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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2023
Dentsply Sirona Inc., York, PA (US);
Sirona Dental Systems Gmbh, Bensheim, DE;
Sebastian Saul, Heppenheim, DE;
Christoph Brandes, Mannheim, DE;
Dentsply Sirona Inc., York, PA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an additive manufacturing apparatus for additively manufacturing a component, including: a resin vat unit which includes: a reservoir for storing UV light photocurable resin; and a UV-transparent window at the bottom of the reservoir, the UV-transparent window includes a UV-transparent plate and a UV-transparent anti-adhesive flexible foil; a projection unit for projecting UV light through the UV-transparent window into the reservoir; a movable building platform having a surface onto which the component can be formed through layerwise curing of said resin. The UV-transparent window further includes: an optical means which is adapted to diffuse the projected UV light towards the building platform into a region (R) where the UV light photocurable resin is to be layerwise cured, the optical means is arranged in the light path of the projected UV light.
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