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US 9,801,692 B2Granted
Instrument deployed tissue protector
AssigneeBiomet Manufacturing, LLC
InventorsJohn R. White, Gregory J. Denham
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Abstract
A surgical device includes a guiding instrument; a protector comprised of a protective material held in a non-protecting state by the guiding instrument and having a protection state; and an actuator connected to the protector that is configured to advance the protector along the guiding instrument such that the protector is allowed to assume the protection state.
Claims14
A surgical device, comprising:
- an orthopaedic instrument having a tissue destructive feature;
- a guiding instrument configured to be connected to said orthopaedic instrument;
- a protector comprised of a protective material held in a collapsed non-protecting state by said guiding instrument, said protector having an expanded protection state, said protector configured for protecting an orthopaedic target from the tissue destructive feature when in the expanded protection state;
- an actuator connected to said protector, said actuator configured to advance said protector along said guiding instrument such that said protector is allowed to assume said expanded protection state;
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- a tether held by said guiding instrument and connected to said protector, said tether formed as a wire, said tether configured to collapse said protector from said expanded protection state when pulled away from said protector.
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A surgical device, comprising:
- an orthopaedic instrument having a tissue destructive feature;
- a guiding instrument connected to said orthopaedic instrument, said guiding instrument configured to allow said orthopaedic instrument to slide along said guiding instrument;
- a protector comprised of a protective material covering said tissue destructive feature and held by said guiding instrument, said protector configured to be releasably attached to said tissue destructive feature, said protector configured to slide farther along said guiding instrument than said tissue destructive feature and release from said tissue destructive feature after sliding a farther distance along said guiding instrument than said tissue destructive feature;
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- a tether held by said guiding instrument and connected to said protector, said tether formed as a wire, said tether configured to collapse said protector from an expanded protection state when pulled away from said protector.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.