Patent ID: 11937995
Assignee: J. MORITA MFG. CORP.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A cap mountable on and detachable from an image capturing device constituting an intraoral scanner that obtains, as three-dimensional data, a shape of a tooth in an oral cavity, the cap comprising:
a housing having an opening that permits connection to at least a part of the image capturing device;
a light inlet disposed in the housing and located opposite to the opening; and
a reflector that reflects light from the light inlet toward the opening, wherein
the housing, when connecting to the part of the image capturing device, has a longitudinal length shorter than a longitudinal length of a housing of a specific cap that is mounted on the image capturing device and that can obtain three-dimensional data of a tooth including an occlusal portion, and
the longitudinal length of the housing of the cap is the length at which the image capturing device can obtain three-dimensional data of a tooth where the occlusal portion is missing and a portion extending from the occlusal portion toward an alveolar bone remains.