Patents Assigned to Shofu, Inc.
  • Patent number: 10813848
    Abstract: The present invention provides the dental primer for modifying surface of a dental restoration, comprising: an organic solvent, a silane coupling agent and an acid anhydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Yusei Kadobayashi, Masako Shigezawa
  • Publication number: 20200331807
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a zirconia mill blank for dental cutting and machining which may impart high translucency similar to an enamel of a natural tooth to zirconia sintered body even in a short time sintering, and a preparing method thereof. In addition, the present disclosure provides a zirconia mill blank for dental cutting and machining which may impart the same degree of translucency to a zirconia sintered body even in a short time sintering as compared with the case of sintering for 427 minutes. The zirconia mill blank for dental cutting and machining of the present disclosure contains a gallium compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Kazumichi NONAKA, Shuhei TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200330331
    Abstract: To provide a dental porcelain paste which can maintain maintaining the paste state and have excellent application property for a long period of time and hardly causes carbonization or bubbles due to the influence of an organic component or a polymer component during firing. The present invention provides a dental porcelain paste for preparing a dental prosthesis device, comprising: 50.0 to 80.0 wt. % of a glass powder (a) having a maximum particle diameter of 100 ?m or less and an average particle diameter of 1 to 20 ?m, 0.5 to 10.0 wt. % of a hydrophobized fine particle silica (b) having an average primary particle diameter of 1 to 50 nm, and 10.0 to 49.5 wt. % of an organic solvent (c) having a boiling point it is within (bp) of 100 to 300° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Keita KAWATA, Kenji KONO
  • Patent number: 10780027
    Abstract: A composite material including silanated filler and mixed polymerizable monomer, having a stable pasty property which keeps well and has a consistent usability. A composite material containing a silanated filler, a polymerizable monomer, and a polymerization initiator, and may be produced by a process which includes in order of a mixed polymerizable monomer preparing step, a mixed polymerizable monomer preserving step, a composite material preparing step, a composite material preserving step, a composite material filling step, and a small quantity preserving container preserving step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Yusei Kadobayashi, Masako Shigezawa
  • Publication number: 20200214819
    Abstract: [Problem] To select a dental cement or a trial test material for easily obtaining high color tone adaptability to peripheral tooth substances, in mounting of or trial test of a prosthesis device [Solution] To provide a dental cement set consisting of a plurality of dental cements having color tones including color tones of 3 to n colors for selecting and using a dental cement from the plurality of dental cements having the color tones including the color tones of the 3 to n colors after trial test with trial test materials for the dental cement to be used from the plurality of dental cements having the color tones including the color tones of the 3 to n colors, wherein: the amount of information loss Pin with regard to first principal component determined by principal component analysis is less than 2, and . the dental cement set satisfies following Formula 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke HARA, Naoya KITADA, Kenzo YAMAMOTO, Yasuhiro NISHINO, Yoshiyuki JOGETSU
  • Publication number: 20200170753
    Abstract: To provide a zirconia mill blank for dental cutting and machining which has excellent machinability in a thin workpiece such as an inlay, an onlay and a veneer, and may impart high strength and high translucency to a zirconia perfect sintered body without a special sintering such as HIP treatment, and a preparing method thereof. The zirconia mill blank for dental cutting and machining has a porosity within a range of 15 to 30%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Kazumichi NONAKA, Shuhei TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200113658
    Abstract: To provide a zirconia perfect sintered body which has a chroma of an excellent color tone and excellent translucency as compared with a zirconia mill blank for dental cutting and machining prepared from a zirconia raw material powder containing various stabilizing materials while maintaining high strength, and does not cause deformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Seiji BAN, Shuhei TAKAHASHI, Toshio KITAMURA, Rieko AIBA
  • Patent number: 10588726
    Abstract: A dental mill blank having a multi-layer structure has been required to improve the reproducibility of a color tone of the natural tooth in a dental crown restoration cut by CAD/CAM technique. Especially, a reproduction of the color tone of a cavity or a groove is required in a dental crown form of the molar tooth. The present dental mill blank has three or more layers wherein a color of a 30% position layer which includes a 30% position which is a position spaced from a surface of the dental mill blank of a W layer-side by 30% satisfies a specified relational expression, and a contrast ratio of the 30% position layer is within a range of the contrast ratio of the D layer×(0.70 to 1.00).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Torita, Yusei Kadobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200016043
    Abstract: To provide a one paste type dental adhesive composition which has mechanical characteristics and aesthetic property required in the restoration material, is superior in durable adhesive strength to the tooth substance, and is hard to be affected by the polymerization shrinkage stress and exhibits excellent durable adhesive strength even if the composition of the present invention is collectively filled and cured. To provide a dental adhesive composition comprising: (a) an acidic group-non-containing polymerizable monomer, (b) an acidic group-containing polymerizable monomer, (c) a filler, (d) a photo polymerization initiator, and (e) a chain transfer agent, wherein the chain transfer agent (e) contains ?-alkylstyrene compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Shunsuke MIYATA, Hidefumi FUJIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190388196
    Abstract: To provide a liquid material which can only adjust transparency by applying on a part of a zirconia crown having high transparency, without coloring. The present disclosure provides an opaque imparting liquid used for a prosthesis device cut and machined from a dental zirconia for cutting and machining, comprising; (a) 10 to 39 wt. % of a water-soluble aluminum compound and/or a water-soluble lanthanum compound, (b) 60 to 89 wt. % of water, and (c) 1 to 20 wt. % of an organic solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Toshio KITAMURA, Shuhei TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20190380919
    Abstract: To provide a glass ionomer cement having excellent removality of the surplus cement after curing because of having shape retaining property where a kneaded material does not drip and flow by their own weights, few risk of water sensitivity and excellent operability at the bonding such that surplus cement can be removed easily after an application in an oral cavity in an early timing in spite of exhibiting a thin coating thickness at the bonding. A glass ionomer cement composition for dental luting comprises at least; a component (a) acid reactive glass powder having an average particle diameter within a range of 4.5 to 7.0 ?m, a component (b) polymer of an acid group-containing polymerizable monomer having a weight average molecular weight within a range of 30000 to 100000, a component (c) chelating agent and a component (d) water, wherein a plastic flow distance of a kneaded material before curing is 2 mm or less, and a removal possible time of a surplus cement is 2 minutes or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Shun SHIMOSOYAMA, Katsuya KIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190380815
    Abstract: To provide a dental zirconia blank which has high permeability, can reproduce a color tone close to a natural tooth and a strength to be able to tolerate in oral cavity. Furthermore, to provide a dental zirconia blank from which a prosthesis device of 4 or more units having high strength can be prepared. To provide a dental zirconia blank having a plurality of layers, comprising; a first layer consisting of a high permeability ceramic containing 91.6 to 96.5 mol % of zirconium oxide and 3.5 to 8.4 mol % of yttrium oxide, and a second layer consisting of a low permeability ceramic containing 95.6 to 98.5 mol % of zirconium oxide and 1.5 to 4.4 mol % of yttrium oxide, wherein a content rate of yttrium oxide in the low permeability ceramic is lower than a content rate of yttrium oxide in the high permeability ceramic by 0.5 to 5.4 mol %, and the first layer is positioned at one end of the plurality of layers in a layering direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Rieko AIBA, Shuhei TAKAHASHI, Toshio KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 10493003
    Abstract: A composite material including silanated filler and mixed polymerizable monomer, having a stable pasty property which keeps well and has a consistent usability. A composite material containing a silanated filler, a polymerizable monomer, and a polymerization initiator, and may be produced by a process which includes a mixed polymerizable monomer preparing step, a silanation step, a silanated filler preserving step, a composite material preparing step, a composite material preserving step, a composite material filling step, and a small quantity preserving container preserving step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Yusei Kadobayashi, Masako Shigezawa
  • Patent number: 10470982
    Abstract: Provided herein is a curable silicone composition that has high optical transparency after being cured and that is in a putty form to be hand-mixable. A curable silicone composition contains: a specific organopolysiloxane as a component (1); a specific organohydrogenpolysiloxane as a component (2); a filler as a component (3); and a catalyst as a component (4). The difference between the refractive index of one of the components (1) to (3) that has the highest refractive index and the refractive index of one of the components (1) to (3) that has the lowest refractive index is 0.1000 or less. The complex viscosity of any of constituent compositions of the curable silicon composition before the curable silicone composition is cured is 10 Pa·s to 100000 Pa·s, as measured under predetermined measurement condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Shun Shimosoyama, Toshio Kitamura
  • Patent number: 10463581
    Abstract: To provide a sealer composition for root canal filling consisting of a liquid material containing a polymer (a) of an acid group-containing polymerizable monomer in which a portion or the entirety of the acidic group in a molecule forms a salt with an alkaline metal and water (b), wherein the pH of the liquid material is in the range from 3.5 to 5.5, and a powder material containing an acid reactive inorganic powder (c), wherein, a cured product of a kneaded material of the liquid material and the powder material comprises 3 to 20 part by weight of the polymer (a), 10 to 60 part by weight of the water (b), and 30 to 85 part by weight of the acid reactive inorganic powder (c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Shuji Sakamoto, Katsuya Kimoto, Toshiyuki Nakatsuka
  • Publication number: 20190322567
    Abstract: To provide a a glass composition which can be used for a dental porcelain or a dental ceramics coloring material, and has low temperature meltability, acid resistance and preservation stability under the humid environment which are required for a dental porcelain or a dental ceramics coloring material, and a dental porcelain and dental ceramics coloring material which contain the glass composition of the present disclosure. To provide a low melting glass composition with softening point (Ts) less than 600° C. comprising as a component; SiO2: 55.0 to 75.0 wt. %, B2O3: 6.1 to 12.0 wt. %, Al2O3: 2.0 to 8.0 wt. %, ZnO: 2.0 to 8.5 wt. % and two or more kinds of alkali metal oxide: 10.5 to 20.0 wt. %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Keita KAWATA, Masanori GOTO, Kenji KONO
  • Publication number: 20190262238
    Abstract: To provides a polymerizable composition having high storage stability and high color stability. To provide a two-paste type dental polymerizable composition of the present invention is a two-paste type dental polymerizable composition comprising a first paste containing (A) at least one kind of polemerizable monomer, an (B) organic peroxide as a chemical polymerization initiator, and a (C) basic filler, and a second paste containing (A) at least one kind of polemerizable monomer, a (C) basic filler and an (D) aromatic amine compound as a chemical polymerization accelerator, wherein the second paste contains 30 to 80 parts by weight of the (C) basic filler based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the second paste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke HARA, Naoya KITADA, Toshiyuki NAKATSUKA
  • Patent number: 10391039
    Abstract: To provide a dental lithium silicate glass composition capable of providing a dental lithium silicate glass ceramic capable of efficiently precipitating the main crystals (lithium disilicate and/or lithium metasilicate) even after heat treatment. To provide a Al2O3-free dental lithium silicate glass composition including the following components: SiO2: 60.0 to 80.0% by weight, Li2O: 10.0 to 17.0% by weight, K2O: 0.5 to 10.0% by weight, ZrO2: 0.0 to 5.0% by weight, a nucleating agent: 1.0 to 6.0% by weight, a glass stabilizer: 0.0 to 8.0% by weight and a colorant: 0.0 to 10.0% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Takeuchi, Mitsuji Teramae
  • Patent number: 10363202
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymerization catalyst having storage stability under an oral cavity environment. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a dental material cured by use of the present polymerization catalyst. The polymerization catalyst for use in the dental material is achieved with including 1-cyclohexyl-5-propylbarbituric acid and trioctylmethylammonium chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Yuji Sadakane, Masako Shigezawa, Yusei Kadobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190209439
    Abstract: A composite material including silanated filler and mixed polymerizable monomer, having a stable pasty property which keeps well and has a consistent usability. A composite material containing a silanated filler, a polymerizable monomer, and a polymerization initiator, and may be produced by a process which includes in order of a mixed polymerizable monomer preparing step, a mixed polymerizable monomer preserving step, a composite material preparing step, a composite material preserving step, a composite material filling step, and a small quantity preserving container preserving step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Yusei KADOBAYASHI, Masako SHIGEZAWA