IP Library Granted Patent US 9,427,313
Granted Patent B2
US 9,427,313 · App. 13/815,725 · Granted Aug 30, 2016

Intraocular lens (IOL)

Inventor: Gene Currie (Irvine, CA)
A61F2/1624A61F2/1627A61F2002/164A61F2002/1681A61F2002/1689
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,427,313
App. No.
13/815,725
Granted
Aug 30, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

An intraocular lens including a lens optic having a ring-shaped lens optic portion and/or a light window.

Claims (9)

1. An accommodating intraocular lens (IOL) configured to be implanted into an eye, the lens being molded as a single piece structure and comprising:

a lens plate haptic;

a biconvex lens optic configured to provide static accommodation of vision of the eye, the lens optic being formed of a lens material and having an anterior lens optic surface and a posterior lens optic surface, the lens optic comprising a ring-shaped lens optic portion and a lens optic light window, the ring-shaped lens optic portion is a ring-shaped pattern provided on or in the anterior lens optic surface of the lens optic and defined by an outer circular edge and an inner circular edge, the inner circular edge defining an aperture, the lens optic light window being coaxial with said aperture and being defined by an anterior flat lens optic surface formed on the anterior lens optic surface of the lens optic, a posterior flat lens optic surface formed on the posterior lens optic surface of the lens optic, and the lens material located between the anterior flat lens optic surface and the posterior flat lens optic surface, the anterior flat lens optic surface and the posterior flat lens optic surface being spaced apart a fixed distance, centered on the lens optic, and oriented normal relative to an optical axis of the lens optic, the lens optic light window being configured to allow light rays to pass straight through a thickness of the lens optic,

wherein the lens optic light window extends as least partially through a thickness of the lens optic,

wherein each of the anterior flat lens optic surface and the posterior flat lens optic surface is circular-shaped,

wherein the lens optic window has a width in the range of 0.1 mm to 3.0 mm, and

wherein the lens optic light window is configured to allow light rays to pass straight through a thickness of the lens optic with a minimal to none light refraction.

2. The lens according to claim 1 , wherein the anterior flat lens optic surface and the posterior flat lens optic surface at least partially overlap each other relative to the optical axis of the lens optic.

3. The lens according to claim 1 , wherein the two flat lens optic surfaces are the same size and shape surfaces.

Continuity (5)
Continuation In Part 13471418 · May 14, 2012
Continuation In Part 11312553 · Dec 21, 2005
Continuation In Part 11249358 · Oct 14, 2005
Continuation In Part 10942992 · Sep 17, 2004
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