US 2017/0281408 A1 · OCULAR INSERT DEVICE

Abstract

The present invention has an object to provide an ocular insert device that can be stably placed under the eyelid without giving a feeling of insertion of a foreign body to a user and that can store a larger volume of drug as compared to a conventional system. The ocular insert device 100 includes a storage main body 1 that is formed to be a seed-shaped piece having a predetermined width so as to be located under an eyelid and that stores a drug. The storage main body 1 has a held portion 1a in which a surface that comes into contact with the eyelid can be held by a tarsal plate 52.

Claims9

Dependent claims

An ocular insert device comprising:

a storage main body made of a semi-arc-shaped piece, the storage main body having a predetermined width so as to be located under an eyelid and having a shape which extends along a portion where a palpebral conjunctiva and a bulbar conjunctiva are connected together so as to supply a drug;
and
wherein the storage main body includes:
a held portion surface in which a surface thereof coming into contact with the eyelid is held;
and
a surface thereof coming into contact with the eyeball with a smaller friction coefficient than that of the surface coming into contact with the eyelid.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/507,424Filed 7 Aug 2015

Priority

JP 2014-17451828 Aug 2014

Published

5 Oct 2017

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

A61F 9/0017
Introducing ophthalmic products into the ocular cavity or retaining products therein: implantable in, or in contact with, the eye, e.g. ocular inserts
A61F 9/007
Methods or devices for treatment of the eyes; Devices for putting in contact-lenses; Devices to correct squinting; Apparatus to guide the blind;…:…
A61F 9/00736
Methods or devices for eye surgery: instruments for removal of intra-ocular material or intra-ocular injection, e.g. cataract instruments
A61F 2230/0004
Two-dimensional shapes, e.g. cross-sections: rounded shapes, e.g. with rounded corners

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Abstract

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