Production of a balloon for an intraocular lens

Details Production of a balloon for an intraocular lens Production of a balloon for an intraocular lens

1990-10-01

1992-02-25

Lowe, James

Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes

Optical article shaping or treating

Utilizing plasma, electric, electromagnetic, particulate, or...

264 17, 264 21, 264 22, 264254, 264259, 264311, B29D 1100

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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.

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