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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 02, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hans C Meuli, Bern, CH;
Hansjorg Koller, Winterthur, CH;
Assignees:
Sulzer Medizinaltechnik AG, Winterthur, CH;
Protek AG, Muensingen-Bern, CH;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623 16 ; 623 23 ; 623 18 ; 433173 ;
Abstract
Shanks designed especially for small joints, for example, finger joints, and having a rectangular cross-section of core (1), exhibit towards their free end plastically deformable lobes (7) of pieces of sheetmetal which may be deformed, e.g., bent intraoperatively, for which they are subdivided at intervals in the axial direction into a number of sections (7a) through cuts (8) running perpendicular to the axis (9) of the shank.