Patents Assigned to Landos Applications Orthopediques Francaises
  • Centro-medullary nailing rod
    Patent number: 4928679
    Abstract: A centro-medullary nailing rod for treating bone fractures, the rod being generally in the form of a longitudinally split tube, and being characterized by the fact that it includes locking tongues (3-4; 5-6) suitable for preventing or limiting relative displacement between the two edges (20-21) of the slot (2) in the longitudinal direction, while allowing relative displacement thereof in the transverse direction. The invention improves the resistant of the rod to twisting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Landos Applications Orthopediques Francaises
    Inventors: Francis Chagneau, Michel Levasseur, Patrick Landanger, Frantz Langlais, Jean-Jacques Rolland