Abstract: A kit for drying an electronic device includes a sealed storage container having a vacuum chamber that has been depressurized to a partial vacuum, and a drying container operably coupled to the storage container. The drying container includes a desiccant chamber containing a desiccant and a main chamber in fluid communication with the desiccant chamber. The main chamber is configured for housing an electronic device. According to one method, the drying container is loaded with an electronic device inside the main chamber and the container is sealed. Then, the storage container is fluidly coupled to the drying container. The fluid coupling between the storage container and the drying container causes the pressure in the main chamber to be at a partial vacuum, which promotes water removal from the electronic device and transfer of removed water into the desiccant.

Abstract: A kit for drying an electronic device includes a sealed storage container having a vacuum chamber that has been depressurized to a partial vacuum, and a drying container operably coupled to the storage container. The drying container includes a desiccant chamber containing a desiccant and a main chamber in fluid communication with the desiccant chamber. The main chamber is configured for housing an electronic device. According to one method, the drying container is loaded with an electronic device inside the main chamber and the container is sealed. Then, the storage container is fluidly coupled to the drying container. The fluid coupling between the storage container and the drying container causes the pressure in the main chamber to be at a partial vacuum, which promotes water removal from the electronic device and transfer of removed water into the desiccant.

Abstract: An intraocular lens (IOL) includes a first optic, a first set of haptics extending from the first optic, a second optic, a second set of haptics extending from the second optic, and a hinge joining the first and second sets of haptics. The IOL is subject to a pre-bias that biases the first and second optics away from one another along an anterior-posterior (A-P) axis. The IOL is also provided with a restraining element that restrains the optics relative to each other in a stressed, planar, non-accommodating configuration during implantation and a post-operative period. The restraining element extends across a portion of at least one of the first and second optics, but is not reliant on use of the haptics for support thereof. Upon release of the restraining element, the optics can move relative to each other along the A-P axis in accommodation.

Abstract: An adjustable astigmatism-reducing intraocular lens includes a toric optic with a long axis. The optic is rotationally coupled to haptics, and a plurality of struts extend between the optic and the haptics. The struts are held under tension and individually releasable via laser, or are heat shrinkable to increase the tension of selective struts. When a strut is released or shrunk, a torsional force is applied to angularly adjust the optic relative to the haptics. After the lens has been implanted and healed relative to the tissue, struts are individually released via laser ablation to cause torsional instability and resulting net rotational adjustment, or individually heat shrunk to tension the strut, to cause torsional instability, and effect net rotational adjustment to ensure that a long axis of optic is aligned with the axis of astigmatic correction of the eye.

Abstract: An adjustable astigmatism-reducing intraocular lens includes a toric optic with a long axis. The optic is rotationally coupled to haptics, and a plurality of struts extend between the optic and the haptics. The struts are held under tension and individually releasable via laser, or are heat shrinkable to increase the tension of selective struts. When a strut is released or shrunk, a torsional force is applied to angularly adjust the optic relative to the haptics. After the lens has been implanted and healed relative to the tissue, struts are individually released via laser ablation to cause torsional instability and resulting net rotational adjustment, or individually heat shrunk to tension the strut, to cause torsional instability, and effect net rotational adjustment to ensure that a long axis of optic is aligned with the axis of astigmatic correction of the eye.

Abstract: An intraocular lens has a polymeric optic defined by a harder posterior layer and a softer anterior layer. Haptics having a fulcrum attached to the posterior layer and a resistance arm attached to the anterior layer are provided. A bias is provided to the haptic to rotate the haptics about the fulcrum and cause the resistance arm to deform the softer anterior layer about the harder posterior layer to increase the optical power of the lens. As the haptic rotates, it axially displaces the optic anteriorly to additionally increase the optical power. The optical power is adjustable in response to stresses induced by the eye. The haptics are subject to a pre-bias that urges the haptics to rotate or bend about the fulcrum. Temporary restraints are provided to the haptics to retain a stressed shape of the lens against the bias during a post-implantation healing period.

Abstract: An intraocular lens has a polymeric optic defined by a harder posterior layer and a softer anterior layer. Haptics having a fulcrum attached to the posterior layer and a resistance arm attached to the anterior layer are provided. A bias is provided to the haptic to rotate the haptics about the fulcrum and cause the resistance arm to deform the softer anterior layer about the harder posterior layer to increase the optical power of the lens. As the haptic rotates, it axially displaces the optic anteriorly to additionally increase the optical power. The optical power is adjustable in response to stresses induced by the eye. The haptics are subject to a pre-bias that urges the haptics to rotate or bend about the fulcrum. Temporary restraints are provided to the haptics to retain a stressed shape of the lens against the bias during a post-implantation healing period.

Abstract: An intraocular lens (IOL) system includes an optic, a pair of haptics located on sides of the optic, and hinge portions at each of the optic haptic junctions. The hinge portions have stressed and non-stressed configurations. One or more restraining elements are provided to maintain the stressed state configuration of the hinge portion during implantation and during a post-operative period during which the capsular bag of the eye heals about the lens. The restraining elements are thereafter removable, preferably via a non-surgically invasive manner, e.g., via dissolution or laser light. Removal of the restraining elements allows anteriorization of the optic as the lens assumes a non-stressed configuration during accommodation. The ciliary body and lens may then interact in a manner substantially similar to the physiological interaction between the ciliary body and a healthy natural crystalline lens.

Abstract: An intraocular lens (IOL) system includes an optic, a pair of haptics located on sides of the optic, and hinge portions at each of the optic haptic junctions. The hinge portions have stressed and non-stressed configurations. One or more restraining elements are provided to maintain the stressed state configuration of the hinge portion during implantation and during a post-operative period during which the capsular bag of the eye heals about the lens. The restraining elements are thereafter removable, preferably via a non-surgically invasive manner, e.g., via dissolution or laser light. Removal of the restraining elements allows anteriorization of the optic as the lens assumes a non-stressed configuration during accommodation. The ciliary body and lens may then interact in a manner substantially similar to the physiological interaction between the ciliary body and a healthy natural crystalline lens.

Abstract: An intraocular lens (IOL) system includes an optic, a pair of haptics located on sides of the optic, and hinge portions at each of the optic haptic junctions. The hinge portions have stressed and non-stressed configurations. One or more restraining elements are provided to maintain the stressed state configuration of the hinge portion during implantation and during a post-operative period during which the capsular bag of the eye heals about the lens. The restraining elements are thereafter removable, preferably via a non-surgically invasive manner, e.g., via dissolution or laser light. Removal of the restraining elements allows anteriorization of the optic as the lens assumes a non-stressed configuration during accommodation. The ciliary body and lens may then interact in a manner substantially similar to the physiological interaction between the ciliary body and a healthy natural crystalline lens.

Abstract: An intraocular lens (IOL) system includes a flexible lens having a skirt, and a restraining element. The restraining element is provided about the skirt and maintains the flexible lens in a stressed, non-accommodating configuration. At implantation, the ciliary body muscle is pharmacologically induced into a relaxed state, a capsulorrhexis is performed on the lens capsule, and the natural lens is removed from the capsule and replaced with the lens of the invention. The ciliary body is maintained in the relaxed state for several weeks until the capsule heals and shrinks about the lens. The restraining element is preferably designed to be removed in a non-surgically invasive manner, e.g., via dissolution or laser light, after capsule healing has occurred. The ciliary body and lens may then interact in a manner substantially similar to the physiological interaction between the ciliary body and a healthy natural crystalline lens.

Abstract: An intraocular lens (IOL) system includes an optic, a pair of haptics located on sides of the optic, and hinge portions at each of the optic haptic junctions. The hinge portions have stressed and non-stressed configurations. One or more restraining elements are provided to maintain the stressed state configuration of the hinge portion during implantation and during a post-operative period during which the capsular bag of the eye heals about the lens. The restraining elements are thereafter removable, preferably via a non-surgically invasive manner, e.g., via dissolution or laser light. Removal of the restraining elements allows anteriorization of the optic as the lens assumes a non-stressed configuration during accommodation. The ciliary body and lens may then interact in a manner substantially similar to the physiological interaction between the ciliary body and a healthy natural crystalline lens.

Abstract: A system for reducing the radius of curvature of a cornea is provided which includes a device having an electrically-resistive ring, an insulative shaft coupled to the ring, and an electrical lead coupled to the ring, and an insulative handle coupled to the ring which facilitates manipulating the ring for placement on and removal from the cornea of the eye and through which the lead extends. The lead is couplable to a current source. According to a preferred aspect of the invention, a function generator is provided between the current source and the ring to generate a function of heat energy provided to the ring. The function generator permits very precise applications of current to the ring, and may be configured to heat the ring to a desired temperature, to maintain the temperature for a predetermined amount of the time, or to provide a heat profile. An astigmatism correction device, preferably operable in conjunction with the hyperopia heating device, is also provided.

Abstract: An ocular drug delivery device includes a reservoir which holds medicine and is locatable outside the eye during drug delivery to a patient, and a conduit having one end coupled to the reservoir and a free end which is positionable within the fornix of the eye of a patient. Through gravity and/or capillary action, the medicine flows from the reservoir through the conduit and into the eye. The rate of delivery of the medicine to the eye may be adjusted according to the size and material of the conduit. According to a first embodiment, the reservoir is preferably made of an absorbent material and is provided with an impermeable backing which acts as a barrier between the medicine and facial skin of the patient. Preferably the backing has an edge to prevent medicine from rolling off the reservoir surface. The backing may also be provided with an adhesive for removably coupling the reservoir to the facial skin of the patient, particularly to an area adjacent the eye.