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公开(公告)号:US11945895B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-02
申请号:US17199158
申请日:2021-03-11
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Yuan Chang , Junhao Ge , Steve Yun Zhang , Weihong Lang
IPC: C08F283/12 , C08G77/06 , C08G77/388 , C08G77/442 , C08L83/08 , C08L83/12 , C09K9/02 , G02B1/04
CPC classification number: C08F283/124 , C08G77/06 , C08G77/388 , C08G77/442 , C08L83/08 , C08L83/12 , C09K9/02 , G02B1/043 , C08G2210/00 , C08L2312/06 , C09K2211/1088 , G02B2207/109
Abstract: The invention provides a class of photochromic polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers. Each of the photochromic polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers of the invention comprise (1) a polydiorganosiloxane polymer chain comprising dimethylsiloxane units and photochromic siloxane unit having one methyl substituent and one organic substituent having a photochromic moiety that capable of undergoing a reversible color change upon exposure to UV-irradiation or high-energy-violet light; (2) two terminal ethylenically-unsaturated groups. The invention also provides a soft photochromic contact lens, especially a photochromic silicone hydrogel contact lens, which comprises a crosslinked polymeric material comprising repeating units of at least one of such a class of photochromic polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers. The invention further provides a method of producing a photochromic contact lens from a polymerizable composition comprising at least one of such a class of photochromic polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers.
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公开(公告)号:US11945181B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-02
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 , C08F230/08 , G02C7/04 , G02C7/10 , B29K33/00 , B29K83/00 , B29K105/00
CPC classification number: B29D11/00653 , B29D11/00076 , B29D11/00134 , C08F230/08 , G02C7/04 , G02C7/102 , B29K2033/26 , B29K2083/00 , B29K2105/0002 , B29K2105/0061 , B29K2823/10 , B29K2995/0046 , B29K2995/0065
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:US11886045B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-30
申请号:US17518423
申请日:2021-11-03
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Yuan Chang , Junhao Ge , Steve Yun Zhang , Michelle Plavnik , Augustine Twum Kumi
CPC classification number: G02C7/049 , B29D11/00048 , C08J7/18 , G02B1/043 , G02C7/102 , C08J2300/00 , C08J2451/00
Abstract: Described herein is a method for producing photochromic contact lenses, in particular, photochromic silicone hydrogel contact lenses. The method comprises a step of cast molding of a lens-forming composition including an iniferter to form an unprocessed contact lens having iniferter moieties covalently incorporated into its polymer matrix and a step of iniferter-induced graft-polymerization of a photochromic vinylic monomer to the polymer matrix only in its central region which is circular and concentric with the central axis of the unprocessed contact lens. The obtained photochromic contact lens has a central pupillary region that only can undergo a reversible color change upon exposure to UV/HEVL-radiation.
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公开(公告)号:US11513257B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-29
申请号:US17122109
申请日:2020-12-15
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Ying Zheng , Jang-Shing Chiou , Jinbo Dou , Yuan Chang , Junhao Ge , Steve Yun Zhang , Li Yao , Karen Belinda Sentell , Ye Hong
Abstract: The invention relates to an ophthalmic product which comprises a sealed and autoclave-sterilized lens package including (1) a post-autoclave packaging solution containing a polymeric surfactant having an HLB value of from about 11 to about 16 and a Mn of from about 800 to about 20,000 Daltons and (2) a readily-usable silicone hydrogel (SiHy) contact lens immersed in the packaging solution. The readily-usable SiHy contact lens comprises the polymeric surfactant thereon providing an excellent wettability to the readily-usable SiHy contact lens directly out of the lens package, and also the leachable polymeric surfactant which is physically distributed in the polymer matrix of the SiHy contact lens and can be released to the eye of a patient for at least 7 days of daily wear and to replenish the lens surface-bound polymeric surfactant to provide sustainable wettabilities to the contact lens and the eye.
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公开(公告)号:US20220137263A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-05
申请号:US17572794
申请日:2022-01-11
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Yongxing Qiu , John Dallas Pruitt , Newton T. Samuel , Chung-Yuan Chiang , Robert Carey Tucker , Yuan Chang , Ethan Leveillee
IPC: G02B1/04 , C08L83/04 , C08L33/02 , C08L79/04 , C09D133/02 , B05D5/00 , B29D11/00 , G02C7/04 , G02B1/18 , B65B55/22
Abstract: The invention is related to contact lenses that not only comprise the much desired water gradient structural configurations, but also have a minimized uptakes of polycationic antimicrobials and a long-lasting surface hydrophilicity and wettability even after going through a 30-days lens care regime. Because of the water gradient structural configuration and a relatively-thick, extremely-soft and water-rich hydrogel surface layer, a contact lens of the invention can provide superior wearing comfort. Further, a contact lens of the invention is compatible with multipurpose lens care solutions present in the market and can endure the harsh lens care handling conditions (e.g., digital rubbings, accidental inversion of contact lenses, etc.) encountered in a daily lens care regime. As such, they are suitable to be used as weekly- or monthly-disposable water gradient contact lenses.
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公开(公告)号:US20210284778A1
公开(公告)日:2021-09-16
申请号:US17197460
申请日:2021-03-10
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Yuan Chang , Junhao Ge , Steve Yun Zhang , Weihong Lang
IPC: C08F283/12 , G02B1/04 , C08G77/06 , C08G77/442 , C08L83/12 , C09K9/02
Abstract: The invention provides a class of photochromic polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers. Each of the photochromic polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers of the invention comprise (1) a polydiorganosiloxane polymer chain comprising dimethylsiloxane units and photochromic siloxane unit having one methyl substituent and one organic substituent having a photochromic moiety that capable of undergoing a reversible color change upon exposure to UV-irradiation or high-energy-violet light; (2) two terminal ethylenically-unsaturated groups. The invention also provides a soft photochromic contact lens, especially a photochromic silicone hydrogel contact lens, which comprises a crosslinked polymeric material comprising repeating units of at least one of such a class of photochromic polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers. The invention further provides a method of producing a photochromic contact lens from a polymerizable composition comprising at least one of such a class of photochromic polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers.
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公开(公告)号:US12194699B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-14
申请号:US17710199
申请日:2022-03-31
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Zahra Bassampour , Chandana Kolluru , Steve Yun Zhang , Junhao Ge , Yang Zheng , Cornelius Daniel Niculas , David Andrew Icenogle , Jing Cheng , Yuan Chang , Augustine Twum Kumi , Michelle Plavnik
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing embedded hydrogel contact lenses involving a set of 3-mold halves consisting essentially of: one female lens mold half having a molding surface defining the anterior surface of a contact lens; one male lens mold half having a molding surface defining the posterior surface of the contact lens; and an insert mold half having a molding surface defining one of the front and back surfaces of an insert. One of the lens mold halves is used twice: first with the insert mold half for molding an insert during first curing process and then with the other lens mold half for molding an embedded hydrogel contact lens with the molded insert embedded partially or fully therein during second curing process. The invention also relates to embedded hydrogel contact lenses produced from a method of the invention.
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公开(公告)号:US11975499B2
公开(公告)日:2024-05-07
申请号:US17518432
申请日:2021-11-03
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Yuan Chang , Junhao Ge , Steve Yun Zhang
CPC classification number: B29D11/00048 , C08F2/48 , G02B1/043
Abstract: Described herein is a method for producing photochromic contact lenses, in particular, photochromic silicone hydrogel contact lenses. The method comprises a step of cast molding of a lens-forming composition including a vinylic monomer having a primary amino or thiolactone group to form an unprocessed contact lens having the polymer matrix of which have pendant primary amino or thiolactone groups, a step of one-pot multistep reactions based on thiolactone chemistry (aminolysis and thiol-induced graft polymerization of a photochromic vinylic monomer to the polymer matrix) which are carried out only in its central region which is circular and concentric with the central axis of the unprocessed contact lens. The obtained photochromic contact lens has a central pupillary region that only can undergo a reversible color change upon exposure to UV/HEVL-radiation.
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公开(公告)号:US11833771B2
公开(公告)日:2023-12-05
申请号:US17710248
申请日:2022-03-31
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Yuan Chang , Junhao Ge , Steve Yun Zhang , Michelle Plavnik , Yang Zheng , Jing Cheng , Augustine Twum Kumi
CPC classification number: B29D11/00134 , C08L83/14 , G02C7/04 , G02C7/102 , B29K2083/00 , C08L2203/02 , C08L2205/03
Abstract: Described herein is a method for producing a contact lens comprising a central photochromic zone that has a diameter of about 13 mm or less and is concentric with the central axis of the contact lens. The method comprises: applying, in the center of the molding surface of a male mold half, a drop (having a volume of about 5 μL or less) of a first polymerizable fluid composition containing at least one photochromic compound and a relatively-high molecular weight polysiloxane vinylic crosslinker for increasing the viscosity and adhesion on the molding surface of the male mold half; dosing a second polymerizable fluid composition in a female mold hald; closing the female mold hald with the male mold half with the drop thereon to form a molding assembly; and curing the second polymerizable fluid composition and the drop of the first polymerizable fluid composition in the molding assembly.
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公开(公告)号:US20220339895A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-27
申请号:US17710248
申请日:2022-03-31
Applicant: Alcon Inc.
Inventor: Yuan Chang , Junhao Ge , Steve Yun Zhang , Michelle Plavnik , Yang Zheng , Jing Cheng , Augustine Twum Kumi
Abstract: Described herein is a method for producing a contact lens comprising a central photochromic zone that has a diameter of about 13 mm or less and is concentric with the central axis of the contact lens. The method comprises: applying, in the center of the molding surface of a male mold half, a drop (having a volume of about 5 μL or less) of a first polymerizable fluid composition containing at least one photochromic compound and a relatively-high molecular weight polysiloxane vinylic crosslinker for increasing the viscosity and adhesion on the molding surface of the male mold half; dosing a second polymerizable fluid composition in a female mold hald; closing the female mold hald with the male mold half with the drop thereon to form a molding assembly; and curing the second polymerizable fluid composition and the drop of the first polymerizable fluid composition in the molding assembly.
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