Patents Assigned to Groupe Grion
  • Patent number: 6190416
    Abstract: This orthopedic assembly has a connection between the ancillary tool and the stem or raspatory that allows both the raspatory and the femoral stem to be positioned in the intramedullary channel of a femur by means of the same ancillary tool. The connector includes a tapped hole extending from the bottom of a conical recess in the femoral end of the stem, or of the raspatory, and a threaded projection provided on the ancillary tool and designed to be screwed into the tapped hole. The bottom of the conical recess in the raspatory and in the stem has a profiled indentation whose edge includes alternating concave and convex curves and is designed to receive a male indexing part of a corresponding profile arranged on the end of the removable neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Groupe Grion
    Inventors: Michel Choteau, Gérard Grynblat, Joël Letendart, Henri Mathevon, Philippe Stahl, Jacques Van Overschelde, Philippe Vigier