Patent ID: 8075627

Claim:
An orthopaedic implant comprising: a housing having a chamber defined therein; a bobbin positioned in the chamber, the bobbin having a plurality of apertures positioned along an axis extending in a medial-lateral direction; and a secondary coil positioned in the chamber of the housing and having a plurality of coil turns about a longitudinal axis each coil turn of the plurality of coil turns of the secondary coil (i) passing through a separate corresponding aperture of the plurality of apertures of the bobbin, and (ii) being positioned in a corresponding reference plane extending in an anterior-posterior direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis, wherein when the orthopaedic implant is implanted in a patient (i) the corresponding reference planes are capable of being oriented substantially parallel with a sagittal plane of a body of the patient and (ii) the longitudinal axis is capable of being oriented substantially orthogonal to the sagittal plane of the body of the patient.