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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:
Jan. 29, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong, Montreal, Quebec, CA;
Hubert Labelle, Montreal, CA;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/758 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/758 ;
Abstract
A surgical guiding instrument for use with a drilling tool and a bone engaging element, comprises a support on which the bone engaging element is adapted to be mounted for engaging a region of a bone to orient the support with respect thereto. The guiding instrument further includes a drill guide mounted to the support and defining a passage for guiding the drilling tool so as to prevent deviation of the drilling direction. The drill guide can be angularly adjusted relative to the bone engaging element in the plane of the support by simply sliding the drill guide on an arc of circle defined by the support.