WO2001046746A1 - Contact lenses incorporating auxiliary structures - Google Patents
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- WO2001046746A1 WO2001046746A1 PCT/US2000/032636 US0032636W WO0146746A1 WO 2001046746 A1 WO2001046746 A1 WO 2001046746A1 US 0032636 W US0032636 W US 0032636W WO 0146746 A1 WO0146746 A1 WO 0146746A1
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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
- G02C7/04—Contact lenses for the eyes
- G02C7/046—Contact lenses having an iris pattern
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- G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
- G02B1/00—Optical elements characterised by the material of which they are made; Optical coatings for optical elements
- G02B1/04—Optical elements characterised by the material of which they are made; Optical coatings for optical elements made of organic materials, e.g. plastics
- G02B1/041—Lenses
- G02B1/043—Contact lenses
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- 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
- G02C7/021—Lenses; Lens systems ; Methods of designing lenses with pattern for identification or with cosmetic or therapeutic effects
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- the invention relates to contact lenses.
- the invention provides contact lenses that incorporate at least one auxiliary structure.
- marks on a lens is desirable for any number of purposes, for example such as orienting the lens.
- marks sufficiently large to be easily seen by the lens wearer may produce discomfort when the lens is worn.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an exploded, magnified view of one embodiment of the lens of the invention.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an exploded, magnified view of one embodiment of the lens of the invention.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an exploded, magnified view of one embodiment of the lens of the invention.
- Detailed Description of the Invention and Preferred Embodiments It is a discovery of the invention that it is possible to provide soft contact lenses that are more easily handled, along with soft and hard lenses that are marked or tinted, by use of one or more structures embedded in the lenses.
- Use of an embedded structure in a soft lens can stiffen portions or all of the lens to make it more easily handled than conventional soft lenses without adding discomfort for the lens wearer.
- the embedded structures may also be used to incorporate one or more of tints or marks into a lens.
- the invention provides a contact lens comprising, consisting essentially of, and consisting of a lens materials and a structure embedded within the lens material, the embedded structure selected from the group consisting of at least one beam-like structure, a tint carrier, a lens mark carrier, and combinations thereof.
- embedded structure is meant a structure that is substantially encased within the lens material.
- the embedded structure may be a beam-like structure that acts to stiffen at least a portion of the lens to facilitate lens handling.
- beamlike structure is meant a structure that runs substantially from the periphery of one side of the lens to that of the other lens side.
- Fig. 1 is an exploded view of lens 10 and exemplary beam-like structure 11 for use in the invention.
- the lens of this embodiment is preferably a soft contact lens and the beamlike structure is made of any optically transparent material that is both compatible with the lens material and is of a sufficiently higher modulus than the lens material to impart the desired stiffness to the lens.
- Suitable materials for use in forming the beam-like structure include rigid, or hard, lens polymers used in manufacturing contact lenses including, without limitation, siloxane polymers, acrylates such as polymethylmethacrylate, cellulosic polymers, carbonates, silicone acrylates, fluoroacrylates, perfluorinated polyethers, alkyl substituted acetylenes, and the like, and copolymers thereof.
- the beam-like structure may be made from a soft contact lens material having a modulus higher than that of the material used to form the lens in which the beam-like structure is embedded.
- the embedded structure may be a tint carrier.
- tint carrier is meant a structure that is either itself tinted or upon which a tint is printed.
- the tint carrier may be of any size or shape.
- the tint carrier is located in the portion of the lens that will overlay the lens wearer's iris when the lens is on the eye.
- the tint carrier may be made of any optically transparent material that is capable of being tinted and is compatible with the lens material used. Methods of tinting the tint carrier include, without limitation, reacting the carrier material with a tint to chemically bond the tint to the carrier. Alternatively, a tint may be printed onto the carrier. Suitable tints and inks for bonding and printing and methods for their use are well known in the art.
- the embedded structure may be a lens mark carrier.
- the lens mark carrier may be an optically transparent material compatible with the lens material upon which a lens mark is formed. Formation of the lens mark may be by any known method such as by laser or molding. Alternatively, the mark carrier may itself be in the shape of the mark desired to be imparted to the lens. In this embodiment, the mark carrier may be formed by any convenient method including, without limitation, molding the carrier into shape of the lens mark.
- the mark may be any mark typically useful in contact lenses such as marks for indicating whether the lens is for the right or left eye, marks for indicating serial numbers, lot and batch numbers, and optical powers, marks for orienting the lens for inspection by quality control personnel, and the like and combinations thereof.
- the embedded structure may provide more than one function.
- the beam-like structure may impart additional strength to the lens, but also have a mark, a tint, or both incorporated thereon so as to function as a mark carrier, tint carrier, or both as well as a support structure.
- a mark carrier also may be tinted.
- the invention is meant to encompass any of the wide number of such variations that are possible.
- Lenses containing the embedded structures may be made from hard or soft lens material.
- the lenses are soft contact lenses made of any material suitable for producing soft contact lenses.
- Suitable preferred materials for forming soft 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.
- 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.
- the embedded structures must be embedded within the bulk of the lens material to ensure wearer comfort. Therefore, use of embedded structures at the outermost periphery of a lens preferably is avoided.
- the embedded structures may be introduced into the lens material by any convenient method.
- the structure to be embedded may be first formed and then surrounded by lens material by inserting the structure into a contact lens mold half into which lens material is then dispensed, introducing the other mold half, and curing the mold assembly.
- lens material may be dispensed into a mold half and partially cured followed by inserting the embedded structure onto the partially cured lens material, dispensing additional lens material, introducing the second mold half, and curing the mold assembly.
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