Hoya Corporation

Hidetoshi Iwamoto

Suguru Imafuku

Soichiro Motono

A method for producing moisture-containing soft contact lenses by polymerizing monomers for contact lenses in the presence of a diluent for monomers and substituting the diluent contained in the resulting polymer with an aqueous solution, wherein the diluent is composed of one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of triethylene glycol, diethylene glycol monomethyl ether and triethylene glycol monomethyl ether and a moisture-containing contact lens composed of a copolymer of the following main components, (1) two or more kinds of hydrophilic monomers selected from the group consisting of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone and N,N-dimethylacrylamide, (2) an alkyl methacrylate and (3) a crosslinkable monomer, and an aqueous solution, which has a moisture content of 50-70% and exhibits a penetration strength of 1100 gf/mm or more. The contact lens of the present invention is optically transparent and exhibit excellent mechanical strength.

Soft contact lens with high moisture content and method for producing

A compound represented by the following formula 1: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an unsubstituted or substituted benzyl group or unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group, method for producing a copolymer comprising copolymerizing a monomer mixture containing the compound, copolymer for lenses containing a copolymerized component represented by the following formula 2 ##STR2## and a lens consisting of the copolymer. The compound of the formula 1 is a reactive dye exhibiting excellent hydrolysis resistance, good copolymerizability with other comonomers, excellent dyeing property and proper solubility in comonomers.

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Soichiro Motono