Device for setting the spinal column

• US 4,957,495 A
• Filed: 12/01/1988
• Issued: 09/18/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ulrich GmbH & Co., KG (Air Liquide SA)
• Original Assignee: Patrick Kluger
• Inventors: Kluger, Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rooney, Kevin G.
• Application Number:
  US07/290,104
• Time in Patent Office: 656 Days
• Field of Search: 128/92 YM, 128/92 YJ, 128/92 Z, 128/92 ZZ, 128/92 ZY, 128/92 ZW, 128/69-74, 128/88, 128/92 ZK, 606/54, 606/55, 606/57-59, 606/72, 606/73, 606/61
• US Class Current: 606/58
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/7004 with a cross-section which varies along its length A61B17/7019 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/7007 Parts of the longitudinal elements, e.g. their ends, being specially adapted to fit around the screw or hook heads
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/7014 with means for adjusting the distance between two screws or hooks
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/7077 for moving bone anchors attached to vertebrae, thereby displacing the vertebrae
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0256 for the spine

Abstract

A device for adjusting a vertebral column with damaged vertebrae comprises an adjustable arm on a guiding axis and a stationary arm attached to the guiding axis, each arm having a hollow receiving body adjustable in two planes for a lengthening rod, which can be connected with a tire-fond. Each arm (2, 4) has an intermediate jointed piece (5, 5a) with an intermediate jointed piece (5, 5a) with two joints (6, 7), each intermediate jointed piece (5, 5a) being connected in a hinged manner to a support (8) for the hollow receiving body which is designed as an attachable cylindrical piece (15) with a tangential drilled hole (16).

Claims

1. A device for setting a spinal column with damaged vertebrae, said device comprising

an axial guide member;

a first arm slideably mounted for axial movement on said guide member;

a second arm fixedly mounted to said guide member;

a separate mid-piece hingedly connected to each of said first and second arms;

a separate bracket hingedly connected to each said mid-piece; and

a separate hollow receiving piece carried by each bracket and adjustable in two planes for receiving an extension rod adapted for connection to a bone screw, said receiving piece consisting of a cylindrical piece with a central axis having a generally tangential hole therethrough which is transverse to and offset from said central axis and means for fixing the position of said cylindrical piece.

2. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said cylindrical piece is rotatably adjustable and the means for fixing the position thereof fixed the rotational position of the cylindrical piece.

3. The device as defined in claim 1, which further comprises a set screw mounted at an acute angle to the generally tangential hole in said cylindrical piece so as to intersect said hole and set the position of an extension rod therein.

4. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the means for fixing the position of said cylindrical piece comprises a threaded pin mounted perpendicularly to each bracket, a nut threadably engaged with said pin, and a stationary notch plate mounted on said pin, said cylindrical piece being rotatably and axially mounted on said pin and disposed between said nut and said stationary notch plate.

5. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said extension rod has a recess therein at an end adapted for receiving said bone screw, and said bone screw includes a head portion having a correspondingly shaped profile for receipt in said recess with a knurled surface for receiving a setting rod.

6. The device as defined in claim 5, wherein said recess is substantially semi-cylindrical in shape and axially arranged in the end of said extension rod, the substantially semi-cylindrical shape being more than semi-circular so that said extension rod can only be withdrawn axially.

7. The device as defined in claim 5, which further includes a set screw in said extension rod arranged at an acute angle to intersect said recess so as to fasten said bone screw head portion therein.

8. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said bone screw at its connection to said extension rod includes a cylindrical roller having a knurled surface on a front end for receiving a setting rod, said extension rod at its connection to said bone screw includes a Y-shaped piece corresponding to said cylindrical roller for the receipt thereof, and means for preventing said cylindrical roller form turning in said Y-shaped piece.

9. The device as defined in claim 5, wherein said setting rod includes telescoping pieces the male part of which includes setting notches.

10. The device as defined in claim 5, wherein said setting rod is in a single piece.

11. The device as defined in claim 9, wherein said setting rod is formed in one piece with a hole in its end.

12. The device as defined in claim 10, wherein said setting rod is formed in one piece with a hole in its end.

13. The device as defined in claim 5, wherein screw means connects said bone screw to said setting rod, said screw means including a recess in its center for the insertion of a holding pin with a group.