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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2016
Globus Medical, Inc., Audubon, PA (US);
Andrew Iott, Newtown Square, PA (US);
Mark Adams, Downingtown, PA (US);
Chad Glerum, Pennsburg, PA (US);
Jody L. Seifert, Birdsboro, PA (US);
Matthew Bechtel, Norristown, PA (US);
Kevin Gahman, Douglassville, PA (US);
Mark Weiman, Coatesville, PA (US);
Daniel Davenport, Collegeville, PA (US);
Milan George, King of Prussia, PA (US);
John Matthews, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Noah Hansell, King of Prussia, PA (US);
Globus Medical, Inc., Audubon, PA (US);
Abstract
A joint spacer therapeutically maintains separation of bones of a joint. A carriage is slideably retained within the frame and has at least one ramped surface. An actuator screw is threadably engaged with the frame, and rotatably connected to the carriage, to cause the carriage to slideably move within the frame when the actuator screw is rotated. First and second endplates engage the bones of the joint, and each has at least one ramped surface that is mateable with the ramped surface of the carriage, whereby when the carriage is slideably moved by rotation of the actuator screw, the endplates ramped surface slides against the carriage ramped surface to cause the endplates to move along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the frame, to increase the height of the spacer. Piercing elements are connected to the carriage to pierce bone of the joint when the carriage is moved.