Low Profile Optical Systems for Surgical Procedures

    公开(公告)号:US20240094618A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-21

    申请号:US18464074

    申请日:2023-09-08

    Applicant: Alcon Inc.

    CPC classification number: G03B35/10 A61B90/361 G02B15/14

    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to optical systems for surgical procedures, and more particularly, to optical relay systems for visualization systems used during ophthalmic microsurgical procedures. The optical systems described herein provide improved ergonomics for surgeons, as such systems facilitate a low-height microscope camera that enables a surgeon to see over the camera to a display screen or other monitor placed in an ergonomically advantageous position for ophthalmic procedures. Such optical systems also provide improved performance, as the total magnification of the optical head may be split between multiple lens barrels, thereby creating high resolution images that enables surgeons to see ophthalmic anatomies more clearly. Even further, such optical systems proffer improved manufacturability, with reduced weight and manufacturing cost, as the lens barrels may have fixed focal lengths for utilization with digital magnification mechanisms.

    Contact lens fitting set assembly and automatic identification techniques

    公开(公告)号:US11930902B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-19

    申请号:US17174426

    申请日:2021-02-12

    Applicant: ALCON INC.

    CPC classification number: A45C11/005 B65B5/068 G06Q10/087 A45C2011/006

    Abstract: A system and techniques for identifying an absence of any contact fitting lens in an user-friendly manner for automated replenishment. The system includes an assembly stocked with fitting lenses of know types that are depletable from known compartment locations of the assembly. Further, depletion of a compartment through the natural course of fitting lens distribution to customers results in the automatic display of a visual indicator at the corresponding compartment location. Thus, an imaging application of the front of the assembly may be utilized to immediately ascertain lens types of the assembly which are depleted. As a result, the image may be used to facilitate automatic replenishment of such depleted fitting lenses.

    PERISTALTIC PUMP
    55.
    发明公开
    PERISTALTIC PUMP 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240068465A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-29

    申请号:US18500956

    申请日:2023-11-02

    Applicant: Alcon Inc.

    CPC classification number: F04B43/1261 F04B43/1276 F04B43/14 F04B43/021

    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a surgical cassette configured to engage a first plurality of rollers of a first roller head. The cassette comprises a face coupled to a first substrate, the face being at a first angle with respect to the first roller head's axis of rotation and a wall of first substrate being at a second angle with respect to the axis of rotation, wherein the first angle is different from the second angle. The cassette also comprises a first sheet positioned on the wall's surface, wherein the first sheet and the wall form first one or more pump segments configured to engage the first plurality of rollers in a position where force applied by each one of the first plurality of rollers on the first one or more pump segments has a direction that is not parallel to the first roller head's axis of rotation.

    Ratchet drive delivery for surgical implants

    公开(公告)号:US11911262B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-27

    申请号:US17648896

    申请日:2022-01-25

    Applicant: Alcon Inc.

    CPC classification number: A61F2/1662 A61F2/167 A61F2002/1681

    Abstract: An apparatus for delivering an implant to an eye using a ratchet drive. Some embodiments of an apparatus for delivering an implant to an eye may comprise a gear rack configured to be coupled to the implant, a forward gearwheel, an input gearwheel meshed with the forward gearwheel, an idler gearwheel meshed with the input gearwheel, and a reverse gearwheel meshed with the idler gearwheel. An actuation lever may be configured to rotate the input gearwheel. Some embodiments may additionally comprise a pivot arm that may be operable to selectively engage the forward gearwheel and the reverse gearwheel to the gear rack.

    NON-CONTACT WIDE ANGLE RETINA VIEWING SYSTEM
    59.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240032785A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-01

    申请号:US18487193

    申请日:2023-10-16

    Applicant: ALCON INC.

    CPC classification number: A61B3/0066 A61B3/0025 A61B3/13

    Abstract: A retina viewing system and method of using the same includes an ophthalmic microscope, a disposable lens attachment, and an electronic control unit (ECU). The microscope has an optical head and a set of internal focusing lenses, the latter providing the microscope with a variable working distance or focal length. The disposable lens attachment includes a resilient body with a proximal end connected to the optical head and a distal end connected to a high-power/high-diopter distal lens. The ECU executes instructions for viewing a retina or other intraocular anatomy of a patient eye. Execution of the instructions causes the ECU to automatically adjust the variable working distance or focal length of the microscope when viewing an image of the retina through the distal lens.

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