US 12,011,180 B2
Apparatus and methods for repairing an intervertebral disc
Marc Serrahima Tornel, Catalunya (ES); Salvador Llas Vargas, Rellinars (ES); Ana Rodríguez Alonso, Sant Vicenç Dels Horts (ES); and Lluís Chico Roca, Badalona (ES)
Assigned to Neos Surgery, S.L., Cerdanyola del Valles (ES)
Filed by Neos Surgery, S.L., Cerdanyola del Valles (ES)
Filed on Apr. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/220,106.
Application 17/220,106 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/ES2020/070574, filed on Sep. 25, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. ES201931564 U (ES), filed on Sep. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0290254 A1, Sep. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/16 (2006.01); A61B 17/86 (2006.01); A61B 17/88 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 17/1604 (2013.01) [A61B 17/1671 (2013.01); A61B 17/86 (2013.01); A61B 17/8875 (2013.01); A61B 2090/3966 (2016.02)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tool for placing an anchor in a vertebra, the anchor including a threaded outer part, the tool comprising:
a handle including a fixed handle portion and a rotatable handle portion;
a chisel located at a distal end of the tool and joined to the fixed handle portion by an arm, the chisel configured to carve the vertebra in a carving direction when a force in a direction of the chisel is applied to the fixed handle portion, the arm including a conduit having an outlet that determines an outlet direction of the conduit, the outlet direction being different from the carving direction; and
a rod coupled to and rotatable with the rotatable handle portion, the rod including a longitudinally flexible end portion and an end part that is configured to engage the anchor in a manner that results in a rotation of the anchor when the rotatable handle is rotated, the rod configured to be inserted into the conduit of the arm such that the end part protrudes from the outlet of the conduit.