Patent ID: 7510578

Claim:
A flexible accommodating intraocular lens designed for implanting within a natural capsular bag of a human eye, said lens implant comprising: a single solid optic having anterior and posterior sides and two or more separate plate haptics extending from two or more parts of the peripheral edge of said optic, each haptic being separated from another haptic by part of the circumference of the optic, said haptics being thinner than their width, their inner ends adjacent to said optic and outer ends extending from said optic designed to directly engage the interior of the capsular bag, each haptic having a narrow groove adjacent and tangential to the optic extending transversely across the plate haptics from one edge to the other thereby reducing their thickness, said haptics being adapted to move said optic anteriorly toward the iris and posteriorly relative to the outer ends of said haptics upon constriction and relaxation of the ciliary muscle of the eye, and said haptics having at least one fixation protuberance extending from either anteriorly or posteriorly or from both surfaces of at least one of said haptics designed to directly engage the inside of the capsular bag.