ROTARY DEVICE FOR RETRIEVING SPINAL COLUMN UNDER TREATMENT

• US 20050131410A1
• Filed: 06/08/2004
• Published: 06/16/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: A-Spine Asia Co., Ltd., A-Spine Holding Group Corp.
• Original Assignee: A-Spine Asia Co., Ltd., A-Spine Holding Group Corp.
• Inventors: Lin, Chih-I
• Granted Patent: US 6,896,677 B1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/266
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/7032 Screws or hooks with U-shaped head or back through which longitudinal rods pass
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/7037 wherein pivoting is blocked when the rod is clamped

Abstract

A vertebral retrieval device includes a retrieval rod which is gripped firmly in a receiving slot of a fixation seat between two grooves of a pressing element and a C-shaped ring. The C-shaped ring rests on a spherical head fastening screw, a spherical head of which is received in the fixation seat and a shank of which is protruding from a through hole provided in a bottom of the fixation seat. The pressing element is pressed against the retrieval rod by a pressing screw, which is threaded into a threaded hole formed in a fixation element mounted in the receiving slot of the fixation seat.

Claims

1. A vertebral retrieval device comprising:

a retrieval rod which is used to retrieve spinal segments under treatment;

a fixation seat provided with a receiving slot for receiving the retrieval rod, said receiving slot being provided on two opposite side walls with a retaining recess, and in a bottom with a through hole;

a fastening screw is provided with a spherical head made integrally therewith, wherein said spherical head is rotatably received in said fixation seat when said fastening screw is inserted into said through hole of said fixation seat;

a C-shaped ring provided with a concave down surface on one side, said C-shaped ring being able to be elastically deformed, received in said fixation seat and retained in said fixation seat by an expansion force resulting from said deformation, while said concave down surface resting on the spherical head of said fastening screw and another side of said C-shaped ring being adapted to receive said retrieval rod;

a fixation assembly comprising a rotary fixation element provided with a threaded through hole, and two retaining edges opposite to each other;

a pressing element having a projection at one side and a groove at another side; and

a pressing screw having a round hole adapted to receive said projection of said pressing element, wherein said rotary fixation element is engaged with said fixation seat such that the two retaining edges are retained in said retaining recesses of said fixation seat, said pressing screw is threadably engaged in said threaded through hole of said rotary fixation element, and the pressing element is able to be pressed against said retrieval rod by threading said pressing screw, when the groove of said pressing element rests on said retrieval rod and said projection of said pressing element is received in said round hole of said pressing screw.

2. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said retaining recesses of said fixation seat are located in inner sides of the two side walls of said receiving slot;

wherein said retaining edges of said rotary fixation element are located in outer edges of said rotary fixation element.

3. The device as defined in claim 2, wherein said retaining edges of said rotary fixation element are provided with an inclined plane having a higher outer side and a lower inner side;

wherein said retaining recesses of said fixation seat are provided with an inclined plane having a higher outer side and a lower inner side, wherein said rotary fixation element is engaged with said fixation seat such that said inclined planes of said rotary fixation element and said fixation seat are in contact with each other, and thus the two side walls of said receiving slot of said fixation seat are prevented from departing from each other.

4. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said C-shaped ring is provided with a groove on said another side thereof, and said groove of said C-shaped ring is adapted to receive said retrieval rod;

5. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein a tool hole is provided in said pressing screw for facilitating the threadable engagement with said rotary fixation element.