimensioned with respect to the tip, such that the sheath is configured to replaceably fit around the tip of the scanning device;
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- an optical window located in the body near the distal sheath-end such that when the sheath is replaceably mounted to the tip via the sheath-opening, the optical window covers at least a part of an optical aperture of the tip, wherein the optical window is injection-molded.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.