Patents by Inventor Axel SCHEFFER

Axel SCHEFFER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11337774
    Abstract: A method for detecting alignment of a drill sleeve in a drilling template relative to the jaw of a person, includes: creating an impression element including a negative impression of the jaw structure; creating an X-ray template from the impression element by disposing spaced X-ray visible reference bodies in the impression element; carrying out a first three-dimensional radiological detection, in which the jaw, together with the X-ray template fastened to the jaw, is detected by DVT or CT; creating a drilling template from the X-ray template by fastening a drilling sleeve in/on the X-ray template; inserting a reference object, including spaced X-ray visible reference bodies, into the drill sleeve; and carrying out a second three-dimensional radiological detection, in which only the drilling template, which is outside the jaw, including the reference bodies thereof, and the reference object inserted therein, including the reference bodies thereof, are detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventor: Axel Scheffer
  • Publication number: 20190142548
    Abstract: A method for detecting alignment of a drill sleeve in a drilling template relative to the jaw of a person, includes: creating an impression element including a negative impression of the jaw structure; creating an X-ray template from the impression element by disposing spaced X-ray visible reference bodies in the impression element; carrying out a first three-dimensional radiological detection, in which the jaw, together with the X-ray template fastened to the jaw, is detected by DVT or CT; creating a drilling template from the X-ray template by fastening a drilling sleeve in/on the X-ray template; inserting a reference object, including spaced X-ray visible reference bodies, into the drill sleeve; and carrying out a second three-dimensional radiological detection, in which only the drilling template, which is outside the jaw, including the reference bodies thereof, and the reference object inserted therein, including the reference bodies thereof, are detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventor: Axel SCHEFFER
  • Patent number: 10092369
    Abstract: In order to make a custom dental drilling template, a single impression element is used that becomes a part of the later drilling template. To achieve this a guide-passage element is glued to the impression element. The exact position of the guide passage relative to the impression element prior to gluing is found by fixing both elements relative to each other on the same mounting plate using a periodic 2-D mounting structure. The passage element is mounted by an intermediate mounting element that is machined such that it carries the same or mating mounting structure according to positional data and that has a fitting area for fitting the guide passage to it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: MED.DENT.MINDS GMBH
    Inventor: Axel Scheffer
  • Publication number: 20170079744
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a dental drilling template which is adapted to the jaw structure of a patient and which comprises at least one guide channel (5) for guiding a drilling tool, in which said guide channel (5) is arranged, in accordance with positional data, on an impression element (1) comprising a negative impression of the jaw structure. A mounting element (6) which comprises an adaptation element (7) and which is adapted to the required position of the guide channel (5) is produced by machining a material by means of a machining machine and a periodic closed mould mounting structure (10), preferably a closed mould mounting structure (10) in at least two directions is produced on the mounting element (6), during the production in accordance with the positional data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventor: Axel SCHEFFER