Device for reconnecting a broken bone

• US 4,988,350 A
• Filed: 06/23/1989
• Issued: 01/29/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wolfgang Herzberg
• Original Assignee: Wolfgang Herzberg
• Inventors: Herzberg, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brown, Michael
• Application Number:
  US07/370,610
• Time in Patent Office: 585 Days
• Field of Search: 606/65, 606/66, 606/69, 606/71, 606/67, 606/70, 606/89, 606/53
• US Class Current: 606/65
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/746 the longitudinal elements coupled to a plate opposite the femoral head
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/809 with bone-penetrating elements, e.g. blades or prongs bone staples A61B17/0642; intramedullary nails with a plate at an end A61B17/7233

Abstract

The device for connecting a fractured bone in the femoral neck is of two-piece construction that includes a bone fastening cover plate (11) and a trochanter supporting plate (20), in which the bone fastening cover plate (11) is provided with a bone screw reception sleeve (13) assuming an angle which, below the trochanter supporting surface, is passed through a cover plate-like section connected with the trochanter supporting plate (20) which bears upon the bone fastening cover plate (11) which, as well as the cover plate-like section are provided with a number of fastening screw perforations (12) which can be brought into coincidence, in which the trochanter supporting surface is so configured as to correspond to the shape of the trochanter so that, on account of the two-piece construction, an improved adaptability to anatomical conditions by an arbitrary combination of the individual components is possible.

Claims

1. Device for connecting a fractured bone, such as the femoral neck area, comprising a bone fastening cover plate with fastening perforations, said cover plate having a longitudinal direction extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of a bone to which it is to be connected by fastening means a sleeve carried by and positioned at an angle relative to the bone fastening member and a trochanter supporting plate, wherein the trochanter supporting plate (20) is detachably connectable to the bone fastening cover plate (11) and comprises an elongated plate-shaped section (29) corresponding approximately to and elongated in the longitudinal direction of the bone fastening cover plate (11), said plate shaped section has a web (24), one end (24a) of said web passes into a plate-shaped section (25) extending in the elongated direction and forming a trochanter supporting surface, the web (24) has two sides extending in the elongated direction with a reinforcing leg (22, 23) extending along each side for at least a partial length of the elongated web (24) and into a portion of the section (25), toward a terminal area (25a) of the section spaced from the web, and in the direction toward the terminal area (25a), runs out tapering conically, the bone fastening cover plate (11) of the device (10) is positionable between the two legs (22, 23) and is arranged to rest against the web (24) so that the section (25) forming the trochanter supporting surface projects in the elongated direction from the bone fastening cover plate (11) and an ovaloid perforation (27) for the passing through of the bone fastening member reception sleeve (13).

2. Device according to claim 1, wherein the plate-shaped section of the trochanter supporting plate (20) comprises a sectional member (21) having a U-shaped cross-section approximately corresponding in length to the bone fastening cover plate (11), the trochanter supporting surface has a spoon-like constructed section (25), with a concave surface and a convex surface, the two legs (22, 23) are located on the convex side of same spoon-like construction section and extend into the terminal area (25a) of the plate-shaped section (25).

3. Device according to claim 2, wherein the web (24) of the sectional member (21) of the trochanter supporting plate (20) has an outward bulge (28) of circular shape extending in the direction of the sectional member legs (22, 23).

4. Device according to claim 2 wherein the spoon-like constructed section (25) of the trochanter supporting plate (20) has a circumferential edge (125) bent over and extending away from the concave surface and forms a bent-over edge section (126) provided with a number of cerclage wire fixation cutouts (129), and the bent-over edge section (126), within the terminal area (25a) of the section (25) of the trochanter supporting plate (20) and within transitional areas of the webs (22,23,22a'"'"',23a'"'"') between the cover plate and the trochanter supporting plate is constructed so as to extend conically tapering in the section (25).

5. Device according to claim 4 wherein the circumferential edge (125) of the spoon-like constructed section (25) of the trochanter supporting plate (20) forms two bent-over edge sections (126'"'"',126") on opposite sides of said spoon-like constructed section, and each edge section (126'"'"',126") has two terminal areas tapering conically.

6. Device according to any of the claims 4 or 5, wherein the bent-over edge sections (126'"'"',126") are provided with two cerclage wire fixation cutouts (129).

7. Device according to claim 1, wherein the ovaloid perforation (27) in the web (24) of the sectional member (21) of the trochanter supporting plate (20) is adapted to the different angular variables of the device (10).

8. Device according to claim 1, wherein the sectional member (21) of the trochanter supporting plate (20) is extensible by mountable sectional member parts.