Stacked Integrated Ophthalmic Devices With Embedded Power Sources
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current ophthalmic devices, such as contact lenses, face challenges in integrating active components due to size and power requirements, with existing technologies not adequately addressing the need for powered electrical devices that can be safely and effectively worn on the human eye.
Innovation Solution
The development of a stacked integrated component device with multiple functional layers, including a power source, which allows for the creation of an ophthalmic lens with embedded energized substrates and semiconductor devices, enabling the integration of active components like variable optic elements and semiconductor devices within a biocompatible framework.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If discrete powered electrical devices are integrated into ophthalmic devices, then enhanced functionality is achieved, but size and power requirements become incompatible with safe wear on the human eye
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into multiple functional layers including separate layers for power source, semiconductor devices, and optical components. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently and stacked in a compact configuration that reduces overall device volume while maintaining all necessary functionalities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from planar integration to three-dimensional stacked layer architecture. By arranging components in multiple layers stacked perpendicular to the optical axis, the device achieves enhanced functionality without increasing the lateral dimensions, making it compatible with safe wear on the human eye.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple functional layers with power sources are stacked, then enhanced functionality and integration are achieved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple functional components are merged into a single stacked layer structure where power sources, semiconductor devices, and optical elements are integrated in close proximity. This merging reduces the number of separate components and interfaces, thereby managing complexity while achieving enhanced functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The stacked layer structure serves multiple functions simultaneously: optical correction, power generation, power storage, and active component operation. This multi-functionality approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate devices, managing overall system complexity while enhancing adaptability.
Data Source
AI summary
This invention discloses a device comprising multiple functional layers with multiple energization elements formed on substrates, wherein at least one functional layer comprises an electrical energy source. In some embodiments, the present invention includes a component for incorporation into ophthalmic lenses that has been formed by the stacking of multiple functionalized layers.