Intraocular lens

• US 8,603,165 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2007
• Issued: 12/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kyong Jin Park
• Original Assignee: Kyong Jin Park
• Inventors: Park, Kyong Jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Willse, David H
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHIPMON, TIFFANY P
• Application Number:
  US12/530,242
• Publication Number:
  US 20100063588A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,272 Days
• Field of Search: 623/6.32, 623/6.34, 623 638- 643, 623/6.49, 623/6.13
• US Class Current: 623/6.23
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/1635 for changing shape
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/1648 Multipart lenses
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/169 Surrounding optic
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0036 differing in thickness

Abstract

Disclosed is an intraocular lens that is inserted inwardly into a capsular sac. One embodiment of the present invention provides an intraocular lens inserted inwardly into a capsular sac including an optic portion including a first optic body whose central region has a smaller thickness than a circumference of the central region and a second optic body coupled to the first optic body and whose central region has the same or higher thickness as/than the first optic body; and a haptic portion including a connection bar coupled to the optic portion and first support bar coupled to a circumference of the connection bar to be in contact with an inner surface of the capsular sac.

Claims

1. An intraocular lens adapted to be inserted inwardly into a capsular sac, comprising:

an optic portion including a first optic body whose central region has a smaller thickness than a circumference of the central region and a second optic body coupled to the first optic body and whose central region has the same or higher thickness as/than the central region of the first optic body; and

a haptic portion including a connection bar coupled to the optic portion and first support bar coupled to a circumference of the connection bar to be in contact with an inner surface of the capsular sac when inserted into the capsular sac, and a first face arranged opposite to a second face, and

the first face provided at a length ¾

to 3 times a length of a region where a zonule of Zinn would be coupled to an outer surface of the capsular sac in a section where the first support bar is cut along a virtual plane in a visual axis direction (Y) of an eye lens when inserted into the capsular sac,

the first face having an anterior portion and a posterior portion which corresponds respectively to an anterior capsule and a posterior capsule of the capsular sac when inserted into the capsular sac, divided by an equator (E) of the capsular sac, wherein the equator (E) is a vertical direction (X) relative to the visual axis direction (Y) of the eye lens,

wherein the anterior portion has a larger curvature than the posterior portion in the section where the first face is cut along the virtual plane in the visual axis direction (Y) of the eye lens,

the first face has a first extended length from one end portion to the other end portion in the section where the first face is cut along the virtual plane in the visual axis direction (Y) of the eye lens of 2 to 8.4 mm, and

the second face has a second extended length from one end portion to the other end portion in the section where the second face is cut along the virtual plane in the visual axis direction (Y) of the eye lens, and

the second extended length of the second face is smaller than or identical to the first extended length of the first face and the second extended length of the second face is longer by 0.4 to 1 times the first extended length of the first face.

2. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein the first optic body is made of materials that are more flexible than the second optic body.

3. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein the first optic body includes an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface and the outer surface are a spherical surface or an aspheric surface, and the inner surface is a spherical surface having a higher curvature than the outer surface, or a more aspheric surface than the outer surface.

4. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein the first support bar has a surface that is adapted to be in contact with an inner surface of the capsular sac and has a round shape.

5. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein the connection bar is a shaft bar-shaped structural body coupled to at least two sections in a circumference of the optic portion.

6. The intraocular lens according to claim 5, wherein the first support bar is a structural body for coupling at least two ends of the shaft bars arranged opposite to the optic portion of the connection bar.

7. The intraocular lens according to claim 5, wherein the first support bar is a ring- shaped structural body for coupling all ends of the shaft bars arranged opposite to the optic portion of the connection bar.

8. The intraocular lens according to claim 5, wherein ends of the optic portion of the shaft bar include a second support bar for coupling ends of the optic portion.

9. The intraocular lens according to claim 8, wherein an inner surface of the second support bar has a concave shape toward the central region of the optic portion.

10. The intraocular lens according to claim 8, wherein the second support bar is coupled to a circumference of the optic portion.

11. The intraocular lens according to claim 8, wherein the second support bar is inserted inwardly into the optic portion.

12. The intraocular lens according to claim 5, wherein both ends of the shaft bar have a larger cross-sectional area than a central region of the shaft bar.

13. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein the connection bar is a disk-shaped structural body coupled to the entire section of the circumference of the optic portion.

14. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein the connection bar is a disk-shaped structural body coupled to at least two sections of the circumference of the optic portion and divided into at least two sections.

15. The intraocular lens according to claims 13 or 14, wherein the first support bar is formed around an end of the disk-shaped connection bar.

16. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein the optic portion and the first support bar are made of flexible materials that is more flexible than a material of the connection bar.

17. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein the optic portion and the first support bar are made of the same flexible materials as the connection bar, and formed in a thinner thickness than the connection bar.

18. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein the first face is made of flexible materials that more flexible than the second face.

19. The intraocular lens according to claim 18, wherein a sectional shape of the first face of the first support bar accords with an inner surface of the capsular sac when the sectional shape of the first face is in contact with the inner surface of the capsular sac in the section where the intraocular lens is cut along a virtual plane in a visual axis direction (Y direction) of the eye lens.

20. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein the first face is made of the same flexible materials as the second face, and formed in a thinner thickness than the second face.

21. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein the first face is made of the same flexible materials as the second face, and formed in the same thickness as the second face.

22. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein a surface of the first face is rougher than the other surface.

23. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein the surface of the first face further includes an adhesive for facilitating mounting of the capsular sac.

24. The intraocular lens according to claim 23, wherein the adhesive is tissue glue or glue.

25. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein a flowing space is provided inside the intraocular lens.

26. The intraocular lens according to claim 25, wherein the flowing space is provided at least between the first optic body and the second optic body.

27. The intraocular lens according to claim 26, wherein the second optic body has a thinner thickness in its central region than its circumference.

28. The intraocular lens according to claim 27, wherein the second optic body includes a section that grows thicker as its equatorial region approaches its circumference.

29. The intraocular lens according to claim 26, wherein the second optic body includes an inner surface and an outer surface, and the inner surface and the outer surface are a spherical surface or an aspheric surface, and the inner surface is a spherical surface or an aspheric surface that has a larger curvature than the outer surface.

30. The intraocular lens according to claim 26, wherein the first optic body and the second optic body have the same thickness, and include sections that have an increasing thickness as their central regions approach their circumference, respectively.

31. The intraocular lens according to claim 25, wherein the flowing space includes a first space portion provided between the first optic body and the second optic body;

a second space portion provided inside the connection bar; and

a third space portion provided inside the first support bar.

32. The intraocular lens according to claim 31, wherein the first space portion, the second space portion and the third space portion are coupled to each other.

33. The intraocular lens according to claim 31, wherein the flowing space is filled with one selected from the group consisting of liquid, gas, and fluent solid.

34. The intraocular lens according to claim 33, wherein the liquid is one selected from the group consisting of water, silicone, sodium hyaluronate, chondroitin sulfate, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose and polyacrylamide.

35. The intraocular lens according to claim 33, wherein the gas is one selected from the group consisting of air, nitrogen, helium, neon and argon.

36. The intraocular lens according to claim 31, wherein the first space portion has at least one convex surface.

37. The intraocular lens according to claim 36, wherein the first space portion has at least one aspheric surface.

38. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein at least one face out of the first face and the second face is protruded in a direction from the second face toward the first face.

39. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein a material of the intraocular lens is composed of one selected from the group consisting of silicone, silicone elastomer, silicone polymer, polydimethyl siloxane, polypropylene, polyimide, polybutester, polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), Microplex PMMA, CQ-UV PMMA, acrylic resin, rigid acrylic, flexible acrylic, acrylic plastic, hydrophobic acrylic, hydrophilic acrylic, hydrophilic acrylic polymer, UV absorbing acrylate, methacrylate copolymer, butyl acrylate, polysiloxane elastomer, UV absorbing polysiloxane, collagen copolymer, gold, hydrogel, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA), methyl methacrylate (MMA), cellulose acetate butylate (CAB), 2-hydroxy ethyl methacrylate (2-HAMA), n-vinyl pyrrolidone (NVP), polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), methacrylic acid (MA), glycerol methacrylate (GMA), dimethyl siloxane (DMS), polyhydroxyethyl methacrylate (PHEMA), polyethyleneglycol methacrylate (PEGMMA), poly HEMA hydrogel, poly HEMA hydrogel with UV absorption, silicone hydrogel, GMA/HEMA, HEMA/PVP/MA, PVA, HEMA/PVA/MA, HEMA/PVA/MMA, HEMA/MMA, HEMA/NVP, HEMA/NVP/MA, HEMA/NVP/MMA, HEMA/Acryl, and HEMA/PC.

40. The intraocular lens according to claim 1, wherein the first optic body includes a section that grows thicker as its equatorial region approaches its circumference.