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Oxygen permeable soft contact lens material
Assignee: Menicon Co Ltd
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Filing: 1985-12-09
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Granted: 1987-03-10
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Expires: 2005-12-09
Abstract
Abstract An oxygen permeable soft contact lens material having an improved oxygen permeability, improved softness and transparency prepared by copolymerizing a mixture comprising (a) a polyorganoxiloxane having polymerizable groups containing an unsaturated bond and hydrophilic groups containing a hydroxyl group in the molecular side chains, each of said side chains having a polymerizable group and a hydrogroup, and (b) a monomer having silylated hydroxyl groups as main components, and subjecting the resulting copolymer to desilylation.
Inventors
- 👤 Toshiharu Yoshikawa
- 👤 Takanori Shibata
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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2026-11-05 21:03
CPC Classifications
C; C08; C08F; C08F290/00; C08F290/08; C08F290/14; C08F290/148; C08F8/00; C08F8/42; G; G02; G02B; G02B1/00; G02B1/04; G02B1/041; G02B1/043
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
69 words
An oxygen permeable soft contact lens material prepared by copolymerizing a mixture comprising (a) a polyorganosiloxane (A) having in its molecular side chains polymerizable groups containing an unsaturated bond and hydrophilic groups containing a hydroxyl group, each of said chains having one said polymerizable group and one said hydrophilic group, and (b) a monomer having a silylated hydroxyl groups as main components, and subjecting the resulting copolymer to desilylation.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
69 words
An oxygen permeable soft contact lens material prepared by copolymerizing a mixture comprising (a) a polyorganosiloxane (A) having in its molecular side chains polymerizable groups containing an unsaturated bond and hydrophilic groups containing a hydroxyl group, each of said chains having one said polymerizable group and one said hydrophilic group, and (b) a monomer having a silylated hydroxyl groups as main components, and subjecting the resulting copolymer to desilylation.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
52 words
The contact lens material of claim 1, wherein each of said polymerizable groups in the molecular side chains of said polyorganosiloxane (A) is present through a hydrophilic group-containing portion formed by reaction of a polyorganosiloxane (B) having epoxy groups in its molecular side chains and a compound having a polymerizable unsaturated group.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
28 words
The contact lens material of claim 1, wherein the ratio of said polyorganosiloxane (A) to said silylated monomer having hydroxyl group is from 95/5 to 50/50 by weight.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
28 words
The contact lens material of claim 1, wherein the ratio of said polyorganosiloxane (A) to said silylated monomer having hydroxyl group is from 90/10 to 70/30 by weight.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
61 words
The contact lens material of claim 1, wherein a hydrophobic monomer having an aromatic ring is contained at most 25% by weight in said copolymer of the polyorganosiloxane (A) and the silylated monomer having hydroxyl group, and the ratio of said monomer having silylated hydroxyl group to said hydrophobic monomer having an aromatic ring is from 1/1 to 3/1 by weight.
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