A flexible intraocular lens injection device, comprising a tubular body that has a casing, a plunger, a barrel having a cross-section that decreases in the opposite direction to the tubular body, and a housing in the axial cavity of the tubular body intended to receive a storage shuttle containing a flexible intraocular lens, the casing of the tubular body having a side opening, so as to allow the insertion of the storage shuttle and in the vicinity of this side opening, the above-mentioned casing carrying a first outwardly-protruding rotary attachment means configured to engage with a second rotary attachment means provided on the storage shuttle, so that, when the two above-mentioned rotary attachment means are engaged, the storage shuttle is able to rotate about an axis of rotation parallel to said axial direction of the axial cavity of the tubular body.

A toric intraocular lens includes a lens body, support portions, and connecting portions for connecting the lens body and the support portions. The lens is housed in an insertion apparatus that includes a tubular apparatus body having an insertion tube for the lens and a plunger for moving the lens. Each of the connecting portions is arranged at a position where the connecting portions face each other across a center of an optical axis of the lens body. One end of the flat meridian of the lens body is located at a position opposite to a position, with respect to an axis that passes through the center and connects the connecting portions, at which the plunger contacts the lens body. An angle between the flat meridian and an axis along which the lens is pushed by the plunger is larger than 0 and equal to or smaller than 90.

There is provided an intraocular lens injector configured to inject an intraocular lens having an optical portion 8 and a pair of support portions 9a, 9b, including: an injector main body 2 having a lens setting portion 6 on which the intraocular lens 7 is set; a pushing member 5 that pushes out the intraocular lens 7 from the lens setting portion 6 by moving in a direction of a central axis of the injector main body 2; and a guide slope 11 that guides the movement of the pushing member 5 when the pushing member 5 moves in the direction of the central axis of the injector main body 2, wherein when the pushing member 5 moves in the direction of the central axis of the injector main body 2, a tip end part of the pushing member 5 comes into contact with the support portions 9b of the intraocular lens 7, and comes into contact with the optical portion 8 while pushing the support portions 9b, and the guide slope 11 guides the movement of the pushing member 5 so that the tip end part of the pushing member 5 is displaced in a vertical direction.

An ophthalmosurgical injector system includes an injector, which has a handpiece, a plunger and a dispensing device; an intraocular lens, which has an optic body, a C-shaped first haptic arm protruding from the optic body and a C-shaped second haptic arm protruding from the optic body; a cartridge, in which the intraocular lens is received, wherein the cartridge is inserted in the injector; and an actuation element, which has a contact surface, and a locking element, with which a position of the plunger relative to the handpiece or to the cartridge can be locked. The plunger can be locked in a first position, in which the intraocular lens is held in the cartridge in a compressed and pretensioned state in which an outer distance from the first haptic arm to the second haptic arm is greater than 8 mm and less than 11 mm.

The invention relates to a lens case (50, 150) for accommodating an intraocular lens, IOL (1). The lens case (50, 150) comprises a lens case body (3, 103) and a sliding element (4, 104) which can slide on the lens case body from a first position to a second position. The lens case body (3, 103) comprises a longitudinal recess (32, 132), having a first part (32a, 132a) and a second part (32b, 132b), the first part (32a, 132a) being adapted to receive a side zone of the IOL (1) comprising at least one haptic (2), the second part (32b, 132b) being adapted to receive a narrower central zone of the IOL (1). The sliding element (4, 104) comprises a bolt (5, 105a) arranged adjacent a loading port (34, 134) of the second part (32b, 132b) of the recess (32, 132) for displacing the IOL (1) within the recess (32, 132).

A shuttle, vial and injector are provided for storing and presenting an IOL to a patient. The shuttle includes operably engaged shuttle plates having a set of confronting surfaces that flex about a flexure interface between a storage configuration, with at least an optic of an IOL in a nominal state and a loading configuration, with at least an optic of an IOL in a deformed state. The vial engages the shuttle and maintains the shuttle in the storage configuration. The injector receives the shuttle from the vial and includes surfaces for flexing the portions of the shuttle plates to the loading configuration upon engagement with the injector, wherein the shuttle plates impart a predetermined curvature to at least a portion of the IOL.

Intraocular lens loading devices and methods of use. In some embodiment the devices are used to sequentially splay first and second haptics while loading the intraocular lens into a delivery lumen.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a lens holder of an injector for an intraocular lens, wherein the lens holder is configured such that axial shifting of a plunger within the lens holder can be effectively prevented. A lens holder 4 of an injector 1 for an intraocular lens is provided with: a holder body 61 having a mount unit 62 on which an optical unit 91 of an intraocular lens 90 is placed, the holder body 61 having formed in the proximal-end side thereof an insertion hole 63 for a plunger 3 for pushing out the optical unit 91 positioned on the mount unit 62 toward the distal end of the holder body 61; and an axial-shift-preventing unit 110 provided within the holder body 61 between the mount unit 62 and the insertion hole 63 and in the movement path of the plunger 3, the axial-shift-preventing unit 110 being an elastic member that deforms in conformance with the shape of the plunger 3 when the plunger 3 moves toward the distal end.

An intraocular lens insertion apparatus includes an apparatus body configured to include a housing member for housing an intraocular lens and an insertion tube member for ejecting the intraocular lens into an eyeball of a patient, a plunger configured to move in the apparatus body, and a hook member formed on the apparatus body for a user of the intraocular lens insertion apparatus to hook a finger when the user moves the plunger. The plunger is moved to a side of the insertion tube member, the intraocular lens housed in the housing member is pushed by a distal end of the plunger, and the intraocular lens is ejected from the insertion tube member, and a connecting member configured to connect an operability enhancing member for enhancing an operability of the plunger when the plunger is moved with the apparatus body is provided for the apparatus body.

An intraocular lens supply system is provided. The intraocular lens supply system includes a housing and a cartridge. The cartridge is configured to receive an intraocular lens and can be inserted into the housing. The intraocular lens supply system further includes a heating element including a latent heat accumulator and a nucleating agent, and a pressure element which is coupled to the cartridge or the housing and which can be displaced such that the pressure element exerts a pressing force onto the nucleating agent when the cartridge is inserted into the housing in such a manner that thermal energy can be supplied to the cartridge from the heating element.