Target apparatus

US6918916B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• RICHARD WOLF GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Jurgen Gobel · Jena, DE
• Eberhard Körner · Knittlingen, DE
• Helmut Heckele

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 20, 2002
• Grant date: Jul 19, 2005
• Expiry date: Jun 8, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/7527
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The target apparatus for positioning a drilling tool with respect to a drilling channel to be created in a bone consists of a target hook and a guide arm which is releasably connected to this and on which there is arranged a receiver for the drilling tool, and a guide path in the form of a laterally through-going open groove for the guide arm. The guide arm may be displaced and fixed in the guide path. A simple assembly and disassembly of the apparatus is achieved in that the guide arm on the side of the apparatus is applied into the guide path through the groove opening and reversely, by lifting away out of the groove, may be separated from the target hook.