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US 5,702,392 AGranted
Coupling plate for spinal correction and a correction device of using the same
OwnerShing-sheng Wu, Po-quang Cheninventors
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Abstract
A coupling plate assembly for spinal correction includes a central rod, a clamping tube having a truncated conical head sized to receive the central rod, an integrally formed step, and a threaded inner periphery defining a hole on the step for a screw to extend therethrough and clamp the central rod, and a plate having two slots each extending from a distal end toward a center portion of the plate and a channel perpendicular to an interconnection axis of the slots with a groove for receiving the clamping tube.
Claims4
An assembly for spinal correction comprising:
- a central rod;
- a clamping tube having a truncated conical head sized to receive the central rod, an integrally formed step, and a threaded inner periphery defining a hole for a screw to extend therethrough and clamp the central rod;
- a plate having two slots each extending from a distal end toward a center portion of the plate with grooved edges on inner walls of the slots and a channel perpendicular to an interconnection axis of the slots with an opening for receiving the step of the clamping tube;
- a plurality of transpedicle screw assemblies each comprising a transpedicle screw with a hole defining in a head of the screw, two recesses being radially oppositely formed on a shank of the screw adjacent to the head thereof for engaging with the slot of the plate and a threaded portion being formed next to the recesses, and a cap nut for engaging with the threaded portion of the screw and mounting the transpedicle screw onto the plate;
- two threaded shafts, one extending through the hole in the head of one of the transpedicle screw assemblies on one side of the central rod and the other extending through the hole in the head of another of the transpedicle screw assemblies on the other side of the central rod;
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- a first nut and a second nut respectively threaded on each of the threaded shafts abutting the two ends of the hole in the head of each transpedicle screw so that a spinal correction is executed by turning the first and the second nuts.
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