Method for covering a mouth insert portion of an intraoral camera with a film-made sheath and the combination thereof
AssigneeNix, Inc.
InventorHiroyuki Tanaka
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Abstract
A film-made sheath is formed of a transparent film and a shrinkable film. These transparent and shrinkable films are in a contiguous relation and are adhered or fusion-bonded at edges thereof into sheath-shaped configurations. The transparent and shrinkable films may be dimensioned such that the sheath can accommodate therein a mouth insert portion of an intraoral camera. The mouth insert portion of the intraoral camera can be covered with the film-made sheath by inserting the mouth insert portion into the sheath such that a light-receiving portion of the intraoral camera is located on a side of the transparent film, and then heating the shrinkable film.
Claims11
In combination an intraoral camera and a film-made sheath, the film-made sheath covering a mouth insert portion of the intraoral camera, said film-made sheath comprising:
- a shrink-resistant transparent film to be located on a side of a light-receiving portion of the mouth insert portion, and
- a shrinkable film to be located on a side opposite to the light-receiving portion,
- said transparent and shrinkable films being in a contiguous relationship and adhered or fusion-bonded at edges thereof into a sheath-shaped configuration having a non-sealing opening at one end of the sheath.
A method for covering a mouth insert portion of an intraoral camera with a film-made sheath, the film-made sheath comprising a shrink-resistant transparent film and a shrinkable film, said transparent and shrinkable films being in a contiguous relationship and adhered or fusion-bonded at edges thereof into a sheath-shaped configuration having a non-sealing opening at one end of the sheath, the method comprising:
- inserting said mouth insert portion of said intraoral camera into said sheath such that a light-receiving portion of said intraoral camera is located on a side of said transparent film;
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- heating said shrinkable film to cover said mouth insert portion of said intraoral camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.