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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lowell Scott Weil, Sr., Des Plaines, IL (US);
Anne Céline Godest, Lyons, FR;
Assignee:
DePuy France, Saint-Priest, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H61B 1/758 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H61B 1/758 ;
Abstract
Device for securing bits of bone together, particularly small-sized bats of bone, for example bits of metatarsal head, in the form of a spindle including an elongate shank ( ) followed, after a breakable region ( ), by a fixator element ( ) extending frustoconically to reduce in diameter in the direction of the anterior end ( ), with a screw thread the pitch of which decreases progressively from the anterior end and of which the crests of the thread lie inside a coaxial geometric cylinder (D), the anterior end forming a self-drilling end.