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公开(公告)号:US20240018309A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-18
申请号:US18465610
申请日:2023-09-12
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Steve Yun Zhang , Daqing Wu , Junhao Ge , Richard Charles Breitkopf , Xinming Qian , Zach Munoz , Matthew D. Nelson , Augustine Twum Kumi , Weihong Lang , Ying Zheng , Feng Jing , Frank Chang
IPC: C08G77/442 , C08G77/20 , C08G77/388 , C08G77/392 , C08G77/14 , C08L83/10 , G02B1/04 , C08G77/12 , B29D11/00 , G02C7/04
CPC classification number: C08G77/442 , C08G77/20 , C08G77/388 , C08G77/392 , C08G77/14 , C08L83/10 , C08L2201/10 , C08G77/12 , B29D11/00134 , G02C7/04 , G02B2207/109 , C08G2210/00 , G02B1/043
Abstract: The present invention generally relates to inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses having relatively high oxygen permeability, relatively high equilibrium water content and relatively low elastic modulus. The present invention is also related to a method for making such inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses.
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公开(公告)号:US20230158760A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US17991174
申请日:2022-11-21
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Yongxing Qiu , Newton T. Samuel , John Dallas Pruitt , Chandana Kolluru , Arturo Norberto Medina , Lynn Cook Winterton , Daqing Wu , Xinming Qian , Jared Nelson
IPC: B29D11/00 , G02B1/04 , G02C7/04 , G02B1/10 , G02B1/18 , C08J7/04 , C08L83/04 , C08G77/388 , C08J5/00 , C09D5/16 , C09D133/02 , C09D133/14 , C09D133/26 , C09D171/02 , C09D177/06
CPC classification number: B29D11/00067 , C08G77/388 , C08J5/00 , C08J7/042 , C08L83/04 , C09D5/1637 , C09D5/1681 , C09D133/02 , C09D133/14 , C09D133/26 , C09D171/02 , C09D177/06 , G02B1/10 , G02B1/18 , G02B1/043 , G02C7/049 , C08J2383/04 , C08J2383/08 , C08J2433/02 , C08J2433/26 , C08J2487/00 , G02C2202/06 , G02C2202/16
Abstract: The invention is related to a cost-effective method for making a silicone hydrogel contact lens having a crosslinked hydrophilic coating thereon. A method of the invention involves heating a silicone hydrogel contact lens in an aqueous solution in the presence of a watersoluble, highly branched, thermally-crosslinkable hydrophilic polymeric material having positively-charged azetidinium groups, to and at a temperature from about 40° C. to about 140° C. for a period of time sufficient to covalently attach the thermally-crosslinkable hydrophilic polymeric material onto the surface of the silicone hydrogel contact lens through covalent linkages each formed between one azetidinium group and one of the reactive functional groups on and/or near the surface of the silicone hydrogel contact lens, thereby forming a crosslinked hydrophilic coating on the silicone hydrogel contact lens. Such method can be advantageously implemented directly in a sealed lens package during autoclave.
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公开(公告)号:US11254076B2
公开(公告)日:2022-02-22
申请号:US16429811
申请日:2019-06-03
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Junhao Ge , Daqing Wu , Richard Charles Breitkopf , Steve Yun Zhang , Augustine Twum Kumi
IPC: B29D11/00 , C08F226/10 , G02B1/04 , B29K83/00 , B29K105/00
Abstract: The invention provides a contact lens manufacturing method comprising a process for removing unprocessed molded silicone hydrogel contact lenses from mold halves in a relatively efficient and consistent manner. A method of the invention comprising the steps of formulating a lens formulation by dissolving/blending all polymerizable components in a mixture a hydrophobic acrylic monomer as a reactive diluent and an organic solvent as a non-reactive diluent at a weight ratio of least 0.24 (reactive diluent over the sum of reactive and non-reactive solvents) per gram of the polymerizable composition and using a relatively low ultrasonic vibration energy for delensing. This method of the invention can be easily implemented in a production environment for enhancing the production yield.
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公开(公告)号:US12171870B2
公开(公告)日:2024-12-24
申请号:US17392425
申请日:2021-08-03
Applicant: ALCON INC.
Inventor: Jing Cheng , Stephen Raymond Perreault , Daqing Wu , Steve Yun Zhang , Jang-Shing Chiou
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method to load a water insoluble phospholipid as nanoparticles to load into a hydrogel contact lens in autoclaving process during the hydrogel contact lens manufacturing process without an extra manufacturing step and without swelling the hydrogel contact lens with an organic solvent. The phospholipid nanoparticles loaded in hydrogel contact lens subsequently releases to the eye upon wearing.
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公开(公告)号:US20240393501A1
公开(公告)日:2024-11-28
申请号:US18670852
申请日:2024-05-22
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Jack W. Trieu , Daqing Wu , Feng Jing , Steve Yun Zhang
Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing coated silicone hydrogel contact lenses in a cost-effective manner. The method comprises obtaining a preformed silicone hydrogel contact lens comprising a bulk silicone hydrogel material that comprises repeating units of at least one carboxyl-containing vinylic monomer and at least one arylborono-containing vinylic monomer, and heating the preformed silicone hydrogel contact lens in an aqueous coating solution comprising a water-soluble and thermally crosslinkable polymeric material having azetidinium or epoxide groups and a diol-containing hydrophilic polymer having 1,2- or 1,3-diol moieties to form a coated silicone hydrogel contact lens comprising a bulk silicone hydrogel material and a hydrogel coating that comprises a crosslinked polymeric material covalently attached onto the bulk silicone hydrogel material and a grafted diol-containing hydrophilic polymer covalently attached onto the bulk silicone hydrogel material and distributed in the crosslinked polymeric material.
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公开(公告)号:US11427685B2
公开(公告)日:2022-08-30
申请号:US16365973
申请日:2019-03-27
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Daqing Wu , Steve Yun Zhang , Junhao Ge , Richard Charles Breitkopf , Augustine Twum Kumi , Weihong Lang
IPC: B29D11/00 , C08G77/442 , G02B1/04 , B29K83/00 , B29K105/00 , C08G77/00
Abstract: The invention provides a method for making silicone hydrogel contact lenses. The method of the invention is characterized by using an organic solvent as a processing-aid tool for controlling lens diameter without significantly affecting lens equilibrium water content during cast-molding of soft contact lenses from a polymerizable composition. By adjusting the weight percentage of the organic solvent in a polymerizable composition for making SiHy contact lenses, one can adjust lens diameter of produced SiHy lenses to meet target without affecting adversely the lens properties.
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公开(公告)号:US20220126541A1
公开(公告)日:2022-04-28
申请号:US17512431
申请日:2021-10-27
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Junhao Ge , Yuan Chang , Steve Yun Zhang , Michelle Plavnik , Augustine Twum Kumi , Daqing Wu
IPC: B29D11/00 , G02C7/04 , G02C7/10 , C08F230/08
Abstract: Described herein is a method for producing photochromic silicone hydrogel contact lenses in a relatively efficient and consistent manner from a polymerizable composition under a controlled thermal curing scheme. The main polymerizable components in the polymerizable composition are a high radical-reactive hydrophilic (meth)acrylamido monomer, a high radical-reactive siloxane-containing (meth)acrylamido monomer, and a polysiloxane vinylic crosslinker(s) free of low-reactive ethylenically unsaturated group as the main crosslinker. The thermal free radical initiator having a 10 hour half-life temperature (T10hλ) of from about 50° C. to about 90° C. The controlled thermal curing scheme includes maintaining a first curing temperature of from about (T10hλ−20)° C. to about T10hλ° C. for a first curing time and maintaining a second curing temperature of from about (T10hλ+10)° C. to about (T10hλ+35)° C. for a second curing time.
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公开(公告)号:US20210011197A1
公开(公告)日:2021-01-14
申请号:US17038266
申请日:2020-09-30
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Daqing Wu , Junhao Ge , Steve Yun Zhang , Richard Charles Breitkopf , Xinming Qian , Zach Munoz , Matthew D. Nelson , Augustine Twum Kumi , Weihong Lang , Ying Zheng , Feng Jing , Frank Chang
Abstract: The present invention generally relates to inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses having relatively high oxygen permeability, relatively high equilibrium water content and relatively low elastic modulus. The present invention is also related to a method for making such inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses.
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公开(公告)号:US11931454B2
公开(公告)日:2024-03-19
申请号:US17024268
申请日:2020-09-17
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Junhao Ge , Steve Yun Zhang , Daqing Wu , Jing Cheng
CPC classification number: A61K9/0051 , A61K9/06 , A61K45/06 , A61K47/32 , A61K47/36
Abstract: The invention is generally related to a soft hydrogel ocular insert that is composed of at least one hydrogel material in fully hydrated state and can be comfortable for wearing. The hydrogel material comprises polymer chains, which are derived from at least one arylborono-containing hydrophilic copolymer and at least one mucoadhesive polymer, and cyclic boronic ester crosslinks for crosslinking those mucoadhesive polymer chains and arylborono-containing hydrophilic copolymer chains to form a 3-dimensional polymer network. Those cyclic boronic ester crosslinks can be hydrolyzed slowly in the tear of the eyes of a patient, resulting in the disintegration (dissolution) of the 3-dimensional polymer network and thereby providing mucoadhesisve polymers and optionally drugs impregnated in the hydrogel ocular insert in a controlled manner.
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公开(公告)号:US11254075B2
公开(公告)日:2022-02-22
申请号:US16429853
申请日:2019-06-03
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Richard Charles Breitkopf , Daqing Wu , Junhao Ge , Steve Yun Zhang
Abstract: The invention provides a contact lens manufacturing method comprising a process for removing unprocessed molded silicone hydrogel contact lenses from mold halves in a relatively efficient and consistent manner. A method of the invention comprises the combination of using a hydrophilic (meth)acrylamido monomer as one of major polymerizable components in a lens formulation for cast-molding of contact lenses, adding a post-curing treatment step which involves heating molds with molded lenses therewithin in an oven at a post-curing temperature higher than the curing temperature and under nitrogen gas flow at a higher flow rate, and using ultrasonic vibration energy for delensing. This method of the invention can be easily implemented in a production environment for enhancing the production yield.
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