Bone jointer and a bone jointer fixing tool

• US 6,139,552 A
• Filed: 05/13/1999
• Issued: 10/31/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: K.K. Hollyx
• Original Assignee: K. K. Hollyx
• Inventors: Horiuchi, Kikuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Buiz, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGO, LIEN M
• Application Number:
  US09/310,731
• Time in Patent Office: 537 Days
• Field of Search: 606/88, 606/60, 606/65, 606/66, 606/67, 606/68, 606/70, 606/72, 606/73, 606/87
• US Class Current: 606/88
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/746 the longitudinal elements coupled to a plate opposite the femoral head
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/748 with means for adapting the angle between the longitudinal elements and the shaft axis of the femur

Abstract

A bone jointer comprising a lag screw, a tube placed along the jointed bone and provided with a receiving part, a tube between the lag screw and the tube plate provided with a head to be movably engaged with the receiving part, a set screw engaged with the tube, a compression screw penetrating inside the set screw and engaged with the lag screw thereby the lag screw and the bone are drew toward the other bone, and a washer between the set screw and the receiving part, rotating during engagement of the set screw with the head, until the washer stops at a stablest position.

Further, a bone jointer fixing tool comprising a plate provided with a receiving part having a penetration hole, a screw having a shaft and a head in slidable contact with the penetration hole of the receiving part and also having another penetration hole for drilling, a washer in slidable contact with the penetration hole of the receiving part, and a fastening part engaged with the screw and having a penetration hole for drilling, wherein, while the screw is engaged with the fastening part in arbitrary direction, the washer rotates and stops at the stablest position, thereby the screw and the fastening part are engaged with each other by maintaining the arbitrary direction.

Claims

1. A bone jointer comprising:

a lag screw inserted from a bone at one side as an object of junction and is engaged with a bone at the other side;

a tube plate placed along said bone at one side and provided with a receiving part having a penetration hole;

a tube positioned between said lag screw and said tube plate, into which a base of said lag screw is inserted, and provided with a head with which an inner periphery of said receiving part of said tube plate is movably engaged;

a set screw inserted from outside of said tube plate and engaged with an inner periphery of said tube in order to fix said tube on said tube plate;

a compression screw inserted from outside of said tube plate, penetrating inside said set screw, and engaged with said lag screw, thereby said lag screw as well as said bone on the other side are drew toward said bone at one end; and

a washer inserted in a position between said set screw and an outer periphery of said receiving part of said tube plate, rotating during engagement of said set screw with said head of said tube, until said washer stops at a stablest position.

2. The bone jointer as claimed in claim 1, wherein said washer having a penetration hole drilled at a deviated position from the center of a hemisphere shape of said washer, with a top of said hemisphere shape being cut away.

3. The bone jointer as claimed in claim 1, wherein a rim of said penetration hole of said tube plate on the side of said washer is formed in an arc shape, and said rim on the side of said head of said tube is also formed in an arc shape, having a linear penetration part between said two rims in arc shapes, thereby contact of said washer with said head of said tube during setting is prevented.

4. The bone jointer as claimed in claim 1, wherein a thread of said lag screw is sawlike shape having a tapping function.

5. The bone jointer as claimed in claim 1, wherein a surface of said head of said tube and a surface of said receiving part of said tube plate facing said tube are both matt (i.e. slightly rough and sandy) finished.