Patent ID: 7687097
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: A61F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of making an intraocular lens inserter cartridge, comprising: providing a hollow tube comprising a polymeric material, the tube including an interior wall defining a hollow space through which an intraocular lens may be passed and an outlet through which the intraocular lens may be passed from the hollow space into an eye; contacting the interior wall of the tube with a precursor material of a lubricity enhancing component to form a coating on the interior wall; exposing the precursor material of the lubricity enhancing component to thermal radiation, wherein the thermal radiation causes the precursor material of the lubricity enhancing component to form covalent bonds with the polymeric material of the tube, wherein the lubricity enhancing component includes at least one substituent group effective to reduce hydrolysis of the lubricity enhancing component relative to an identical lubricity enhancing component without the at least one substituent group, and wherein the precursor material includes a UV radical initiator; and exposing the coating on the interior wall to ultraviolet light to covalently bond the coating on the interior surface of the tube.