Patent ID: 7037328

Claim:
An assembly comprising an injector and an intraocular lens, said intraocular lens ( 1 ) being made up of an optic ( 5 ), of at least one lower haptic ( 6 ), and of at least one upper haptic ( 7 ), said injector comprising a syringe body ( 10 ) having a cylindrical main portion ( 11 ), a cylindrical discharge portion ( 13 ) that is of smaller cross-section than the cross-section of the main portion ( 11 ), and a conical portion ( 12 ) connecting said main portion ( 11 ) to said discharge portion ( 13 ), a plunger ( 20 ) being adapted to move inside said syringe body ( 10 ) so as move said lens ( 1 ) from the main portion ( 11 ) to the discharge portion ( 13 ), and then to discharge said lens ( 1 ) out of said discharge portion ( 13 ), said plunger ( 20 ) being provided with at least two strands ( 21 , 22 ) that can move towards each other while the plunger ( 20 ) is sliding inside said conical portion ( 12 ), said assembly being characterized in that, when said plunger ( 20 ) reaches the discharge portion ( 13 ) said plunger has a profile ( 25 ) at its end in contact with the lens ( 1 ), said profile defining at least one space ( 26 ) adapted to receive said at least one upper haptic ( 7 ) of said lens ( 1 ), and said plunger ( 20 ) fills substantially the entire cross section of said discharge portion ( 13 ) upstream from said space ( 26 ).