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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Aesculap AG & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61G 1/312 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61G 1/312 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a head clamping device ( ) comprising a frame composed of two elements ( ) exhibiting each first ends ( ) flexibly connected to each other and second ends ( ) with spikes ( ) for fixing the head. The aim of the invention is to increase the mechanical stability of such a device. For that purpose, the frame elements ( ) are mounted in such a way that they can rotate relatively to each other around a common rotation axis ( ).