Surgery – Instruments – Orthopedic instrumentation
Patent
1995-12-01
1998-01-13
Buiz, Michael
Surgery
Instruments
Orthopedic instrumentation
606 55, A61B 1764
Patent
active
057073708
ABSTRACT:
A preferred embodiment of the invention provides an accessory device which is removably applicable to a double ball-jointed fixator, to assume the relation of a cage that effectively surrounds both ball-joints of the fixator. One longitudinal end of the accessory cage quickly mounts to one bone-screw mounting member of the fixator and establishes first intersecting orthogonally related articulation axes of a first half of a dual Cardan joint, wherein such first intersection is coincident with the ball center of a first ball-joint of the fixator; the other longitudinal end of the accessory cage quickly mounts to the other bone-screw mounting member of the fixator and establishes second intersecting orthogonally related articulation axes of a second half of the dual Cardan joint, with such second intersection coincident with the ball center of the second ball-joint of the fixator. A bridle or bridge connector having spaced end connections to corresponding elements of the respective halves of the dual Cardan joint establishes a fixed spacing between the orthogonal-axis intersection points of the respective halves of the dual Cardan joint, and this fixed spacing is identical to the fixed spacing between ball centers of the double ball-jointed fixator. The releasable mounting of each half of the cage structure to its bone-screw mounting member of the fixator is a releasably clampable rotatable mount, wherein rotatability is about a longitudinal axis of the bone-screw mount of the fixator, and wherein the same longitudinal axis is aligned with the associated ball center. Individual clamp action is thus provided for independent adjustment of accessory-cage components about each of three articulation axes, for each of the halves of the dual Cardan joint.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4988349 (1991-01-01), Pennig
Berki Sandor
Faccioli Giovanni
Venturini Daniele
Buiz Michael
Orthofix S.r.l.
Reip David O.
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