SOFT INTRAOCULAR LENS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME

• Main Authors: SHOJI NORIYUKI, MITOMO KIKUO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; Japanese
• Published: 26.08.2010
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

A soft intraocular lens (1) provided with an optical lens section (10) consisting of a foldable soft material, and also with support arm sections (20) formed so as to project outward from the outer peripheral edge of the optical lens section (10) in order to hold the optical lens section (10) within an eye. The tips (22) of the support arm sections (20) consist of a material which is harder than and different from a soft material of the remaining portion of the soft intraocular lens (1). L'invention concerne une lentille intraoculaire molle (1) dotée d'une section (10) de lentille optique constituée d'un matériau mou pliable, ainsi que de sections (20) de bras de soutien formées de façon à dépasser vers l'extérieur à partir du bord périphérique extérieur de la section (10) de lentille optique afin de maintenir la section (10) de lentille optique à l'intérieur d'un oeil. Les extrémités (22) des sections (20) de bras de soutien sont constituées d'un matériau plus dur qui diffère d'un matériau mou constituant la partie restante de la lentille intraoculaire molle (1).