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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2009
Younghoon OH, Montville, NJ (US);
YoungHoon Oh, Montville, NJ (US);
Custom Spine, Inc., Parsippany, NJ (US);
Abstract
A surgical implant insertion device including an inner shaft; shaft threading coupled to the inner shaft; a rotating knob including a channel bored therethrough and internal threading lining the channel, where the internal threading configured to mate with the shaft threading; an actuator including an actuator body and a translation cavity cut through the actuator body and an inner shaft cavity cut through the actuator body, where the inner shaft cavity wraps around the inner shaft; an outer sleeve covering the inner shaft and coupled to the rotating knob; and a base connector wrapping around the outer sleeve, the base connector comprising a pair of connecting arms configured to loosely mate with the translation cavity of the actuator and pivoting and translating the actuator in response to a linear force.