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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 26, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Peter Lawes, Maidenhead, GB;
Assignee:
Howmedica International, Shannon, IE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623 23 ; 623 18 ;
Abstract
A femoral component of a replacement hip joint has a collarless stem including a shoulder for fixing in a medullary canal by cement. The component has a stem beneath the shoulder having a straight taper and the anterior and posterior faces of the stem each having a concave surface formed by a longitudinally extending curve from the top of the shoulder to the distal tip of the stem.