WO2001016641A1 - Rotationally stabilized contact lenses - Google Patents

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WO2001016641A1
WO2001016641A1 PCT/US2000/023424 US0023424W WO0116641A1 WO 2001016641 A1 WO2001016641 A1 WO 2001016641A1 US 0023424 W US0023424 W US 0023424W WO 0116641 A1 WO0116641 A1 WO 0116641A1
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Jeffrey H. Roffman
Brett A. Davis
Michael J. Collins
Alex T. Washington
Steven Newman
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Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
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    • G—PHYSICS
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    • G02C—SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS SPECTACLES; CONTACT LENSES
    • G02C7/00—Optical parts
    • G02C7/02—Lenses; Lens systems ; Methods of designing lenses
    • G02C7/024—Methods of designing ophthalmic lenses
    • G02C7/028—Special mathematical design techniques
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02C—SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS SPECTACLES; CONTACT LENSES
    • G02C7/00—Optical parts
    • G02C7/02—Lenses; Lens systems ; Methods of designing lenses
    • G02C7/04—Contact lenses for the eyes
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02C—SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS SPECTACLES; CONTACT LENSES
    • G02C7/00—Optical parts
    • G02C7/02—Lenses; Lens systems ; Methods of designing lenses
    • G02C7/04—Contact lenses for the eyes
    • G02C7/048—Means for stabilising the orientation of lenses in the eye

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  • the invention relates to contact lenses
  • the invention provides contact lenses that incorporate a coaxial stabilization zone to stabilize the orientation of the lens in relation to the eye
  • Lenses designed to maintain their on-eye orientation typically are of two general types One type uses prism stabilization, or thickening of certain lens portions, to maintain orientation
  • prism stabilization methods include decentering the front relative to the back lens surface, prismatic balancing, thickening of the lower lens edge, supporting the lens on the lower eyelid, forming depressions or elevations on the lens' surface, and truncating the lens edge
  • a second lens type, dynamically stabilized lenses uses the movement of the eyelids to maintain lens orientation
  • Dynamic stabilization methods include reducing the thickness of the lens' outer surface at two symmetrically lying regions, thickening two outer regions in the horizontal center axis, and thinning, or slabbing off, top and bottom zones on the lens
  • the known methods for maintaining lens orientation suffer from a number of disadvantages including that lenses incorporating the methods require specialized, off-axis tooling for production, that these lenses are uncomfortable to wear, and that the known methods are not highly effective
  • FIG 1 illustrates a plan view of the convex surface of a number of embodiments of the lenses of the invention
  • rotationally stabilized contact lens may be obtained by incorporating a coaxial stabilization zone into a lens
  • the invention provides an effective method, and lenses incorporating that method, for on-eye lens stabilization Additionally, the lenses may be produced using a computer numerically controlled coding without the need for specialized, off-axis tooling
  • the invention provides a method for producing contact lenses comprising, consisting essentially of, and consisting of a ) defining a coaxial stabilization zone for at least one surface of a contact lens, b ) determining parameters for at least one area of thickness within the coaxial stabilization zone, and c ) calculating a surface design for the at least one surface
  • the invention provides a contact lens comprising, consisting essentially of, and consisting of at least one coaxial stabilization zone
  • the lenses of the invention may be either hard or soft contact lenses
  • the lenses are soft contact lenses
  • the stabilization zone may be located on the convex, or front surface, the concave, or back surface, or both surfaces
  • the zone is on the convex surface
  • the lenses of the invention may have any of a variety of corrective optical characteristics incorporated onto either or both the convex and concave surfaces
  • the lens may have any one or more of spheric, aspheric, bifocal, multifocal, prismatic, or cylindric corrections, or combinations thereof
  • the surfaces may be surfaces calculated from topographic measurements, or topographically-derived surfaces, surfaces calculated from wave front measurements, and the like and combinations thereof
  • the stabilization zone is defined meaning that its shape, size, and location are defined Any shape may be used for the coaxial stabilization zone including, without limitation, a shape that is circular, ovoid, rhomboid, triangular, and the like Referring to FIG 1, a number of the wide variety of possible shapes are shown.
  • the stabilization zone will assume a substantially circular shape
  • the location of the zone on the lens typically extends from a point outside of the optic zone to a point inside of the lens edge
  • the zone extends from about 0 mm outside of the optic zone to about 1 mm inside of the lens edge, more preferably from about 1 mm outside of the optic zone to about 1 mm inside of the lens edge
  • the number of areas of thickness, and the parameters for each area, within the coaxial zone are determined More specifically, the location and contour of the thickness areas are determined
  • the thickness areas may be located at any axis However, if the lens is a toric lens, or a lens with cylinder power, preferably a single thickness area will be located at or near the about 270° axis or two thickness areas will be located at about the 0 and 180° axes
  • a thickened area will be used, the area located at or near the about 270° axis
  • the thickness areas each may be about the same radial distance from the lens' center or this distance may vary
  • any periodic function may be used that provides the desired contour
  • the contour will be either a single or double peak
  • Suitable periodic functions include, without limitation, linear functions and their derivatives, sine or cosine functions and their derivatives, exponential functions, Gaussian functions, conic functions such as circles, ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas, and the like, cycloid functions, splines, polynomial functions of any order, filter functions, notch functions, bandpass filter functions, Witch of Agnesi functions, hyperbolic trigonometric functions, catenary functions, and the like, and combinations thereof
  • a linear function to exponential values, a sine or cosine phase shifted exponential function, a Gaussian function, or an Agnesi function is used
  • the maximum thickness of the thickened areas may be about 100 to about 300, preferably about 100 to about 175 ⁇ m
  • the lenses of the invention may be produced by any conventional method for producing contact lenses
  • the lens design may be cut into a metal and the metal used to produce plastic mold inserts for the lens' surfaces A suitable liquid resin is then placed between the inserts, the inserts compressed, and the resin cured to form the lens
  • the lens of the invention may be produced by cutting the lens on a lathe
  • the material selected for forming the lenses of the invention is a material suitable for forming soft contact lenses.
  • Suitable materials for forming such contact lenses using the method of the invention include, without limitation, silicone elastomers, silicone-containing macromers including, without limitation, those disclosed in United States Patent Nos. 5,371, 147, 5,314,960, and 5,057,578 incorporated in their entireties herein by reference, hydrogels, silicone-containing hydrogels, and the like and combinations thereof. More preferably, the surface is a siloxane, or contains a siloxane functionality, including, without limitation, polydimethyl siloxane macromers, methacryloxypropyl polyalkyl siloxanes, and mixtures thereof, silicone hydrogel or a hydrogel, such as etafilcon A.

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Abstract

The invention provides contact lenses that incorporate a coaxial stabilization zone to stabilize the orientation of the lens in relation to the eye.

Description

ROTATIONALLY STABILIZED CONTACT LENSES
Field of the Invention
The invention relates to contact lenses In particular, the invention provides contact lenses that incorporate a coaxial stabilization zone to stabilize the orientation of the lens in relation to the eye
Background of the Invention
It is known that the correction of certain optical defects can be accomplished by imparting non-spherical corrective characteristics into a contact lens, such as cylindrical, bifocal, or multifocal characteristics Additionally, advances in technology permit production of lenses customized to a particular wearer using topographic and wave front measurements. The use of customized contact lenses or lenses with certain corrective characteristics may be problematic in that the lens may need to be maintained at a specific orientation while on the eye to be effective However, the lenses will rotate on the eye due to blinking as well as eyelid and tear fluid movement.
Lenses designed to maintain their on-eye orientation typically are of two general types One type uses prism stabilization, or thickening of certain lens portions, to maintain orientation Examples of prism stabilization methods include decentering the front relative to the back lens surface, prismatic balancing, thickening of the lower lens edge, supporting the lens on the lower eyelid, forming depressions or elevations on the lens' surface, and truncating the lens edge
A second lens type, dynamically stabilized lenses, uses the movement of the eyelids to maintain lens orientation Dynamic stabilization methods include reducing the thickness of the lens' outer surface at two symmetrically lying regions, thickening two outer regions in the horizontal center axis, and thinning, or slabbing off, top and bottom zones on the lens The known methods for maintaining lens orientation suffer from a number of disadvantages including that lenses incorporating the methods require specialized, off-axis tooling for production, that these lenses are uncomfortable to wear, and that the known methods are not highly effective Thus, a need exists for a method of maintaining angular orientation that overcomes some of these disadvantages
Brief Description of the Drawings FIG 1 illustrates a plan view of the convex surface of a number of embodiments of the lenses of the invention
Detailed Description of the Invention and Preferred Embodiments It is a discovery of the invention that rotationally stabilized contact lens may be obtained by incorporating a coaxial stabilization zone into a lens The invention provides an effective method, and lenses incorporating that method, for on-eye lens stabilization Additionally, the lenses may be produced using a computer numerically controlled coding without the need for specialized, off-axis tooling
In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for producing contact lenses comprising, consisting essentially of, and consisting of a ) defining a coaxial stabilization zone for at least one surface of a contact lens, b ) determining parameters for at least one area of thickness within the coaxial stabilization zone, and c ) calculating a surface design for the at least one surface In another embodiment, the invention provides a contact lens comprising, consisting essentially of, and consisting of at least one coaxial stabilization zone
The lenses of the invention may be either hard or soft contact lenses Preferably, the lenses are soft contact lenses The stabilization zone may be located on the convex, or front surface, the concave, or back surface, or both surfaces Preferably, the zone is on the convex surface Further, the lenses of the invention may have any of a variety of corrective optical characteristics incorporated onto either or both the convex and concave surfaces For example, the lens may have any one or more of spheric, aspheric, bifocal, multifocal, prismatic, or cylindric corrections, or combinations thereof Additionally, the surfaces may be surfaces calculated from topographic measurements, or topographically-derived surfaces, surfaces calculated from wave front measurements, and the like and combinations thereof
The invention may find its greatest utility in customized lenses or lenses in which at least one of trie corrective characteristics requires that the on-eye orientation of the lens with respect to the eye remains stable in one position In the first step of the method of the invention, the stabilization zone is defined meaning that its shape, size, and location are defined Any shape may be used for the coaxial stabilization zone including, without limitation, a shape that is circular, ovoid, rhomboid, triangular, and the like Referring to FIG 1, a number of the wide variety of possible shapes are shown.
Preferably, the stabilization zone will assume a substantially circular shape The location of the zone on the lens typically extends from a point outside of the optic zone to a point inside of the lens edge Preferably, the zone extends from about 0 mm outside of the optic zone to about 1 mm inside of the lens edge, more preferably from about 1 mm outside of the optic zone to about 1 mm inside of the lens edge
In a second step, the number of areas of thickness, and the parameters for each area, within the coaxial zone are determined More specifically, the location and contour of the thickness areas are determined The thickness areas may be located at any axis However, if the lens is a toric lens, or a lens with cylinder power, preferably a single thickness area will be located at or near the about 270° axis or two thickness areas will be located at about the 0 and 180° axes For customized wave-front or topography lenses, preferably one thickened area will be used, the area located at or near the about 270° axis If more than one area of thickness are used, the thickness areas each may be about the same radial distance from the lens' center or this distance may vary
To determine the contour of the thickened area, any periodic function may be used that provides the desired contour Typically, the contour will be either a single or double peak Suitable periodic functions include, without limitation, linear functions and their derivatives, sine or cosine functions and their derivatives, exponential functions, Gaussian functions, conic functions such as circles, ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas, and the like, cycloid functions, splines, polynomial functions of any order, filter functions, notch functions, bandpass filter functions, Witch of Agnesi functions, hyperbolic trigonometric functions, catenary functions, and the like, and combinations thereof Preferably, a linear function to exponential values, a sine or cosine phase shifted exponential function, a Gaussian function, or an Agnesi function is used The maximum thickness of the thickened areas may be about 100 to about 300, preferably about 100 to about 175 μm
The lenses of the invention may be produced by any conventional method for producing contact lenses For example, the lens design may be cut into a metal and the metal used to produce plastic mold inserts for the lens' surfaces A suitable liquid resin is then placed between the inserts, the inserts compressed, and the resin cured to form the lens Alternatively, the lens of the invention may be produced by cutting the lens on a lathe One ordinarily skilled in the art will recognize that an advantage of the invention is that the lenses may be produced by the use of on-axis CNC lathing of the lenses or mold tools to produce the lenses Preferably, the material selected for forming the lenses of the invention is a material suitable for forming soft contact lenses. Suitable materials for forming such contact lenses using the method of the invention include, without limitation, silicone elastomers, silicone-containing macromers including, without limitation, those disclosed in United States Patent Nos. 5,371, 147, 5,314,960, and 5,057,578 incorporated in their entireties herein by reference, hydrogels, silicone-containing hydrogels, and the like and combinations thereof. More preferably, the surface is a siloxane, or contains a siloxane functionality, including, without limitation, polydimethyl siloxane macromers, methacryloxypropyl polyalkyl siloxanes, and mixtures thereof, silicone hydrogel or a hydrogel, such as etafilcon A.

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What is claimed is
1 A contact lens comprising a convex surface, a concave surface, and at least one coaxial stabilization zone
2 The lens of claim 1, wherein the at least one coaxial stabilization zone is on the convex surface, the concave surface, or both surfaces
3 The lens of claim 1, wherein the coaxial stabilization zone is on the convex surface
4 The lens of claim 1, wherein the coaxial stabilization zone is substantially circular in shape
5. The lens of claim 1, wherein the coaxial stabilization zone extends from about 0 mm outside of the optic zone to about 1 mm inside of the lens edge
6 The lens of claim 1. wherein the surface on which the coaxial stabilization zone is located is a surface calculated from topographic measurements, wavefront measurements, or combinations thereof
7 The lens of claim 1, wherein the surface on which the coaxial stabilization zone is located is a surface calculated from topographic measurements
8 The lens of claim 1, wherein the surface on which the coaxial stabilization zone is located is a surface calculated from wavefront measurements
9 The lens of claim 6, 7, or 8, wherein the coaxial stabilization zone comprises a single thickened area at about the 270° axis 10 The lens of claim 9, wherein the thickened area is of a thickness of about 100 to about 300 μ
11 A contact lens comprising a convex surface, a concave surface, and at least one coaxial stabilization zone located on one or both of the convex and concave surfaces, wherein the surface on which the coaxial stabilization zone is located is a surface calculated from topographic measurements, wavefront measurements, or combinations thereof
12 The lens of claim 11, wherein the coaxial stabilization zone is on the convex surface
13 The lens of claim 1 1, wherein the surface on which the coaxial stabilization zone is located is a surface calculated from topographic measurements
14 The lens of claim 1 1, wherein the surface on which the coaxial stabilization zone is located is a surface calculated from wavefront measurements.
15 The lens of claim 1 1. 13, or 14, wherein the coaxial stabilization zone comprises a single thickened area at about the 270° axis
16 The lens of claim 1 1, wherein the coaxial stabilization zone is substantially circular in shape
17 The lens of claim 11, wherein the coaxial stabilization zone extends from about 0 mm outside of the optic zone to about 1 mm inside of the lens edge
18 A contact lens comprising a convex surface, a concave surface, and at least one coaxial stabilization zone located on the convex surface and extending from about 0 mm outside of the optic zone to about 1 mm inside of the lens edge, wherein the convex surface is a surface calculated from topographic measurements, wavefront measurements, or combinations thereof
19 The lens of claim 18, wherein the surface on which the coaxial stabilization zone is located is a surface calculated from topographic measurements
20 The lens of claim 1 1, wherein the surface on which the coaxial stabilization zone is located is a surface calculated from wavefront measurements
21 The lens of claim 18, 19, or 20, wherein the coaxial stabilization zone comprises a single thickened area at about the 270° axis
22 The lens of claim 1 1, wherein the coaxial stabilization zone is substantially circular.
23 A method for producing contact lenses comprising the steps of a ) defining a coaxial stabilization zone for at least one surface of a contact lens, b ) determining parameters for at least one area of thickness within the coaxial stabilization zone, and c ) calculating a surface design for the at least one surface
24 The method of claim 23, wherein step b ) comprises determining a contour for the at least one coaxial stabilization zone using a function selected from the group consisting of linear functions and their derivatives, sine or cosine functions and their derivatives, exponential functions, Gaussian functions, conic functions such as circles, ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas, and the like, cycloid functions, splines, polynomial functions of any order, filter functions, notch functions, bandpass filter functions, Witch of Agnesi functions, hyperbolic trigonometric functions, catenary functions, and the like, and combinations thereof 25. The method of claim 24, wherein the function is one of linear function to exponential values, sine or cosine phase shifted exponential functions, Gaussian functions, or Witch of Agnesi functions.
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