Bone fixing device for cranial surgery

• US 20050107813A1
• Filed: 09/13/2002
• Published: 05/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vincente Gilete Garcia
• Original Assignee: Vincente Gilete Garcia
• Inventors: Gilete Garcia, Vincente
• Application Number:
  US10/488,952
• Publication Number:
  US 20050107813A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/151
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/68 Internal fixation devices , including fasteners and spinal fixators, even if a part thereof projects from the skin bone staples A61B17/0642
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/688 for reattaching pieces of the skull

Abstract

The device comprises a body of elastic characteristics with two end zones and an intermediate connection zone of same, one of the end zones having an aperture for its incorporation in the edge of the bone segment or bone flap separated in the operation, whereas the other end has cap means over the rest of the cranium, in order to limit the dropping of the bone segment in its new placement in the aperture made in the cranium and the intermediate part of the device being that which joins the two ends, an elastic part transversally which thereby remains housed in the separating interstice between the separated bone segment and the cranium and which permits the device to adjust to the width of the interstice made in the cutting operation in the surgical operation.

Claims

1. - Bone fixation device for cranial surgery, characterized in that it comprises a body of elastic characteristics with two end zones and an intermediate connection zone of same, one of the end zones having an aperture for its incorporation in the edge of the bone segment or bone flap separated in the operation, whereas the other end has cap means over the rest of the cranium, in order to limit the dropping of the bone segment in its new placement in the aperture made in the cranium and the intermediate part of the device being that which joins the two ends, an elastic part transversally which thereby remains housed in the separating interstice between the separated bone segment and the cranium and which permits the device to adjust to the width of the interstice made in the cutting operation in the surgical operation.

2. - Bone fixation device for cranial surgery, according to claim 1, characterized in that the fixating end in the bone segment separated in the operation has two arms intended for establishing contact with the upper face and the lower face next to the edge of the bone segment or bone flap.

3. - Bone fixation device for cranial surgery, according to claim 2, characterized in that the arms appreciably parallel to each other.

4. - Bone fixation device for cranial surgery, according to claim 2, characterized in that the arms are flexible to permit their enhanced adaptation to different thicknesses of the bone segment or bone flap.

5. - Bone fixation device for cranial surgery, according to claim 3, characterized in that the arms have protruding zones near their ends for their enhanced adaptation over the upper and lower faces of the bone segment or bone flap.

6. - Bone fixation device for cranial surgery, according to claim 1, characterized in that the cap of the device over the zone of the cranium next to the aperture of the operation is made up of a protruding tab.

7. - Bone fixation device for cranial surgery, according to claim 1, characterized in that the intermediate zone between the ends of the device of elastic characteristics, adopts a V or similar shape.

8. - Bone fixation device for cranial surgery, according to claim 1, characterized in that the constitution of the device is by means of a single laminar element bent into a “

U”

shape, the intermediate arm thereof and part of one of parallel arms having a large aperture, the material of which has been partly cut, leaving a connecting zone with the rest, thereby forming a slightly inclining angular element as regards the intermediate arm of the “

U” and

which has an upper tab parallel to the parallel arms of the “

U”

, intended for resting on the upper face of the aperture performed surgically in the cranium.

9. - Bone fixation device for cranial surgery, according to claim 8, characterized in that the faces in contact with the bone of the parallel arms of the element in “

U” and

of the flap of the angular element have a highly adherent finish.

10. - Bone fixation device for cranial surgery, according to claim 9, characterized in that the highly adherent finish consists of microteeth.