Patent ID: 9693900
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: A61F

Claim:
1. An intraocular pressure compensating and regulating valve configured to be installed inside an eye's cornea, comprising: a valve body having a lower end and an upper end with an edge; a valve seat at the upper end; the valve seat having an upper end and being widest at its upper end, the valve seat being of a conical shape that extends to the edge of the valve body upper end; a mobile element connected to the valve seat under normal intraocular pressure conditions inside the eye, the mobile element being configured such that the mobile element separates from the valve seat when the intraocular pressure exceeds an intraocular pressure limit, the mobile element is a stem comprising a tubular body with an upper end, a lower end, an internal canal therein configured to receive aqueous humor, the stem having an upper end mobile element surface of a conical shape that rests on the conical shape of the valve seat, including at the edge of the valve body upper end, the stem having an upper part that is configured to receive aqueous humor from the internal canal and expel aqueous humor outside the valve; and an element to keep the mobile element surface in contact with the valve seat.