The present invention relates to a cartridge for an injector system, including a folding body for implanting an intraocular lens into an eye. The cartridge comprises a receiving region for at least one lens and at least one movable haptic slider for sliding a lens haptic onto or to an optical portion of the lens. The haptics can thus be brought into a defined position such that, when folding and ejecting the lens from the injector, they can be rolled in a defined manner into the optical portion of the lens so as to guarantee insertion and unfolding of the lens in the eye in the most reproducible manner possible.

It is provided an intraocular lens insertion system that achieves a preferable insertion of an intraocular lens without using viscoelastic material in an eyeball. The intraocular lens insertion system includes an intraocular lens insertion apparatus configured to use a predetermined driving force to move an intraocular lens and insert the intraocular lens into an eyeball, an irrigating solution infusion apparatus configured to infuse irrigating solution into the eyeball, a driving source configured to deliver the predetermined driving force to the intraocular lens insertion apparatus, an irrigating solution source configured to deliver the irrigating solution to the irrigating solution infusion apparatus, and a switching unit configured to switch in a multistage manner a control of a delivery of the irrigating solution from the irrigating solution source to the irrigating solution infusion apparatus and a control of a delivery of the predetermined driving force from the driving source to the intraocular lens insertion apparatus.

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for implanting an intraocular lens into an eye are described. For example, an intraocular lens injector may include a passage formed in a distal end portion of the intraocular lens injector. The passage may define an interior surface, and one or more rails may be formed on the interior surface so as to displace an optic of an intraocular lens (IOL) being advanced through the passage towards a portion of the interior surface disposed opposite the one or more rails.

The invention relates to an apparatus and method that provides hydraulically assisted delivery of intraocular lenses (IOL) from a insertion tool. The IOL insertion system having an insertion rod with a tube having a first end and a second end, a piston head affixed to the insertion rod and positioned between the first and second end, a hydraulic chamber, an aspiration line communicatively connected to the hydraulic chamber, and at least one valve in fluid communication with the aspiration line, wherein the insertion rod moves in response to the displacement of hydraulic fluid within the hydraulic chamber.

Systems, methods, and devices for inserting an intraocular lens (IOL) into an eye, may be provided. An apparatus includes a plunger and a plunger tip. The plunger tip includes a dimple positioned at a distal end of the plunger tip. The plunger tip further includes a pocket in fluid communication with the dimple.

An apparatus for delivering an implant to an eye using hydraulic fluid flow or pressure. An implant may be stored, advanced, and delivered to an eye using hydraulic fluid stored in a sterile container through a hollow advancement plunger. The plunger may rigidly advance the implant to a sealed position in a first phase, and then the implant may be advanced into the eye via hydraulic pressure or fluid flow in a second phase.

Sterile packaging for an intraocular lens (IOL) delivery system includes a sealed container with an IOL delivery system contained therein, with a cap sealing the container. One or more tamper-evident solutions are provided on the packaging to ensure an indication of non-sterility. This configuration solves certain issues with prior packaging, such as clumsy transfers and bulky packaging which creates storage issues and mitigates sterility barrier risk associated with pouch or blister packaging or other non-rigid package types.

An injector system for implanting an intraocular lens into an eye includes an injector body having a front end and a rear end; a cannula arranged at the front end, which provides a transport channel for a lens to be implanted, wherein a lens can be fed into the transport channel; a magazine with a receptacle area for a lens which is securable in the receptacle area with a retainer, wherein the magazine is arranged so that a lens can be fed into the transport channel; a folding body insertable into the magazine and into the inlet opening, for pushing the lens into the transport channel so that the lens is at least partially foldable around the folding body; and a slider arranged in the injector body, and which can be pushed into the transport channel via the front end so that the lens can be ejected from the transport channel.

A delivery system is disclosed which can be used to deliver an ocular implant into a target location within the eye via an ab interno procedure. In some embodiments, the implant can provide fluid communication between the anterior chamber and the suprachoroidal or supraciliary space while in an implanted state. The delivery system can include a proximal handle component and a distal delivery component. In addition, the proximal handle component can include an actuator to control the release of the implant from the delivery component into the target location in the eye.

Provided is technology which can prevent the circumferential section of the end surface of a tip end opening from being damaged when an intraocular lens is extruded from an insertion apparatus, even when an insertion tube of the intraocular lens insertion apparatus has been further reduced in size. Provided is an intraocular lens insertion apparatus in which the end surface of a tip end opening (10j) in a tip end section (10a) of an insertion tube is an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to a surface (M) perpendicular to a central axis (L) of the insertion tube, and also the angle of inclination, with respect to the surface (M) perpendicular to the central axis (L) of the insertion tube, of the end surface of the tip end opening is larger toward a base end section (101) than toward a tip end section (100), wherein a predetermined region of the circumferential section toward the base end section (101) of the end surface of the tip end opening (10j) has a curved shape that protrudes toward the outside, and has a radius of curvature (R4) that is equal to or less than the radius of curvature of another region of the circumferential section.