Device for attaching a flat band on a bone part
AssigneeImplanet
InventorsDenis Pasquet, Régis Le Couëdic
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Abstract
A device for attaching a flat and flexible band on at least one bone part, comprising the band having two end portions, a rigid base body crossed by an opening, and a retaining part that can be inserted in the opening. The retaining part is at least partially in the shape of a squeezable wedge comprising a central bore for passage of the end portions facing the flexible band, the bore having a transverse cross-section that can be deformed between a first cross-section for free passage of the end portions when the part has not been inserted in the opening and a second cross-section for locking the end portions by compression when the part is entirely or substantially entirely inserted in the opening.
Claims12
A device for attaching a flat and flexible band on at least one bone part, comprising said band having two end portions, a rigid base body with a through-opening, and a retaining component that is insertable in said opening, wherein the retaining component is at least partially in the shape of a squeezable wedge comprising a central bore for passage of said opposite end portions of the flexible band, said central bore having a cross section that is deformable between a first cross section for free passage of the end portions when the component has not been inserted in the opening, and a second cross section for blocking said end portions by compression when the component is entirely or substantially entirely inserted in the opening.
A method for attaching a flat and flexible band on at least one bone part, said band provided with two end portions, a rigid base body with a through-opening, and a retaining component that is insertable into said opening, wherein the retaining component being in the shape of a squeezable wedge comprising a central bore for passage of said opposite end portions of the flexible band, the method comprising:
- introducing an end portion of the band into the opening and into the bore, the retaining component being connected partially in the opening;
- passing the band around the bone part, and passing the other end portion the opening and the bore, thus forming a loop for gripping said bone part
- tightening the loop to the desired size by pulling on the two end portions
- wherein said retaining component is inserted with force into the opening, deforming the bore in order to obtain a position in which said end portions are blocked by compression in the bore, the component then being deformed plastically.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.