Patents by Inventor Yohannes WOLDEGERGIS
Yohannes WOLDEGERGIS 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).
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Patent number: 11039904Abstract: A method for producing a dental prosthesis, and a dental prosthesis made according to the method, the method having the following chronological steps: a) producing a first, provisional dental prosthesis comprising a prosthetic base and provisional prosthetic teeth having occlusal surfaces, whereby data that indicate at least a 3-dimensional form of the occlusal surfaces are stored or have been stored as data record A, b) after subtractive occlusal processing of at least one of the provisional prosthetic teeth, determining at least the 3-dimensional occlusal surfaces of the processed provisional prosthetic teeth, or determining the 3-dimensional surface of the first dental prosthesis is determined as a whole, c) storing data that indicate at least a form of the 3-dimensional occlusal surfaces as data record B, d) calculating, via a computer comparison of data record B with data record A, differences in the forms of the provisional prosthetic teeth before and after subtractive occlusal processing and, from tType: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Kulzer GmbHInventors: Uwe Boehm, Yohannes Woldegergis
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Patent number: 10945822Abstract: Method for producing a three-dimensional model of at least a partial jaw comprising: fully-automatic shaping of at least one recess for accommodating a laboratory analogue into the alveolar ridge of the model using three-dimensional scanning data and shaping the depth, position, and orientation of the at least one recess such that the crestal end of the laboratory analogue inserted into said recess coincides with the crestal end of the dental implant in the jaw; or fully-automatic shaping of at least one vestibular, lingual or palatinal feed-through through the model into the at least one recess using three-dimensional scanning data and arranging the feed-through such that the crestal end of a laboratory analogue coincides with the crestal end of the dental implant in the jaw when the laboratory analogue is fixed in place with a pin inserted through the feed-through in the model into an opening in the laboratory analogue.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: HERAEUS KULZER GMBHInventors: Yohannes Woldegergis, Stefan Hormann, Helmut Redemann, Uwe Boehm
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Publication number: 20200368116Abstract: The invention relates to a dental ceramic blank, in particular a filled milling blank, comprising at least one organic Compound, such as a polymer polymerized in the blank, for improving the machining properties of the blank. The blank has an open-pore ceramic microstructure which has 2 to 50 wt. %, based on the total composition of the dental ceramic blank, of at least one organic Compound. The invention also relates to a method for producing the blank.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2017Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: Kulzer GmbHInventors: Yohannes Woldegergis, Tim Weitzel, Stefan Hormann
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Patent number: 10610341Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for the production of three-dimensional objects, in particular of at least parts of dental prosthetic restorations, by a stripping device wiping off plastic material, which protrudes vertically beyond a container, into a collecting container and forms a projection surface. According to the invention, a stripping device and a light source are coupled and simultaneously guided, at a defined distance, across the liquid light-curing plastic material, whereby the stripping device is guided at a defined distance right ahead of the light source and forms the projection surface for the illuminated field of the light source.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: HERAEUS KULZER GMBHInventors: Christian Bauer, Yohannes Woldegergis, Uwe Brick
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Patent number: 10537412Abstract: The invention relates to a device for holding prosthetic teeth (2), the device comprising a negative form (1) and at least one clamping unit (6), wherein in the negative form (1), recesses (4) for holding coronal sides (12) of the prosthetic teeth (2) are provided, wherein the recesses (4) are formed in such a manner that the prosthetic teeth (2) can be inserted in an unequivocally position and orientation into the recesses (4), wherein the at least one clamping unit (6) is affixable or is affixed to the negative form (1) with a connecting means (10), and wherein the at least one clamping unit (6) has at least one elastic holding means (8), wherein with the at least one elastic holding means (8), an elastic force is exercisable or is exerted from at least two different directions onto the prosthetic teeth (2) inserted into the negative form (1), while the at least one clamping unit (6) is affixed to the negative form (1), so that the prosthetic teeth (2) are affixed in the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Kulzer GmbHInventor: Yohannes Woldegergis
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Patent number: 10271930Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dental bridge intermediary structure comprising a superstructure (203) and a reference plate (200), with distance pins (202) connecting the two. A method for producing a dental bridge superstructure (203) is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Kulzer GmbHInventors: Yohannes Woldegergis, Stefan Hormann, Kristofer Frick
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Publication number: 20180344438Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a dental prosthesis having the following chronological method steps: a) a first, provisional dental prosthesis comprising at least one first prosthetic base (1) and several provisional prosthetic teeth (4) is produced, whereby data that indicate at least the 3-dimensional form of the occlusal surfaces (6) of the provisional prosthetic teeth (4) of the provisional dental prosthesis are stored as data record A or have already been stored as data record A b) after subtractive occlusal processing of at least one of the provisional prosthetic teeth (4), at least the 3-dimensional occlusal surfaces (6) of the processed provisional prosthetic teeth (4) of the first dental prosthesis are determined, or the 3-dimensional surface of the first dental prosthesis is determined as a whole c) data that indicate at least the 3-dimensional form of the occlusal surfaces (6) of the processed provisional prosthetic teeth (4) are stored as data record B d) via a computer comparisonType: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Uwe Boehm, Yohannes Woldegergis
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Publication number: 20180110599Abstract: The invention relates to a device for holding prosthetic teeth, the device comprising a negative form and at least one clamping unit, wherein in the negative form, recesses for holding coronal sides of the prosthetic teeth are provided, wherein the recesses are formed in such a manner that the prosthetic teeth can be inserted in an unequivocally position and orientation into the recesses, wherein the at least one clamping unit is affixable or is affixed to the negative form with a connecting means, and wherein the at least one clamping unit has at least one elastic holding means, wherein with the at least one elastic holding means, an elastic force is exercisable or is exerted from at least two different directions onto the prosthetic teeth inserted into the negative form, while the at least one clamping unit is affixed to the negative form, so that the prosthetic teeth are affixed in the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2016Publication date: April 26, 2018Inventor: Yohannes Woldegergis
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Publication number: 20170246796Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for the production of three-dimensional objects, in particular of at least parts of dental prosthetic restorations, by a stripping device wiping off plastic material, which protrudes vertically beyond a container, into a collecting container and forms a projection surface. According to the invention, a stripping device and a light source are coupled and simultaneously guided, at a defined distance, across the liquid light-curing plastic material, whereby the stripping device is guided at a defined distance right ahead of the light source and forms the projection surface for the illuminated field of the light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2015Publication date: August 31, 2017Applicant: HERAEUS KULZER GMBHInventors: Christian BAUER, Yohannes WOLDEGERGIS, Uwe BRICK
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Publication number: 20170112602Abstract: Method for producing a three-dimensional model of at least a partial jaw comprising: fully-automatic shaping of at least one recess for accommodating a laboratory analogue into the alveolar ridge of the model using three-dimensional scanning data and shaping the depth, position, and orientation of the at least one recess such that the crestal end of the laboratory analogue inserted into said recess coincides with the crestal end of the dental implant in the jaw; or fully-automatic shaping of at least one vestibular, lingual or palatinal feed-through through the model into the at least one recess using three-dimensional scanning data and arranging the feed-through such that the crestal end of a laboratory analogue coincides with the crestal end of the dental implant in the jaw when the laboratory analogue is fixed in place with a pin inserted through the feed-through in the model into an opening in the laboratory analogue.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2017Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: Heraeus Kulzer GmbHInventors: YOHANNES WOLDEGERGIS, STEFAN HORMANN, HELMUT REDEMANN, UWE BOEHM
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Publication number: 20160135930Abstract: Dental implant comprising an implant adapter and a suprastructure, in which the implant adapter is coronally arched in at least some sections and the suprastructure is apically arched in at least some sections, the apical curvature of the suprastructure being convex and the coronal curvature of the implant adapter being concave, or the apical curvature of the suprastructure being concave and the coronal curvature of the implant adapter being convex, with the concave curvature.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Yohannes WOLDEGERGIS, Christian BAUER
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Publication number: 20150079355Abstract: The invention relates to three-dimensional dimensionally-stable moulded parts made of polymeric particles whose particles are connected firmly to each other, at least in part, at the contact sites of the particles, whereby the particles are preferably glued to each other, at least in part, at the contact sites. The pre-packaged moulded parts made of polymeric, powdery particles made of PMMA can take up acrylate or MMA into the porous three-dimensional structure and form a pasty or creamy dough that can be cast, pressed or injected and can be cured by common techniques after the forming. Also subject matters of the invention are the use of and a kit for producing said pasty dough. Said pre-packaged moulded parts are used in methods for producing prostheses, such as dental prostheses, bone cements, investment compounds, in particular of porous substrates, as investment compound in metallography.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: HERAEUS KULZER GMBHInventors: Yohannes Woldegergis, Christian Bauer
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Publication number: 20140342317Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dental bridge intermediary structure comprising a superstructure (203) and a reference plate (200), with distance pins (202) connecting the two. A method for producing a dental bridge superstructure (203) is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2012Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Yohannes Woldegergis, Stefan Hormann, Kristofer Frick
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Publication number: 20130330689Abstract: A method for producing a three-dimensional model of a region of a jaw for producing a dental restoration includes fully-automatic shaping of a recess for accommodating a laboratory analogue into the alveolar ridge of the model. Three-dimensional scanning data is used in the shaping and the depth, position, and orientation of the recess are shaped such that the crestal end of the laboratory analogue inserted into the recess coincides with the crestal end of the dental implant in the jaw of a patient. The method may also include fully-automatic shaping of a vestibular, lingual or palatinal feed-through through the model into the recess, wherein the three-dimensional scanning data are used in the shaping and the feed-through is arranged such that the crestal end of a laboratory analogue coincides with the crestal end of the dental implant in the jaw of the patient, when the laboratory analogue is fixed in place.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Inventors: Yohannes WOLDEGERGIS, Stefan HORMANN, Helmut REDEMANN, Uwe BOEHM
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Publication number: 20080160484Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging unit for homogenising ceramic slurry in mixing devices with at least one packaging vessel, which exhibits a releasable closure, containing ceramic slurries or their components in pre-metered quantities.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2005Publication date: July 3, 2008Applicant: HERAEUS KULZER GMBHInventors: Robin Huhn, Ulrich Koops, Novica Savic, Ozlem Weiss, Yohannes Woldegergis-Kirchmann