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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
NIX Company Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 8/538 ; A61B 1/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 8/538 ; A61B 1/04 ;
Abstract
A film-made sheath is formed of a transparent film and a shrinkable film. These transparent and shrinkable films are in a contiguous relation and are adhered or fusion-bonded at edges thereof into sheath-shaped configurations. The transparent and shrinkable films may be dimensioned such that the sheath can accommodate therein a mouth insert portion of an intraoral camera. The mouth insert portion of the intraoral camera can be covered with the film-made sheath by inserting the mouth insert portion into the sheath such that a light-receiving portion of the intraoral camera is located on a side of the transparent film, and then heating the shrinkable film.