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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2021
Applicant:
Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc., Westminster, CO (US);
Inventor:
Samuel James Farmer, Lafayette, CO (US);
Assignee:
Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25B 23/14 (2006.01); B25B 23/142 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 17/70 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25B 23/141 (2013.01); B25B 23/1427 (2013.01); A61B 17/7082 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00477 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00876 (2013.01); A61B 2090/031 (2016.02);
Abstract
A torque limiter can include a housing and a shaft. The housing can include a housing magnet enclosed within the housing. The shaft can be at least partially surrounded by the housing and can be rotatable within the housing. The shaft can include a shaft magnet integrated with the shaft to magnetically couple with the housing magnet to transmit a torque between the housing and the shaft and configured to uncouple from the housing magnet allowing the shaft to rotate within the housing when a threshold torque is reached.