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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2005
Hiroyuki Matsushima, Utsunomiya, JP;
Hidetoshi Iwamoto, Fukaya, JP;
Hiroyuki Matsushima, Utsunomiya, JP;
Hidetoshi Iwamoto, Fukaya, JP;
Hoya Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a process for producing an intraocular lens capable of inhibiting secondary cataract that may occur after the insertion of an intraocular lens and a secondary-cataract-inhibiting intraocular lens obtained by the above process, and the process is for producing a surface-treated intraocular lens, which comprises irradiating the surface of an intraocular lens with active light that works to decompose oxygen molecules to generate ozone and that also works to decompose the ozone to generate active oxygen, in the presence of oxygen, and the lens is a secondary-cataract-inhibiting intraocular lens obtained by the above process.