Osteosynthesis plate

US4503848A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Aesculap-Werke AG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfhard Caspar · Contwig, DE
• Theodor Lutze · Spaichingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 25, 1982
• Grant date: Mar 12, 1985
• Expiry date: Mar 25, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B17/80
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

To make possible the effective immobilization of pieces of bone with an osteosynthesis plate, the proposal is made that the longitudinal edges of the osteosynthesis plate diverge in the manner of a trapezoid, that the osteosynthesis plate be provided with two adjacent rows of slots for its screws, and that the orientations of the longitudinal axes of the slots in both rows diverge in the same directions as the diverging longitudinal edges of the osteosynthesis plate itself.