Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device for fixation of bone fractures
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Application No.: US14012199Application Date: 2013-08-28
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Publication No.: US09301790B2Publication Date: 2016-04-05
- Inventor: Klaus Dorawa , Manuel Schwager , Christopher Rast , Marcel Aeschlimann , Philipp Seiler
- Applicant: Stryker European Holdings I, LLC
- Applicant Address: CH US MI Kalamazoo
- Assignee: Woodwelding AG,Stryker European Holdings I, LLC
- Current Assignee: Woodwelding AG,Stryker European Holdings I, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: CH US MI Kalamazoo
- Agency: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP
- Main IPC: A61B17/84
- IPC: A61B17/84 ; A61B17/86 ; A61B17/70 ; A61B17/88

Abstract:
A device and method for fixation of bone fractures has a bone screw comprising a shank with a threaded end portion, on the outer surface. The screw has a through bore with two bore portions differing in diameter. A step in the diameter is formed between these bore portions and is located within the end of the screw having the thread. This step in diameter can support a metal insert which in turn supports a polymer pin when the latter if pressurized with a sonotrode in the bone screw. Together with an applied ultrasonic vibration the pressure fluidizes the polymer pin and presses the material through holes configured in the wall of the bone screw and into surrounding bone.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130345764A1 DEVICE FOR FIXATION OF BONE FRACTURES Public/Granted day:2013-12-26
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