Intraocular lens insertion tool
AssigneeKowa Company, Ltd.
InventorsKazuharu Niwa, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Masayoshi Tanaka
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Abstract
An intraocular lens insertion tool including: a cylindrical tool body provided with a placement part at which is placed an intraocular lens having an optical part, and a pair of support parts extending from either side of the optical part; and a plunger for pushing out the intraocular lens; the intraocular lens insertion tool being provided in a state in which the intraocular lens is preset in the placement part, wherein at least one of the front support part extending toward a tip end of the tool body and the rear support part extending toward a rear end of the tool body is pre-deformed by abutting against an abutting projection disposed inside the placement part.
Claims7
An intraocular lens insertion tool comprising:
- a cylindrical tool body equipped with a placement part where an intraocular lens that has an optical part and a pair of support parts extending from either side of the optical part is placed;
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- a plunger to be inserted from a rear end part of the tool body to push out the intraocular lens to an insertion cylinder located at a tip portion of the tool body, the intraocular lens insertion tool being provided in a state where the intraocular lens is preset in the placement part so as to have the pair of support parts of the intraocular lens extend toward tip and rear ends of the tool body,
- wherein at least one of the pair of support parts, that is, a front support part extending toward the tip end of the tool body and a rear support part extending toward the rear end of the tool body, is pre-deformed by abutting against an abutting projection arranged in the placement part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.