Deformable Dental Stand Pin Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional stands for dental technical materials face difficulties in efficiently and flexibly arranging dental models with multiple pins, requiring time and effort to match pin positions with holes, and limiting the arrangement of multiple models on a single stand.
Innovation Solution
A deformable stand with a holding device featuring multiple holes and projections that can adjust to accommodate pins of varying positions, made from heat-resistant, light-transmissive materials like resin or rubber, allowing for elastic deformation to securely hold dental models with pins, enhancing flexibility and ease of arrangement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional stands with fixed holes are used, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the flexibility in arranging dental models with multiple pins is limited and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The holding device is designed to be deformable, allowing it to dynamically adjust its shape to accommodate pins at various positions on dental models. This dynamic characteristic enables the same holding device to adapt to different pin configurations without requiring multiple fixed-hole patterns, thereby improving versatility while maintaining a simple overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The holding device changes its physical parameters (shape and configuration) in response to the position of pins on dental models. By allowing the holding device to deform and adjust its parameters, the system can accommodate various pin arrangements without requiring a complex array of pre-defined holes, thus improving adaptability while keeping the device structure relatively simple.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple fixed holes are provided for different pin positions, then the adaptability increases, but the device complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of providing multiple fixed holes for different pin positions, the invention uses a single deformable holding device that can dynamically change its shape to accommodate pins at various positions. This approach maintains high adaptability for multiple pin configurations while significantly simplifying the manufacturing process, as only one holding device type needs to be produced rather than multiple variants with different hole patterns.
3Ease of operation
If a rigid stand structure is used, then the manufacturing precision is high, but the ease of operation and arrangement flexibility are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The holding device combines deformability for ease of operation with sufficient structural integrity to maintain holding precision. The device can deform to accommodate pins at various positions, making arrangement easy, while still providing stable and precise holding once the pin is in place. This dynamic characteristic resolves the contradiction between ease of operation and manufacturing precision.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the stand is made deformable to increase flexibility, then the adaptability improves, but the holding stability may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The holding device exhibits dynamic characteristics, being deformable during the insertion process to accommodate pins at various positions, yet provides stable holding once the pin is secured. This dynamic behavior allows the device to transition from a flexible state during arrangement to a stable state during use, thereby maintaining both adaptability and holding reliability.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The stand increases flexibility and reduces difficulty in arranging dental models, enabling efficient polymerization by accommodating multiple models and pins, while maintaining high holding ability and improving light transmission for polymerization efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
the holding device is deformable
Implementation Method 2
made from heat-resistant, light-transmissive materials like resin or rubber, allowing for elastic deformation to securely hold dental models with pins, enhancing flexibility and ease of arrangement
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AI summary
The present invention provides a stand for a dental technical material which is capable of increasing flexibility and reducing difficulty in arranging a dental model. The stand for a dental technical material, for attaching thereto a dental model holding a dental technical material, the dental model being provided with a pin, comprises a body; the body is provided with a holding device which holds the pin; and the holding device is deformable.