Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
  • Patent number: 7950923
    Abstract: An occlusal plane analyzer (5) is composed of an analysis board (7) made of a magnetic material and held above a lower jaw model (2), a magnet (8) which can attract the analysis board (7) with magnetic force and which has a circular support hole (15) going through in an attraction direction of the magnetic force, and a Monson curve imparting tool (9) composed of a spherical body section (17) which is made of a magnetic material with a diameter larger than an inside diameter of the support hole (15) and which can be attracted to the support hole (15), an extended section (18) extending from the spherical body section (17), and a spherical surface regenerating section (19) further extending from a distal end of the extended section (18) for drawing a circular arc concentric with the spherical body section (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventors: Kaoru Koide, Iori Saitoh
  • Patent number: 7918665
    Abstract: An artificial anterior tooth capable of grinding food is provided. The lingual side of an artificial anterior tooth is provided with a protuberance for forming a frictional surface dented in an arch shape as seen from the mesiodistal direction, and the labial side of an opposite artificial lower tooth is provided with a protuberance for forming a sliding surface abutting the frictional surface and sliding on the frictional surface by a sliding motion of the upper and lower jaws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventors: Yusei Kadobayashi, Toshihide Fujii
  • Patent number: 7879924
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dental resin cement which is excellent in a mechanical strength, workability and storage stability, and a dental primer which significantly improves adhesiveness of the dental resin cement both to enamel and dentin of a tooth. According to the present invention, a salt of barbituric acid is used as a polymerization initiator in the dual-cure two-paste type dental resin cement being excellent in workability and storage stability to improve the storage stability, and a primer containing barbituric acid and amine is applied to a surface of a tooth to significantly improve adhesiveness of the dental resin cement both to enamel and dentin of teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventors: Keisuke Torii, Hisaki Tanaka, Toshihide Fujii, Yoshiaki Kohro, Mikito Deguti
  • Patent number: 7872058
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a photopolymerizable dental composition which causes less change in a color tone before and after curing and exhibits excellent photopolymerizability to irradiation in a wide wavelength range, and has also excellent thin-layer surface curability, and to provide a photopolymerization initiator used therefor. Disclosed is a visible light-polymerizable dental composition which does not substantially contain an amine compound as a photosensitizer, comprising 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of a (bis)acylphosphine oxide compound, 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of an ?-diketone compound and 100 parts by weight of a polymerizable monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventors: Jun Uchida, Mitsuharu Mizuno, Mitsuji Teramae
  • Patent number: 7803850
    Abstract: A compound that exhibits excellent color tone stability and physical properties as well as excellent photopolymerization activity over a wide region from near-ultraviolet to visible region, permitting relaxed operation under ambient light, so that wide application can be found in the dental field and photopolymerization industry; and a relevant photopolymerization initiator and hardenable composition. In particular, there is provided a novel camphorquinone derivative having an acylphosphine oxide group [—(C?O)—(P?O)<] in each molecule. Further, there is provided a photopolymerization initiator comprising the camphorquinone derivative having an acrylphosphine oxide group [—(C?O)—(P?O)<] in each molecule as an indispensable component, loaded with at least one member selected from among a polymerization accelerator, a photoacid generator, a photosensitizer and a (bis)acylphosphine oxide, and provided a hardenable composition comprising the initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventors: Kunio Ikemura, Kensuke Ichizawa, Yoshiyuki Jogetsu
  • Patent number: 7776936
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a one-pack type dental adhesive composition which can exhibit excellent adhesion to any material, for example, dental ceramics, organic composites containing inorganic compounds, dental noble metals and dental non-noble metals, and also has excellent storage stability. Disclosed is a one-pack type dental adhesive composition comprising a silane coupling agent as a component (a), an acidic group-containing polymerizable monomer as a component (b), a sulfur atom-containing polymerizable monomer as a component (d), and other components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventors: Hisaki Tanaka, Toshihide Fujii, Yutaka Yamaguchi, Mikito Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20090317780
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tooth which is used in a dental arch model with which dental students can experience dental works in the oral cavity and practice treatments. More specifically, the present invention relates to a tooth composition for formation trainings such as abutment tooth formation and cavity preparation. Since conventionally used dental arch models have a grinding sensation different from a natural tooth, dental students having completed formation trainings such as abutment tooth formation and cavity preparation by using these conventional models are frequently puzzled to have different grinding and handling properties upon dental works in the oral cavity in practice. That is, these conventional dental arch models are largely different from a natural tooth in grinding sensation including slipperiness and easiness in grinding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventors: Yusei Kadobayashi, Hirokazu Sato, Ryuichi Yoshimoto
  • Publication number: 20090068614
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dental polishing article having excellent polishability, which can polish dental composite resin, porcelain, dental restorative and prosthetic materials and teeth at a low cost, conveniently in a short time. More specifically, the present invention provides a dental polishing article which comprises a polishing portion formed by compounding polishing grains in an elastomer binder, and the polishing portion further comprising spherical resin particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventors: Syuji Sonoi, Osamu Asao
  • Publication number: 20090048426
    Abstract: The present invention provides an adhesive composition comprising a polymerizable phosphonic acid derivative which is a composition having intramolecularly a polymerizable group and a phosphonic acid group, represented by the general formula [1]: wherein R represents a polymerizable group; A represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; Xqs represent independently an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; Yqs represent independently the same or different organic group; Zqs may be independently the same or different from each other and, a part of the Zqs optionally selected or all of the Zqs represent organic groups having a substituent which is an organic group other than a polymerizable group and a phosphonic acid group; p is an integer from 1 to 10; q is an integer from 1 to p; when p is 1, q is 1; X1 represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; Y1 represents an organic group; Z1 represents an organic group having one or more of substituents which are organic groups other than an acidic group and a polymerizab
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SHOFU
    Inventors: Kunio IKEMURA, Yoshiyuki Jogetsu, So Ito
  • Publication number: 20090048366
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dental resin cement which is excellent in a mechanical strength, workability and storage stability, and a dental primer which significantly improves adhesiveness of the dental resin cement both to enamel and dentin of a tooth. According to the present invention, a salt of barbituric acid is used as a polymerization initiator in the dual-cure two-paste type dental resin cement being excellent in workability and storage stability to improve the storage stability, and a primer containing barbituric acid and amine is applied to a surface of a tooth to significantly improve adhesiveness of the dental resin cement both to enamel and dentin of teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SHOFU
    Inventors: Keisuke Torii, Hisaki Tanaka, Toshihide Fujii, Yoshiaki Kohro, Mikito Deguti
  • Patent number: 7488762
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a paste-type cement composition which while retaining adhesion to tooth substance, biocompatibility, surface curability and fluorine sustained-releasability which are the characteristics derived from the conventional glass ionomer cement, reduces water sensitivity which is shortcoming of the conventional glass ionomer cement, enables simple mixing operation, does not adversely affect on the various properties of a cured cement depending on a difference in operators or a skill degree, and can afford various stable properties. There is provided a two paste-type glass ionomer cement comprising a resin-based paste containing a hydrophobic polymerizable monomer and a polymer of acidic group-containing polymerizable monomers which are insoluble to each other, and a water-based paste containing a hydrophilic polymerizable monomer and water which are soluble to each other, in which an acid reactive filler is contained in at least one of pastes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu, Nagase Chemtex Corporation
    Inventors: Satosi Takano, Toshiyuki Nakatsuka, Mikito Deguchi, Shinji Urabe, Toshimasa Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20080008679
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel reactive medical substance having the bone restoration function, comprising a particular methacrylic acid ester, polymer and osteogenic factor. The reactive medical substance of the present invention has a mechanical strength which is increased by a reaction and is used in a living body for a long period of time. The osteoinduction-assistance composition having the bone restoration function of the present invention is characterized in that the composition maintains suitable elasticity, and can be easily formed with scissors or a sharp blade upon use. The reactive medical substance of the present invention comprises a mixture of a methacrylic acid ester, a polymer and a biological absorbing material, and can regenerate a mocosa, form a regenerated epithelium, and stabilize a transplanted piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SHOFU
    Inventors: Tatsushi Kawai, Tomoo Suzuki, Mikito Deguchi, Mitsuharu Mizuno, Hidefumi Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20070054978
    Abstract: The present invention provides a one-liquid curable composition comprising micro- and/or nano-capsules. More specifically, the present invention provides a one-liquid curable composition characterized in that a substance encapsulated within each micro- and/or nano-capsule and a substance enveloping said micro- and/or nano-capsule contain a combination of more than one material that can coexist with one another, selected arbitrary from radically-polymerizable monomers, polymerization initiators, polymerization accelerators, electrolyte polymers, electrolyte polymer solutions, hydroxycarboxylic acids, hydroxycarboxylic acid solutions, acid-reactive fillers, and acid-inactive fillers, and also characterized in that a wall material of said micro- and/or nano-capsule is an organic compound, and/or an inorganic compound, and/or an organic/inorganic complex compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SHOFU
    Inventors: Kiyomi Futigami, Kunio Ikemura, Kensuke Ichizawa
  • Publication number: 20060247330
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a paste-type cement composition which while retaining adhesion to tooth substance, biocompatibility, surface curability and fluorine sustained-releasability which are the characteristics derived from the conventional glass ionomer cement, reduces water sensitivity which is shortcoming of the conventional glass ionomer cement, enables simple mixing operation, does not adversely affect on the various properties of a cured cement depending on a difference in operators or a skill degree, and can afford various stable properties. There is provided a two paste-type glass ionomer cement comprising a resin-based paste containing a hydrophobic polymerizable monomer and a polymer of acidic group-containing polymerizable monomers which are insoluble to each other, and a water-based paste containing a hydrophilic polymerizable monomer and water which are soluble to each other, in which an acid reactive filler is contained in at least one of pastes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SHOFU, NAGASE CHEMTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satosi Takano, Toshiyuki Nakatsuka, Mikito Deguchi, Shinji Urabe, Toshimasa Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 6620861
    Abstract: There are provided an inorganic filler, multi-functional filler, an organic compound filler, a modified filler, and a dental coloring filler suitable in use as a filler in a dental composition, compositions having a resin matrix of an organic polymer material, as well as a process for producing the same. Disclosed are an inorganic filler which comprises an inorganic fine particle, wherein the surface of the inorganic fine particle is covered with polysiloxane. Also disclosed is a multi-functional filler which comprises an inorganic fine particle containing an acid reactive element, wherein a cement reactive phase is formed on the surface of the inorganic fine particle, and the cement reactive phase is further covered with polysiloxane. Also disclosed is an organic compound filler which comprises an organic-inorganic polymer particle or an organic polymer particle, wherein the surface of the organic-inorganic polymer particle or an organic polymer particle is covered with an inorganic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakatuka, Yasuhisa Yasuda, Katsuya Kimoto, Mitsuharu Mizuno, Noriyuki Negoro
  • Patent number: 6583197
    Abstract: A dental adhesive composition comprising: (A) 100 parts by weight of a polymerizable unsaturated monomer containing 5% by weight or more of a radical polymerizable monomer having an acid group; (B) 35 to 100 parts by weight of an acid-reactive filler; (C) 35 to 100 parts by weight of water; (D) 5 to 100 parts by weight of a water-soluble organic solvent; and, (E) 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a polymerization catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventors: Tohru Wada, Kunio Ikemura, Yoshiaki Kouro, Katsuya Kimoto, Kazuya Shinno
  • Patent number: 6136886
    Abstract: To provide a dental prosthetic material having processing characteristics and operating characteristics, which are not recognized in a conventional dental material.A biorestorative material which is a rubber elastic material having a shear modulus of 1.0-9.99 E+4 Pa to 1.0-9.99 E+9 Pa and a rubber hardness of 1 to 90, wherein a Knoop hardness can be 10 or more after polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventor: Mikito Deguchi
  • Patent number: 6121381
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a curable composition in which polymer and monomer which is neither soluble nor swellable (able to swell) in the polymer are mixed homogeneously. More particularly, the present invention relates to a curable composition, in which polymer and urethane metha(acrylate) which is neither soluble nor swellable in the polymer are mixed homogeneously. The present invention also relates to a cured composition of the curable composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventors: Mikito Deguchi, Hiroyuki Shioi
  • Patent number: D616547
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventors: Hirokazu Satoh, Noriyuki Negoro, Kunihiro Fujii
  • Patent number: D616988
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shofu
    Inventors: Hirokazu Satoh, Noriyuki Negoro, Kunihiro Fujii