IP Library Granted Patent US 9,364,141
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US 9,364,141 · App. 14/548,060 · Granted Jun 14, 2016

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Patent No.
US 9,364,141
App. No.
14/548,060
Granted
Jun 14, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A device for stabilizing the constant accommodation of an eye comprises a target object, an optical unit, and an additional optical unit. The target object is set up to be fixated by a patient along an optical axis. The optical unit is set up along the optical axis to compensate for a spherical ametropia of the eye. The additional optical unit is set up along the optical axis to compensate for an astigmatic ametropia of the eye. The additional optical unit comprises at least two cylindrical lenses and at least four deflection prisms. At least one cylindrical lens is rotatably arranged about the optical axis. At least one deflection prism can be adjusted to change the optical path length of the light path from the target object to the eye.

Claims (24)

1. Device for stabilizing the constant accommodation of an eye of a patient, comprising:

a target object that is set up to be fixated by the patient along an optical axis;

an optical unit in the light path from the target object to the eye, the optical unit set up along the optical axis in order to compensate for a spherical ametropia of the eye; and

an additional optical unit in the light path, the additional optical unit set up along the optical axis in order to compensate for an astigmatic ametropia of the eye, the additional optical unit comprising:

at least two cylindrical lenses, wherein at least one cylindrical lens is rotatably arranged about the optical axis; and

at least four deflection prisms, wherein at least one deflection prism can be adjusted to change the optical path length of the light path from the target object to the eye.

2. Device according to claim 1 , wherein a first cylindrical lens has a positive refraction power and a second cylindrical lens has a negative refraction power.

3. Device according to claim 1 wherein two cylindrical lenses have positive refraction power.

4. Device according to claim 1 , wherein two cylindrical lenses have negative refraction power.

5. Device according to claim 1 , further comprising an aberrometer that can measure the eye.

6. Device according to claim 5 , wherein the aberrometer is a Hartmann-Shack aberrometer.

7. Device according to claim 5 , wherein the aberrometer is a Tscherning aberrometer.

8. Method for stabilizing the constant accommodation of an eye of a patient, with the following steps:

arranging a target object so that it can be fixated by the patient along an optical axis;

compensating for a spherical ametropia of the eye with an optical unit along the optical axis; and

compensating for an astigmatic ametropia of the eye, with an optical unit along the optical axis by:

rotating at least one cylindrical lens of at least two cylindrical lenses about the optical axis; and

adjusting at least one deflection prism of at least four deflection prisms to change the optical path length of the light path from the target object to the eye.

9. Method according to claim 8 , wherein a first cylindrical lens has a positive refraction power and a second cylindrical lens has a negative refraction power.

10. Method according to claim 8 , wherein two cylindrical lenses have positive refraction power.

11. Method according to claim 8 , wherein two cylindrical lenses have negative refraction power.

12. Method according to claim 8 , further comprising measuring the eye with an aberrometer.

13. Method according to claim 12 , wherein the aberrometer is a Hartmann-Shack aberrometer.

14. Method according to claim 12 , wherein the aberrometer is a Tscherning aberrometer.

Assignments (3)
CONFIRMATORY DEED OF ASSIGNMENT EFFECTIVE APRIL 8, 2019 Recorded Dec 10, 2019
From: NOVARTIS AG
To: ALCON INC.
Reel/Frame 051454/0788 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 20, 2014
From: WEBER, MAREC
To: WAVELIGHT GMBH
Reel/Frame 034220/0405 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 20, 2014
From: WAVELIGHT GMBH
To: NOVARTIS AG
Reel/Frame 034220/0478 →