Patent ID: 8808330

Claim:
A bone or vertebrae anchoring assembly, comprising: a rod-shaped element; an anchoring element comprising a head and a shaft, the shaft configured to be anchored to the bone or vertebra; a receiving part to connect the rod-shaped element to the shaft, the receiving part having a bore configured for simultaneously receiving the anchoring element and the rod-shaped element with the rod-shaped element passing through the receiving part; a fixation device to fix the rod-shaped element in the receiving part; and a bearing part having an outward facing surface that is configured to be press-fit at a location in the receiving part such that the bearing part is between the anchoring element and the fixation device; wherein, when the shaft is connected to the receiving part and when the rod-shaped element is immobilized with respect to the receiving part, the shaft is connected by the receiving part to the rod-shaped element in a mobile fashion and the press-fit connection permits the shaft to move with respect to the rod-shape element with at least one degree of rotational freedom, but no degree of translational freedom.