US 7,476,230 B2
	Insertion device for an intraocular lens
Kenichiro Ohno, Kosigaya (Japan); Kenichi Shinzaki, Chiba (Japan); and Takashi Masuda, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to STAAR Japan Inc., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/951,339.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-343360 (JP), filed on Oct. 01, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0075646 A1, Apr. 07, 2005
Int. Cl. A61F 9/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 606—107  [623/6.12]

6 Claims

1. An intraocular-lens insertion device comprising an insertion tube and a lens pusher for ejecting a deformable intraocular lens from said insertion tube, said insertion tube having an inner wall shaped to cause the entire deformable intraocular lens to move rotationally about an insertion tube axis by a predetermined angle in the course of axial advancing movement of the lens.