Bone cutting device for total knee replacement

• US 4,457,307 A
• Filed: 08/20/1982
• Issued: 07/03/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: William T. Stillwell
• Original Assignee: William T. Stillwell
• Inventors: Stillwell, William T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosenbaum, C. Fred
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kartchner, Gene B.
• Application Number:
  US06/409,920
• Time in Patent Office: 683 Days
• Field of Search: 128/305, 128/317, 128/92 E, 128/92 EA, 128/92 EB, 30/166 A, 30/372, 30/379, 30/379.5, 30/371, 30/376, 83/743-746, 83/758, 83/761
• US Class Current: 606/88
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/154 for preparing bone for knee prosthesis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/155 Cutting femur
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/157 Cutting tibia
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/68 Entirely work supported

Abstract

A device for enabling a surgeon to make bone cuts in performing total knee surgery which includes a femoval assembly adapted to be mounted on a femur, and a carriage assembly connected to the femoval assembly and pivotally adjustable relative thereto about two axes which are transverse to each other and to the femoval axis. The carriage assembly is also adjustable longitudinally of the femoval assembly and includes a saw carriage slidable thereon. The saw carriage supports a powered saw. The parts are adjusted and locked in several sequential positions and the saw carriage and saw moved to make all the knee surgery cuts.

Claims

1. A device for enabling a surgeon to make bone cuts in performing total knee replacement, said device comprising a femoral assembly including an elongated rail adapted to be secured to a femur and substantially parallel thereto, and a support pivotally mounted on said rail for movement about an axis substantially perpendicular thereto and to the femur, a carriage assembly including a carriage housing and a saw carriage slidably guided for linear movement on said carriage housing, said saw carriage adapted to have a saw fixed thereto, said saw having a blade extending substantially parallel to the direction of said linear movement of said carriage, means interconnecting said femoral assembly and said carriage assembly including adjustment means for securing the carriage assembly to said femoral assembly in several adjusted positions including a plurality of first positions where said saw carriage is slidably guided in substantially parallel paths which are substantially parallel to said elongated rail for making an anterior femur cut, a posterior femur cut, and a proximal tibia cut, a plurality of second positions where said saw carriage is slidably guided in substantially parallel paths which are substantially perpendicular to said elongated rail for making a transverse distal femur cut and for scoring the tibia cortex, and a plurality of third positions where said saw carriage is slidably guided in paths forming an acute angle with said elongated rail for making anterior and posterior femoral chamfer cuts.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1, said interconnecting means including a pair of spaced, parallel arms pivotally secured to said support and to said carriage assembly for movement about first and second generally parallel axes.

3. A device as claimed in claim 2, the pivotal connections between said arms and said support each including means permitting adjustment of said arms longitudinally relative to said support.

4. A device as claimed in claim 1, said saw carriage being adjustable laterally relative to said femoral assembly.

5. A device as claimed in claim 1, including means for establishing that the saw blade is horizontal.

6. A device as claimed in claim 3, at least one of said arms being provided with indicia to indicate the position of said saw blade relative to said elongated rail.

7. A devce as claimed in claim 1, said support and rail including indicia means indicating the angle formed between said rail and the direction of linear movement of said saw carriage.

8. A device as claimed in claim 1, including means releasably locking said rail and said support, and said carriage assembly to said femoral assembly.

9. A device as claimed in claim 2, the pivotal interconnections between said arms and said carriage assembly being dimensioned relative to the position of the saw blade so that upon completion of said anterior femur cut, said carriage assembly can be pivoted substantially 90°

relative to said arms about said second axis to position said saw blade to make said transverse distal femur cut.