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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2000
Yoshinori Ebihara, Tokyo, JP;
Tokichi Shimizu, Kiryu, JP;
GC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A dental automatic cutting apparatus is disclosed, having a construction in which cutting tools are made automatically detachable to a chuck and a tool cassette by automatic control mechanism comprising: an engagement means provided to the tool cassette and a base block to maintain the tool cassette in a detachable manner to the base block to a desired position relation, the tool cassette provided on its front surface side with at least two post-inserting bore through which each tool post having a function to accommodate and hold the cutting tool which can be inserted, and the base block is fixed to a main body of the dental automatic cutting apparatus, and connection means for connecting the engagement means provided in the tool cassette to the base block to fix the tool cassette. In the dental automatic cutting apparatus of the invention, which is used for preparing dental prostheses such as crowns and inlays in a processing process by CAD/CAM, tool cassettes accommodating a plurality of types and/or a plural number of cutting tools can be made automatically detachable in a desired position.
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