Multi-level machine for duplicating a sectioned and scanned bone end and for producing a fitting implant replacement
AssigneeLinares Medical Devices, LLC
InventorMiguel A. Linares
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Abstract
A machine for producing a three dimensional joint replacement article and which exhibits a three dimensional shaped body incorporating a scanner component for at least receiving a digitized input corresponding to a set of dimensions associated with a replacement article to be produced. Incorporated in die machine is a numerical control guided machining subassembly in communication with at least one material blank corresponding to an article to be produced. Material shavings are vacuum removed and collected for disposal and, following CNC machining, the finished part is deposited into a cavity accessed by a retrieval door for removal.
Claims20
A machine for producing a three dimensional joint replacement article, comprising:
- a three dimensional shaped body incorporating a scanner component for at least receiving a digitized input corresponding to a set of dimensions associated with a three dimensional joint replacement article to be produced;
- a carousel mounted within said body and supporting thereon a plurality of material blanks, each blank corresponding to a three dimensional joint replacement article to be produced;
- said body further comprising a numerical control guided machining subassembly situated within said body in machining communication with at least one of said material blanks mounted on said carousel, said machining subassembly being located beneath said carousel;
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- a retrieval location associated with said body and into which a machined one of the blanks in the form of a finished part is deposited following conclusion of machining.
A machine for producing a three dimensional joint replacement article, comprising:
- a body establishing an interior enclosure separated into multiple layers and including an uppermost layer incorporating a scanner component for receiving a digitized input corresponding to a set of dimensions associated with a three dimensional joint replacement article to be produced, said scanner component further comprising a scan window defining access to an interior compartment for receiving an existing article to be measured for replication;
- a carousel mounted within said body and supporting thereupon a plurality of material blanks corresponding to at least one of implant and cartilage replacement articles, said carousel being selectively actuated to position a selected blank mounted thereon in machining communication with a numerical controlled machining subassembly located underneath said carousel;
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- a retrieval location associated with said body and into which a finished part fashioned from the selected blank is deposited following conclusion of machining of the selected blank.
A machine for producing a three dimensional joint replacement article, comprising:
- a three dimensional shaped body for receiving a digitized input corresponding to a set of dimensions associated with a three dimensional joint replacement article to be produced;
- a remote hand-held tool interfacing with said body and comprising a 3D digitizing camera and scanner and at least one of a wired or wireless connection to the body for effectuating digitizing of at least one of a two dimensional and a three dimensional image associated with an article to be replicated;
- a carousel mounted within said body and supporting thereon a plurality of material blanks, each blank corresponding to a three dimensional joint replacement article to be produced;
- said body further comprising a numerical control guided machining subassembly situated within said body in machining communication with at least one of said material blanks mounted on said carousel, said machining subassembly being located beneath said carousel;
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- a retrieval location associated with said body and into which a machined one of the blanks in the form of a finished part is deposited following conclusion of machining.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.