Patent ID: 7416077

Claim:
A contact lens carrying case which is discarded once the seal on a housing area that houses contact lens is broken and the contact lens is removed from the housing area, the contact lens carrying case comprising: a contact lens case main unit that includes a housing unit comprising housing areas that include concavities arranged to house contact lenses, and including at least one cover unit that seals the lenses in the housing areas when the at least one cover unit is mounted to the housing unit; and a resealing prevention feature that prevents each housing area from being resealed by the cover units, once each housing area is no longer in a sealed state, wherein the resealing prevention feature prevents each housing area from being resealed by the cover unit by irreversibly changing the configuration of the case main unit when the sealed state is lost, wherein said irreversible change in the configuration of said case main unit is caused by the rotation of a handle component integral to the contact lens carrying case, said rotation of the handle effectuated while said cover unit remains closed thereby enabling the detachment of a portion of members comprising a part of said case main unit, said irreversible change comprising at least one of, a) detachment of the members from the at least one cover unit such that a portion of the members remain in a portion of the case main unit other than the at least one cover unit; or b) detachment of the members from the housing unit such that a portion of the members remain in a portion of the case main unit other than the housing unit.