公开(公告)号：US11534994B2

公开(公告)日：2022-12-27

申请号：US17146181

申请日：2021-01-11

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 ,  G02B1/18 ,  G02B1/04 ,  G02C7/04 ,  G02B1/10 ,  C08J7/04 ,  C08L83/04 ,  C08G77/388 ,  C08J5/00 ,  C09D5/16 ,  C09D133/02 ,  C09D133/14 ,  C09D133/26 ,  C09D171/02 ,  C09D177/06

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 water-soluble, 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.

公开(公告)号：US11365288B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-21

申请号：US17038293

申请日：2020-09-30

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

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.