US 10,646,330 B2Granted

Accommodative intraocular lens

AssigneeRainbow Medical Ltd.

InventorsZev Sohn, Yossi Gross

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Abstract

An accommodating intraocular lens implant is provided that includes (a) a bowl-shaped posterior component and (b) an anterior component, which includes an anterior floating lens unit, which includes an anterior lens; a circumferential rim; and levers, which connect the anterior floating lens unit to the circumferential rim, such that the anterior floating lens unit is movable toward and away from the circumferential ring in an anterior-posterior direction. The bowl-shaped posterior component and the anterior component are distinct from each other and not permanently fixed to each other, and are shaped so as to be assemblable together in situ in a human eye such that the circumferential rim contacts an interface region of an inner surface of the bowl-shaped posterior component, and the levers are pivotable about the interface region during motion of the anterior floating lens unit toward and away from the circumferential ring in the anterior-posterior direction.

Claims9

Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising an accommodating intraocular lens implant, which comprises:

(a) an anterior component, which comprises:
(i) an anterior floating lens unit, which comprises an anterior lens;
(ii) a complete, 360-degree circumferential rim;
and
(iii) levers, which connect the anterior floating lens unit to the complete, 360-degree circumferential rim, such that the anterior floating lens unit is movable toward and away from the complete, 360-degree circumferential rim in an anterior-posterior direction;
and
(b) a bowl-shaped posterior component having an inner surface that defines an interface region,
wherein the bowl-shaped posterior component and the anterior component are distinct from each other and not permanently fixed to each other, and are shaped so as to be assemblable together in situ in a human eye such that:
the complete, 360-degree circumferential rim contacts the interface region of the inner surface of the bowl-shaped posterior component, and
the levers are pivotable about the interface region during motion of the anterior floating lens unit toward and away from the complete, 360-degree circumferential rim in the anterior-posterior direction.

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Facts

Application: 15/896,340Filed 14 Feb 2018 · continuation
Priority: 26 Dec 2012
Published: US 2018/0221139 A19 Aug 2018
Granted: 12 May 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

A61F 2/1648
Having special lens configurations, e.g. multipart lenses; having particular optical properties, e.g. pseudo-accommodative lenses, lenses having…:…
A61F 2/1629
Having adjustable focus; power activated variable focus means, e.g. mechanically or electrically by the ciliary muscle or from the outside: for…
A61F 2/1651
Multipart lenses: multipart lenses comprising a telescope
A61F 2002/1681
Intraocular lenses: having supporting structure for lens, e.g. haptics

Family

Application61/745,851Us provisional application · filed 26 Dec 2012
Application14/139,579Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 23 Dec 2013
Application14/315,301Parent of this continuation · filed 25 Jun 2014
US 2018/0221139 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 Aug 2018
US 9,925,039 B2Parent of this continuation
Application14/315,301Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2014/0180407 A1Published application
US 2014/0309735 A1Published application
US 10,646,330 B2This patent

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