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US 2006/0235400 A1Published application
Bone plate
AssigneeSynthes USA, LLC
InventorRolf Schneider
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Abstract
A bone plate has an underside on the side of the bone, an upper side and a plurality of holes in the plate connecting the underside with the upper side, with a central hole axis. At least one of these holes in the plate has an internal jacket surface that tapers towards the underside, while the internal jacket surface has N≧3 recesses which extend radially away from the axis of the hole.
Claims25
A bone plate comprising:
- an upper surface;
- a lower surface;
- and
- at least one hole extending from the upper surface to the lower surface, the at least one hole having a central hole axis and an internal jacket surface,
- wherein the internal jacket surface includes N recesses extending radially away from the central axis, where N≧3 and the internal jacket surface includes surface projections on at least a portion of the internal jacket surface.
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A bone plate comprising:
- an upper surface;
- a lower surface;
- a plate thickness defined by the upper and lower surfaces;
- at least one hole extending from the upper surface to the lower surface, the at least one hole having a central hole axis, a periphery, and an internal surface;
- a plurality of surface projections on the internal surface of the hole, the projections oriented generally perpendicular to the central axis of the hole;
- and
- at least three recesses in the internal surface of the hole angularly spaced about the periphery and extending radially away from the central axis
- wherein the recesses extend from the upper surface to the lower surface over the entire thickness of the bone plate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.