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US 8,133,273 B2Granted
Injectable intraocular implants
AssigneeVisioncare Ophthalmic Technologies Inc.
InventorsEli Aharoni, Yossi Gross, Gideon Dotan, Iden Eisenberg
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Abstract
An injectable intraocular implant including an optics portion and a resilient, flexible haptics portion mounted coaxially with the optics portion and a method for inserting the implant into the eye.
Claims18
An intraocular implant injection assembly comprising:
- a housing arranged along a longitudinal axis, said housing including a forward portion and a rearward portion;
- a syringe, positionable along said longitudinal axis in said rearward portion of said housing;
- an intraocular implant positioning subassembly, positioned along said longitudinal axis in said forward portion of said housing;
- an intraocular implant mounted in said intraocular implant positioning subassembly;
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- an intraocular implant displacer operative to displace said intraocular implant rearwardly along said longitudinal axis relative to said positioning subassembly into said syringe when said positioning subassembly is forwardly displaced relative to said housing by said syringe in response to a user displacing said syringe forwardly within said housing.
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A system for injecting an intraocular implant into an eye, comprising:
- an intraocular implant including haptics and having an optical axis;
- an injector having an injector axis, adapted to have said intraocular implant arranged therein such that said optical axis is parallel to said injector axis;
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- an intraocular implant displacer operative to inject said intraocular implant into the eye by displacing said intraocular implant along an injection axis which is coaxial with said optical axis.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.