Accomodating intraocular lens
Abstract
The invention is directed to an accommodating intraocular lens to be implanted in a human eye (10) within a capsular bag (20) in the eye having a posterior capsule (24) and an anterior capsule remnant (22) bounded by an anterior capsular remnant, a lens (32) comprising a flexible lens body (33) having normally anterior and posterior sides and including an optic (34) and haptics (36) having inner ends joined to diametrically opposite sides of the optic and having opposite outer ends the lens body being moveable anteriorly by ciliary muscle constriction along the axis of the eye.

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Numbers
- Publication
- 1522279
- Publication, DOCDB
- 1522279
- Publication, EPODOC
- EP1522279
- Application
- 4029418
- Application, DOCDB
- 04029418
- Application, EPODOC
- EP20040029418
Titles3
- German
- Akkommodierende Intraokularlinse
- English
- Accomodating intraocular lens
- French
- Lentille intraoculaire accommodative
Classification
- CPC, 7
- A61F2/1629
- A61F2/1613
- A61F2002/1681
- A61F2002/1689
- B29D11/026
- A61F2220/0091
- A61F2002/1699
- IPC, 1
- A61F2 16
Designated states10
- Contracting states, 10
- Austria
- Switzerland
- Germany
- Spain
- France
- United Kingdom
- Italy
- Liechtenstein
- Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
- Sweden