Patent ID: 8398709

Claim:
An accommodating intraocular lens (AIOL) capsule for implantation in a human eye having a visual axis, a sclera of tough connective tissue, an annular ciliary sulcus, and a sphincter-like ciliary body for tensioning a capsular diaphragm in an anterior direction along the visual axis on its relaxation from a contracted ciliary body state to a relaxed ciliary body state, the AIOL capsule for use with a rigid haptics system having a longitudinal axis and a haptics main body with at least two elongated generally C-shaped haptics extending therefrom in opposite directions in a plane perpendicular to the human eye's visual axis, each haptics terminating in an attachment plate having at least one pointed puncturing member for penetrating the tough connective tissue of the human eye's sclera for self-anchoring implantation in the human eye's annular ciliary sulcus at at least two spaced apart stationary anchor points for retaining the AIOL in the human eye, the haptics each including a Vertical Adjustment Mechanism adjacent the haptics main body deformable on localized heating by an external energy source for enabling post implantation in situ selective axial displacement of the AIOL along the human eye's visual axis relative to the at least two spaced apart stationary anchor points, the AIOL capsule having a longitudinal axis intended to be co-directional with the human eye's visual axis on implantation therein and comprising a capsule housing including a transparent anterior capsule plate, a transparent posterior capsule plate parallel and opposite said anterior capsule plate, and a capsule ring extending between said anterior and posterior capsule plates and having a leading rim connected to said anterior capsule plate and a trailing rim connected to said posterior capsule plate, said anterior capsule plate, said posterior capsule plate and said capsule ring bounding a hermetic cavity filled with a transparent capsule filling, said anterior capsule plate having an exposed leading surface and said posterior capsule plate having an exposed trailing surface, said trailing surface capable of undergoing repeated back and forth flexing relative to said capsule ring on application and in the absence of an axial compression force thereagainst from a posterior direction, said leading surface anteriorly bulging along the human eye's visual axis on application of said axial compression force and reverting to its non-flexed position in the absence of said compression force, whereby the AIOL capsule has a continuously variable Diopter strength ranging between a first Diopter strength in a non-compressed state and a second Diopter strength different than said first Diopter strength in a compressed state on application of said axial compression force.