Device for measuring properties of eye and method thereof
AssigneeIcare Finland Oy
InventorAndrei Plaian
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Abstract
A device for measuring properties of an eye. The device includes: an execution unit including an impact means arranged to apply an impact on a cornea of the eye, wherein the execution unit includes launching means, and solid probe(s), a measuring unit including at least one confocal chromatic displacement sensor, and a controller coupled to the execution unit and the measuring unit, wherein the controller is configured to operate the execution unit to apply the impact on the cornea of the eye using the impact means, and the measuring unit to perform multiple measurements of a displacement of the cornea caused by the impact during a predetermined time period, the launching means is operable to launch the at least one solid probe towards the eye to apply the impact.
Claims13
A device for measuring properties of an eye, the device comprising:
- an execution unit comprising an impact means arranged to apply an impact on a cornea of the eye,
- wherein the execution unit comprises
- a launching means, and
- at least one solid probe,
- a measuring unit comprising at least one confocal chromatic displacement sensor, and
- a controller coupled to the execution unit and the measuring unit,
- wherein the controller is configured to operate:
- the execution unit to apply the impact on the cornea of the eye using the impact means, and
- the measuring unit to perform multiple measurements of a displacement of the cornea caused by the impact during a predetermined time period, wherein the launching means is operable to launch the at least one solid probe towards the eye to apply the impact.
A method for measuring properties of an eye, the method comprising:
- creating an impact on a cornea of the eye using an execution unit of a device, and
- performing, using a measuring unit of the device, multiple measurements of a displacement of the cornea caused by the impact during a predetermined time period, wherein the measuring unit comprises at least one confocal chromatic displacement sensor,
- wherein the impact on the cornea is created by launching at least one solid probe towards the eye, the at least one solid probe being comprised in the execution unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.