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US 6,190,166 B1Granted
Orthodontic device
OwnerHitoshi Sasakurainventor
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Abstract
An orthodontic device includes a wire member and a fixing member. The wire member consists of on arch wire fixed through concatenation with a tooth and an engaging part fixed at positions corresponding to the points of fixation of the arch wire. The fixing member 2 fixed on the tooth is provided with a mounting groove for mounting the engaging part.
Claims4
An orthodontic device comprising:
- a wire member comprising an arch wire, said arch wire having points of fixation there along, and an engaging part fixed at one of said points of fixation of said arch wire, said engaging part comprising a leg projecting from said wire member and comprising a pair of opposite leg parts that are elastic so as to tend to resist said leg parts being, brought toward each other, and said leg parts having outwardly projected engaging parts;
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- a fixing member adapted to be fixed to a tooth, said fixing member having a mounting groove with inclined inner side faces that allow insertion of said engaging projected parts and a wire groove for enabling said arch wire to be set therein after said leg has been forcibly inserted into said mounting groove and said engaging projected parts have been brought into engagement with an end of said mounting groove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.