Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Sankin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshimasa Igarashi

Minoru Ai

Ichiro Minami

Teruyasu Nakamura

Katsuya Mizuno

Tetsu Nemoto

Akira Manabe

There is provided a jaw motion measuring system that can attach a simple detector and can accurately carry out measurement of jaw motion. The jaw motion measuring system includes: an acceleration detector having at least an acceleration sensor that senses accelerations of three-axis directions, a flexible wire whose one end is connected to the acceleration sensor, an output terminal that is connected to another end of the flexible wire and outputs acceleration data of the three-axis directions, and an attachment portion that attaches the acceleration sensor to a chin portion of a lower jaw; and a jaw motion measuring device that acquires acceleration data corresponding to jaw motion from the acceleration detector, and carries out correction, with respect to the acquired acceleration data, of errors due to the acceleration sensor, and measures jaw motion expressed by acceleration waveforms.

Jaw motion measuring system

An improved device for measuring an inclination angle of the tapered surface of a plaster die duplicated from the prepared tooth in the field of restorative dentistry is disclosed. The device is used also for scraping operation for the was pattern. It includes a turnable tool holding plate which is turnably held in a slot formed on the lower part of a core so as to turn about a support shaft. A rotary ring with its lower end face cut to a predetermined inclination angle, for instance, 7 degrees is rotatably fitted onto the core in such a manner that the lower inclined face comes in contact with the upper faces of wing-shaped lateral projections of the tool holding plate with a transversely extending shaft disposed therebetween. The transversely extending shaft is inserted through the tool holding plate at the same inclination angle as that of the lower inclined end face of the rotary ring so that its axis intersects with the axis of the support shaft. When a tool on the tool holding plate is to be inclined, a lock ring is loosened and the rotary ring is rotated by an operator's hand. When the rotary ring is rotated by 90 degrees, the tool is caused to incline by 7 degrees. When it is further rotated by 180 degrees, the tool is inclined by 14 degrees. A number of calibration lines are impressed over the peripheral surface of the rotary ring.

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Sagamihara, Japan

Yoshimasa Igarashi