Having A Means To Limit Or Facilitate Movement Patents (Class 351/159.19)
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Patent number: 9405131Abstract: The present invention discloses a translating multifocal contact Lens including one or both of a lower-lid contact surface and an under-lid support structure. More specifically, a translating multifocal contact Lens whereby a lower-lid contact surface may include multiple geometric variations and Blend Zones, and an under-lid support structure that may be designed based upon one or more various techniques including one or more of a function-driven technique, a uniform axial thickness technique, a uniform radial thickness technique, and a MES technique.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, IncInventors: Christopher Wildsmith, Michael Widman, Jonathan P. Adams
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Patent number: 9383592Abstract: Contact lens designs are provided with improved stabilization wherein the moments of momentum are balanced.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2015Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Edgar V. Menezes, Pierre Gerligand
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Patent number: 8911079Abstract: Lenses for correcting presbyopia are translating, multifocal contact lenses with pseudotruncations which are asymmetric about the vertical meridian.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey H. Roffman, Philippe F. Jubin, Edgar V. Menezes, Pierre-Yves Gerligand, Timothy A. Clutterbuck, Khaled A. Chehab
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Patent number: 8814350Abstract: A contact lens incorporating one or more dynamic stabilization zones fabricated from a material that is readily deformable under eyelid pressure during blinking allows for the control over rotation of the contact lens on the eye. As the material deforms, the angle of contact between the eyelid and the one or more dynamic stabilization zones changes as does the rotational force acting on the contact lens.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Hawke, Daniel B. Otts
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Patent number: 8801176Abstract: Contact lenses have design features to enhance translational properties such as dimples and coating treatments.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey H. Roffman, Philippe F. Jubin, Douglas G. Vanderlaan, Edgar V. Menezes, Gregory J. Hofmann
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Patent number: 8789945Abstract: Disclosed is an implementation of new technology for effectively providing a contact lens capable of achieving satisfactory corrective effects even with respect to irregular astigmatism (residual irregular astigmatism) caused by a conical cornea and so forth, which could not be corrected with conventional eye glasses or contact lens, wherein the contact lens is not dependent on being made to order for each wearer but is industrially mass-producible by means of a practical and novel structure. A contact lens for correction of irregular astigmatism is disclosed wherein a positive correction area (27) is provided on one side of a special radial line (30) and a negative correction area (28) is provided on another side while in any of the correction areas (27, 28) a lens power is configured so that an absolute value becomes progressively larger from an outer peripheral edge part towards a central portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignees: Menicon Co., Ltd., Osaka UniversityInventors: Asaki Suzaki, Yuji Goto, Naoyuki Maeda
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Patent number: 8668332Abstract: A toric contact lens having a prism ballast structure, wherein a center optical area, an annular transition area surrounding the center optical area determining a refractive degree, and an annular peripheral area surrounding the transition area, are defined on a lens front surface. A shape of the lens front surface has a mirror symmetry with a vertical meridian as a boundary, in such a manner that a thickness is smoothly decreased toward a lens lower end portion from two maximum thickness portions and where the thickness of the lens is maximum, and a valley-shaped slab-off is formed between these maximum thickness portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Takaharu Nakajima, Naoki Tsuji
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Publication number: 20140063446Abstract: The present invention discloses a translating multifocal contact lens including one or both of multiple Optic Zones and a lower-lid contact surface, and method steps and apparatus for implementing the same. In preferred embodiments, a translating multifocal lens may be Free-formed comprising a lower-lid contact surface capable of limiting the amount of translation of a lens across a surface of an eye when an eye changes from one Optic Zone to another.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: CHRISTOPHER WILDSMITH, MICHAEL WIDMAN, JONATHAN P. ADAMS
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Patent number: 8485662Abstract: Devices and methods for controlling myopia are provided. The devices and methods relate to the inventors discovery of the relationship between near work, the forces applied to the eye by the eyelids and myopia. The devices include a contact lens comprising a region that disperses force applied to the eye by an eyelid. The devices also include a device designed by measuring first wavefront aberrations of an eye before pre-near work and measuring second measured wavefront aberrations of the eye post-near work. The methods include a method for controlling myopia including identifying optical changes associated with near work and correcting the optical changes with an optical device.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2006Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Queensland University of TechnologyInventors: Michael Collins, Tobias Buehren, Leo Carney, Brett Davis, D. Robert Iskander, Ross Franklin, Stephanie Buehren
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Publication number: 20130077045Abstract: A method for optimizing the performance in centration, rotation and stability of contact lenses makes use of the upper and lower eyelid geometries to maximize the lens-lid interaction for two different contact lens positions on the eye. The contact lenses are non-round lenses for maximum interaction with the eyelids.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Inventors: Pierre-Yves Gerligand, Philippe F. Jubin, Timothy A. Clutterbuck, Radhakrishnan Damodharan
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Publication number: 20120242950Abstract: Contact lenses have design features to enhance translational properties such as dimples and coating treatments.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2011Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Jeffrey H. Roffman, Phillippe F. Jubin, Douglas G. Vanderlaan, Edgar V. Menezes
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Publication number: 20120242951Abstract: Contact lenses have design features to enhance translational properties such as dimples and coating treatments.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2011Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Jeffrey H. Roffman, Philippe F. Jubin, Douglas G. Vanderlaan, Edgar V. Menezes
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Patent number: 8240848Abstract: A contact lens with a central portion, an iris portion, and a peripheral portion disposed about the iris portion; wherein the iris portion contains an arcuate colored or tinted portion that provides a shadow effect; the peripheral portion can be colored white and can have a pattern that graduates to transparent towards the outer diameter of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Angie Bowers, Diana Zanini, Dawn D. Wright, Daniel Austin, Dafydd Geraint Davies, Marta Dobrowolski, Arti Krishna, Siew Hoon Loke, Alex Mackenzie, Andrew Milton, Julian Scarfe