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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2018
Applicant:
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Inventors:
Andre Golcher, Lübbecke, DE;
Ralf M. Paehl, Melle, DE;
Assignee:
3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 7/28 (2006.01); A61C 7/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 7/28 (2013.01); A61C 7/145 (2013.01); A61C 7/148 (2013.01);
Abstract
An orthodontic bracket that forms a slot for receiving an archwire. The slot extends through the orthodontic bracket along an archwire axis. The slot is delimited in directions radially of the archwire axis by a slot base surface, an opposite slot cover surface and two opposite slot side surfaces. Further, the slot has an open side that is provided by a gap within one of the slot side surfaces in a dimension along the archwire axis.