Implant for fixing a bone plate

US6537277B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Aesculap AG & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Ingo Vom Berg · Trossingen, DE
• Ulrich Fink · Tuttlingen, DE
• Manfred Fischer · Leichlingen, DE
• Theodor Lutze · Spaichingen, DE
• Dieter Weisshaupt

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 6, 2001
• Grant date: Mar 25, 2003
• Expiry date: Sep 14, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S606/908
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

To design as simply as possible an implant for fixing a bone plate in an opening of a bone plate and to avoid use of a complicated applicator, it is proposed that the implant be designed as a U-shaped clip, with a bridge and two contact arms protruding transversely from the bridge, the contact arms being capable of receiving a bone plate between them and thereby fixing the clip on the bone plate with the contact arms lying against the upper side and the lower side, respectively, of the bone plate, and with at least one projection on the outer side of the bridge facing away from the contact arms for fixing the clip on the other bone plate, so that a displacement of the clip relative to the other bone plate in the longitudinal direction of the bridge is prevented in at least one direction.