Device for setting and removing an implant such as a suture anchor
AssigneeTornier SAS
InventorsAlain Tornier, Francois Bonnomet
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Abstract
A device for setting and removing a deformable implant from bone wherein the device includes a body on which is mounted a movable handle which is operatively connected to activating elements for displacing a rod relative to the body for deforming and/or removing an implant from the bone. The device further includes a rod locking and disengaging assembly which is movable from a first position to prevent movement of the rod to a second position to permit movement of the rod relative to the body.
Claims24
A device for implanting or removing a deformable anchoring implant in a bone of a patient, the device including a body having a front portion and a rear portion, a rod mounted within said body and having a forward end portion extending from said front portion of said body and adapted to engage with the anchoring implant and a rear portion, a movable grip assembly pivotally mounted to said body for selectively operatively engaging an activating assembly for operatively moving said rod in translation relative to said body, and a rod locking and release assembly mounted to said body and movable from a first engaged position wherein said rod is engaged to prevent movement thereof to a second disengaged position wherein said rod is free to move in rotation relative to said body or in translation relative to said body when said movable grip assembly operatively engages said activating assembly for moving said rod in translation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.