Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Odanaka

Yasuhiro Odanaka 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: 9610146
    Abstract: A dental block includes a block body having a one surface, and an engagement portion to be engaged with a dental implant fixture. The engagement portion has a bolt through hole and is formed in the one surface of the block body. The dental block further includes a ring-shaped abutment surface to be abutted against a top surface on the oral cavity inner side of the dental implant fixture. The ring-shaped abutment surface is positioned more inside the block body than the one surface and is formed from an end portion positioned at the most oral cavity inner side of the engagement portion to surround the end portion, and to be parallel to the one surface of the block body. The dental block further includes a diameter-enlarged portion having a tapered shape whose diameter increases from the ring-shaped abutment surface toward the one surface of the block body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: GC Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Odanaka, Yuki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20150164622
    Abstract: Provide a dental block by which, when a gap is formed between the gum and a dental abutment due to recession of the gum after fixing a dental prosthesis by using a dental implant system, a cutting process can be easily performed on a new dental abutment for covering the gap part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Odanaka, Yuki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 7326052
    Abstract: To photograph teeth and dental shade guides including marks indicating color tones of a color samples together in large size and particularly, without making the photographing distance far from the teeth, irrespective of the color samples to plate-shaped handle parts, in the dental shade guide, has a color sample modeling a form of an artificial tooth of an anterior tooth and a tag having a mark indication part are attached at one end of a plate-shaped handle part rotatably around an axis, the tag is attached at a lingual surface side of the color sample, and the mark indication part protrudes 1 to 15 mm at the maximum only from a tooth root directional end or side of the color sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: GC Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Odanaka, Tetsuro Sakuma, Mizuki Nakayama, Daiki Machida
  • Publication number: 20050287489
    Abstract: To photograph teeth and dental shade guides including marks indicating color tones of a color samples together in large size and particularly, without making the photographing distance far from the teeth, irrespective of the color samples to plate-shaped handle parts, in the dental shade guide, has a color sample modeling a form of an artificial tooth of an anterior tooth and a tag having a mark indication part are attached at one end of a plate-shaped handle part rotatably around an axis, the tag is attached at a lingual surface side of the color sample, and the mark indication part protrudes 0.1 to 15 mm at the maximum only from a tooth root directional end or side of the color sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Applicant: GC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Odanaka, Tetsuro Sakuma, Mizuki Nakayama, Daiki Machida