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Polyacryloxyalkylsilanol lens composition, articles and method of manufacture

US4769431A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 19, 1986
Grant dateSep 6, 1988
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Expiry dateMay 19, 2006

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B1/043
  • WIPO fieldMacromolecular chemistry, polymers
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A copolymer composition, especially suited for fabricating optical lenses comprising a copolymer of copolymerized comonomers which include in weight percent about one to about twenty percent by weight of an acryloxyalkylsilanol; about one to about fifteen percent of a polyacryloxyalkylpolysiloxane; about thirty to about seventy five percent of an siloxy substituted ester of acrylic or methacrylic acid; from about one to about 35 percent of an alkyl or cycloalkyl acrylate or methacrylate having from one to twenty carbon atoms; from about one to about twenty percent of a polyol diacrylate; and from about one to about twenty percent of a wetting monomer. Contact lenses and contact lens buttons are formed of such copolymer of copolymerized comonomers by conventional techniques, by injection molding, and by compression molding.

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