1. A direct drive for a printing press with a lateral register adjustment and a printing press cylinder with a shaft, comprising:
an outer jacket;
a rotor, said rotor being connectable with the shaft of said printing press cylinder;
a stator;
a stationary support bearing;
connecting means for mechanically connecting the drive with said stationary support bearing, wherein said connecting means is configured as a torsionally stiff spacer installed on said outer jacket of the drive and configured to be elastic in a direction of a motor axis to compensate axial motions of said shaft of said printing press cylinder.
2. A direct drive as defined in claim 1, further comprising an intermediate bearing installed on said stator, wherein said connecting means has a cross-section which is configured to match an outer cross-section of the drive, and it bears against said outer jacket of said stator in a manner selected from the group consisting of directly and indirectly via said intermediate bearing installed on said stator.
3. A direct drive as defined in claim 1, wherein said connecting means is configured as a spring element located on a circumference of the drive.
4. A direct drive as defined in claim 3, wherein said spring element of said connecting means is configured as a disk spring.
5. A direct drive as defined in claim 1, wherein the drive has an outer cross-section having a substantially rectangular shape.
6. A direct drive as defined in claim 1, further comprising a feedback device connected with said rotor and supported on said stator.
7. A printing press with a lateral register adjustment, the printing press comprising:
a printing press cylinder with a shaft;
a direct drive including an outer jacket, a rotor being connectable with the shaft of said printing press cylinder, a stator, a stationary support bearing, connecting means for mechanically connecting the drive with said stationary support bearing, wherein said connecting means is configured as a torsionally stiff spacer installed on said outer jacket of the drive and configured to be elastic in a direction of a motor axis to compensate axial motions of said shaft of said printing press cylinder.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
What is claimed is:
1. An instrument for implanting an elastically deformable intraocular lens in an eye, said instrument comprising:
a. a nozzle having a slender ocular insertion end region;
b. at least one shield element having a protective shield region disposed in a deformed condition in said nozzle; and
c. operating means for enabling the sequential (i) pushing of said at least one shield element deformed protective shield region axially out of is said nozzle insertion end region for expanding into its undeformed shape, and (ii) pushing of an elastically deformed intraocular lens axially out of said nozzle insertion end region for expanding into its undeformed shape adjacent said protective shield region.
2. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one shield element includes first and second shield elements having protective shield regions disposed in opposite side regions of said nozzle.
3. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 2, wherein said operating means enables the sequential (i) pushing of said protective shield regions of said first and second shield elements axially out of said nozzle insertion end region for expanding into their undeformed shape, and (ii) pushing of an elastically deformed intraocular lens axially out of said nozzle insertion end region for expanding into its undeformed shape between said protective shield regions.
4. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 1, wherein said operating means include at least one actuating pin, a distal end of said at least one actuating pin being connected to said at least one shield element.
5. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 4, wherein said operating means include a piston and an intraocular lens pushing member attached to a distal end of the piston.
6. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 5, wherein said operating means include a pushing member and means for selectively coupling said pushing member to said at least one actuating pin or to said piston.
7. An instrument for implanting an elastically foldable intraocular lens in an eye, said instrument comprising:
a. a nozzle having a slender ocular insertion end region;
b. first and second shield elements, said first element having a first, elastically deformable protective shield region and second shield element having a second elastically deformable protective shield region, said first and second protective shield regions being disposed in opposite side regions of said nozzle in a deformed state; and
c. operating means for enabling the sequential (i) pushing of said protective shield regions axially out of said nozzle insertion end region for expanding into their undeformed state, (ii) pushing an elastically deformed intraocular lens axially out of said nozzle insertion end region for expanding into its undeformed state between said protective shield regions, and (iii) pulling said protective shield regions back into said nozzle insertion end region after an elastically deformed intraocular lens has expanded between said protective shield regions.
8. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 7, including a tubular barrel and means for detachably attaching said nozzle to a distal end of said barrel.
9. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 8, including an intraocular lens holding chamber located in said barrel upstream of said nozzle.
10. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 9, wherein said operating means include first and second actuating pins longitudinally disposed in said barrel, distal ends of said first and second pins being connected to respective ones of said first and second shield elements, and further includes a piston axially disposed in said barrel and an intraocular lens pushing member attached to a distal end of the piston.
11. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 10, wherein said operating means include a pushing member and means for selectively coupling said pushing member to said first and second actuating pins or to said piston.
12. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 7, wherein said protective shield regions of said first and second shield elements are initially curled up in said nozzle.
13. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 12, wherein said protective shield regions are constructed of a material selected from a group consisting of silicone and acrylic materials.
14. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 7, wherein said protective shield regions are generally paddle-shaped in an undeformed condition.
15. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 14, wherein at least one of said protective shield regions has a width of about 5 mm in said undeformed condition.
16. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 14, wherein said protective shield regions have a thickness of about 0.15 mm in said undeformed condition.
17. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 7, wherein said nozzle ocular insertion end region is sized for insertion through an ocular incision no greater than about 3.7 mm.
18. An instrument for implanting an elastically foldable intraocular lens in an eye, said instrument comprising:
a. a barrel having proximal and distal ends;
b. a nozzle having a slender ocular insertion end region sized for insertion through an ocular incision no greater than about 3.7 mm., said nozzle being attached to the distal end of the nozzle;
c. an intraocular lens holding chamber in said barrel upstream of said nozzle;
d. first and second shield elements disposed inside along opposite side regions of said nozzle, each of said first and second shield elements having an elastically deformable protective shield region disposed in said nozzle in an elastically deformed state; and
e. operating means for enabling the sequential pushing of said first and second shield element is shield regions axially out of said nozzle insertion end region for expanding into their undeformed shape, the pushing of an elastically deformed intraocular lens axially out of said nozzle insertion end region for expanding into its undeformed state between said first and second shield element protective shield regions, and the pulling of said protective shield regions back into said nozzle insertion end region, said operating means including first and second actuating pins longitudinally disposed in said barrel, distal ends of said first and second pins being connected to respective ones of said first and second shield elements and further including a piston axially disposed in said barrel and an intraocular lens pushing member attached to a distal end of the piston.
19. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 18, wherein said operating means further include a pushing member and means for selectively coupling said pushing member to said first and second actuating pins or to said piston.
20. The intraocular lens implanting instrument as claimed in claim 17, wherein said protective shield regions of said first and second shield elements are generally paddle-shaped having a thickness of about 0.15 mm in said undeformed state and at least one of said first and second element protective shield regions having a width of about 5 mm in an undeformed state.