Fluid-filled lenses and their ophthalmic applications

US9036264B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Adlens Beacon, Inc. · US

Inventors

• 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
• Hans Jaeger · Thunstetten, CH
• Matthew Wallace Peterson · San Francisco, US
• Daniel Senatore · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 12, 2010
• Grant date: May 19, 2015
• Expiry date: Sep 12, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B26/004
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A fluid lens assembly including a front rigid lens, a semi-flexible membrane that is adapted to be expanded from a minimum inflation level to a maximum inflation level, and a fluid layer therebetween. The front lens of the fluid lens assembly is configured to have a negative optical power. In an embodiment, the fluid lens assembly may be configured to have an overall negative optical power when the membrane is expanded to the maximum inflation level. In an embodiment, the fluid lens assembly can be configured to have an overall negative optical power when the membrane is expanded between the minimum inflation level and the maximum inflation level.