Device for protecting surgical pins
AssigneeNewdeal S.A.
InventorMarino Delmi
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Abstract
A surgical device for holding together and aligning at least two pieces of bone, the device comprising: a surgical pin suitable for being implanted axially in the pieces of bone to be held together; and a protective plug provided with a through channel for enabling it to be engaged on the pin, said plug including a locking orifice in which locking element can be inserted; wherein: the locking orifice is made in such a manner as to open out into the through channel so as to form a surface S; and the locking element presents a matching cross-section such that on being inserted into the locking orifice it can lock the plug relative to the pin.
Claims17
A surgical device for holding together and aligning at least two pieces of bone, the device comprising:
- a surgical pin suitable for being implanted axially in the pieces of bone to be held together;
- and
- a protective plug provided with a through channel for enabling it to be engaged on the pin, said plug including a locking orifice in which locking means can be inserted to lock the plug in position relative to the pin;
- wherein:
- the locking orifice opens out substantially tangentially into the through channel;
- and
- the locking means having a cross-section whereby upon being inserted into the locking orifice the locking means locks the plug relative to said pin positioned within said though channel by compressive/locking contact via the opening into the through channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.