Horizontally mounted intraocular lens and the method of implantation thereof

Claim 1

An intraocular lens comprising: an optic lens dimensioned to be implanted in the anterior chamber of an eye and having a constant radius less than the distance from the center of the lens portion of the eye to the mid region of the iris of the eye, a pair of elongated rod members each formed into a loop, said loops disposed on opposite sides of said optic lens and extending radially outwardly from said optic lens in opposite directions and dimensioned in radial length to extend from the edge of the pupillary margin of the iris portion of the eye slightly past the mid region of the eye iris, said loops attached at the ends of said rod members to peripheral regions of said optic lens, and a pair of pin members each attached at one end to said optic lens between the ends of one of said rod members, each pin member having a length at least as great as the length of one of said loops and further having a length such that said optic lens may be implanted in the lens area of the anterior chamber of the eye with said pin members substantially horizontally extending through apertures formed through the mid region of the iris and clipped behind said loops at a position past the mid region of the iris.

Claim 8

The method of attaching an artificial optic lens having opposed loops and flexible pins to an iris comprising: forming a corneal incision in an eyeball, forming first and second apertures through the mid-iris of the eyeball between the periphery of the iris and the pupillary margin of the iris at points generally located on a horizontal line through the center of the iris, extracting the eye lens, orienting the loops horizontally, disposing each of the loops posterior to the iris, inserting the flexible pins through said apertures in the mid-iris, clipping the outer ends of the flexible pins posterior to the loops at a position past the mid-iris to affix the optic lens to the iris such that the weight of the optic lens is primarily perpendicular to and is borne by the radial muscle structure of the iris, and surgically suturing the cornal incision.

Claim 9

The method of attaching an artificial optic lens having opposed loops and flexible pins to an iris comprising: forming a corneal incision in an eyeball, forming first and second apertures through the mid-iris of the eyeball between the periphery of the iris and the pupillary margin of the iris at points generally located on a horizontal line through the center of the iris, extracting the eye lens, orienting the loops horizontally, disposing each of the loops posterior to the iris, inserting the flexible pins through said apertures in the mid-iris, clipping the outer ends of the flexible pins posterior to the loops at a position past the mid-iris to affix the optic lens to the iris such that the weight of the optic lens is primarily perpendicular to and is borne by the radial muscle structure of the iris, and surgically suturing the cornal incision.