Patent ID: 8109998
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. An accommodating intraocular lens wherein the lens comprises a uniformly flexible lens body having normally anterior and posterior sides, including a flexible optic, said lens body having two or more straight uniformly flat oblong plate shaped radially extending flexible portions each having one groove or hinge across the extending portions and adjacent the optic and which include laterally extending flexible fixation fingers at their outer ends which are made of material different from that of the extending portions such that the lens can move anteriorly with contraction of the ciliary muscle of the eye, the radially extending portions comprise flat plate haptics with thinner narrow straight lateral edges and wider anterior and posterior surfaces than the narrow lateral edges and the groove or hinge is across the wider surface, the extending portions comprise four diametrically opposite structures, the optic having a sharp edge for 360 degrees on the posterior side of the optic, and the lens being sized to be implanted into the capsular bag of the eye such that contraction of the ciliary muscle causes the lens within the capsular bag behind the iris to move forward towards the iris with its contraction.