Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Bandage structure – Skin laceration or wound cover
Patent
1998-11-10
2000-07-25
Lee, Kim M.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Bandage structure
Skin laceration or wound cover
602 41, 602 42, 351160R, A61F 500, G02C 704
Patent
active
060938684
ABSTRACT:
An eye bandage formed of a soft material and having a shape similar to a contact lens, the eye bandage being worn on an eye after an intraocular surgical operation of the eye, such that the eye bandage is held in contact with a cornea and a sclera of the eye so as to cover an incised portion of the sclera, the eye bandage comprising: a central portion which is to contact the cornea and which has a back surface having a profile following that of a front surface of the cornea; and a peripheral portion located radially outwardly of the central portion and having a thickness larger than that of the central portion and a diameter which is large enough to cover the incised portion of the sclera, the peripheral portion including at least a sclera-contacting portion that is to contact the sclera, the sclera-contacting portion having a back surface having a profile following a front surface of the sclera, so that the sclera-contacting portion is held in close contact with the sclera of the eye.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4561737 (1985-12-01), Bourset et al.
Beltz, Linda, Hope For Nearsightedness, The World Wide Web, pp. 1-3, Feb. 1997.
Gotou Yuuji
Ohyama Hiroyuki
Sawano Tadashi
Lee Kim M.
Menicon Co. Ltd.
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