128 results about "Surgical drill" patented technology

A drill for driving a drill bit into a solid object such as bone. The drill includes a rotor with a bore that transmits rotational movement to the drill bit. The drill bit extends through the rotor bore. A probe extends forward from the drill to measure bore depth. The probe is moveably mounted to the drill so as to extend into the rotor bore. As the drill and drill bit advance forward the probe remains static. As a result of the advancement of the drill the rotor extends over the proximal end of the probe.

A bone fixation system including a bone plate and surgical drill guide is provided. The drill guide assembly includes one or more alignment drill tubes that are remotely aligned with corresponding fastener holes in the bone plate, and a plate holder to engage a hole in the bone plate. The surgical drill guide is releasably lockable to the plate holder.

The present invention relates to a surgical drill including a drill member having a cutting section for cutting bone, the cutting section being situated at a distal end of the drill member. The drill member also comprises a non-cutting protection tip for protecting nerves, tissue or dura from being cut. The non-cutting protection tip is situated distally of the cutting section.

The present invention relates to a surgical drill-guide assembly that can be releasably attached to a part of a bone-fixation system, for example, a plate. The surgical drill-guide assembly of the present invention is used for example, to guide a drill, screw, bone fastener, or other instrument or fastener into bone.

The invention discloses a robot-assisted surgery surgical drill instrument with a force sensing function. The surgical drill instrument comprises a tail end executer part, a deflection-pitching part and an autoroatation part, wherein the tail end executer consists of a six-dimensional force sensor, a drill connecting element, a pitching connecting element, a surgery drill and a middle connecting shaft, and is used for realizing hole drilling and force sensing functions; the deflection-pitching part consists of a pitching shaft, a middle support body, a deflection driving wheel, a deflection shaft and a transmission wheel, and is used for completing the pitching and deflection freedom; and the autoroatation part consists of an autoroatation shaft and a carbon fiber pipe, and is used for realizing the autoroatation freedom. The surgical drill instrument provided by the invention has the advantages that cable transmission is used, so that the long-distance transmission can be realized; the return difference is eliminated through proper pre-tightening; the operation space is large; the transmission precision is high; the moving stability is high; and the drill tail end force and moment can be sensed.

A surgical drill guide for installing dental implants with predetermined angular alignment and rotational orientation for a dental prosthesis, formed of:

• • a. a base part formed to correspond generally to the shape and contour of a patient's upper or lower mouth, the base part having peripheral edges and having opposite tissue and mouth sides and at least one drill guide hole extending through the base part from the tissue side to the mouth side, each of the drill guide holes having a central axis at a predetermined angular orientation relative to the mouth side and having lateral location relative to the peripheral edges, and
  • b. a set of rotational position indicators on the tissue and mouth sides respectively of the base part for each of the drill guide holes, the rotational position indicators of each set being at the same rotational position about the central axis of the drill guide hole.

The present invention is directed to a surgical drill guide. The drill guide may include a first drill guide body having a distal end for placement substantially adjacent a bone, a second drill guide body slidable with respect to the first drill guide body and having a proximal end for contacting a portion of a drill bit, a handle associated with at least one of the first drill guide body and the second drill guide body, and a detent mechanism for releasably retaining the position of the first drill guide body with respect to the second drill guide body in predefined increments. Additionally or alternatively, the drill guide may include a locking member movable between a first position where it substantially prevents sliding of the second drill guide body with respect to the first drill guide body, and a second position where it permits sliding of the second drill guide body with respect to the first drill guide body. The locking member may be resiliently biased to the first position. Other features for improving the drill guide are disclosed and claimed as well.

A surgical drill for providing holes at an angle for use in repair and replacement of the ACL is disclosed, generally comprising a drill guide having a head that is angularly adjustable with respect to a body, a flexible guide pin and a flexible drill. The adjustable head of the drill guide allows a surgeon to drill a hole in the femur at an angle to a tunnel provided in the tibia. Because the surgeon can access the femur via the hole in the tibia, the surgical drill of the present invention obviates the need for a second hole in the tissue and also makes placement of femur hole more precise for securement of the ligament or tendon graft within the hole.

An expanding reamer for reaming or cutting a concave surface, for example, for reaming an acetabulum in preparation for implanting a prosthetic component during a hip arthroplasty. A rotating shaft cooperates with a surgical drill or other power source at one end and rotates a reamer head at the other end, and an actuation system expands one or more blades on the reamer head. The reamer head comprises one or more cutting blades, which act as segments of a cutting sphere, wherein the blades are expandable in directions non-parallel to the plane of the respective blades in order to enlarge the cutting sphere. Upon rotation of the reamer head, the blade(s) form a portion of an effective cutting sphere that is preferably greater-than-180-degrees; this allows greater flexibility in placement of the shaft of the reamer relative to the surface being reamed, for example, relative to the center of axis of the acetabulum. In one embodiment, two parallel blades move out away from each other and away from the rotational axis of the device, staying parallel to each other to become, in effect, more distanced, but still parallel, segments of a larger cutting sphere. In another embodiment, two blades start generally parallel to each other and to the rotational axis of the device, but pivot out from each other in directions generally perpendicular to their respective blade planes, again becoming more distanced, but not parallel, segments of a larger cutting sphere.

A dental surgical drill guide assembly and method includes a surgical guide housing and a base frame that fits to both gum tissue and one or multiple small areas of jawbone. The apparatus may be configured to accurately place dental implants according to planned positions. Such apparatus may increase the stability of the surgical guide by clasping and/or contacting the jawbone, while improving the overall fit and minimizing the need of invasive surgery and flapping by also clasping and/or contacting selected areas of the gum tissue at the same time. Self-locking alignment members aid in easy removal, and re-installation, of the surgical guide housing to the base frame.

A surgical drill for use with a computer assisted surgery system. In a first embodiment, at least three localizing emitters are mounted on and integral with each side of the drill housing, the emitters on each side arranged such that they are visible to a localizing device when that side is facing the localizing device. The emitters on each side are spaced sufficiently apart from one another to provide accurate pose information. In a second embodiment, the emitters are mounted on both sides of a two-sided fin assembly attached to the housing.

A surgical drill for use with a drill bit. The drill includes a handpiece with a motor and a brake mechanism. The brake mechanism is a sliding rack adjacent a first end and a second end with a stop adjacent the drill bit. An actuator is mounted to the handpiece and a plunger is coupled to the actuator. A sensor asserts a signal when the drill bit penetrates bone. When the sensor asserts the signal indicting the drill bit penetrated bone, the actuator moves the plunger into engagement with the rack to prevent further insertion of the drill bit.

A surgical drill guide device for drilling an angled osteal tunnel having an support rack having a first end and a second end; a drill guide sleeve having a passage for receiving a drill therethrough, the drill guide sleeve being adjustably securable and positionable on the rack between the first end and the second end of the rack; and a guide component secured on the first end of said rack, the guide component having a suture seizing mechanism for seizing a suture.

Instrumentation for osteofixation including a locking bone plate and a surgical drill guide. The plate has a plurality of fastener holes with inner walls of a preselected hole diameter. The drill guide has a guide member, for guiding a drill bit, and a hollow collet disposed substantially coaxially with the guide member. A radially expandable forward end of the collet comprises a radially expandable neck and an outwardly projecting rim disposed forward of the neck. This rim defines a contracted outer rim diameter that is smaller than the hole diameter in a contracted collet position, and an expanded outer rim diameter that is larger than the hole diameter in an expanded position. Thus, the rim is freely extractable through the plate hole in the contracted position, but is unreceivable through the plate hole in the expanded position. The collet neck is configured and dimensioned to press outwardly against an inner wall of the plate hole when the neck is expanded.

A surgical drilling instrument with a Curved Burr Attachment having an adapter removably coupled to a drill motor and a burr attachment coupled to said adapter. The burr attachment includes a tube with a wire shaft supported therein and a coil wire surrounding said wire shaft and having each of the coils touch the outer periphery surface of the wire shaft and the inner peripheral surface of said tube to enhance cooling of said outer periphery of said tube from the heat generated by said wire shaft and attenuate vibrations while allowing said burr attachment to be bent without kinking. The burr attachment includes a proximal end support and a distal end support formed on the end of said burr attachment wherein the wire shaft is affixed to said proximal end support and rotates relative to said distal end support and includes detents formed on each of the supports for engaging balls in said adapter so as to be operatively connected thereto when the burr attachment is aligned in said adapter to couple the burr attachment to said adapter for rotary motion of said wire shaft and locating the cutter of said burr attachment to a precise location relative to the end of the adapter. The burr attachment being disposable and the adapter being re-usable.

A surgical drill aimer (1, 70, 100) is provided that is configured to be secured about a bone with a drill guide (8, 82, 108) on one side and a drill target (4, 88, 114) on an opposite side. A suture passage (40, 92, 120) is provided which is shaped to receive a suture (44, 94, 130) and has an exit (46, 90, 12) at or near the drill target and configured such that a suture extending therefrom is accessible through a drill hole formed using the drill aimer and opening in line with the drill target.

The present invention relates to dental instruments including dental burs, dental discs, tapes, endodontic files, surgical drills and taps, scalers, mirrors, intra-oral light sources, handpieces, perioscopes, covers for dental instruments and other tools having anti-microbial and/or medicament coatings which may be in a substantially permanent covalent manner or in a substantially non-permanent manner. The anti-microbial coating may be made from a variety of anti-microbial substances and other appropriate constituents to promote its fixing to the surface of the dental instrument and to promote its anti-microbial activity either during use or during storage. The substrate of the instruments may also include sources of anti-microbial agents, either by embedding, filling or mixing into the substrate.