| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6585771 |
Device for handling ball heads of joint prostheses |
July 1, 2003 |
| A protective cap for prosthetic joints having one element in the form of a ball head, especially in the case of hip end-prosthetic joints, protects the ball head when it is positioned and fixed on the cone of the shank by the surgeon by hand. A crown is arranged on the pole of the protec |
| 6468281 |
Instrument for manipulating components of joint prostheses |
October 22, 2002 |
| An instrument for manipulating, detachably holding and placing an insert portion of a joint socket prosthesis into an outer shell of a said prosthesis. The instrument includes a handle and a holding tool. The holding tool includes two or more grasping claws which extend radially from |
| 6224633 |
Hip joint prosthesis |
May 1, 2001 |
| The invention relates to a hip joint prothesis having a metallic prothesis shell (1) with a cavity insert (2) having a spherical recess (3) and with an intermediate element (4) which is made of plastics and arranged between the prothesis shell (1) and the cavity insert (2).In order to av |
| 6214051 |
Fixation of a ceramic structural member by way of gliding in a femoral part |
April 10, 2001 |
| A knee-joint endoprosthesis includes a metallic femoral part (2) anchored in the femur that articulates with a tibial part anchored in the tibia bone, the articulating surface of the femoral part (2) being a ceramic structural member (3) that is connected to the femoral part (2) in a |
| 5919236 |
Joint prosthesis |
July 6, 1999 |
| Joint prosthesis (1) with a cup-shaped supporting part (2) in whose interior a ceramic insert (3) is fastened by conical clamping. Clamping surface (6) of insert (3) runs at an angle (.alpha.) to clamping surface (7) of supporting part (2). |
| 5879397 |
Tapered hip joint socket |
March 9, 1999 |
| Disclosed is a hip joint socket for insertion into bone tissue, having an outer metal shell and an inner antifriction liner. The antifriction liner is fixed in the metal shell by means of a taper lock. To safeguard the socket insert and antifriction liner against misalignment and separat |
| 5609647 |
Spherical hip joint socket |
March 11, 1997 |
| The invention relates to a hip joint socket for insertion into bone tissue, with an outer metal shell and an inner ceramic shell, the ceramic shell being anchored in the metal shell. To reduce its size while simultaneously reducing the wall thickness of the ceramic shell the inside of th |
