Bone screw for anchoring a marrow nail

• US 6,355,043 B1
• Filed: 12/29/1999
• Issued: 03/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Zimmer GmbH (Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sulzer Orthopedics Inc. (Centerpulse Orthopedics Incorporated)
• Inventors: Adam, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Hirsch, Paul J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Priddy, Michael B.
• Application Number:
  US09/473,775
• Time in Patent Office: 804 Days
• Field of Search: 711/413, 711/385, 711/411, 711/415, 606/60, 606/62, 606/64, 606/65, 606/67, 606/72, 606/73
• US Class Current: 606/62
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/72 Intramedullary pins, nails or other devices A61B17/744 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/863 with thread interrupted or changing its form along shank, other than constant taper

Abstract

A Bone screw for anchoring a marrow nail with transverse bores in a tubular bone. The bone screw had a thread with a pitch S, a core diameter D₁ and outer diameter D₃. The screw supports the marrow nail with a middle part and is fixed in the bone with a distal part. The thread has a flat cylindrical thread base with a length l>0.3 S. In addition, a second thread with the same pitch S and with the core diameter D₁ is present in a proximal head part, but has a greater outer diameter D₂>D₃ in order to proximally achieve a fixing with a greater thread profile.

Claims

1. A bone screw for anchoring a marrow nail, and penetrating the marrow nail transversely with a distal part in a suitable transverse bore and supporting the marrow nail with a middle part at the transverse bore, the screw comprising a head part for the application of a turning-in tool, the middle part and the distal part including a thread having a pitch S, and a core diameter D₁ and an outer diameter D₃, wherein the thread includes a cylindrical core part having a length l>

0.3 S;

wherein a proximal portion of the head part includes a proximal thread with the same core diameter D₁ and with the same pitch S as the thread distal part, but having an outer diameter D₂ that is greater than the outer diameter D₃ of the distal part and that is greater than the inner diameter of the transverse bore in the marrow nail; and

wherein a reverse-side, proximally directed flank of both threads is on a common helix.

2. A bone screw in accordance with claim 1 wherein a proximally projecting thread profile of the screw is provided that is designed asymmetrically with an inclination towards the proximal portion which is greater than the inclination towards the distal part.

3. A bone screw in accordance with claim 1 wherein the screw has an inclination of a projecting thread profile that amounts to between 40°

and 50°

towards the distal part and between 75° and

87°

towards the proximal portion.

4. A bone screw in accordance with claim 1 further comprising notches that are laid through thread profiles that enable a cutting of the thread profile during screwing in of the screw.

5. A bone screw in accordance with claim 1 wherein thread tips of the thread profile in the middle part and in the distal part have a flattening of 0.1 mm≦

a≦

0.8 mm.

6. A bone screw in accordance with claim 1 further comprising, in a region proximal of the thread at the head part, a cut-out with a diameter D₄<

D₂ in order to prevent an impermissible increase of the core diameter during the screwing in.

7. Method for the manufacture of a bone screw for anchoring a marrow nail, and penetrating the marrow nail transversely with a distal part in a suitable transverse bore and supporting the marrow nail with a middle part at the transverse bore, the screw comprising a head part for the application of a turning-in tool, the middle part and the distal part including a thread having a pitch S and a core diameter D₁ and an outer diameter D₃, wherein the thread includes a cylindrical core part having a length l>

0.3 S, wherein a proximal portion of the head part includes a proximal thread with the same core diameter D₁ and with the same pitch S as the thread distal part, but having an outer diameter D₂ that is greater than the outer diameter D₃ of the distal and that is greater than the inner diameter of the transverse bore in the marrow nail, and wherein a reverse-side, proximally directed flank of both threads is on a common helix; and

wherein the thread profiles of the head part and of the middle part and the distal part are produced through circular milling with profile milling tools in order to produce two different thread profiles with the same pitch S.