Multifocal ophthalmic lens
First Claim
1. A contact lens, comprising an anterior surface and an opposite posterior surface, wherein at least one of the anterior and posterior surface includes a vertical meridian, a horizontal meridian, and a central optical zone, wherein the central optical zone has a top boundary, a bottom boundary, a distance vision zone and a rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone adjacent to the distance vision zone,wherein the distance vision zone is located in the upper portion of the central optical zone and provides a distance power for distance vision correction,wherein the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone is located in the lower portion of the central optical zone and provides a variable intermediate vision correction and near vision correction,wherein the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone has a surface that provides a power addition profile, along the upper vertically radiating semi-meridian, which is defined by two or more linear functions of equation (1) or by equation (2) or equation
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( x ) = b 1 + k 1 x 0 ≤ x < x 1 p ( x ) = b 2 + k 2 x x 1 ≤ x < x 2 ⋮ p ( x ) = b i + k i x x i - 1 ≤ x < x i ⋮ ( 1 ) p ( x ) = A 2 · cos ( x X o π ) + A 2 ( 2 ) p ( x ) = A · [ 1 - ( x X 0 ) n ] ( 3 )
bi is a coefficient which is the intercept of a linear line;
ki is the rate of change of the added power as function of the distance from the radial center;
A is the maximum added power;
Xo is a radial distance between the radial center and the optical axis; and
n is any number which can be an integer or non-integer larger than 1 but smaller than or equal to 10.
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Abstract
This invention is generally related to vision corrections by means of multifocal ophthalmic lenses or by means of corneal refractive surgery. In particular, the present invention provides a multifocal contact lens, a multifocal intraocular lens, a method for making a multifocal ophthalmic lens (contact lens and intraocular lens), and a method of correcting presbyopia by reshaping the cornea of an eye.
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55 Claims
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1. A contact lens, comprising an anterior surface and an opposite posterior surface, wherein at least one of the anterior and posterior surface includes a vertical meridian, a horizontal meridian, and a central optical zone, wherein the central optical zone has a top boundary, a bottom boundary, a distance vision zone and a rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone adjacent to the distance vision zone,
wherein the distance vision zone is located in the upper portion of the central optical zone and provides a distance power for distance vision correction, wherein the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone is located in the lower portion of the central optical zone and provides a variable intermediate vision correction and near vision correction, wherein the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone has a surface that provides a power addition profile, along the upper vertically radiating semi-meridian, which is defined by two or more linear functions of equation (1) or by equation (2) or equation -
( x ) = b 1 + k 1 x 0 ≤ x < x 1 p ( x ) = b 2 + k 2 x x 1 ≤ x < x 2 ⋮ p ( x ) = b i + k i x x i - 1 ≤ x < x i ⋮ ( 1 ) p ( x ) = A 2 · cos ( x X o π ) + A 2 ( 2 ) p ( x ) = A · [ 1 - ( x X 0 ) n ] ( 3 ) in which p(x) is an added power at a radial distance of x from the radial center;
bi is a coefficient which is the intercept of a linear line;
ki is the rate of change of the added power as function of the distance from the radial center;
A is the maximum added power;
Xo is a radial distance between the radial center and the optical axis; and
n is any number which can be an integer or non-integer larger than 1 but smaller than or equal to 10.- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A contact lens, comprising an anterior surface and an opposite posterior surface, wherein at least one of the anterior and posterior surface includes a vertical meridian, a horizontal meridian, and a central optical zone, wherein the central optical zone has a top boundary, a bottom boundary, a distance vision zone and a rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone adjacent to the distance vision zone,
wherein the distance vision zone is located in the upper portion of the central optical zone and provides a distance power for distance vision correction; -
wherein the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone is located in the lower portion of the optical zone and provides a variable intermediate vision correction and near vision correction, wherein the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone has an upper boundary, a lower boundary, a radial center, an upper vertically radiating semi-meridian and a lower vertically radiating semi-meridian, and wherein the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone further has a surface that provides a power profile that increases, along the upper vertically radiating semi-meridian, from the distance power at the upper boundary to a near power at the radial center and remains substantially constant from the radial center to a point near the lower boundary along the lower vertically radiating semi-meridian, wherein the anterior surface includes the vertical meridian, the horizontal meridian, and the central optical zone having the top boundary, the bottom boundary, the distance vision zone and the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone adjacent to the distance vision zone, wherein the anterior surface comprises a blending zone extending outwardly from the central optical zone, a peripheral zone surrounding the blending zone, and an boundary zone circumscribing and tangent to the peripheral zone, and wherein the blending zone has a surface which ensures that the peripheral zone, the blending zone and the central optical zone are tangent to each other, wherein the peripheral zone has a surface that, in combination with the posterior surface, provides in the peripheral zone of the lens a thickness profile which is characterized (1) by having a lens thickness which increases progressively from the top of the lens downwardly along each of the vertical meridian and lines parallel to the vertical meridian until reaching a maximum value at a position between the anterior optical zone and the boundary zone and then decreases to the boundary of the boundary zone, or (2) by having a mirror symmetry with respect to a plane cutting through the vertical meridian, by having a substantially constant thickness in a region around the horizontal meridian and by having a thickness which decreases progressively from the horizontal meridian to the top or bottom of the contact lens along each of the vertical meridian and lines parallel to the vertical meridian. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A method for producing a contact lens capable of correcting presbyopia, comprising the steps of designing the anterior surface and the posterior surface of the contact lens, wherein at least one of the anterior and posterior surface includes a vertical meridian, a horizontal meridian, and a central optical zone,
wherein the central optical zone has a top boundary, a bottom boundary, a distance vision zone and a rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone adjacent to the distance vision zone; -
wherein the distance vision zone is located in the upper portion of the central optical zone and provides a distance power for distance vision correction; wherein the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone is located in the lower portion of the central optical zone and provides a variable intermediate vision correction and near vision corrections; and wherein the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone has a surface that provides a power addition profile, along the upper vertically radiating semi-meridian, which is defined by two or more linear functions of equation (1) or by equation (2) or equation (3) in which p(x) is an added power at a radial distance of x from the radial center;
bi is a coefficient which is the intercept of a linear line;
ki is the rate of change of the added power as function of the distance from the radial center;
A is the maximum added power;
Xo is a radial distance between the radial center and the optical axis; and
n is any number which can be an integer or non-integer larger than 1 but smaller than or equal to 10.- View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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45. A method for producing contact lens capable of correcting presbyopia, comprising the steps of:
- designing the contact lens which comprises an anterior surface and an opposite posterior surface, wherein at least one of the anterior and posterior surface includes a vertical meridian, a horizontal meridian, and a central optical zone, wherein the central optical zone has a top boundary, a bottom boundary, a distance vision zone and a rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone adjacent to the distance vision zone,
wherein the distance vision zone is located in the upper portion of the central optical zone and provides a distance power for distance vision correction; wherein the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone is located in the lower portion of the central optical zone and provides a variable intermediate vision correction and near vision correction; wherein the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone has an upper boundary, a lower boundary, a radial center, an upper vertically radiating semi-meridian and a lower vertically radiating semi-meridian, and wherein the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone further has a surface that provides a power profile that increases, along the upper vertically radiating semi-meridian, from the distance power at the upper boundary to a near power at the radial center and remains substantially constant from the radial center to a point near the lower boundary along the lower vertically radiating semi-meridian, wherein the anterior surface includes the vertical meridian, the horizontal meridian, and the central optical zone having the top boundary, the bottom boundary, the distance vision zone and the rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone adjacent to the distance vision zone, wherein the anterior surface comprises a blending zone extending outwardly from the central optical zone, a peripheral zone surrounding the blending zone, and an boundary zone circumscribing and tangent to the peripheral zone, and wherein the blending zone has a surface which ensures that the peripheral zone, the blending zone and the central optical zone are tangent to each other, wherein the peripheral zone has a surface that, in combination with the posterior surface, provides in the peripheral zone of the lens a thickness profile which is characterized (1) by having a lens thickness which increases progressively from the top of the lens downwardly along each of the vertical meridian and lines parallel to the vertical meridian until reaching a maximum value at a position between the anterior optical zone and the boundary zone and then decreases to the boundary of the boundary zone, or (2) by having a mirror symmetry with respect to a plane cutting through the vertical meridian, by having a substantially constant thickness in a region around the horizontal meridian and by having a thickness which decreases progressively from the horizontal meridian to the top or bottom of the contact lens along each of the vertical meridian and lines parallel to the vertical meridian. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
- designing the contact lens which comprises an anterior surface and an opposite posterior surface, wherein at least one of the anterior and posterior surface includes a vertical meridian, a horizontal meridian, and a central optical zone, wherein the central optical zone has a top boundary, a bottom boundary, a distance vision zone and a rotationally-asymmetrical progressive zone adjacent to the distance vision zone,
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