Patent ID: 8551123

Claim:
A guide component device for seizing sutures in a first bone tunnel osseous or osteal, comprises: a hollow cylinder having an exterior end and an interior end with a tip, wherein the tip of the interior end is an awl tip and the exterior end of the hollow cylinder has a tamping plate configured to form at least a portion of the first tunnel; a suture seizing mechanism positioned in the interior end of the hollow cylinder; an activating mechanism for activating the suture seizing mechanism; a target ring near the tip, the target ring being an opening in the hollow cylinder spaced from, but near the tip into which a suture end to be seized can be inserted prior to being seized; a suture clamping component for clamping the suture end extending in from a second bone tunnel and inserted in the target ring in the first bone tunnel to be seized against an inner surface of the target ring, the suture clamping component being a suture seizing pestle located inside the hollow cylinder in the interior end for clamping the suture end to be seized against the inner surface of the target ring inside the hollow cylinder, allowing the interior end with the clamped end of the suture to be pulled with the clamped suture from the first bone tunnel and wherein the activating mechanism can be activated to force the suture clamping component into the target ring so as to pin the suture end against an inner surface of the target ring, thus clamping the suture end between the suture clamping component and the inner surface of the target ring and the suture clamping component is movable within the target ring when the activating mechanism is activated, wherein the movement of the suture clamping component at least partially closes the opening of the target ring in the hollow cylinder and securely presses against the inner surface of the target ring, whereby a suture end is clamped and secured between the suture clamping component and the inner surface of the target ring; and wherein the opening of the target ring when positioned inside the first bone tunnel is structured to accommodate a drill bit, whereby the device can function as a guide into which the drill bit is aimed for drilling the second bone tunnel wherein the target ring when positioned inside the first bone tunnel is structured to accommodate the drill bit exiting the second bone tunnel as the drill bit causes the second bone tunnel to intersect and connect with the first bone tunnel in which the device is located while the drill bit is passing into and through the target ring without touching the device, thereby aligning the opening of the target ring with the second bone tunnel where the second bone tunnel aligns with the target ring for receiving and seizing the suture end to be seized, which is inserted through the second bone tunnel into the target ring inside the first bone tunnel.