US 12,433,741 B2
Haptic management for delivery of intraocular implants
Jestwin Edwin Lee, IV, Grandview, TX (US); Kathryn Jensen, Sugar Land, TX (US); Anubhav Chauhan, Benbrook, TX (US); Todd Taber, Keller, TX (US); Yinghui Wu, Cedar Hill, TX (US); and Saumya Dilip Yadav, Arlington, TX (US)
Filed by Alcon Inc., Fribourg (CH)
Filed on Dec. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/457,278.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/120,955, filed on Dec. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0175517 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/16 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/167 (2013.01) [A61F 2002/1682 (2015.04); A61F 2002/169051 (2015.04)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for eye surgery, the apparatus comprising:
a nozzle having a delivery lumen;
an implant bay coupled to the nozzle;
an implant disposed in the implant bay, the implant comprising an optic body, a leading haptic, and a trailing haptic;
an actuator comprising a housing, a plunger disposed within the housing, a fluid chamber, and a bore through the plunger that is fluidly coupled to the delivery lumen; and
a leading splay arm operable to splay the leading haptic within the implant bay;
wherein the plunger is moveable from a first position to a second position to advance the optic body from the implant bay to the delivery lumen after the leading splay arm splays the leading haptic; and
wherein the bore is fluidly isolated from the fluid chamber in the first position of the plunger and is fluidly coupled to the fluid chamber in the second position of the plunger.