Sirona Dental Systems Gmbh

Siegfried Gleditzsch

David Figge

Peter Fornoff

Franz Basler

Christian Schmidt

The invention relates to a sintering furnace for components consisting of sintering material, especially dental components and in particular components consisting of ceramic, and a method for sintering such components. The sintering furnacecomprises a heatable furnace chamberfor the componentto be sintered, the furnace chamberhaving a wall sectionto be opened for inserting the componentto be sintered into the furnace chamber. Drive meansare provided for mechanized opening and closing of the wall section, and a controlis provided for the drive meansthat has an actuation elementfor the drive means. Furthermore, a heating devicefor the furnace chamberis provided, and the controlcauses the furnace chamberto be heated. Actuating the control elementtriggers the loading sequence of the control, and the drive meansare automatically actuated by the controlcorresponding to the loading sequence. An additional subject is a method for operating the sintering furnace, as well as a computer program therefor.

Sintering furnace for components consisting of a sintering material, in particular for dental components, and a method for sintering such components

In a method for processing a blank (), in which the blank () can be densely sintered with shrinkage following machining and machining of the blank () is carried out in a machining device () allowing for an individual scale-up factor (F) relevant to the blank () for compensating for the shrinkage occurring during dense sintering, a linear measurement of the blank () is performed in one or more of the dimensions length, width, and height for determining the scale-up factor (F), wherein the measured linear measure () bears a known relationship to the scale-up factor (F), the type of blank () being known. Linear measurement of the blank () can be carried out in the machining device ().

Growing community of inventors

Heppenheim, Germany

Siegfried Gleditzsch