1278412 玖、發明說明: 【發明所屬之技術領域】 本發明係關於一種隱形眼鏡之包裝方法,特別是 種拋棄式隱形眼鏡之包裝方法。 【先前技術】 將親水性之隱形眼鏡置入消毒溶液中是隱形眼鏡 所熟知的技術,特別是所謂的泡殼包裝之包裝盒, 醫療人員儲存及配放親水性隱形眼鏡,或供要配戴 鏡之使用者使用。這種親水性隱形眼鏡係在使用一 一段時間後便丟棄,並都是利用適當的親水性聚合 造。 於是,隱形眼鏡製造商早期採用瓶塞式玻璃瓶來 滲透食鹽水,並將親水性隱形眼鏡浸泡其中,作為 運送隱形眼鏡之容器。每一玻璃瓶都使用矽質瓶塞 並加上金屬封套以作為安全瓶蓋,進而形成雙重瓶 構。配戴者要自瓶中取出隱形眼鏡來使用時,需要 金屬封套,然後再將瓶塞拔出來,在利用塑膠製夾 形眼鏡夾出來或倒出來,由此可見,取出隱形眼鏡 非常地繁瑣,由於隱形眼鏡的透明特性,使得使用 易由肉眼將浸泡在食鹽水中的隱形眼鏡夾住並取出 近年來,由於發展出一種可置放隱形眼鏡之泡殼 包裝盒,使得親水性隱形眼鏡可利用簡單及便宜的 儲存及運送,而包裝盒的另一項優點在於能夠讓醫 或配戴者很容易地將隱形眼鏡自包裝盒取出。 326\專利說明書(補件)\92-05\精華光學-924509 5 關於一 製造業 其係供 隱形眼 次後或 材料製 充填等 儲存及 塞住, 蓋之結 先取下 子將隱 的程序 者不容 〇 包裝的 方式來 療人員 1278412 由於拋棄式隱形眼鏡的使用期限通常很短,例如數日或 數周,所以常更換拋棄式隱形眼鏡將使其使用的數量很 大,相對地,用於包裝拋棄式隱形眼鏡之包裝盒的使用數 量也是很大的;而且,使用鑄模法製造拋棄式隱形眼鏡之 材料的使用篁也隨之增加。因此,為了降低包裝材料(如包 裝盒)與製造材料的成本,故考慮將製造拋棄式隱形眼鏡之 公模(Male Mold)或母模(Female Mold)作為包裝盒之用, 如美國專利公告第U S 5,4 0 7,〇 6 2號專利案所示。 上述之專利案係將注入母模之單體混合物(M〇n〇mer Mix)經公 模與母模壓合,以及塑化而形成隱形眼鏡後,需從附著於公模或 母模上之隱形眼鏡取下(即脫模程序),在將隱形眼鏡浸泡在充填 有食鹽水溶液之公模或母模的包裝部,之後進行封裝的程序。在 此習知技術中,拋棄式隱形眼鏡從製造到封裝的過程,脫模程序 是較複雜的程序,增加整個過程的複雜性;又,拗 抛茶式隱形眼鏡 從公模或母模的壓合部取下,並放入公模或母模的包裝部, 如此 之設計將增加公模或母模之構造的複雜性, 也日加了公模或母模 的使用材料。 【發明内容】 鏡之包裝方 可減少脫模 節省其材料。 本發明之目的在於提供一種拋棄式隱形眼 法’其使得拋棄式隱形眼鏡從製造到封裝的過程, 的程序,並且,可使公模或母模之構造簡單,而 本發明在 將一單體混 面壓合於母 於提供一種 合物注入具 模之凹面中 拋棄式隱形 有凹面之一 ,將壓合於 眼鏡之包裝 母模中,將 公模之凸面 方法,首先 一公模之凸 與母模之凹 326\專利說明書(補件)\92-〇5備華光學_924509 6 1278412 ,而本 面之間的單體混合物進行塑化,以形成一隱形眼鏡 包裝方法特徵為首先,分開公模與母模,使塑化後的隱形 眼鏡附著於母模之凹面上;接著,注入一食鹽水溶液於附 著有隱形眼鏡之母模内,使隱形眼鏡在吸收水分後膨脹而 脫離凹面,並使膨脹後之隱形眼鏡的外緣高出凹面的上 以將隱形 緣;以及,由一金屬箔對母模之凸緣進行封口 眼鏡及食鹽水溶液封裝於母模之内。 【實施方式】 請參照圖1為本發明之公模剖面圖,圖2為本發明之母 模剖面圖。以鑄模法(C a s t Μ ο 1 d i n g )製造拋棄式之隱形眼 鏡,其中以聚丙烯為材料之公模1 0的凸面1 2可以形成隱 形眼鏡的内凹表面,及以聚丙稀為材料之母核 1 4 的凹面 1 6可以形成隱形眼鏡的外凸表面,當公模1 0與母模1 4進 行壓合程序時,則是將公模1 0的水平凸緣1 1嵌合於母模 1 4的垂直凸緣1 5,可使在壓合、塑化的過程,公模1 0與 母模1 4不會脫離分開,如圖3為本發明之壓合公模與母模 剖面圖所示。在圖3中,注入於公模1 0的凸面1 2與母模 1 4的凹面1 6之間之單體混合物1 8在經塑化程序後可形成 隱形眼鏡,公模1 0的垂直面1 9與母模1 4的凹面1 6之間 形成間隙,以便於將公模1 0與母模1 4拆離。 經塑化程序後,並將公模1 0與母模1 4拆離,此時所製 成的隱形眼鏡2 0會附著於母模1 4的凹面1 6上,如圖 4 為本發明之隱形眼鏡附著於母模1 4剖面圖所示。圖5為圖 4填充食鹽水溶液並封裝之剖面圖,圖6為圖5之隱形眼 326\專利說明書(補件)\92-05\精華光學-924509 1278412 鏡膨脹後剖面圖。 圖 7為本發明之流程圖,方便圖 7之說明可參考圖1〜 圖6。圖7中,將一單體混合物1 8注入具有凹面1 6之母 模1 4中(步驟S 7 0 ),將公模1 0之凸面1 2壓合於母模1 4 之凹面1 6中,以壓合於其間之單體混合物1 8 (步驟S 7 1 ); 接著,將壓合於公模10之凸面12與母模14之凹面16之 間的單體混合物 1 8進行高溫塑化或以紫外線方式形成一 隱形眼鏡2 0 (步驟S 7 2 ),分開公模1 0與母模1 4,使塑化 後的隱形眼鏡2 0附著於母模1 4之凹面1 6上(步驟S 7 3 ); 其次,注入食鹽水溶液2 2於附著有隱形眼鏡2 0之母模1 4 内(步驟S 7 4 ),由一金屬箔2 4 (此金屬箔2 4之材質為可作 為封口及忍受高溫、高壓滅菌之任意材質)對母模1 4之凸 緣1 5進行封口,以將隱形眼鏡2 0及食鹽水溶液2 2封裝於 母模1 4之内(步驟S 7 5 );然後,對封裝後的隱形眼鏡2 0 進行高温、高壓滅菌(步驟 S 7 6 ),使使用者配戴拋棄式隱 形眼鏡2 0無感染之虞。由於為親水性聚合材料的隱形眼鏡 2 0在吸收食鹽水溶液2 2後,將使隱形眼鏡2 0膨脹而脫離 凹面1 6,並使膨脹後之隱形眼鏡2 0的外緣高出凹面1 6的 上緣,方便使用者由母模1 4内夾取出隱形眼鏡2 0。 本發明的優點係於拋棄式隱形眼鏡從製造到封裝的過程,由 單體混合物塑化成隱形眼鏡係附著於母模之凹面上,無需由母模 取出隱形眼鏡而直接注入食鹽水溶液於母模内,並進行封裝,如 此可減少脫模的程序,增快整個製程的速度,並且,使用 構造簡單的公模與母模,可節省製造抛棄式隱形眼鏡所需的材 326\專利說明書(補件)\92-05\精華光學-924509 8 1278412 料,亦可節省包裝拋棄式隱形眼鏡所需的材料。 雖然本發明已參照較佳具體例及舉例性附圖敘述如 上, 惟 其 應 不 被 視 為 係 限 制 性 者 0 熟 悉 本 技 藝者對 其 形 態 及具 體 例 之 内 容 做 各 種 修 改 省 略 及 變 化 5 均不離 開 本 發 明之 範 圍 0 【圖 式簡單說 明 ] 圖 1 為 本 發 明 之 公 模 剖 面 圖 > 圖 2 為 本 發 明 之 母 模 剖 面 圖 圖 3 為 本 發 明 之 壓 合 公 模 與 母 模 剖 面 圖 , 圖 4 為 本 發 明 之 隱 形 眼 鏡 附 著 於 母 模 1 ^ 1剖面圖; 圖 5 為 圖 4 填 充 食 鹽 水 溶 液 並 封 裝 之 剖 面 圖; 圖 6 為 圖 5 之 隱 形 眼 鏡 膨 脹 後 剖 面 圖 1 及 圖 7 為 本 發 明 之 流 程 圖 〇 (元件 符 號 說 明 ) 10.. 公 模 11.. 水 平 凸 緣 12.. 凸 面 14.. 母 模 15.. 垂 直 凸 緣 16.. 凹 面 18.. 單 體 混 合 物 19.. 垂 直 面 20.. 隱 形 眼 鏡 22.. 食 鹽 水 溶 液 326\專利說明書(補件)\92-05\精華光學-924509 9 1278412 24......金屬箔 10 326\專利說明書(補件)\92-05\精華光學-924509BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of packaging a contact lens, and more particularly to a method of packaging a disposable contact lens. [Prior Art] The placement of hydrophilic contact lenses in a disinfecting solution is a well-known technique for contact lenses, particularly the so-called blister packaging, in which medical personnel store and dispense hydrophilic contact lenses, or for wearing them. Used by the user of the mirror. Such hydrophilic contact lenses are discarded after a period of use and are all made using suitable hydrophilic polymerization. As a result, contact lens manufacturers used bottled glass bottles to infiltrate saline in the early days and soaked hydrophilic contact lenses as containers for the delivery of contact lenses. Each glass bottle uses a enamel stopper and a metal envelope as a safety cap to form a double bottle. When the wearer wants to take out the contact lens from the bottle, the metal envelope is needed, and then the bottle stopper is pulled out, and the plastic clip-on glasses are used to clip out or pour it out. Thus, it is very complicated to take out the contact lens. Due to the transparent nature of the contact lens, the use of contact lenses that are easily immersed in saline solution by the naked eye is clamped and removed. In recent years, hydrophilic contact lenses have been made available due to the development of a blister package for placing contact lenses. Simple and inexpensive storage and shipping, another advantage of the box is that it allows the doctor or wearer to easily remove the contact lens from the box. 326\Patent Specification (Replenishment)\92-05\Essential Optics-924509 5 Regarding the manufacturing industry, it is used for invisible eyes or material filling and other storage and plugging, the cover of the knot will be removed first. 〇Packaging method to treat people 1278412 Since disposable contact lenses are usually used for a short period of time, such as days or weeks, often replacing disposable contact lenses will make them use a large amount, and relatively, for packaging abandonment The number of use of the contact lens case is also large; and the use of the material for the manufacture of disposable contact lenses by the molding method is also increased. Therefore, in order to reduce the cost of packaging materials (such as packaging boxes) and manufacturing materials, it is considered to use a male mold (Male Mold) or a female mold (Female Mold) for manufacturing disposable contact lenses as a package, such as the US Patent Publication No. US 5,4 0 7,〇6 2 patent case. In the above patent, the monomer mixture (M〇n〇mer Mix) injected into the master mold is pressed into the male mold by the male mold, and after plasticizing to form the contact lens, the invisible shape attached to the male mold or the female mold is required. The glasses are removed (i.e., the mold release procedure), and the contact lens is immersed in a package portion of a male mold or a master mold filled with a saline solution, and then packaged. In this prior art, the process of the disposable contact lens from the manufacturing to the packaging, the demolding process is a more complicated procedure, increasing the complexity of the entire process; in addition, the pressure of the tea-type contact lens from the male or female mold The joint is removed and placed in the packaging section of the male or female mold. Such a design will increase the complexity of the construction of the male or female mold, and also the material used for the male or female mold. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The packaging of the mirror can reduce demolding and save material. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a disposable invisible eye method which allows a process for manufacturing a disposable contact lens from manufacture to packaging, and which can simplify the construction of a male or female mold, and the present invention The mixed surface is pressed into one of the concave invisible concave surfaces of the female injecting mold, and is pressed into the packaging mother mold of the glasses, and the convex method of the male mold is firstly convex and convex The female mold concave 326\patent specification (supplement)\92-〇5 备华光学_924509 6 1278412, and the monomer mixture between the sides is plasticized to form a contact lens packaging method features first, separate a male mold and a female mold, the plasticized contact lens is attached to the concave surface of the female mold; then, an aqueous saline solution is injected into the female mold to which the contact lens is attached, so that the contact lens expands and absorbs the moisture after being absorbed from the concave surface, and The outer edge of the expanded contact lens is raised above the concave surface to cover the invisible edge; and the flange of the female mold is sealed with the sealing glasses and the saline solution in the mother mold. [Embodiment] FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a male mold of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a mother mold of the present invention. A disposable contact lens is manufactured by Cast , ο ο 1 ding, wherein a convex surface 1 of a male mold 10 made of polypropylene can form a concave surface of a contact lens, and a mother material made of polypropylene. The concave surface 16 of the core 14 can form a convex surface of the contact lens. When the male mold 10 and the female mold 14 are pressed together, the horizontal flange 11 of the male mold 10 is fitted to the female mold. The vertical flange 15 of 1 4 can make the male mold 10 and the female mold 14 not separate from each other during the process of pressing and plasticizing, as shown in Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the male mold and the female mold of the present invention. Shown. In Fig. 3, the monomer mixture 18 injected between the convex surface 1 2 of the male mold 10 and the concave surface 16 of the female mold 14 can form a contact lens after the plasticizing process, and the vertical plane of the male mold 10 A gap is formed between the 19 and the concave surface 16 of the female mold 14 to facilitate the detachment of the male mold 10 from the female mold 14. After the plasticizing process, the male mold 10 and the female mold 14 are detached, and the prepared contact lens 20 is attached to the concave surface 16 of the female mold 14 as shown in FIG. The contact lens is attached to the parent mold 14 as shown in the cross-sectional view. 5 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 4 filled with a saline solution and packaged, and FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the invisible eye 326 of FIG. 5 \ patent specification (supplement) \ 92-05 \ elite optical - 924509 1278412 mirror expansion. Figure 7 is a flow chart of the present invention. For convenience of the description of Figure 7, reference may be made to Figures 1 to 6. In Fig. 7, a monomer mixture 18 is injected into a master mold 14 having a concave surface 16 (step S70), and the convex surface 1 2 of the male mold 10 is pressed into the concave surface 16 of the female mold 14. To pressurize the monomer mixture 18 therebetween (step S71); then, the monomer mixture 18 pressed between the convex surface 12 of the male mold 10 and the concave surface 16 of the female mold 14 is subjected to high temperature plasticization. Or forming a contact lens 20 by ultraviolet light (step S 7 2 ), separating the male mold 10 and the female mold 14 to attach the plasticized contact lens 20 to the concave surface 16 of the female mold 14 (steps) S 7 3 ); Next, the saline solution 22 is injected into the master mold 1 4 to which the contact lens 20 is attached (step S 7 4 ), and a metal foil 2 4 is used (the material of the metal foil 24 is used as a seal) And sealing the flange 15 of the female mold 14 with any material that withstands high temperature and high pressure sterilization, so as to enclose the contact lens 20 and the saline solution 2 2 in the master mold 14 (step S 7 5 ); The encapsulated contact lens 20 is subjected to high temperature and high pressure sterilization (step S76) to enable the user to wear the disposable contact lens 20 without infection. Since the contact lens 20, which is a hydrophilic polymeric material, absorbs the saline solution 2 2, the contact lens 20 will be inflated to escape the concave surface 16 and the outer edge of the expanded contact lens 20 is raised above the concave surface 16. The upper edge facilitates the user to remove the contact lens 20 from the inner mold 1 4 . The invention has the advantages that the disposable contact lens is plasticized into a contact lens attached to the concave surface of the master mold from the manufacturing to the packaging process, and the saline solution is directly injected into the mother mold without taking out the contact lens from the master mold. And encapsulation, which can reduce the demolding process, increase the speed of the entire process, and use the simple construction of the male and female molds, can save the material required for the manufacture of disposable contact lenses 326\patent specification (supplement ) \92-05\Essence Optics - 924509 8 1278412 material, can also save the materials needed to package disposable contact lenses. The present invention has been described above with reference to the preferred embodiments and the accompanying drawings, and should not be considered as a limitation. 0 Those skilled in the art will make various modifications and omissions to the form and specific examples of the present invention. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a male mold according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a female mold according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a male mold and a female mold according to the present invention. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the contact lens of the present invention attached to the female mold 1 ^ 1; FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the filling saline solution of FIG. 4 and packaged; FIG. 6 is a sectional view of the contact lens of FIG. 5 after expansion 1 and FIG. Flowchart 〇 (component symbol description) 10.. Male mold 11.. Horizontal flange 12: convex surface 14.. female mold 15.. Vertical flange 16.. Concave surface 18.. Monomer mixture 19.. Vertical surface 20.. Contact lens 22.. Saline solution 326\Patent specification (supplement)\92-05\Essence optics-924509 9 1278412 24.. ....metal foil 10 326\patent specification (supplement)\92-05\essential optics-924509