Patent ID: 6169127
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: A61L,B05D

Abstract:
An article selected from the group consisting of a contact lens, an intraocular lens and a lenticular corneal implant (artificial cornea) comprising a substrate which is at least partially coated with a polymeric coating, which is obtained by after-glow plasma-induced polymerization of a polymerizable unsaturated compound (monomer) on the substrate, wherein the substrate is positioned at a distance of 4 to 40 cm and the monomer inlet at a distance of 3 to 35 cm downstream outside the plasma zone, wherein the plasma is a pulsed plasma, and wherein the polymer chains of the coating are composed of 2% to 30% of repeating units which are sites of cross-linkage and/or covalent bonding to the substrate.