Designing and manufacturing a custom breast prosthesis

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B29C 45/16 (2006.01) A61F 2/50 (2006.01) A61F 2/52 (2006.01) G01B 7/04 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2310089

The present invention is directed to custom-fitted breast prostheses, and more particularly relates to systems and methods for disigning and manufacturing custom-fitted breast prostheses. One method (100) involves the creation of a visual mandrel using three-dimensional scanning equipment and computer aided design software. The visual mandrel may be stored in a computer and later reused and/or modified as needed by a custom breast prosthesis wearer. A further method involves the creation of a physical mandrel by an interactive sculpting process (110), wherein a patient and a designer develop the shape of the physical mandrel through the exchange of information including comfort, feel, and fit of the mandrel, as well as prior prostheses.

L'invention concerne des prothèses de sein personnalisées et, plus particulièrement, des systèmes et des procédés servant à concevoir et à fabriquer ces prothèses. Un procédé (100) consiste à créer un mandrin visuel au moyen d'un équipement de balayage tridimensionnel et d'un logiciel de conception assistée par ordinateur. Ce mandrin visuel peut être mémorisé dans un ordinateur et soit réutilisé ultérieurement, soit modifié en fonction de la femme à qui est destinée la prothèse. Un autre procédé consiste à créer un mandrin physique au moyen d'un processus de sculpture interactive (110) au cours duquel la patiente et le concepteur, ou la conceptrice, développent la forme du mandrin physique par l'intermédiaire d'un échange d'informations concernant le confort, la sensation ou l'adaptation du mandrin, ainsi que les prothèses préalables.

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