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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2007
Applicants:
Peter Hagmann, Erlenbach am Main, DE;
Günter Lässig, Obernburg, DE;
Roger Biel, Aschaffenburg, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Novartis AG, Basel, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides a contact lens gripper comprising a tweezers gripper having first and second gripper arms hingedly connected to an actuation support for moving the free ends of the arms towards and away from each other so as to grasp and release a soft contact lens. The invention also provides a contact lens gripping unit comprising a mounting bar to which a plurality of individual contact lens grippers are mounted at a predetermined distance from each other, wherein each of the individual grippers is a contact lens gripper according to any one of the preceding claims.