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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2004
Applicants:
Uri Arnin, Kiryat Tivon, IL;
Yuri Sudin, Lod, IL;
Michael Tauber, Tel Aviv, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Impliant Ltd., Ramat Poleg, IL;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A spinal disc nucleus replacement including an elastomeric sheath () assembled around a rod (), a portion of the sheath being arranged for sliding along the rod, and a sheath compactor () adapted to slide a portion of the sheath along the rod from a first position to a second position, wherein in the first position the sheath is in a non-expanded orientation and in the second position the sheath is in an expanded orientation wherein folds of the sheath expand radially outwards from the rod.