Patent ID: 11890163
Assignee: ORTHOARM, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 8:
9. A self-ligating orthodontic bracket comprising:
a base for attaching the bracket to a tooth;
a body having an archwire slot defined at least partially by a lingual surface, wherein a mesio-gingival reference plane is tangent to a lingual-most point of the lingual surface, the body further having an occlusal-gingival opening in a first side of the body, wherein the reference plane intersects the opening, wherein the body further includes at least one tie wing on the first side of the body; and
a locking shutter coupled to the body having a closed position where access to the archwire slot is inhibited and an open position where access to the archwire slot is permitted, wherein the locking shutter includes a labial portion having a first and second straight sections and a lingual end formed as a third straight section located in the occlusal- gingival opening in said first side of said body and located at a closed lingual location relative said first side of said body when the locking shutter is in the closed position, and the lingual end being located at an open lingual location relative said first side of said body when the locking shutter is in the open position, and wherein said lingual end of said shutter travels substantially only along an essentially continuous planar surface of said occlusal-gingival opening and not away from said base as said lingual end moves from said closed lingual location to an open shutter position in which access to the archwire slot by said archwire is permitted.