US 12,185,934 B2
Adapter inserter and docking station
David G. Spilka, Phoenix, AZ (US); and Kevin N. Baird, Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Assigned to Biomet Manufacturing, LLC, Warsaw, IN (US)
Appl. No. 17/598,625
Filed by Biomet Manufacturing, LLC, Warsaw, IN (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 30, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/025700
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 27, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/210073, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 15, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/831,458, filed on Apr. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0160346 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61F 2/08 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0401 (2013.01) [A61F 2/0811 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00367 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00469 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00477 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0464 (2013.01); A61F 2002/0858 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A docking station for an adapter inserter, the docking station comprising:
a handle block having a first surface that defines a first recess sized to receive a portion of the adapter inserter and a second surface that defines a channel; and
a push assembly comprising:
a knob push handle,
an engagement tube pull block configured to contact a portion of an engagement tube of the adapter inserter, and
a linkage shaft connecting the knob push handle to the engagement tube block,
the linkage shaft slidably located in the channel, the engagement tube pull block extending upwardly from the linkage shaft through a portion of the handle bock such that a portion of the engagement tube pull block is located in the first recess.