Intraocular lens injector apparatus
AssigneeBausch + Lomb Ireland Limited
InventorsMoises Valle, Sushant Muchhala
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Abstract
An injector for injecting an IOL into an eye, comprising an injector body having a lumen wall defining a lumen, a plunger having a longitudinal axis and a soft tip at a distal end of the plunger. The soft tip having a concave distal surface. In a plane including the longitudinal axis, the plane being perpendicular to an IOL optical axis when the IOL is located at a staging area of the injector body, the concave distal surface extending in a direction at a non-perpendicular angle relative to the longitudinal axis. The concave distal surface may be oval-shaped in a plane perpendicular to the direction, and the concave distal surface has no curvature along the direction.
Claims18
An injector system for injecting an intraocular lens (IOL) into an eye, comprising:
- an injector body having a lumen wall defining a lumen, the lumen having a distal end configured to permit the IOL to be delivered into the eye;
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- a plunger having a longitudinal axis and a soft tip at a distal end of the plunger, the soft tip being configured to advance the IOL through the lumen to the distal end of the lumen, the soft tip having a concave distal surface with a plane extending therethrough,
- the plane including the longitudinal axis and the plane being perpendicular to an IOL optical axis when the IOL is located at a staging area of the injector body, and in the plane, the concave distal surface extending in a direction at a non-perpendicular angle relative to the longitudinal axis, the direction being tangential to the concave distal surface along its length.
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