Contact lens cleaning device
CA 2002205 A1 · Owner: Menicon Co. Ltd. · Inventors: Yamamoto, Yasuyoshi; Tanaka, Toyoyasu; Kaga, Yuzou
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A contact lens cleaning device comprising a ball, a vessel formed with a recessed chamber for housing the lens and the ball, and a vibrator for vibrating the vessel. The chamber has a bottom concave surface so curved that the lens is mounted in face-to-face contact thereon. After the lens is sandwiched between the bottom concave surface of the chamber, the ball is cleaned when the vessel is vibrated by the vibrator.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed November 3, 1989. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 3, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 3, 2011.
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