Handle for a Tool, Tooling System and Tools for Such a System
AssigneeSafe Orthopaedics
InventorDominique Petit
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Abstract
A handle for actuating a removable instrument formed by a rod extended by an active area, said rod extending in a longitudinal direction OX, said rod having at least one means for mechanically coupling with said handle, characterised in that said handle has a transverse insertion slot, symmetrical relative to a plane YOZ, wherein the axis OY is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis OX, said slot opening onto a surface of the handle and having a section corresponding to the section of the coupling area of said rod, in order to allow said coupling area to be inserted by way of a movement in a direction OY, until it butts against the bottom of said slot, said bottom extending in a plane parallel to the plane XOZ, wherein XOZ designates a plane perpendicular to the axis OY.
Claims12
1-11. (canceled)
A handle for actuating a removable instrument formed by a rod extended by an active area, said rod extending in a longitudinal direction OX, said rod having at least one area for mechanically coupling with said handle, said handle has a transverse insertion slot, symmetrical relative to a plane XOZ, wherein the axis OZ is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis OX, said transverse slot opening onto a surface of the handle and having a section corresponding to the section of the coupling area of said rod, in order to allow said coupling area to be inserted by way of a movement in a direction OZ, until it butts against the bottom of said transverse slot, said bottom extending in a plane parallel to the plane XOY, wherein XOY designates a plane perpendicular to the axis OZ, the depth of said slot being greater than half the thickness of the handle, said handle also having, on either side of said slot, according to the axis OX, two cavities opening respectively onto either one of the parallel edges of the plane ZOX, one of said cavities opening out at the front surface of the handle, said cavities being configured such as to allow the insertion of said rod by a rotation relative to the axis OZ of the coupling area after insertion into said slot, and to block said rotation when the rod reaches a position parallel to the longitudinal axis OX.
A tooling system made up of a removable instrument formed by a rod extended by at least one active area, said rod extending in a longitudinal direction OX and having at least one means for mechanically coupling with a handle, and a handle for actuating the removable instrument, said handle has a transverse insertion slot, symmetrical relative to a plane XOZ, wherein the axis OZ is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis OX, said slot opening onto a surface of the handle and having a section corresponding to the section of the coupling area of said rod, in order to allow said coupling area to be inserted by way of a movement in a direction OZ, until it butts against the bottom of said slot, said bottom extending in a plane parallel to the plane XOY, wherein XOY designates a plane perpendicular to the axis OZ, the depth of said slot being greater than half the thickness of the handle, said handle also having, on either side of said slot, according to the axis OX, two cavities opening respectively onto either one of the parallel edges of the plane ZOX, one of said cavities opening out at the front surface of the handle, said cavities being configured such as to allow the insertion of rod by a rotation relative to the axis OZ of the coupling area after insertion into said slot, and to block said rotation when the rod reaches a position parallel to the longitudinal axis OX.
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