Patent ID: 8608799
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. An artificial accommodating lens device, said device comprising: a lens optic portion; a lens haptic portion connected to a perimeter of said lens optic portion and surrounding said lens optic portion, said lens haptic portion being a thin flexible pleated plate member provided with a plurality of radial folds oriented and extending in a radial outward direction relative to and from said lens optic portion with radial creases of said radial folds oriented and extending in a radial outward direction from said lens optic portion to an outer edge of said lens haptic portion, said radial folds having outer ends ending and located out of said center plane of said lens device, whereby said lens haptic portion positions said lens optic portion within the eye and bends relative to said lens optic portion at the perimeter connection between said lens optic portion and said lens optic portion cupping said lens device when forces are applied by an eye on said lens device to enhance accommodation of vision of the eye.