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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2015
Applicant:
Aesculap Ag, Tuttlingen, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Aesculap AG, , DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/70 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/7091 (2013.01); A61B 17/708 (2013.01); A61B 17/7032 (2013.01); A61B 17/7083 (2013.01); A61B 17/7085 (2013.01); A61B 2090/037 (2016.02);
Abstract
A locking sleeve for receiving and locking the legs of a pedicle screw includes a stop ring provided on an inner side of a locking sleeve and resting on an upper edge of the legs, limiting the accommodation depth of the legs in the locking sleeve, and a plurality of groove blocks on the inner side of the locking sleeve which can be inserted between the legs of the pedicle screw for defining a fixed distance between the legs.