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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2018
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Dennis Stratton, Plainwell, MI (US);
Eric K. Diehl, Austin, TX (US);
John P. Bernero, Round Rock, TX (US);
Chris Chamberlin, Austin, TX (US);
Vincent Lam, San Antonio, TX (US);
Austin Orand, Portland, OR (US);
David J. Veldkamp, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Eric M. Heffernan, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
David S. Goldenberg, Mattawan, MI (US);
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Abstract
A system for cleaning bone that includes a base unit with a motor, a cleaning head with a cleaning element and a mill head with a mill element. Both the cleaning head and the mill head are designed to be coupled to the base unit. Both the cleaning element and mill element have features that facilitate their coupling to the motor. When the cleaning head is attached to the base unit, a motor in the base unit rotates the cleaning element to remove soft tissue from the bone so as to clean the bone. The mill element is placed on the base unit and the cleaned bone placed in the mill head. The actuation of the base unit motor results in the actuations of the mill element. The actuation of the mill element converts the cleaned bone into bone chips.