Contact lens packages

Abstract

A package having a roughened surface that does not adhere to a medical device enclosed therein.

1 - 4 . (canceled)  
   
   
       5 . The package of  claim 11  wherein the inner surface has an average roughness of about 1.0 μm to about 20 μm.  
   
   
       6 . The package of  claim 11  wherein the inner surface has an average roughness of about 1.8 μm to about 4.5 μm.  
   
   
       7 . The package of  claim 11  wherein the inner surface has an average roughness of about 1.9 μm to about 2.1 μm.  
   
   
       8 - 10 . (canceled)  
   
   
       11 . A package for storing a contact lens in a solution comprising 
 (a) a molded base comprising 
 a cavity formed in said molded base wherein said cavity comprises an inner surface, and  
 a flange extending outwardly from the periphery of said cavity wherein said flange comprises a top surface;  
 wherein 
 the base is molded such that the inner surface of the cavity includes a design comprising a configuration of raised portions having a surface contact area defined as the measured surface area of all the raised portions within the cavity that a contact lens disposed in the cavity can contact of about 25 percent to about 75 percents of said inner surface;  
 
   (b) a flexible cover sheet superimposed over said top surface of said flange and detachably sealed to said flange at about the periphery of said cavity to form an enclosure between said inner surface and said flexible cover, 
 wherein the surface contact area of said inner surface is about 25 percent to about 75 percents of said inner surface.  
   
   
   
       12 . The package of  claim 11  wherein a medical device contained within said enclosure floats freely in a solution.  
   
   
       13 . The package of  claim 11  wherein the surface contact area of said inner surface is about 33 to about 65 percent.  
   
   
       14 - 23 . (canceled)