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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2013
Applicant:
Ormco Corporation, Orange, CA (US);
Inventor:
Alfred David Johnson, San Leandro, CA (US);
Assignee:
Ormco Corporation, Orange, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 7/20 (2006.01); C22C 9/01 (2006.01); C22F 1/00 (2006.01); C30B 29/52 (2006.01); C30B 33/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C22F 1/00 (2013.01); A61C 7/20 (2013.01); C22C 9/01 (2013.01); C22F 1/006 (2013.01); C30B 29/52 (2013.01); C30B 33/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
Dental arches of single-crystal shape memory alloys, methods of fabrication and apparatus for fabrication. The methods include drawing a single crystal of a shape memory alloy from a melt of the alloy. This is followed by heating, forming, and quenching the crystal sufficiently rapid to limit the formation of alloy precipitates to an amount which retains hyperelastic composition and properties of the crystal.