Patent ID: 8702806

Claim:
An acetabular implant, comprising: a screw cup configured to receive an articular insert; screwing means having threads at a periphery or in a tropical/equatorial zone of the cup, the screwing means comprising screw reliefs, each screw relief having a polar face, an equatorial face and a crest, and said screwing means are intended to be introduced into bone material of the acetabulum during a screwing action; and a coating carried by the cup, said coating facilitating osteointegration, wherein the coating is a thick coating on convex portions of an outer surface of the cup, including on bottoms of said threads of said screwing means and the coating is a thin coating having a lesser thickness than said thick coating on the screw reliefs of said screwing means, the thin coating entirely covering both the equatorial and polar faces and the crests of the screwing means.