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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Menicon Co., Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623-6 ;
Abstract
A balloon for an intraocular lens, which is a unitary elastic hollow body made of an elastomer and having a convex lenticular shape without projections along its circumference, which gives, when inserted in a lens capsule, a configuration corresponding substantially to the shape of the lens capsule, said hollow body having a wall thickness of from 0.001 to 0.1 mm at its optical portion and a diameter of from 6 to 13 mm, and capable of being inflated in the lens capsule to form an intraocular lens when a light transmitting injection material is injected into the hollow body.