Patents by Inventor Stefan Lerch

Stefan Lerch 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).

  • Publication number: 20240058110
    Abstract: A container (100) for producing a self-curing or dual-curing dental synthetic material composition (200), which container comprises a deformable wall (101), having a first synthetic material component (103-1); and a second synthetic material component (103-2) for curing the synthetic material composition (200) or starting a curing reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Stephan Lenz, Benjamin Gebhardt, Theresa Sujata Maria Senti, Stefan Lerch
  • Patent number: 11833005
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a container (100) for producing a self-curing or dual-curing dental synthetic material composition (200), which container comprises a deformable wall (101), having a first synthetic material component (103-1); and a second synthetic material component (103-2) for curing the synthetic material composition (200) or starting a curing reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Stephan Lenz, Benjamin Gebhardt, Theresa Sujata Maria Senti, Stefan Lerch
  • Patent number: 11583913
    Abstract: A tool for the internal high-pressure shaping of a workpiece, in particular for producing a tubular structural component for a motor vehicle, is provided. The tool includes at least three movable tool segments, which bound a shaping cavity for accommodating and shaping the workpiece. The movable tool segments, at least in some sections, completely form the shaping cavity in a closed state of the tool. A method for shaping a workpiece by internal high-pressure shaping is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johann-Stefan Lerch, Thomas Schmolke
  • Patent number: 11199452
    Abstract: A process for determining a tooth color of a filling or another restoration is provided which in particular is produced using composite materials, wherein at least one tooth is scanned or is visually detected. The process is characterized in that natural teeth are spectrally measured in advance, that the color values measured within a color space are classified into several, in particular four, categories which each form a color cloud extending in a three-dimensional fashion within the color space, which is done with the help of a structuring algorithm, in particular a Nearest Neighbour Algorithm, or a symmetry recognition algorithm, and that the tooth color of the filling is determined by means of evaluating to which category the tooth scanned has the smallest color distance, or to which color cloud the tooth scanned belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Stefan Lerch, José Antonio Pulido Estepa
  • Patent number: 11094085
    Abstract: A system having an auxiliary color selection body and a method for determining the colors of a dental object, i.e. the colors of tooth, residual limb or gingiva, is provided, wherein the auxiliary color selection body (10) has a substantially U-shaped or L-shaped or ring-shaped structure, on which at least one, preferably 4, reference features (18), for recognition of the auxiliary color selection body (10) is/are attached, and wherein, with respect to the reference features (18), a plurality of tooth, stump or gingiva color fields (30) are arranged on the color selection auxiliary body (10). It is provided for an image of a tooth (16) to be taken with the auxiliary color selection body (10) being adjacent thereto on at least two sides and the tooth color is determined based on this image (FIG. 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Stefan Lerch, Manuel Schlegel
  • Publication number: 20210022839
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a container (100) for producing a self-curing or dual-curing dental synthetic material composition (200), which container comprises a deformable wall (101), having a first synthetic material component (103-1); and a second synthetic material component (103-2) for curing the synthetic material composition (200) or starting a curing reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan Lenz, Benjamin Gebhardt, Theresa Sujata Maria Senti, Stefan Lerch
  • Publication number: 20200132550
    Abstract: A process for determining a tooth color of a filling or another restoration is provided which in particular is produced using composite materials, wherein at least one tooth is scanned or is visually detected. The process is characterized in that natural teeth are spectrally measured in advance, that the color values measured within a color space are classified into several, in particular four, categories which each form a color cloud extending in a three-dimensional fashion within the color space, which is done with the help of a structuring algorithm, in particular a Nearest Neighbour Algorithm, or a symmetry recognition algorithm, and that the tooth color of the filling is determined by means of evaluating to which category the tooth scanned has the smallest color distance, or to which color cloud the tooth scanned belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan Lerch, José Antonio Pulido Estepa
  • Publication number: 20200065997
    Abstract: A system having an auxiliary color selection body and a method for determining the colors of a dental object, i.e. the colors of tooth, residual limb or gingiva, is provided, wherein the auxiliary color selection body (10) has a substantially U-shaped or L-shaped or ring-shaped structure, on which at least one, preferably 4, reference features (18), for recognition of the auxiliary color selection body (10) is/are attached, and wherein, with respect to the reference features (18), a plurality of tooth, stump or gingiva color fields (30) are arranged on the color selection auxiliary body (10). It is provided for an image of a tooth (16) to be taken with the auxiliary color selection body (10) being adjacent thereto on at least two sides and the tooth color is determined based of this image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan Lerch, Manuel Schlegel
  • Publication number: 20200060798
    Abstract: An auxiliary color selection body (10) is provided for target objects (34) such as dental objects, having a base body. The base body (12) has at least two inner walls (16, 18, 20) which extend transversely, in particular at right angles to each other, from which inner walls the base body extends outwardly as far as to the outer walls (22). The base body (12) extends in two dimensions between the inner walls and the outer walls, with color selection areas (30) and reference features (32) arranged on the auxiliary color selection body. The auxiliary color selection body can be arranged in the vicinity of a target object (34) such that a straight line passing through two target object proximity points (38, 40, 42) on the inner walls sweeps across the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan Lerch, Manuel Schlegel
  • Publication number: 20190331421
    Abstract: A system of a dental restoration part or several dental restoration parts, and/or with a dental restoration part which is possibly embedded in a muffle, and a cooling device is provided. The cooling device comprises cooling bodies as bulk material and a movement device by means of which cooling bodies and the dental restoration part(s) may be moved relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Theresa Senti, Katja Ott, Rudolf Jussel, Frank Rothbrust, Lars Arnold, Stefan Lerch
  • Publication number: 20190151925
    Abstract: A tool for the internal high-pressure shaping of a workpiece, in particular for producing a tubular structural component for a motor vehicle, is provided. The tool includes at least three movable tool segments, which bound a shaping cavity for accommodating and shaping the workpiece. The movable tool segments, at least in some sections, completely form the shaping cavity in a closed state of the tool. A method for shaping a workpiece by internal high-pressure shaping is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Johann-Stefan LERCH, Thomas SCHMOLKE
  • Patent number: 9962753
    Abstract: A tool is provided for preforming a metallic starter tube section for subsequent internal high pressure forming in order to produce a tubular IHF-component. The tool includes a plurality of tool sections that can move relative to one another and that delimit, between them, a shaping cavity for receiving and forming the starter tube section. The cavity has a contour which is both derived from the shape of the IHF component to be produced and adapted to the circumference of the starter tube section to be formed, such that each cavity cross section perpendicular to a cavity longitudinal axis predefined by the starter tube section corresponds to the cross-sectional shape of the IHF component cross-section in the same position, reduced in its cross-sectional circumference to exactly the circumference of the starter tube section. A method is provided for producing such a tool, and a method is provided for producing a tube-like IHF component using such a tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johann-Stefan Lerch, Thomas Schmolke
  • Publication number: 20160023261
    Abstract: A tool is provided for preforming a metallic starter tube section for subsequent internal high pressure forming in order to produce a tubular IHF-component. The tool includes a plurality of tool sections that can move relative to one another and that delimit, between them, a shaping cavity for receiving and forming the starter tube section. The cavity has a contour which is both derived from the shape of the IHF component to be produced and adapted to the circumference of the starter tube section to be formed, such that each cavity cross section perpendicular to a cavity longitudinal axis predefined by the starter tube section corresponds to the cross-sectional shape of the IHF component cross-section in the same position, reduced in its cross-sectional circumference to exactly the circumference of the starter tube section. A method is provided for producing such a tool, and a method is provided for producing a tube-like IHF component using such a tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Johann-Stefan LERCH, Thomas SCHMOLKE