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Surgical connecting element for fixing adjacently arranged bone plates

US6921401B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Aesculap AG & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

Karl D. Lerch
Manfred Fischer · Leichlingen, DE
Klaus-Dieter Steinhilper · Tuttlingen, DE
Dieter Weisshaupt

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 26, 2002
Grant date	Jul 26, 2005
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 17, 2022

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B2090/037
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In order to configure, in such a way as to be capable of being employed in a simple and secure manner and produced cost-effectively, a surgical connecting element for fixing adjacently arranged bone plates, comprising a first bearing element, a second bearing element and a coupling element, by means of which the first and second bearing element can be coupled to each other in such a way that bone plates lying between the first and second bearing element can be fixed, it is proposed that the second bearing element and the coupling element be so designed and adapted to each other that, by relative movement between the coupling element and the second bearing element transversely to a clamping direction, the bone plates are fixable between the first and the second bearing element.

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