Patent ID: 6887277
Filing Date: 2005-05-03
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A shoulder joint prosthesis having two bearing bodies ( 1 , 2 ; 11 , 12 ) which slide on one another and which can be respectively connected to an upper arm ( 3 ) by a shaft ( 5 ) and to a shoulder bone ( 4 ) by a platform ( 6 ), wherein connection of the prosthesis to the shaft ( 5 ) is brought about by a non-rotationally symmetrical, conical body ( 7 ) with a self-locking seat, with a periphery ( 8 ) of said conical body being form matched to a mating recess ( 15 ) in the shaft ( 5 ) which is rotationally fixed relative to a longitudinal axis ( 9 ) and keyed by an amount of taper so that connection of the prosthesis to the shaft ( 5 ) is releasable and repeatedly fixable in a predetermined angular position; wherein a bearing shell ( wherein the bearing head ( wherein a longitudinally slit (