Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Expandable device for distracting spinal tissue surfaces
- Patent Title (中): 用于分散脊髓组织表面的可扩张装置
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Application No.: US13166375Application Date: 2011-06-22
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Publication No.: US08349014B2Publication Date: 2013-01-08
- Inventor: Peter Barreiro , Dennis Ty , Michael E. Landry
- Applicant: Peter Barreiro , Dennis Ty , Michael E. Landry
- Applicant Address: US CT Shelton
- Assignee: Spine Wave, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Spine Wave, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Shelton
- Agency: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP
- Main IPC: A61F2/44
- IPC: A61F2/44

Abstract:
An expandable interbody fusion device includes superior and inferior endplates that are configured to receive a sequentially inserted stack of interlocking expansion members or wafers. The like-configured wafers include features on their top and bottom surfaces that interlock the wafers in multiple degrees of freedom so that the wafer stack is not disrupted when the fusion device is fully expanded. One of the interlocking features includes a plurality of prongs projecting from an upper surface of the wafers and into a recess defined in the lower surface of an adjacent previously inserted like-configured wafer. The prongs and recesses are configured to prevent retrograde movement of each new wafer in a direction opposite the direction of insertion. Other interlocking features prevent movement in the direction of insertion, transverse to the insertion direction and vertically within the stack.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110251693A1 EXPANDABLE DEVICE FOR DISTRACTING SPINAL TISSUE SURFACES Public/Granted day:2011-10-13
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