Dual position ophthalmic apparatus

US8079710B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Notal Vision Ltd. · IL

Inventors

• Gideon Hanoch Benyamini · Ramat HaSharon, IL
• Alon Goldenberg · Rehovot, IL
• Omer Rafaely · Nes Ziona, IL
• Yair Mandelstam-Manor · Nes Ziona, IL
• Elisha Avraham Tal · Nataf, IL
• Eitan Sharif · Nahariah, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 10, 2008
• Grant date: Dec 20, 2011
• Expiry date: Jul 4, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61H5/00
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An ophthalmic apparatus exhibiting a first position and a second position related by a rotation of 180° about a longitudinal axis. Automatic detection of the position is preferably provided, and the results of the detection are communicated to a computing unit portion of the ophthalmic apparatus. The ophthalmic apparatus exhibits: a first formation for receiving a user's head in the first position, which is in one embodiment a generally curved formation approximating the shape of the user's lower forehead preferably with an indent portion for receiving the user's nose when the ophthalmic apparatus in the second position; and a second formation for receiving a user's head in the second position, which is in one embodiment a generally curved formation approximating the shape of the user's lower forehead preferably with an indent portion for receiving the user's nose when the ophthalmic apparatus in the first position.