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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2007
Denis Digeser, Bräunlingen, DE;
Jürgen Rettich, Mühlheim, DE;
Jürgen Kraus, Bahlingen, DE;
Von Wieding Holger, Kiel, DE;
Ingo Stoltenberg, Probsteierhagen, DE;
Denis Digeser, Bräunlingen, DE;
Jürgen Rettich, Mühlheim, DE;
Jürgen Kraus, Bahlingen, DE;
Von Wieding Holger, Kiel, DE;
Ingo Stoltenberg, Probsteierhagen, DE;
Abstract
A drill guide for a bone plate which has holes therethrough for receiving bone screws. The drill guide includes a guide block having drill guide bores alignable with at least two bone screw receiving holes in the bone plate. A first locking element in inserted through a guide block drill guide bore. The locking element has a tip for engaging a bone screw receiving holes in the bone plate, the tip being selectively expandable to engage and disengage from the bone plate hole. A second locking element is mounted on the guide block and is engageable with a bone plate hole. The second locking element also has a tip for resiliently engaging walls of the bone plate hole wherein the tip of the first and second locking elements has a split portion. The first and second locking elements include an axially moveable rod for expanding the split tip portion to engage the plate