Patents by Inventor Edmund Suter

Edmund Suter 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: 11730573
    Abstract: A method including fixing a dental drill template with a fixation pin including a rod and a head attached to the rod. The dental drill template can be fixed by inserting the rod into the drill template or a sleeve provided in the drill template such that a bearing surface of the head bears at least partially on the drill template. The rod has a shape of an essentially circular cylinder and extends from the bearing surface of the head at an essentially right angle. A diameter of the head at the bearing surface is larger than the diameter of the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: STRAUMANN HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Steffen Kühne, Patrick Streff
  • Publication number: 20220304779
    Abstract: A method including fixing a dental drill template with a fixation pin including a rod and a head attached to the rod. The dental drill template can be fixed by inserting the rod into the drill template or a sleeve provided in the drill template such that a bearing surface of the head bears at least partially on the drill template. The rod has a shape of an essentially circular cylinder and extends from the bearing surface of the head at an essentially right angle. A diameter of the head at the bearing surface is larger than the diameter of the rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: STRAUMANN HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Edmund SUTER, Steffen KÜHNE, Patrick STREFF
  • Patent number: 11419706
    Abstract: A fixation pin for fixing a dental drill template. The fixation pin has a head having a bearing surface that is intended to bear at least partially on the drill template, or a sleeve provided in the drill template. The fixation pin has a rod having a shape of an essentially circular cylinder and extending from the bearing surface at an essentially right angle. The rod is intended to be inserted into the drill template or the sleeve provided in the drill template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: STRAUMANN HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Steffen Kühne, Patrick Streff
  • Patent number: 10820964
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a drill guide (1) for use in the dental field. It comprises a grip (5) and at least two guide sleeves (10) arranged on the grip, the grip (5) having a top face (25) and an underside (30) and the underside (30) of the grip being intended to bear at least partially on a drill jig. The at least two guide sleeves (10) protrude from the underside (30) of the grip, and at least one limit stop (55), which is an axial continuation of one of the at least two guide sleeves (10), protrudes from the top face (25) of the grip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: STRAUMANN HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Patrick Streff, Steffen Kuehne
  • Publication number: 20190314120
    Abstract: A fixation pin for fixing a dental drill template. The fixation pin has a head having a bearing surface that is intended to bear at least partially on the drill template, or a sleeve provided in the drill template. The fixation pin has a rod having a shape of an essentially circular cylinder and extending from the bearing surface at an essentially right angle. The rod is intended to be inserted into the drill template or the sleeve provided in the drill template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: STRAUMANN HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Edmund SUTER, Steffen KÜHNE, Patrick STREFF
  • Patent number: 10376342
    Abstract: A fixation pin for fixing a dental drill template. The fixation pin has a head having a bearing surface that is intended to bear at least partially on the drill template, or a sleeve provided in the drill template. The fixation pin has a rod having a shape of an essentially circular cylinder and extending from the bearing surface at an essentially right angle. The rod is intended to be inserted into the drill template or the sleeve provided in the drill template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: STRAUMANN HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Steffen Kuhne, Patrick Streff
  • Publication number: 20170231725
    Abstract: A fixation pin for fixing a dental drill template. The fixation pin has a head having a bearing surface that is intended to bear at least partially on the drill template, or a sleeve provided in the drill template. The fixation pin has a rod having a shape of an essentially circular cylinder and extending from the bearing surface at an essentially right angle. The rod is intended to be inserted into the drill template or the sleeve provided in the drill template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: STRAUMANN HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Edmund SUTER, Steffen KÜHNE, Patrick STREFF
  • Publication number: 20150150656
    Abstract: Fixation pin (1) for fixing a dental drill template. The fixation pin (1) has a head (5) having a bearing surface (10) that is intended to bear at least partially on the drill template, or a sleeve provided in the drill template. The fixation pin (1) has a rod (15) having a shape of an essentially circular cylinder and which extends from the bearing surface (10) at an essentially right angle. The rod (15) is intended to be inserted into the drill template or the sleeve provided in the drill template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Edmund SUTER, Steffen KÜHNE, Patrick STREFF
  • Patent number: 9039415
    Abstract: Connecting screw (22) for a dental implant (18) can be screwed securely by means of a commercially available rotary tool (24), even if the central longitudinal axis C of the connecting screw (22) and the longitudinal axis D of the rotary tool (24) are arranged at an acute angle to one another. For this purpose, the connecting screw (22) has a shaft portion (32) having an outer thread (48) for connection to the dental implant (18), and a head portion (34) having a blind-bore-shaped recess (36), which is open toward the upper screw end (46) and in which an engagement means (50) for the rotary tool (24) is formed integrally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Patrick Streff, Edmund Suter
  • Patent number: 9039413
    Abstract: Surgical tool for use in guided surgery having a distal end portion having a functional element, a shank on the opposite end of the tool, and a substantially circular cylindrical guide portion. The guide portion is located between the functional element and the shank and has at least one visual marker. The at least one marker has at least one recess which is finite in the circumferential direction such that, at the axial location of the recess a section of guide portion having outer radius r is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Stephane Courvoisier
  • Patent number: 8770974
    Abstract: Set of dental drills having two or more dental drills (10, 10?), each of dental drills (10, 10?) having a cutting portion (20, 20?) that has an end-face drilling end (22, 22?) and a shank portion (30, 30?) that has a receiving region (32, 32?) intended to be received in a drill holding device. The shank portions (30, 30?) of the dental drills each have a substantially circular-cylindrical guide region (40, 40?) for guiding the dental drills, the guide regions (40, 40?) of the two or more dental drills being of the same diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Steffen Kühne, Patrick Streff
  • Patent number: 8708699
    Abstract: Drill guide (1) for use in the dental field, comprising a grip (10), a bearing surface intended to bear at least partially on a template (50) or a drill sleeve (55), and at least one guide sleeve (20) having a longitudinal slit (30). The grip (10) has a top face and an underside. The at least one guide sleeve (20) is essentially hollow and cylindrical, has an upper end and a lower end, and protrudes from the underside of the grip (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Steffen Kuehne, Patrick Streff
  • Patent number: 8523566
    Abstract: Drill sleeve (1) for a dental drill (70) having a hollow and cylindrical shape and a longitudinal axis A, a circular inner surface (10) for guiding the dental drill (70), and an outer surface (15) intended to be inserted into a template (50). The outer surface (15) of the drill sleeve (1) has at least one longitudinal flattened or concave area (20, 120), the circular inner surface (10) is essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis A, and the drill sleeve (1) is thin-walled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Steffen Kühne, Patrick Streff
  • Publication number: 20110177469
    Abstract: Surgical tool for use in guided surgery comprising a distal end portion having a functional element, a shank on the opposite end of the tool, and a substantially circular cylindrical guide portion. The guide portion is located between the functional element and the shank and has at least one visual marker. The at least one marker has at least one recess which is finite in the circumferential direction such that, at the axial location of the recess a section of guide portion having outer radius r is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Stephane Courvoisier
  • Publication number: 20110082461
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a drill guide for use in the dental field. The drill guide comprises a one-part or multi-part grip and at least two guide sleeves which each have an upper end and a lower end, the grip having a top face and an underside. At least part of the underside of the grip is intended to bear on a drill jig. The at least two guide sleeves protrude from the underside of the grip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Patrick Streff
  • Publication number: 20110046631
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a drill guide (1) for use in the dental field. It comprises a grip (5) and at least two guide sleeves (10) arranged on the grip, the grip (5) having a top face (25) and an underside (30) and the underside (30) of the grip being intended to bear at least partially on a drill jig. The at least two guide sleeves (10) protrude from the underside (30) of the grip, and at least one limit stop (55), which is an axial continuation of one of the at least two guide sleeves (10), protrudes from the top face (25) of the grip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Patrick Streff, Steffen Kuehne
  • Publication number: 20100151411
    Abstract: Drill guide (1) for use in the dental field, comprising a grip (10), a bearing surface intended to bear at least partially on a template (50) or a drill sleeve (55), and at least one guide sleeve (20) having a longitudinal slit (30). The grip (10) has a top face and an underside. The at least one guide sleeve (20) is essentially hollow and cylindrical, has an upper end and a lower end, and protrudes from the underside of the grip (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Steffen Kuehne, Patrick Streff
  • Publication number: 20100151412
    Abstract: Set of dental drills having two or more dental drills (10, 10?), each of dental drills (10, 10?) having a cutting portion (20, 20?) that has an end-face drilling end (22, 22?) and a shank portion (30, 30?) that has a receiving region (32, 32?) intended to be received in a drill holding device. The shank portions (30, 30?) of the dental drills each have a substantially circular-cylindrical guide region (40, 40?) for guiding the dental drills, the guide regions (40, 40?) of the two or more dental drills being of the same diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Steffen Kühne, Patrick Streff
  • Publication number: 20100137921
    Abstract: Fixation pin (1) for fixing a dental drill template. The fixation pin (1) has a head (5) having a bearing surface (10) that is intended to bear at least partially on the drill template, or a sleeve provided in the drill template. The fixation pin (1) has a rod (15) having a shape of an essentially circular cylinder and which extends from the bearing surface (10) at an essentially right angle. The rod (15) is intended to be inserted into the drill template or the sleeve provided in the drill template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Steffen Kühne, Patrick Streff
  • Publication number: 20100136500
    Abstract: Drill sleeve (1) for a dental drill (70) having a hollow and cylindrical shape and a longitudinal axis A, a circular inner surface (10) for guiding the dental drill (70), and an outer surface (15) intended to be inserted into a template (50). The outer surface (15) of the drill sleeve (1) has at least one longitudinal flattened or concave area (20, 120), the circular inner surface (10) is essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis A, and the drill sleeve (1) is thin-walled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Edmund Suter, Steffen Kuehne, Patrick Streff