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Device for handling a bone screw

US9861419B2 · kind B2 · utility

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9Claims

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Assignee

Silony Medical International AG · CH

Inventors

Bernd Schafer · Kipfenberg, DE
Henry Halm · Bissendorf, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 21, 2014
Grant date	Jan 9, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 26, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB25B7/14
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device for handling a bone screw to be connected with a vertebral rod includes an essentially cylindrical and hollow housing and an adjustment tool which axially traverses the housing and which has a section provided with an outer threading and is screwed into an internal threading of the housing, wherein the housing is constructed pliers-like and has a first and a second jaw which relative to the user each have a proximal and a distal end, wherein the distal ends engage at the head of the bone screw, wherein the two jaws are pivotably connected with each other via a pivot axis which is situated between the distal and proximal ends and extends orthogonally in relation to the longitudinal axis of the housing, and wherein the internal threading of the housing is provided on a proximal end of a single one of the jaws.

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