Contact lens

• US 5,880,809 A
• Filed: 12/30/1996
• Issued: 03/09/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Scientific Optics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Scientific Optics Incorporated
• Inventors: Grierson, Jon, Lieberman, David M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sugarman, Scott J.
• Application Number:
  US08/777,470
• Time in Patent Office: 799 Days
• Field of Search: 351/160 R, 351/160 H, 351/161, 351/162, 351/177
• US Class Current: 351/160.00R
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/041 bifocal; multifocal
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/047 Contact lens fitting; Contact lenses for orthokeratology; Contact lenses for specially shaped corneae

Abstract

A contact lens for use with an asymmetric aspherical cornea. The lens includes an anterior surface, a posterior surface and a base. The posterior and anterior surfaces each include a center optical portion and an outer peripheral corneal portion. The posterior surface is divided into a plurality of local surface segments by a plurality of radially extending boundaries that originate from a common center point on the posterior surface of the lens. Each of the local surface segments conforms to the shape of a corresponding local surface portion of the cornea that lies under the respective lens local surface segment when the lens is worn on the eye.

Claims

1. A contact lens for use on an asymmetric aspherical cornea, said lens comprising:

an anterior surface, a posterior surface and a base, said posterior surface comprising an outer peripheral scleral portion, which is asymmetric and aspheric and is coextensive with the base of the lens, and an inner center portion;

wherein a boundary between said outer peripheral scleral portion and said center portion is non-circular.

2. A method of manufacturing a contact lens comprising the steps of:

scanning a cornea to generate data that corresponds to the surface of the cornea;

generating a cornea matching surface from the data;

determining a high point on the cornea matching surface;

generating a base about the high point;

generating a plurality of radially extending splines from said cornea matching surface, each of said plurality of splines originating from said high point and extending radially outwardly to said base, each of said splines matching a corresponding local surface portion of the cornea;

generating a first drive rail, said first drive rail corresponding to a boundary between an optical portion of said lens and a topography matching portion of a posterior surface of said lens;

generating a plurality of local surface segments between the boundaries formed by the intersection of the splines and the first drive rail and the base, each of said local surface segments on said posterior surface in said optical portion conforming to the shape of a corresponding local surface portion of the cornea that lies under said respective lens local surface segment when the lens is worn on the eye; and

cutting a contact lens having a posterior and anterior surface matching said plurality of local surface segments.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising the steps of:

generating a second rail, said first drive rail having a greater diameter than a diameter of said second drive rail;

generating a plurality of local surface segments between the boundaries formed by the intersection of the splines and the first drive rail and the second drive rail.

4. The method according to claim 2, further comprising the step of:

generating at least one arc from each of said splines, said at least one arc extending within said optical portion of said lens, said at least one arc conforming to the shape of the cornea that lies under said at least one arc when the lens is worn on the eye.

5. The method according to claim 3, further comprising the step of:

generating at least one arc from each of said splines, said at least one arc extending within said optical portion of said lens, said at least one arc conforming to the shape of the cornea that lies under said at least one arc when the lens is worn on the eye.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein two arcs are generated from each spline, a first one of said two arcs extending between said high point and said first drive rail, a second one of said arcs extending between said first drive rail and said second drive rail.

7. The method according to claim 2, wherein said contact lens includes an outer scleral portion, which is coextensive with a base of the contact lens.

8. An orthokeratology contact lens for use on an eye with an asymmetric aspheric cornea, said lens comprising:

an anterior surface, a posterior surface and a base, said posterior and anterior surfaces each comprising a center optical portion, an inner peripheral optical portion and an outer peripheral corneal portion, said posterior surface of said center optical portion displacing a first volume of said cornea underlying said center optical portion, said posterior surface of said inner peripheral portion receiving a second displaced predetermined volume of said cornea underlying said inner peripheral optical portion.

9. The lens of claim 8, wherein said first displaced predetermined volume of said cornea is approximately equal to said second displaced predetermined volume of said cornea.

10. The lens of claim 8, wherein said posterior surface of said center optical portion is flatter than said posterior surface of said inner peripheral optical portion.

11. The lens of claim 9, wherein an anterior surface of said center and inner optical portions are spherically shaped.

12. The lens of claim 9, wherein an anterior surface of said center and inner optical portions are torically shaped.

13. The lens of claim 9, wherein said posterior surface of said outer peripheral portion asymmetrically and aspherically matching a corresponding peripheral portion of the cornea which lies under said outer peripheral portion of the lens when the lens is worn on the patient'"'"'s eye.