Patents by Inventor Tze-Hong Emilio

Tze-Hong Emilio 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: 5814047
    Abstract: An intramedullary nail fixation apparatus and its fixation method, the apparatus including a tubular intramedullary nail having a plurality of equiangularly spaced piercing points, and a plurality of flexible screws respectively mounted in the intramedullary nail and forced to fix the intramedullary nail to the marrow cavity of the bone to be fixed, each flexible screw having a rounded stem convenient for rotation, and a self-tapping screw tip at one end of the rounded stem convenient for being forced out of the intramedullary nail through one piercing point and then threaded into the wall of the bone upon rotation of the respective flexible screw. The invention relates also to the method of the fixation of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Tze-Hong Emilio, Shan-Chang Chueh, Ting-Hui Chiu, Chi-Ming Shih, Chung-An Wu, Cheng-Kung Cheng