Patent ID: 7824183

Claim:
A three-dimensional measuring device to measure a model of a dental prosthesis, comprising: a rotary table to rotate around a center axis; an XY table movable in a plane tangential to the center axis; a measured object mounting tool comprising a cylindrical part mounted on the XY table and including a center axis that is coincident to the center axis of the rotary table, an inclined part formed by a part of a conical shape having an angle of 20 to 70 degrees with respect to the center axis of the cylindrical part at a boundary part between a side face and an upper face of said cylindrical part, a pillar part formed to have a same cross sectional shape as a cross sectional shape of an engaging portion of the model of the dental prosthesis, and a mounting part, which is formed on an upper face of the pillar part and has a shape to engage with an engaging part of the engaging portion of the model of the dental prosthesis, wherein the pillar part is fixed in direct contact with the upper face of the cylindrical part such that an extension line of the center axis of said cylindrical part extends through the mounting part; and a measuring part to measure three-dimensional coordinates of a shape of the model of the dental prosthesis mounted on the measured object mounting tool, the measuring part including a sensor, wherein the measuring part is configured to rotationally move the sensor in a plane containing the center axis of the rotary table and to translationally move the sensor from below an upper face of the cylindrical part upwards in a direction parallel to the center axis of the rotary table until the measuring part determines that a reflected light amount received by the sensor decreases, and, when the reflected light amount received by the sensor decreases, the measuring part calculates that an upper end of the engaging portion of the model of the dental prosthesis is located a prememorized distance in the direction parallel to the center axis of the rotary table.