• DocumentCode
    2576846
  • Title

    The design and implementation of microcontroller supported amalgamator [for dentistry]

  • Author

    GÜnes, Salih ; Yaldiz, Ercan ; Sayin, M. Vehbi

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Selcuk Univ., Konya, Turkey
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    758
  • Abstract
    In this study, a programmable integrated circuit (PIC) microcontroller-based medical apparatus was constructed for dentistry. The function of the apparatus is to obtain high-quality tooth-filling materials. In dentistry, the tooth-filling material does not adhere correctly and often falls out after some period of time. The reason for this problem is that the mixing process of mercury and amalgam isn´t done correctly. With the realized system, this mixing problem was solved and achieved successfully.
  • Keywords
    biomedical equipment; dentistry; materials preparation; medical computing; mercury alloys; microcontrollers; mixing; programmable controllers; programmable logic devices; adhesion; dentistry; high-quality tooth-filling materials; mercury-amalgam mixing process; microcontroller-based medical apparatus; microcontroller-supported amalgamator; programmable integrated circuit; Clocks; DC motors; Dentistry; EPROM; Filling; Microcontrollers; Microprocessors; Reduced instruction set computing; Registers; Teeth;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electrotechnical Conference, 2000. MELECON 2000. 10th Mediterranean
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6290-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MELCON.2000.880044
  • Filename
    880044