US 12,082,861 B2
Cable passer device
Sambhu N. Choudhury, Cincinnati, OH (US); and Arturo David Sanchez, Lebanon, OH (US)
Filed by Sambhu N. Choudhury, Cincinnati, OH (US); and Arturo David Sanchez, Lebanon, OH (US)
Filed on May 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/316,888.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/022,768, filed on May 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0346073 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/88 (2006.01); A61B 17/82 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/8861 (2013.01) [A61B 17/82 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cable passer device for placement of a cerclage cable for internal fixation of bone, comprising:
a cannulated body including a proximal end,
a straight portion extending from the proximal end,
an arcuate portion extending from the straight portion, and a free end of the arcuate portion is a distal end of the device and
a continuous groove extending along a length of the straight portion and the arcuate portion of the cannulated body,
wherein the continuous groove comprises an opening on a side of the continuous groove to receive the cerclage cable, and the continuous groove comprises a lateral aperture from the opening to the distal end;
wherein a radius of the continuous groove remains the same throughout an entire length of the continuous groove,
wherein a groove angle of the continuous groove at a section A-A adjacent the proximal end of the cannulated body, at a section B-B at a location on the straight portion of the cannulated body, at a section C-C at a location on the arcuate portion of the cannulated body, and at a section D-D adjacent the distal end of the cannulated body are different from one another, to facilitate unimpeded movement of cerclage cable therethrough the groove, and wherein the groove angle at the section B-B of the cannulated body is rotated in a clockwise direction or a counterclockwise direction in relation to the groove angle at section A-A in the cable passer device, wherein the angle of rotation ranges from 0 degrees to 45 degrees, and
wherein the groove angle is defined as an angle extending relative to a line perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the device, which angle extends from a deepest point of the continuous groove through a center of the lateral aperture defined by the groove.