US 12,408,910 B2
Healicoil knotless distal tip and plug transmission
Jon-Paul Rogers, North Smithfield, RI (US); Mark Edwin Housman, North Attleborough, MA (US); Richard Perry Rego, Jr., Mansfield, MA (US); and Peter James Cashmore, Durham, NH (US)
Assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW, INC., Memphis, TN (US); SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG, Zug (CH); and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LIMITED, Singapore (SG)
Filed by Smith & Nephew, Inc., Memphis, TN (US); Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Zug (CH); and Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited, Singapore (SG)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/026,893.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/928,576, filed on Oct. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0128137 A1, May 6, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0401 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/00004 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0412 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0414 (2013.01); A61B 2017/044 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0441 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0445 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0453 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0464 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An anchor assembly comprising:
an anchor comprising a proximal portion and a distal portion, the distal portion having a tip defining a through hole extending through a width of the anchor for receiving a suture therethrough, an outer lateral surface of the proximal portion including a protrusion defined by a circumferential portion, and a single elongate portion extending from the circumferential portion towards a proximal end of the anchor, a surface of both the circumferential portion and the single elongate portion being raised relative to an entirety of a remainder of the outer lateral surface of the proximal portion, the anchor defining a cavity therein, a wall of the cavity having threads, the anchor having an opening to the cavity located in the proximal portion;
a plug having a threaded proximal outer portion and a non-threaded distal outer portion, the plug disposed within the cavity of the anchor such that the threaded proximal outer portion is engaged with the cavity wall threads and the non-threaded distal outer portion is configured to move axially within the anchor cavity; and
a sleeve having an opening to engage the single elongate portion, the sleeve releasably coupled to the anchor and disposed about the outer lateral surface at the proximal portion of the anchor when the sleeve is engaged with the single elongate portion, the engagement of the sleeve with the single elongate portion preventing rotation of the sleeve relative to the anchor in both a clockwise and counterclockwise direction;
wherein the single elongate portion and the opening are configured to reduce the rotation of the anchor with respect to the sleeve;
wherein the entirety of the remainder of the outer lateral surface of the proximal portion comprises a majority of the outer lateral surface of the proximal portion;
wherein a proximal end of the single elongate portion is distal to a proximal-most end of the remainder of the outer lateral surface of the proximal portion of the anchor; and
wherein the through hole is distal to the circumferential portion of the protrusion.