# US 10,369,055 B2 · Modular patient adapter for an eye laser device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,369,055 B2 - Document ID: US10369055B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/246,116 - Filed: 2016-08-24 - Published: 2017-05-11 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2015-11-10 - Assignees: Novartis AG - Applicants: Novartis AG - Inventors: Thomas Deisinger; Daniel Thimm - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10369055B2 ## CPC - A61F 9/009: Auxiliary devices making contact with the eyeball and coupling in laser light, {e.g. goniolenses (apparatus for eye examination A61B3/0008)} - A61F 9/00825: {for photodisruption} - A61F: FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C) ## Abstract An apparatus for laser assisted eye treatment comprises: a laser device configured to provide focused laser radiation and having an adapter coupling port; an adapter module including first and second sub-modules, the first sub-module configured to detachably couple to the laser device at the adapter coupling port and having a contact surface for an eye, the second sub-module including an eye suction ring portion having a ring axis, wherein the second sub-module delimits at least one suction space, and the adapter module includes a vacuum inlet port in association with each of the at least one suction chamber, wherein the adapter module includes an evacuation path system configured to establish a vacuum communication connection between each of the at least one suction space and the associated vacuum inlet port, wherein the vacuum inlet port is provided at the first sub-module and the evacuation path system extends from the first sub-module to the second sub-module. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An apparatus for laser assisted eye treatment, comprising: a laser device configured to provide focused laser radiation and having an adapter coupling port; an adapter module comprising: a first sub-module configured to detachably couple to the laser device at the adapter coupling port and having a contact surface for an eye, the first sub-module including a plate portion, a hose connection port at the first sub-module located at one side of the plate portion; a second sub-module that includes an eye suction ring portion having a ring axis, and that delimits at least one suction space; a vacuum inlet port in association with each of the at least one suction space, the vacuum inlet port located at a side of the plate portion opposite the hose connection port at the first sub-module; and an evacuation path system configured to establish a vacuum communication connection between each of the at least one suction space and the associated vacuum inlet port, the vacuum inlet port provided at the first sub-module, the evacuation path system extending from the first sub-module to the second sub-module. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the evacuation path system includes a hose extending from the hose connection port at the first sub-module to a hose connection port at the second sub-module. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the hose is detachably connected to at least one of the hose connection port at the first sub-module and the hose connection port at the second sub-module. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein: at least one of the hose connection port at the first sub-module and the hose connection port at the second sub-module is designed as a hose insert. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein: a channel is formed in the plate portion to extend from the one side to the opposite side of the plate portion; and the vacuum inlet port being formed by an open end portion of the channel located at the opposite side of the plate portion. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one suction space includes a suction space operable to cause the eye suction ring portion to be sucked against the eye. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one suction space includes a suction space operable to cause the first sub-module to be sucked against the second sub-module. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein: the first and second sub-modules are held together in a module and are adjustable with respect to each other in the module between a first relative position in which the contact surface assumes a first axial position with respect to the eye suction ring portion and a second relative position in which the contact surface assumes a second axial position with respect to the eye suction ring portion; the first axial position of the contact surface corresponds to a position in which the contact surface is still out of contact with the eye when the eye suction ring portion has been placed on the eye; and the second axial position of the contact surface corresponds to a position in which the contact surface is in shaping contact with the eye when the eye suction ring portion is placed on the eye. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The apparatus of claim 8, wherein: the second sub-module includes a centering portion having a funnel section which tapers in a direction axially toward the eye suction ring portion; the first sub-module includes a conical portion adapted for axial insertion into the centering portion; the conical portion is inserted deeper into the centering portion in the second relative position of the first and second sub-modules than in the first relative position; and the at least one suction space includes a suction space delimited at least partially by the funnel section and the conical portion. ### Claim 10 An apparatus for laser assisted eye treatment, comprising: a laser device configured to provide focused laser radiation and having an adapter coupling port; an adapter module comprising: a first sub-module configured to detachably couple to the laser device at the adapter coupling port and having a contact surface for an eye; a second sub-module that includes an eye suction ring portion having a ring axis, and that delimits at least one suction space; a vacuum inlet port in association with each of the at least one suction space; and an evacuation path system configured to establish a vacuum communication connection between each of the at least one suction space and the associated vacuum inlet port, the vacuum inlet port provided at the first sub-module, the evacuation path system extending from the first sub-module to the second sub-module, wherein: the adapter coupling port includes a vacuum outlet port and a slide-in structure having at least one slot adapted to slidingly receive in a sliding direction orthogonal to the ring axis a rim portion formed at the first sub-module; and the vacuum inlet port moves into overlapping relationship with the vacuum outlet port when the first sub-module is slid into the slide-in structure. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the vacuum outlet port is formed by a suction cap. ### Claim 12 An apparatus for laser assisted eye treatment, comprising: a laser device configured to provide focused laser radiation and having an adapter coupling port; an adapter module comprising: a first sub-module configured to detachably couple to the laser device at the adapter coupling port and having a contact surface for an eye; a second sub-module that includes an eye suction ring portion having a ring axis, and that delimits at least one suction space; a vacuum inlet port in association with each of the at least one suction space; and an evacuation path system configured to establish a vacuum communication connection between each of the at least one suction space and the associated vacuum inlet port, the vacuum inlet port provided at the first sub-module, the evacuation path system extending from the first sub-module to the second sub-module, wherein: the at least one suction space includes a first suction space and a second suction space; the evacuation path system comprises: a first hose extending from a first hose connection port at the first sub-module to a first hose connection port at the second sub-module; and a second hose extending from a second hose connection port at the first sub-module to a second hose connection port at the second sub-module; the first hose connection port at the second sub-module is in vacuum communication connection with the first suction space; and the second hose connection port at the second sub-module is in vacuum communication connection with the second suction space.