US 11,918,251 B2
Circular fixator system and method
Chris Robinson, Hernando, MS (US); and Kian-Ming Wong, Lakeland, TN (US)
Assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC., Memphis, TN (US)
Filed by Wright Medical Technology, Inc., Memphis, TN (US)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/644,357.
Application 17/644,357 is a continuation of application No. 16/822,265, filed on Mar. 18, 2020, granted, now 11,234,737.
Application 16/822,265 is a continuation of application No. 15/773,665, granted, now 10,624,674, issued on Apr. 21, 2020, previously published as PCT/US2016/055747, filed on Oct. 6, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/254,489, filed on Nov. 12, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0104851 A1, Apr. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/62 (2006.01); A61B 17/64 (2006.01); A61F 5/01 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/17 (2006.01); A61B 17/88 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/645 (2013.01) [A61B 17/62 (2013.01); A61B 17/6425 (2013.01); A61F 5/0195 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00407 (2013.01); A61B 17/1796 (2013.01); A61B 17/8897 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fixation system, comprising:
a plurality of rings, each ring having a first face, a second face, and at least one slot penetrating from the first face to the second face; a plurality of members joining each one of the plurality of rings to an adjacent one of the plurality of rings;
a rocker plate assembly having a unitary U-shaped body including a first side member, a second side member, and a curved portion attached to the first side member opposite a first end and attached to the second side member opposite a second end, wherein the first and second side members each have at least one T-shaped slot defined from a top surface of the unitary U-shaped body, wherein the top surface further includes a plurality of scallop-shaped recesses adjacent each side of each of the at least one T-shaped slot; and
a plurality of sliders, each slidably retained in a respective bottom of a respective one of the T-shaped slots of the first and second side members, a first shaft slidably retained in a respective top of the respective one of the T-shaped slots of the first and second side members, a support portion attached to the first shaft, and a second shaft attached to the support portion, the second shaft offset from the first shaft.