Patent ID: 7118597

Claim:
An eye intraocular lens comprising: a lens, said lens having any of the following types of surface shapes: spherical, astigmatic toric, aspherical with or without axial symmetry, multi-zoned surfaces as those found on Fresnel lenses, diffractive surfaces, and one surface diffractive and the other surface diffractive, a frame extending from the lens to provide diametrically opposed upper and lower frame sections, a first lens linkage having a pair of upper haptics with upper haptic first ends spaced at least 15° apart attached to the upper frame section, a second lens linkage having a pair of lower haptics with lower haptic first ends spaced at least 15° apart attached to the lower frame section, a second end of said first lens linkage and a second end of the second lens linkage attached to a sulcus or zonule member to provide relatively large movement of the lens with a small movement of the ciliary muscle during accommodation response of the eye, said sulcus or zonule member is a connecting ring sized to be attached to an eye's ciliary sulcus or to the interior of an eye's lens capsule, said upper pair of haptics has their second ends diametrically connected of a lower section of the ring, said lower pair of haptics has their second ends diametrically connected of an upper section of the ring, and the intraocular lens is sized to be located within or outside of eye's lens capsule, wherein said movements during the accommodation response are along the optical axis of the eye and are controlled in order to improve the image on the retina of objects viewed by the eye over a wide range of distances.