Patent ID: 6886933
Filing Date: 2005-05-03
Classification: A42B,A61F,A61H,G02C

Abstract:
1. A device to improve the comfort and ocular health of a dry eye syndrome subject and to reduce the harmful effect of dry eye syndrome on the eye and adnexa, the device comprising: an at least partially enclosed chamber adapted to fit closely to an area surrounding the eye of the dry eye syndrome subject, and thereby to create a local atmospheric microenvironment in the vicinity of at least one eye of the dry eye syndrome subject; the chamber comprising a substantially optically transparent portion supported beneath a substantially opaque brim structure; and a reservoir adapted to contain a material subject to vaporization, the reservoir being adapted to release the material in a vaporized state into the local atmospheric microenvironment so as to expose the eye to the vaporized material to ameliorate the negative effects of the dry eye syndrome.