Patents by Inventor Chan-Eol Kim

Chan-Eol Kim has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11779357
    Abstract: A detector for use in artificial joint replacement includes a rotation detection apparatus and a pressure detection apparatus and is inserted between implant trials to allow numerical verification for medial and lateral balance of forces and a rotation state of the trials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Corentec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oui-Sik Yoo, Chan-Eol Kim
  • Patent number: 11744599
    Abstract: A smart surgical instrument for artificial joint replacement includes a femur resection device, a tibia resection device, and a detector having a shape corresponding to the resected surfaces of a femur and a tibia. The femur resection device includes a laser device such that the femur resection device can be aligned for resection of the femur without drilling an intramedullary hole, thereby preventing complications attributable to the intramedullary hole. The tibia resection device includes a laser device, thereby enabling an easy and fast surgical operation without using an extramedullary aligner used for alignment of a tibia during resection of the tibia. The detector includes a rotation detection means and a pressure detection means and is inserted between trials to allow numerical verification for medial and lateral balance of forces and a rotation state of the trials. The surgical instrument enables a precise, accurate, easy, and fast surgical operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Corentec Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Oui-Sik Yoo, Chan-Eol Kim
  • Patent number: 11266509
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a knee joint augment having an anatomical shape. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a knee joint augment that is used for artificial joint replacement to replace lost bone, wherein the augment is used in artificial knee replacement surgery to be coupled to a knee implant. The augment includes a top surface configured to be brought into contact with a distal surface of a base plate that forms the body of a tibia element and a bottom surface configured to be brought into contact with a cut surface of a tibia. The bottom surface has an area smaller than that of the top surface, and has a tapered shape that narrows from the top to the bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Corentec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan-Eol Kim, Sang-Gil Lee, Young-Woong Jang, Oui-Sik Yoo, Seok-Joo Kim
  • Patent number: 11207198
    Abstract: A knee trial which is coupled to identify the mobility of an implant before the implant is implanted by total knee arthroplasty, and more particularly, a detachable knee trial which includes a plate trial, an insert trial, and an adapter for easy attachment and detachment of the two trials, wherein the adapter includes an elastic member on one side thereof to firmly couple the two trials by pressing the plate trial and the insert trial with opposite ends of the elastic member and to alleviate the burdens of an operator and a patient by allowing the adapter to be attached and detached even only with a simple operation of pressing the adapter and compressing the elastic member by a hand and promptly and precisely performing an operation of selecting an implant of a suitable size while applying various trials in the total knee arthroplasty process and shortening surgery time, alleviating the burdens of a surgeon and a patient, and wherein one side of the adapter is formed of plastic, making it possible to couple
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Corentec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Hun Oh, Chan-Eol Kim, Seok-Joo Kim, Oui-Sik Yoo
  • Patent number: 11202714
    Abstract: A baseplate trial holding apparatus which holds a baseplate trial disposed in a proximal tibia during total knee arthroplasty or revision total knee arthroplasty, and includes a keel location setting part for setting an insertion location of a keel punch, and a knee joint implant surgical instrument set including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Corentec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Hun Oh, Chan-Eol Kim, Seok-Joo Kim, Oui-Sik Yoo
  • Patent number: 11172944
    Abstract: A smart surgical instrument for artificial joint replacement includes a femur resection device, a tibia resection device, and a detector having a shape corresponding to the resected surfaces of a femur and a tibia. The femur resection device includes a laser device such that the femur resection device can be aligned for resection of the femur without drilling an intramedullary hole, thereby preventing complications attributable to the intramedullary hole. The tibia resection device includes a laser device, thereby enabling an easy and fast surgical operation without using an extramedullary aligner used for alignment of a tibia during resection of the tibia. The detector includes a rotation detection means and a pressure detection means and is inserted between trials to allow numerical verification for medial and lateral balance of forces and a rotation state of the trials. The surgical instrument enables a precise, accurate, easy, and fast surgical operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Corentec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oui-Sik Yoo, Chan-Eol Kim
  • Patent number: 11033397
    Abstract: An artificial knee joint includes a tibial component implanted into the proximal end of a tibia, and a bearing component coupled to the tibial component, in which the tibial component includes an interference prevention portion capable of preventing interference with the bearing component when the bearing component is inserted diagonally and the bearing component includes a protrusion coupled to the interference prevention portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Corentec Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Woong Jang, Chan-Eol Kim, Jae-Hun Ro, Ah-Reum Han, Myung-Chul Lee, Yong In, Seung-Beon Han
  • Publication number: 20210169507
    Abstract: A detector for use in artificial joint replacement includes a rotation detection apparatus and a pressure detection apparatus and is inserted between implant trials to allow numerical verification for medial and lateral balance of forces and a rotation state of the trials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Oui-Sik Yoo, Chan-Eol Kim
  • Publication number: 20210169508
    Abstract: A smart surgical instrument for artificial joint replacement includes a femur resection device, a tibia resection device, and a detector having a shape corresponding to the resected surfaces of a femur and a tibia. The femur resection device includes a laser device such that the femur resection device can be aligned for resection of the femur without drilling an intramedullary hole, thereby preventing complications attributable to the intramedullary hole. The tibia resection device includes a laser device, thereby enabling an easy and fast surgical operation without using an extramedullary aligner used for alignment of a tibia during resection of the tibia. The detector includes a rotation detection means and a pressure detection means and is inserted between trials to allow numerical verification for medial and lateral balance of forces and a rotation state of the trials. The surgical instrument enables a precise, accurate, easy, and fast surgical operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Oui-Sik Yoo, Chan-Eol Kim
  • Patent number: 10912574
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coupler assembly for a tibial cutting guide, the assembly including an aligning coupler having a first side coupled to an aligning member by sliding and a second side slid in an adaptor groove of the tibial cutting guide, and a handle slidably coupled to the aligning coupler. More particularly, the present invention relates to a coupler assembly for a tibial cutting guide, the assembly enabling an aligner and a cutting guide to be easily coupled and decoupled through an adaptor without specific operation because when the handle is slid to the cutting guide, the handle is fixed to the cutting guide, and the cutting guide and the adaptor are locked, and when the handle is slid in the opposite direction from the cutting guide, the handle is separated from the cutting guide, and the cutting guide and the adaptor are unlocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Corentec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok-Joo Kim, Oui-Sik Yoo, Chan-Eol Kim, Seung-Hun Oh
  • Patent number: 10779950
    Abstract: A knee joint implant that prevents hyperextension includes a femoral component having an anterior surface with reference to the lowermost point of a convex condyle, the anterior surface being configured to have different curvature radii in respective sections thereof, and a bearing component having an anterior surface with reference to the lowermost point of a concave articular surface, the anterior surface being configured to have different curvature radii in respective sections, so that when an extended knee is about to be hyperextended, the convex condyle of the femoral component slides toward the anterior side and is brought into contact with a plurality of points of the concave articular surface of the bearing component, thereby producing resistance so as to suppress hyperextension exceeding a design range due to behavioral habits, a decrease in muscle mass, and the like of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Corentec Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Woong Jang, Chan-Eol Kim, Jae-Hun Ro, Ah-Reum Han, Myung-Chul Lee, Yong In, Seung-Beon Han
  • Publication number: 20200281731
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a knee joint augment having an anatomical shape. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a knee joint augment that is used for artificial joint replacement to replace lost bone, wherein the augment is used in artificial knee replacement surgery to be coupled to a knee implant. The augment includes a top surface configured to be brought into contact with a distal surface of a base plate that forms the body of a tibia element and a bottom surface configured to be brought into contact with a cut surface of a tibia. The bottom surface has an area smaller than that of the top surface, and has a tapered shape that narrows from the top to the bottom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Chan-Eol Kim, Sang-Gil Lee, Young-Woong Jang, Oui-Sik Yoo, Seok-Joo Kim
  • Publication number: 20200085592
    Abstract: A baseplate trial holding apparatus which holds a baseplate trial disposed in a proximal tibia during total knee arthroplasty or revision total knee arthroplasty, and includes a keel location setting part for setting an insertion location of a keel punch, and a knee joint implant surgical instrument set including the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Corentec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Hun Oh, Chan-Eol Kim, Seok-Joo Kim, Oui-Sik Yoo
  • Publication number: 20200046506
    Abstract: An artificial knee joint includes a tibial component implanted into the proximal end of a tibia, and a bearing component coupled to the tibial component, in which the tibial component includes an interference prevention portion capable of preventing interference with the bearing component when the bearing component is inserted diagonally and the bearing component includes a protrusion coupled to the interference prevention portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Young-Woong Jang, Chan-Eol Kim, Jae-Hun Ro, Ah-Reum Han, Myung-Chul Lee, Yong In, Seung-Beon Han
  • Publication number: 20200046507
    Abstract: A knee joint implant that prevents hyperextension includes a femoral component having an anterior surface with reference to the lowermost point of a convex condyle, the anterior surface being configured to have different curvature radii in respective sections thereof, and a bearing component having an anterior surface with reference to the lowermost point of a concave articular surface, the anterior surface being configured to have different curvature radii in respective sections, so that when an extended knee is about to be hyperextended, the convex condyle of the femoral component slides toward the anterior side and is brought into contact with a plurality of points of the concave articular surface of the bearing component, thereby producing resistance so as to suppress hyperextension exceeding a design range due to behavioral habits, a decrease in muscle mass, and the like of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Young-Woong Jang, Chan-Eol Kim, Jae-Hun Ro, Ah-Reum Han, Myung-Chul Lee, Yong In, Seung-Beon Han
  • Publication number: 20200008959
    Abstract: A knee trial which is coupled to identify the mobility of an implant before the implant is implanted by total knee arthroplasty, and more particularly, a detachable knee trial which includes a plate trial, an insert trial, and an adapter for easy attachment and detachment of the two trials, wherein the adapter includes an elastic member on one side thereof to firmly couple the two trials by pressing the plate trial and the insert trial with opposite ends of the elastic member and to alleviate the burdens of an operator and a patient by allowing the adapter to be attached and detached even only with a simple operation of pressing the adapter and compressing the elastic member by a hand and promptly and precisely performing an operation of selecting an implant of a suitable size while applying various trials in the total knee arthroplasty process and shortening surgery time, alleviating the burdens of a surgeon and a patient, and wherein one side of the adapter is formed of plastic, making it possible to couple
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Seung-Hun Oh, Chan-Eol Kim, Seok-Joo Kim, Oui-Sik Yoo
  • Patent number: 10285713
    Abstract: A guide device for knee replacement is configured such that during knee replacement surgery and/or knee replacement revision surgery for implanting a prosthetic knee implant, a degree of external rotation of a femur is identified and aligned through a cut surface of a proximal tibia, then a distance of a gap between the cut surface of the proximal tibia and a cut surface of a distal femur is identified during the surgery, so the degree of external rotation and the distance of the gap are identified simultaneously with one guide device, and thereby it is possible to facilitate the surgery, thereby reducing operation time and minimizing occurrence of a sequela of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: CORENTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-Hun Oh, Seok-Ju Kim, Oui-Sik Yoo, Chan-Eol Kim
  • Publication number: 20190059916
    Abstract: A smart surgical instrument for artificial joint replacement includes a femur resection device, a tibia resection device, and a detector having a shape corresponding to the resected surfaces of a femur and a tibia. The femur resection device includes a laser device such that the femur resection device can be aligned for resection of the femur without drilling an intramedullary hole, thereby preventing complications attributable to the intramedullary hole. The tibia resection device includes a laser device, thereby enabling an easy and fast surgical operation without using an extramedullary aligner used for alignment of a tibia during resection of the tibia. The detector includes a rotation detection means and a pressure detection means and is inserted between trials to allow numerical verification for medial and lateral balance of forces and a rotation state of the trials. The surgical instrument enables a precise, accurate, easy, and fast surgical operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Oui-Sik Yoo, Chan-Eol Kim
  • Publication number: 20180344334
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coupler assembly for a tibial cutting guide, the assembly including an aligning coupler having a first side coupled to an aligning member by sliding and a second side slid in an adaptor groove of the tibial cutting guide, and a handle slidably coupled to the aligning coupler. More particularly, the present invention relates to a coupler assembly for a tibial cutting guide, the assembly enabling an aligner and a cutting guide to be easily coupled and decoupled through an adaptor without specific operation because when the handle is slid to the cutting guide, the handle is fixed to the cutting guide, and the cutting guide and the adaptor are locked, and when the handle is slid in the opposite direction from the cutting guide, the handle is separated from the cutting guide, and the cutting guide and the adaptor are unlocked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: CORENTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok-Joo Kim, Oui-Sik Yoo, Chan-Eol Kim, Seung-Hun Oh
  • Publication number: 20180103961
    Abstract: A guide device for knee replacement is configured such that during knee replacement surgery and/or knee replacement revision surgery for implanting a prosthetic knee implant, a degree of external rotation of a femur is identified and aligned through a cut surface of a proximal tibia, then a distance of a gap between the cut surface of the proximal tibia and a cut surface of a distal femur is identified during the surgery, so the degree of external rotation and the distance of the gap are identified simultaneously with one guide device, and thereby it is possible to facilitate the surgery, thereby reducing operation time and minimizing occurrence of a sequela of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Seung-Hun Oh, Seok-Ju Kim, Oui-Sik Yoo, Chan-Eol Kim