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).

  • Patent number: 11039904
    Abstract: 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 t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Kulzer GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Boehm, Yohannes Woldegergis
  • Patent number: 10945822
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: HERAEUS KULZER GMBH
    Inventors: Yohannes Woldegergis, Stefan Hormann, Helmut Redemann, Uwe Boehm
  • Publication number: 20200368116
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: Kulzer GmbH
    Inventors: Yohannes Woldegergis, Tim Weitzel, Stefan Hormann
  • Patent number: 10610341
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: HERAEUS KULZER GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Bauer, Yohannes Woldegergis, Uwe Brick
  • Patent number: 10537412
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Kulzer GmbH
    Inventor: Yohannes Woldegergis
  • Patent number: 10271930
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Kulzer GmbH
    Inventors: Yohannes Woldegergis, Stefan Hormann, Kristofer Frick
  • Publication number: 20180344438
    Abstract: 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 comparison
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Uwe Boehm, Yohannes Woldegergis
  • Publication number: 20180110599
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventor: Yohannes Woldegergis
  • Publication number: 20170246796
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: HERAEUS KULZER GMBH
    Inventors: Christian BAUER, Yohannes WOLDEGERGIS, Uwe BRICK
  • Publication number: 20170112602
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: Heraeus Kulzer GmbH
    Inventors: YOHANNES WOLDEGERGIS, STEFAN HORMANN, HELMUT REDEMANN, UWE BOEHM
  • Publication number: 20160135930
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Yohannes WOLDEGERGIS, Christian BAUER
  • Publication number: 20150079355
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: HERAEUS KULZER GMBH
    Inventors: Yohannes Woldegergis, Christian Bauer
  • Publication number: 20140342317
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Yohannes Woldegergis, Stefan Hormann, Kristofer Frick
  • Publication number: 20130330689
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Yohannes WOLDEGERGIS, Stefan HORMANN, Helmut REDEMANN, Uwe BOEHM
  • Publication number: 20080160484
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: HERAEUS KULZER GMBH
    Inventors: Robin Huhn, Ulrich Koops, Novica Savic, Ozlem Weiss, Yohannes Woldegergis-Kirchmann