Mirror implant
AssigneeVisioncare Ophthalmic Technologies Inc.
InventorsGideon Dotan, Yossi Gross, Eli Aharoni
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Abstract
An intraocular implant including a plurality of mirrors, including mirrors having optical power, being operative, when the implant is implanted, for receiving light from a scene and focusing the light onto a retina, the mirrors containing bio-incompatible materials and at least one hermetically sealed enclosure, enclosing the plurality of mirrors, and being operative, when the implant is implanted, to seal the bio-incompatible materials from the interior of the eye, without interfering with the passage of light therethrough from the scene to the plurality of mirrors and from the plurality of mirrors to the retina.
Claims7
An intraocular implant comprising:
- a transparent body;
- a plurality of mirrors, including mirrors having non-zero optical power, being operative, when said implant is implanted, for receiving light from a scene and focusing said light onto a retina, said plurality of mirrors being formed on an outwardly facing surface of said transparent body;
- at least one enclosure, enclosing said plurality of mirrors and said transparent body;
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- at least one light restrictor formed on a surface of said enclosure, arranged so as to restrict light passing through said implant such that generally only light which impinges on said plurality of mirrors reaches the retina when said implant is implanted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.