# US 7,611,008 B2 · Package for a medical anchor element and suture thread

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- Number: US 7,611,008 B2
- Document ID: US7611008B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 11/673,174
- Filed: 2007-02-09
- Published: 2007-10-11
- Granted: 2009-11-03
- Earliest claimed: 2006-02-10
- Assignees: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
- Inventors: Kurt Ruffieux; Heiner Kern; Dennis Reichardt; Alexander Siegrist
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7611008B2

## CPC

- A61B 17/0401: {Suture anchors, buttons or pledgets, i.e. means for attaching sutures to bone, cartilage or soft tissue; Instruments for applying or removing suture anchors (A61B17/0642 takes precedence; fixation devices for tendons or ligaments A61F2/0811)}
- A61B 17/06114: {Packages or dispensers for needles or sutures (packages for sharps A61B50/3001; for dental floss A61C15/043; packages for needles in general B65D85/24)}
- A61B 50/30: Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments (for wound clamps A61B17/10; for ligaturing clips A61B17/122; packages or dispensers for surgical gloves or finger-stalls A61B42/40)
- A61B 17/06123: {Flat cylinders, e.g. including an inner reel}
- A61B 17/06128: {Elongate cylinders, i.e. tubes}
- A61B 17/06133: {of parallelepipedal shape, e.g. made of rectangular or slightly oval panels}
- A61B 2017/0409: {Instruments for applying suture anchors}
- A61B 2017/0412: {having anchoring barbs or pins extending outwardly from suture anchor body}
- A61B 2017/0414: {having a suture-receiving opening, e.g. lateral opening}
- A61B 2017/0416: {Packages or dispensers for suture anchors or for anchor applicators}
- A61B 2017/0427: {having anchoring barbs or pins extending outwardly from the anchor body}
- A61B 2017/06142: {having needle- or suture- retaining members, e.g. holding tabs or needle parks}
- A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D)

## Abstract

A package is used for the packaging of an anchor element together with a suture thread which is threaded on the latter. It is proposed to provide the package with an outer casing hermetically closed to the outside, the casing container holder which receives said anchor element and which has a seat for the suture thread already wound on the anchor element.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A package with an anchor element, having an approximately cylindrical body, together with suture thread, said anchor element can be introduced together with said suture thread into a bone for a purpose of fixing a tendon, having
an outer casing hermetically closed off from an outside,
a holder arranged inside said casing,
said anchor element being received in said holder,
a seat for said suture thread,
said suture thread already threaded on said anchor element,
wherein said holder is designed as a blank and wherein said blank has at least one flap into which said anchor element is inserted,
wherein said flap has a predetermined break point,
wherein said cylindrical body of said anchor element is provided with hooks on its outer face which are design in the manner of annular flanges, and
wherein the distance between two hooks corresponds approximately to the width of said flap.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The package of claim 1, wherein said anchor element is received in a defined position in said holder.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The package of claim 1, wherein said anchor element is received in said holder in such a way, that after opening said outer casing, a tool for handling can be applied to said anchor element.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The package of claim 1, wherein said holder is designed as a handle.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The package of claim 1, wherein said holder provides said seat carrying said suture thread.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The package of claim 1, wherein said anchor element and said holder are connected captively to one another, but in a detachable manner.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The package of claim 1, wherein said blank is folded so as to form an envelope-like body, said suture thread being received in an interior of said envelope-like body.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The package of claim 1, wherein said flap is produced by punches made in said blank.