Osteosynthesis device

• US 5,643,261 A
• Filed: 03/08/1995
• Issued: 07/01/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Depuy Spine Sarl (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Schafer micomed GmbH
• Inventors: Zielke, Klaus, Schafer, Bernd
• Primary Examiner(s): Buiz, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): REIP, DAVID OWEN
• Application Number:
  US08/400,252
• Time in Patent Office: 846 Days
• Field of Search: 606/61, 606/69, 606/70, 606/71, 606/73, 606/60, 606/54, 623/17
• US Class Current: 606/250
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/7008 with parts of, or attached to, the longitudinal elements, bearing against an outside of the screw or hook heads, e.g. nuts on threaded rods A61B17/7007 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/701 Longitudinal elements with a non-circular, e.g. rectangular, cross-section A61B17/7005, A61B17/7007 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/7032 Screws or hooks with U-shaped head or back through which longitudinal rods pass
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/7044 also having plates, staples or washers bearing on the vertebrae

Abstract

In an osteosynthesis device, a bone plate is secured to a bone with at least two bone screws and the bone screws serve to bear and receive two rods, via which the correction and stabilization of the bones takes place.

Claims

1. An osteosynthesis device which can be secured to a vertebra of a spinal column, comprising:

at least two bone screws for securing said device to the vertebra;

at least two elongated rods of different diameter; and

a cross connecting device mounted by said screws to the vertebra, wherein said cross connecting device extends substantially transverse to said elongated rods, wherein only one of said rods is embodied as an active, variably adjustable threaded rod, and the other rod is embodied as one of a milled and longitudinally grooved rod.

2. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein the cross connecting device is embodied as a bone plate with at least two securing bores for receiving two bone screws.

3. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, further comprising:

two nuts associated with at least one of said bone screws, wherein said threaded rod associated with said at least one of said bone screws can be secured on the screw head of said at least one of said bone screws via its associated nuts.

4. The osteosynthesis device of claim 3, wherein each screw head has a receiving opening, and wherein one of the screw heads has protrusions extending in the axial direction of its associated threaded rod around its associated receiving opening, and its two associated nuts have recesses which receive the protrusions.

5. The osteosynthesis device of claim 4, wherein the recesses and protrusions are embodied substantially in the shape of at least one of a truncated cone, a cylinder, or a ball.

6. The osteosynthesis device of claim 3, wherein each screw head has a receiving opening, and wherein one of the screw heads has recesses extending in the axial direction of its associated threaded rod around its associated receiving opening, and its associated nuts have protrusions which engage in the recesses.

7. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein the screw head is embodied as fork-shaped.

8. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein the screw head has an external thread for receiving a fixing device screwed thereon.

9. The osteosynthesis device of claim 8, wherein the fixing device is embodied as one of a union nut and acorn nut.

10. The osteosynthesis device of claim 9, wherein the acorn nut is provided with a fixing screw, which can be screwed in coaxially, said fixing screw having an internal hex and an annular cutting edge.

11. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein there are two bone screws, and wherein the active rod associated with one bone screw is a correction rod and the other rod associated with the other bone screw serves for stabilization.

12. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein the securing bores run according to one of an orthogonal or oblique direction to the bone plate.

13. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein said cross connecting device has at least two securing bores, said securing bores each having a ball-shaped bearing for its associated screw head.

14. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein there are two rods and the two rods are disposed essentially parallel to each other.

15. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein the diameter of the threaded rod is smaller than that of the other rod.

16. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein said active, variably adjustable threaded rod is constructed to have a greater flexibility than the other rod.

17. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein there are two rods and the two rods are comprised of different materials.

18. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, said device being adapted for ventral application.

19. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein one rod is embodied for variable transfer of tensile and compressive forces acting essentially in the axial direction of the rod.

20. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein one rod is embodied for transferring moments acting in that orthogonal plane of a rod and which has no dynamic properties with regard to the vertebrae.

21. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein one rod is embodied as the dynamic part and one rod is embodied as the static part of the osteosynthesis device.

22. The osteosynthesis device of claim 1, wherein the rods have a configuration which is one of circular, oval, rectangular, triangular, or other polygonal cross section or a combination thereof.

23. A system of at least two osteosynthesis devices which can be secured to a vertebra of a spinal column, each osteosynthesis device comprising:

at least two bone screws for securing said device to the vertebra;

at least two elongated rods of different diameter; and

a cross connecting device mounted by said screws to the vertebra, wherein said rods extend between each of the osteosynthesis devices, said cross connecting device extends substantially transverse to said elongated rods and only one of said elongated rods is embodied of an active, variably adjustable threaded rod, and the other rod is embodied as one of a milled and longitudinally grooved rod.

24. The osteosynthesis device of claim 23, wherein the cross connecting device is embodied as a bone plate with at least two securing bores for receiving two bone screws.

25. The osteosynthesis device of claim 23, further comprising:

two nuts associated with at least one of said bone screws, wherein said threaded rod associated with said at least one of said bone screws can be secured on the screw head of said at least one of said bone screws via its associated nuts.

26. The osteosynthesis device of claim 25, wherein each screw head has a receiving opening, and wherein one of the screw heads has protrusions extending in the axial direction of its associated threaded rod around its associated receiving opening and its two associated nuts have recesses which receive the protrusions.

27. The osteosynthesis device of claim 25, wherein each screw head has a receiving opening, and wherein one of the screw heads has recesses extending in the axial direction of its associated threaded rod around its associated receiving opening and its associated nuts have protrusions which engage in the recesses.

28. The osteosynthesis device of claim 23, wherein there are two bone screws, and wherein the active rod associated with one bone screw is a correction rod and the other rod associated with the other bone screw serves for stabilization.

29. The osteosynthesis device of claim 23, wherein the securing bores run according to one of an orthogonal or oblique direction to the bone plate.

30. The osteosynthesis device of claim 23, wherein said cross connecting device has at least two securing bores, said securing bores each having a ball-shaped bearing for its associated screw head.

31. The osteosynthesis device of claim 23, wherein there are two rods and the two rods are disposed essentially parallel to each other.