Patents Assigned to 3M ESPE AG
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Patent number: 7186758Abstract: The invention relates to a two-component addition-cured silicon impression compound, comprising the following when both components are mixed: (a) between 1 and 35 wt. % of at least one organopolysiloxane comprising at least two unsaturated groups in the molecule; (b) between 1 and 10 wt. % of at least one organohydrogenpolysiloxane comprising at least two SiH groups in the molecule; (c) between 0.00005 and 0.05 wt. % of at least one platinum catalyst, calculated as elementary platinum; (d) between 4 and 10 wt. % of at least one liquid paraffin or at least one white mineral oil, or of a mixture of at least one liquid paraffin and at least one white mineral oil; (e) between 50 and 90 wt. % of at least one filler, each respective percentage relating to the total weight of the silicon impression compound. According to the invention, one of the components before being mixed with the other component has a Brookfield viscosity ranging between 800 and 2000 Pa*s.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2002Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: 3m ESPE AGInventors: Joachim Zech, Johann Fetz, Erich Wanek, Ingo Wagner
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Patent number: 7175430Abstract: The invention relates to deformable, curable or film-forming support materials which contain diagnostically useful additives for locus- and substance-specific intraoral diagnostics, and processes for the preparation of images for intraoral locus- and substance-specific diagnostic purposes, in which diagnostically useful additives are applied to deformable, curable or film-forming support materials containing no diagnostically useful additives, in such a quantity that a diagnostic signal can be observed, the diagnostic result being obtained without a cultivation step.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2000Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Oswald Gasser, Rainer Guggenberger, Bernd Gangnus, Ingo Häberlein
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Patent number: 7172066Abstract: The invention relates to a device for storing and mixing especially pasty materials, preferably dental materials, such as filler materials. The invention comprises at least one compartment (7) that receives the substance, said at least one compartment (7) being formed by sealing (3) a base film (1) and a cover film (2), which can be detached from each other by peeling.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2001Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Marc Peuker, Ralf Kuerschner, Birgit Koenig, Mathias Bertl, Markus Roepke
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Publication number: 20060293469Abstract: The present invention relates to a multicomponent automixable putty impression material, its components, mixtures of the components and a method for obtaining impressions with the multicomponent automixable putty impression material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2004Publication date: December 28, 2006Applicant: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Joachim Zech, Peter Bissinger, Henning Hoffmann, Wolf Steiger
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Patent number: 7147471Abstract: A method for treating hard tissue infection in a site-specific manner, comprising preparing a negative mold of the hard tissue using an impression material which contains a diagnostic additive which generates an identifiable signal on contact with infected tissue; applying a treatment agent to the negative mold at one or more of infected sites; and re-applying the negative mold on the originally molded hard tissue for a suitable period of time. Also disclosed are methods for making the negative mold, a mouthpiece corresponding to the negative mold, and a treatment device, as well as the treatment device and mouse piece so produced.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2001Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Oliver Frey, Roland Brem
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Patent number: 7141616Abstract: The invention relates to urethane prepolymers, obtainable by reaction of: (A) 15 to 85 wt.-% of one or more ?,?-terminated poly(meth)acrylate diols, (B) 0 to 30 wt.-% of one or more radically curable, polyhydroxy-functional compounds, (C) 14 to 60 wt.-% of one or more polyisocyanates, (D) 1 to 40 wt.-% of a monofunctional compound, reactive vis-à-vis isocyanate groups, which also contains one or more radically curable grouping, as well as their use.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2000Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Reinhold Hecht, Günther Lechner, Thomas Lehmann, Gunther Eckhardt, Bernd Gangnus
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Patent number: 7132462Abstract: The invention relates to polymerizable materials comprising two components, where component I comprises: (a) from 0.1 to 20% by weight of at least one vinyl ether, (b) from 10 to 89.9% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer which is not a vinyl ether, (c) from 0.001 to 5% by weight of at least one accelerator, (d) from 9.999 to 89.899% by weight of fillers, thixotropy assistants, retardants and other auxiliaries, and component II comprises: (e) from 0.1 to 20% by weight of at least one barbituric acid derivative and/or at least one malonylsulfamide which is able to initiate the free-radical polymerization, and (f) from 0 to 89.9% by weight of fillers, thixotropy assistants, retardants and other auxiliaries, (g) from 10 to 80% by weight of conventional plasticizers, and to the use thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2001Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Thomas Lehmann, Reinhold Hecht
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Patent number: 7128246Abstract: The invention relates to a receptacle with a plunger, which is displaceably arranged therein. The plunger comprises a plunger body with a flat face, whereby at least two encircling sealing lips are shaped onto the plunger body. Each sealing lip has slot-shaped notches at at least one location that, as soon as the plunger is inserted into the receptacle, permit a gas exchange between the inside of the receptacle and the outside atmosphere. The invention also relates to the use of the receptacle and of the plunger for storing and discharging, in particular, dental materials.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2001Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: 3M Espe AGInventors: Gioacchino Raia, Susanne Wegner
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Patent number: 7098259Abstract: The invention relates to a polymerizable dental material containing: (a) 3 to 80 wt. % of one or more cationically curable monomers; (b) 3 to 90 wt. % of one or more radio-opaque fillers; (c) 0.01 to 25 wt. % of initiators, retarders and/or accelerators, and; (d) 0 to 25 wt. % of auxiliary agents, whereby the cited percentages each refer to the total weight of the material. Filler (b) is produced by means of a melting method and is selected so that it has a refractive index of nD=1.49–1.54, so that the viscosity of the polymerizable dental material, after a period of at least 9 months during which it was stored at a temperature ranging from 20 to 25° C., has a value of +/?50 % of the initial value measured 24 hours after the polymerizable dental material was produced, and so that the polymerizable dental material has a reactivity of the type that, once polymerization is initiated, the amount of the maximum heat flux generated by the dental material equals at least 0.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2002Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Stefan Hoescheler, Wolfgang Weinmann, Andrea Stippschild, Susanne Wegner
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Patent number: 7097075Abstract: The invention relates to a device for storing and dispensing a flowable composition. Said device comprises a first (1) and a second film (2), a dispensing zone (4), a first chamber (5), containing a first substance (A) and a second chamber (6), containing a second substance (B). Said chambers are interconnected by a transition zone (3) that can be selectively opened. At least one of the films is deep-drawn in the region of the chambers and at least one of the films is pre-formed in the region of the second chamber, in such a way that once the device has been activated by opening the transition zone, the first substance can to a great extent be completely transferred to a second chamber, increasing the volume of said chamber as a result.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2001Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: 3M Espe AGInventors: Marc Peuker, Martin Hartung, Dirk Mueller, Roland Brem
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Patent number: 7097456Abstract: The invention relates to filling systems containing as component i) a sealing system which is capable of bonding to the tooth hard substance, as component ii) a filling material suitable for restorative dentistry, the filling system containing in addition a component iii) in component i) and/or component ii) which reduces the curing of the respective other component by disturbance of the curing mechanism only in the boundary layer between sealant and filling material such that the bonding between components i) and ii) is less than the bonding of component i) to the tooth hard substance.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2000Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Karsten Dede, Oliver Frey, Oswald Gasser, Rainer Guggenberger, Thomas Luchterhandt, Wolfgang Weinmann, Thomas Klettke
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Patent number: 7086528Abstract: A device for storing and applying material, especially dental material, comprises a first zone comprising a first and a second film that define at least one first chamber that receives a first substance, and a pouch separated from the chamber for withdrawing the first substance. The separation between the pouch and the first chamber is provided with a through opening that can be selectively opened. The device further comprises a second zone with a second chamber that is not linked with the first section by way of a through opening that can be selectively opened.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2001Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Gioacchino Raia, Reinhold Nowak, Marc Peuker
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Patent number: 7083411Abstract: Fine-grained powders or powder mixtures can be used to provide for spray cleaning of supragingival tooth surfaces. The abrasion of the tooth surface by the spraying of powder does not exceed 0.15 mm3 in relation to a tooth surface of 10 mm2 during a spray period lasting 2 minutes at a pressure of 4 bars and a distance of no more than 2.5 mm between the tooth surface and nozzle of the spray jet.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2001Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: 3M Espe AGInventors: Thomas Flemmig, Bernd Gangnus, Oswald Gasser, Rainer Guggenberger, Ingo Haeberlein, Bettina Windmmueller
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Publication number: 20060004122Abstract: The invention relates to a composition which is self-adhesive to the hard tooth tissue, comprising: (A) 5 to 75 percent by weight of one or more mono or higher functional ethylenically unsaturated compounds which additionally have an acid functional group, wherein one of said compounds has a P—OH group, for instance a phosphoric, phosphonic or phosphinic acid group; (B) 2 to 50 percent by weight of one or more mono or higher functional ethylenically unsaturated compounds without any acid functional group; (C) 22.8 to 85 percent by weight of filling material(s), comprising at least one filling material that may react with component (A) in the sense of causing a ion exchange, neutralization, salt formation and/or chelate formation reaction; (D) 0.1 to 8 percent by weight of one or more initiators and optionally activators; (E) 0.1 to 20 percent by weight of further additives, for example, modifiers, wherein the weight ration in % of component (A) relative to component (B) ranges from 21 to 90: 10 to 79.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2005Publication date: January 5, 2006Applicant: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Reinhold Hecht, Manfred Ludsteck, Thomas Luchterhandt, Markus Mikulla
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Patent number: 6953535Abstract: The invention relates to a redox initiator system which allows dental formulations to be cured in acidic medium by way of a free-radical polymerization and which ensures a high level of adhesion of the polymerizing composition to the hard substances of the teeth, namely enamel and, in particular, dentine. The redox initiator system comprises the following constituents: (A) from 14.9 to 50% by weight of a barbituric acid or thiobarbituric acid and/or of a barbituric or thiobarbituric acid derivative, (B) from 30 to 75% by weight of a peroxodisulfate compound and/or peroxodiphosphate compound, (C) from 10 to 35% by weight of a sulfinic acid compound, and (D) from 0.1 to 5% by weight of a copper compound.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2002Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: 3M Espe AgInventors: Reinhold Hecht, Manfred Ludsteck
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Patent number: 6936642Abstract: The invention relates to compositions containing: (a) 14 to 55 wt.-% fillers, (b) 3 to 35 wt.-% of at least one mono- or polyethylenically unsaturated compound which is not a urethane (meth)acrylate, (c) 0.1 to 5 wt.-% of at least one initiator system which is capable of starting a radical reaction, (d) 1 to 40 wt.-% plasticizers, (e) 0 to 10 wt.-% auxiliaries such as dyes, pigments, stabilizers, solvents, rheological additives such as flow-improvers and/or retarders, and (f) 30 to 81.9 wt.-% of at least two urethane (meth)acrylates with different molecular weights, these being present in a molecular weight ratio of 1.5:1 to 50:1.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2000Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: 3M Espe AGInventors: Thomas Lehmann, Wolfgang Soglowek, Reinhold Hecht
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Patent number: 6932599Abstract: The radiation device has an array (11) of light-emitting diodes (12) providing light beams which are directed onto a focus region (20) at the input end of a light conductor (18), used for directing a focused light beam onto the radiation point. The light-emitting diodes are supported in a planar holder (19) at different inclination angles, for providing a light cone illuminating the light conductor input end from their output beams.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2000Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: 3M ESPE AGInventor: Martin Hartung
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Patent number: 6919386Abstract: The invention relates to preparations, containing (A) 30 to 56 wt.-% aziridino polyethers with a cyclic polyether content lower than 5.0 wt.-%; (B) 30 to 45 wt.-% compounds which effect a softening of the cured dental materials; (C) 10 to 15 wt.-% filler; (D) 4 to 10 wt.-% further active ingredients; with the provisos that the weight ratio between constituents (A) and (C) to the compounds of constituent (B) is 1.2 to 2.1; constituent (B) consists of compounds with molar masses lower than 500 g/mol (B1) and of trisacylesters of glycerol of non-animal origin with molar masses between 500 to 2000 g/mol (B2) as well as of compounds with molar masses greater than 2000 g/mol (B3) and the weight ratio between (B1) and (B3) is 1:0.8 to 1:2.3, as well as their use.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2001Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Erich Wanek, Gunther Eckhardt, Peter Roas
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Patent number: 6906117Abstract: Arizidinosilicones of the general formula (1), wherein R1 represents H, C1-C12 alkyl, C2-C12 alkenyl, C2-C12 alkinyl, C7-C15 alkaryl, C7-C15 aralkyl, C3-C12 cycloalkyl and these groups can be substituted with Cl or F partially, completely or in a mixed manner and/or may contain 0 to 5 heteroatoms selected from O, N, S, R2 represents a group of the selection of R1 and/or R4, and R3 represents SiRl3 or SiR12R4, and wherein R4 represents formula (2), and A represents an (n+1) radical saturated, unsaturated or aromatic, linear, branched or cyclic hydrocarbon group that may contain 0 to 5 heteroatoms selected from O, N, S and that includes 1 to 18 carbon atoms, B is selected from O, S, NR1, D is selected from C(O)O, C(O)NR1, C(O), C(O)C(O), C(O)(CH2)m(C(O), C(S)NR1, CH2, E represents a diradical saturated or unsaturated, linear, branched or cyclic hydrocarbon group that may contain 0 to 5 heteroatoms selected from O, N, S and that includes 0 to 18 carbon atoms, a is 0 or 1, f is an integer from 2 to 1000, n, m isType: GrantFiled: May 30, 2001Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: 3M Espe AGInventors: Reinhold Nowak, Joachim Zech, Peter Bissinger, Erich Wanek, Gunther Eckhardt, Guenther Lechner
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Patent number: 6894144Abstract: The invention relates to elastomer materials based on N-alkylaziridino compounds with a base component which contains the aziridino compounds and with a catalyst component which contains at least one acid-acting compound, both components being mixed before use, characterized in that, as acid-acting compound of the catalyst component, one or more boric acid complexes are used which can be obtained by reaction of boric acid and/or a boric acid derivative with at least one OH-functional compound, the OH functions being able to be present wholly or partly protected, and this reaction being carried out either as an upstream reaction between boric acid and/or a boric acid derivative and at least one such OH-functional compound or during or after the preparation of the catalyst component or by mixing the catalyst component with the base component which then contains at least one OH-functional compound.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2000Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: 3M Espe AGInventors: Joachim Zech, Gunther Eckhardt, Cornelia Führer, Bernd Gangnus, Andreas Rombach, Oswald Gasser, Thomas Klettke, Erich Wanek