Patent ID: 6889825
Filing Date: 2005-05-10
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. An ophthalmic lens storage container comprising: a container body including a lens storage portion having a cavity for storing an ophthalmic lens and a preserving solution, and a flange extending radially outward around an open-end peripheral portion of said cavity; and a cover sheet superposed on said container body for covering an opening of said cavity and being stripably sealed to said flange in a sealing zone that extends around said open-end peripheral portion of said cavity over an entire circumference of said cavity, to thereby fluid-tightly seal said lens storage portion; wherein said flange of said container body includes an insulating portion located radially outward of said open-end peripheral portion of said cavity so as to extend circumferentially, said insulating portion has a shoulder surface that extends in a first direction opposite to a second direction along which said cavity is exposed, wherein said sealing zone to which said cover sheet is stripably sealed to said flange portion is exclusively located radially outward of said insulating portion of said flange, wherein and inner surface of said cavity includes a central portion and an open-end side portion that serves as a removal-guide surface whose radius of curvature is made different from that of said central portion, and wherein said removal-guide surface is smoothly connected to a plane surface extending in a direction perpendicular to said second direction, and being located axially upward of said sealing zone via said shoulder surface.