Miniaturized dual drive open architecture suture anchor
AssigneeSmith & Nephew, Inc.
InventorMark Edwin Housman
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Abstract
The disclosure provides examples of an open architecture anchor for securing soft tissue to bone, for example, to repair a torn rotor cuff. The anchor includes at least one open helical coil defining a polygonal internal volume and at least one rib disposed within the polygonal internal volume and connected to at least two turns of the at least one open helical coil. The at least one rib is sized to engage a driver and a combination of the at least one rib and the polygonal internal volume is sized to provide an anchor drive torque required to drive the anchor into bone.
Claims6
An anchor comprising:
- at least one open helical coil defining a polygonal internal volume communicating with a region exterior to the at least one open helical coil through a spacing between turns of the at least one open helical coil, wherein the polygonal internal volume is sized to engage a driver;
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- at least one rib disposed within the polygonal internal volume and connected to at least two turns of the at least one open helical coil, wherein the at least one rib is sized to engage the driver and a combination of the at least one rib and the polygonal internal volume is sized to provide an anchor drive torque required to drive the anchor into bone.
A tissue repair system comprising:
- a driver comprising a handle and a polygonal shaft connected to the handle, at least part of the polygonal shaft having a polygonal-shaped cross-section, the polygonal shaft including a distal end having at least one groove extending toward a proximal end of the polygonal shaft;
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- an anchor engageable with a distal end of the driver comprising:
- at least one open helical coil defining a polygonal internal volume communicating with a region exterior to the at least one open helical coil through a spacing between turns of the at least one open helical coil, wherein the polygonal internal volume is sized to engage the polygonal shaft of the driver, and;
- at least one rib disposed within the polygonal internal volume and connected to at least two turns of at the least one open helica coil, wherein the at least one rib is sized to engage the at least one groove of the drive and a combination of the at least one rib and one polygonal internal volume is sized to provide an anchor drive torque required for the driver to drive the anchor into bone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.