Patent ID: 6796942
Filing Date: 2004-09-28
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
A device for measuring physical quantities in the eye, with a foldable implant on which, arranged outside an implant part covering the field of vision the eye, there is a telemetry device having a sensor and having a transmitter device with coil for wireless transmission of infonmation corresponding to the sensor signals, and with a receiver device which is arranged outside the eye receives the information sent by the transmitter device, and with an evaluation device which converts the received information into reproducible data, characterized by further comprising an arrangement comprising, on an annular foldable support, the coil is arranged in the form of a plurality of adjacent coil windings in at least one surface, and at least one electronic module containing the electronics of the telemetry device is electrically contacted with the coil, and in that the arrangement is embedded in the foldable biocompatible implant material.