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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:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joseph Edward Carchidi, West Bridgewater, MA (US);
Alan R. Balfour, Petaluma, CA (US);
Assignee:
ACE Surgical Supply Co., Inc., Brockton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 3/00 ;
Abstract
A combined internal polygonal and locking drive tool ( ′) used to engage a mating external implant mounting and drive fixture ( ). The locking drive has an internal tapered locking drive section ( ) which is longitudinally in series with an internal polygonal section ( ) and has its largest diameter slightly larger than the smallest diameter of the internal polygonal portion. The combined delivery and drive tool can be incorporated with an external hand drive or power drill drive surface configuration.