Patent ID: 6641264
Filing Date: 2003-11-04
Classification: A42B,A61F,A61H,G02C

Abstract:
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:a non-rigid, substantially enclosed chamber adapted to fit closely and flexibly 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; and a reservoir adapted to contain a material subject to vaporization, the reservoir comprising a first absorbent layer, the reservoir covering substantially all of an inner surface of the chamber, the reservoir being adapted to release the material in a vaporized state into the local atmospheric microenviroment so as to expose the eye to the vaporized material to ameliorate the negative effects of the dry eye syndrome.