Granted Patent B2

US 9,241,751 · App. 13/812,328 · Granted Jan 26, 2016

Abstract

Claims (13)

1. A torque-limiting driver for driving a workpiece, comprising:

a generally hollow cylindrical body;

a nose cone at one end of said body;

within said body an upper shank;

within said body a lower shank, the lower shank being integrally connected to said nose cone;

said nose cone having a recessed hole configured to receive a workpiece-engaging tip;

within said body, a locking screw extending through the upper shank and coupled to the lower shank;

within said body, a spring between a portion of the locking screw and the upper shank, the spring applying a force across the upper shank and the lower shank;

wherein the upper shank and the lower shank have a plurality of teeth forming a pair a crown gears and an axial bore that defines an inner radius of the upper and lower shank, the axial bore being coaxially aligned with the recessed hole;

wherein the teeth of the upper and lower shank forcibly engage for relative upper and lower shank rotation and wherein the teeth disengage when a predetermined value of torque applied to said body is exceeded; and,

at least one lumen extending axially through the nose cone coaxially within said recessed hole, and said at least one lumen extending axially through at least one of the upper shank, the lower shank, and the locking screw.

2. The torque limiting driver of claim 1 , further comprising one or more devices insertable through said at least one lumen and a second lumen disposed within the workpiece-engaging tip.

3. The torque limiting driver of claim 2 , wherein each of said devices is one of a sound-emitting device, a radiation-emitting device, a drilling device, a cutting device, an ablation device, a curing device, a retrieval device, an aspiration device, a suction device, an irrigation device, a gasification device, a cooling device, a heating device, and an optical device.

Assignments (8)