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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:
Jan. 13, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo-to, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
523106 ; 351162 ; 526284 ; 526310 ; 526240 ; 526241 ; 524547 ;
Abstract
A contact lens colored with a poly(meth)acrylate-combined metallophthalocyanine compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein M represents a metal atom to which phthalocyanine can coordinate, R represents a halogen atom, m is an integer of 0 to 4, R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and A represents a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1-12 alkyl group, a hydroxyC.sub.1-12 alkyl group or a glycerol group. The colored contact lens has sufficiently high fastness, so that the lens undergoes neither color change nor color fading even when it is sterilized by boiling.