Patent ID: 7727264

Claim:
A one-piece bone fracture fixation device for use with a fastener having a head portion with a diameter larger than a shaft portion, said device for stabilization of a fracture of a bone of an upper extremity, the bone having a metaphysis and diaphysis, the diaphysis defining a medullary canal, said device comprising: a) an elongate nail portion having a first length and including a first portion with a first diameter with at least one threaded screw hole extending therein and an opposite second portion having a smaller diameter than said first portion and having a decreased rigidity relative to said first portion thereby permitting the second portion to flex relative to the first portion, an entirety of said nail portion sized to be received within the medullary canal of the bone; b) a plate portion extending from and inseparable from said nail portion, said plate portion having a second length less than one half said first length and having a maximum thickness less than said first diameter, said plate portion provided adjacent said first portion of said nail portion, said plate portion including at least one hole having a longitudinal axis extending through said hole and a countersink portion configured to allow the head portion of the fastener to be countersunk within the plate portion and to fix the fastener within said hole in a fixed angle orientation along said longitudinal axis; and c) a neck region that connects said plate portion to said first portion of said nail and offsets said plate portion from said first portion of said nail portion so that said plate portion is parallel to but not coaxial with said first portion of said nail portion, said neck region including a threaded hole, and each of said plate portion and said first portion of said nail portion extend from said neck region in opposite, and not in the same, directions from each other from said neck region.