Fluid filled lenses and mechanisms of inflation thereof

US8708486B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Adlens Beacon, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Daniel Senatore · San Francisco, US
• Matthew Wallace Peterson · San Francisco, US
• Jonathan Downing · Belmont, US
• Amitava Gupta · Seattle, US
• William Egan · Jackson, US
• Lisa Nibauer · Short Hills, US
• Frank Stangota · Bound Brook, US
• Bruce Decker · Solebury, US
• Thomas M. McGuire · Princeton, US
• Urban Schnell · Münchenbuchsee, CH
• Karim Haroud · Yverdon-les-Bains, CH
• Pascal Loser · Bern, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 15, 2010
• Grant date: Apr 29, 2014
• Expiry date: Oct 15, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02C7/08
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An actuator for a fluid-filled lens including a housing having a first and a second end; a reservoir disposed within the housing. In an embodiment, a slider is slidingly disposed within the housing and disposed adjacent to the reservoir. In an embodiment, the actuator further includes a compression arm having a first end that is fixed and a second end that is not fixed, wherein the compression arm is disposed adjacent to the reservoir. Sliding the slider from one end of the housing to the other causes the slider to push the second end of the compression arm so as to compress the reservoir. In an embodiment, the slider includes a first end having a wedge shape configured to compress the reservoir. Sliding of the slider from one end of the housing to the other causes the first end of the slider to compress the reservoir.