US 11,701,205 B2
System of manufacturing orthodontic wire, method for manufacturing the orthodontic wire using the same, and orthodontic wire bending machine for performing the same
Joon-Yub Song, Daejeon (KR); Yong-Jin Kim, Daejeon (KR); Jae-Hak Lee, Sejong-si (KR); Seung-Man Kim, Daejeon (KR); Youn Ho Jung, Seoul (KR); and Kwang Sun Choi, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF MACHINERY & MATERIALS, Daejeon (KR)
Filed by KOREA INSTITUTE OF MACHINERY & MATERIALS, Daejeon (KR)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/20,987.
Application 17/020,987 is a continuation of application No. 16/003,918, filed on Jun. 8, 2018, granted, now 10,952,820.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2017-0071503 (KR), filed on Jun. 8, 2017; application No. 10-2018-0051106 (KR), filed on May 3, 2018; and application No. 10-2018-0064274 (KR), filed on Jun. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0405452 A1, Dec. 31, 2020
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G05B 19/4097 (2006.01); A61C 7/20 (2006.01); A61C 7/00 (2006.01); A61C 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61C 7/20 (2013.01) [A61C 7/002 (2013.01); A61C 9/0053 (2013.01); G05B 19/4097 (2013.01); G05B 2219/35012 (2013.01); G05B 2219/37205 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system of manufacturing a wire for an orthodontic process and a wire for a dentition maintenance process, the system comprising:
a scanner configured to scan a teeth of a patient and obtain present teeth data of the patient, the present teeth data being indicative of one or more of a position or an orientation of one or more teeth included in the present teeth data before or after the orthodontic process begins;
a controller configured to
receive the present teeth data,
generate final teeth data, the final teeth data being indicative of one or more of a goal position or a goal orientation of the one or more teeth included in the present teeth data upon completion of the orthodontic process, and
compare a predetermined threshold value to a compared value, the compared value being a difference between the present teeth data of the patient and the final teeth data, and the predetermined threshold value being a maximum allowable difference between the present teeth data of the patient and the final teeth data, serving as a reference value for determining whether the orthodontic process is completed; and
a wire bending machine configured to selectively manufacture (1) the wire for a step of the orthodontic process based on a determination that the orthodontic process should continue or (2) the wire for the dentition maintenance process based on a determination that the orthodontic process is completed,
wherein
the controller is configured to determine that the orthodontic process should continue based on a determination that the compared value is greater than the predetermined threshold value,
the controller is configured to determine that the orthodontic process is completed based on a determination that the compared value is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold value,
the orthodontic process causes one or more of the position or the orientation of the one or more teeth included in the present teeth data to be changed, and
the detention maintenance process causes one or more of the position or the orientation of the one or more teeth included in the present teeth data to be maintained.