Patent ID: 8403984

Claim:
An apparatus for delivering an accommodating intraocular lens to an eye, said apparatus comprising: an injector with a longitudinal injection passage having a longitudinal injection axis; and an accommodating intraocular lens having two interconnected viewing elements, said lens having an optical axis and a longitudinal bisection axis that is substantially perpendicular to the optical axis, the two viewing elements of said intraocular lens interconnected by no more than a first biasing member and a second biasing member, the first biasing member and the second biasing member disposed at opposite sides of the viewing elements, the longitudinal bisection axis defined between the first biasing member and the second biasing member along a line that substantially bisects said lens and at least one of said first and second biasing members; said injector having a member for moving said lens into said injection passage; said lens disposed within said injector with said longitudinal bisection axis of said lens at an angle which is non-parallel and non-perpendicular to said injection axis.