A method of manufacturing a lens includes: injecting a thermosetting first resin in a first mold, and curing the thermosetting first resin, to form a cover blank having cover parts; removing a part or all parts of the first mold; arranging the cover blank in a second mold; injecting a thermosetting second resin having a greater light absorptance or a greater light reflectance than the thermosetting first resin into the second mold and curing the thermosetting second resin, to form a lens blank having a light-shielding part between adjacent ones of the cover parts; taking out the lens blank from the second mold; cutting the lens blank at the light-shielding part located between the adjacent ones of the cover parts to obtain individual lenses having lateral side walls and flange parts extending outward from lower-end portions of the lateral side walls, which are both covered by the light-shielding part.

The invention provides a method wherein 3D printed layers are stacked, but wherein at one or more positions one layer is shifted sideways relative to the other. It looks like a (small) excursion. Hence, the one layer deviates sideways from the layer below and returns back on the layer below. This may be over a relatively small length. The excursion is chosen such, that there is an opening between the lower layer and the layer that deviates sideways. In this way, a 3D printed item comprising a stack of layers may have (physical) openings, which allow transmission of light. In general, the layer height of the layers is not adapted. The deviations or excursions may be provided in a regular way. This provides a 3D printed with a regular arrangement of openings Note that not each layer of the 3D printed item necessarily includes such deviations or excursions.

A method includes providing a coating over a surface of a substrate, a plurality of seed structures being disposed on the surface of the substrate, in which respective heights of the seed structures define local thicknesses of the coating. An optical device includes a substrate, a plurality of seed structures on a surface of the substrate, and a coating on the seed structures and on the surface of the substrate, in which respective heights of the seed structures define local thicknesses of the coating.

A method for producing a polarizing plate including a polarizer and a substrate film is provided. The method comprises: stretching a primary film to obtain a polarizer material film; providing an unstretched substrate film on the polarizer material film to obtain a layered body; and stretching the layered body to obtain the polarizing plate. The polarizer includes a dichroic material and has a thickness T of 20 μm or less. A phase difference Re in an in-plane direction of the substrate film in the polarizing plate is 20 nm or less.

Provided is an optical element that suppresses ghosts where an absorbing polarizer having a curved surface portion is applied to an image display device formed of a reciprocation optical system. Further provided are a virtual reality display device, an electronic viewfinder, and a method of producing a polarizer. The optical element includes absorbing polarizers A and B, polarizer A having a curved surface portion, where a position X being of a surface of the polarizer A on a side of and closest to the side of polarizer B, a position Y being of a surface of the polarizer B on a side of polarizer A, closest to the position X, and a straight line L passing through the positions X and Y is drawn, a position Z is on the straight line L and beyond the position X when it the position X is observed from position Y.

The invention provide a method for producing coated silicone hydrogel contact lenses in a cost-effective and environmentally friendly manner. The method is free of lens extraction step and comprises: curing thermally or actinically in a lens mold a polymerizable composition that comprises at least one hydrophilized polysiloxane vinylic crosslinker, hydroxyethyl methacrylate, C.sub.1-C.sub.2 alkoxyethyl (meth)acrylate, at least one free-radical initiator, and at least one solvent selected from the group consisting of water, propylene glycol, and/or a low-molecular weight polyethyleneglycol; and heating the cast-molded silicone hydrogel contact lens in an aqueous coating solution to form a coated silicone hydrogel contact lens comprising a bulk silicone hydrogel material and a layer of a crosslinked hydrophilic polymeric material that is covalently attached onto the bulk silicone hydrogel material. Resultant contact lenses are optically clear and wettable and have a relatively high oxygen permeability.

An inkjet printing apparatus includes: a stage, which reciprocates in forward and reverse directions opposite to each other and has a target substrate disposed thereon; an inspection device including a film disposed outside the stage and a measurement unit which measures an inspection pattern provided on the film; and a head assembly, which moves along one direction crossing the forward direction and has a plurality of heads which supplies a liquid composition to the target substrate. The head assembly moves in the one direction to overlap the film and sprays the composition onto the film to form an inspection pattern.

A method for manufacturing a free-form optical component in an injection unit and a painting tool including at least one cavity. Initially, the manufacturing of the free-form optical component as a cover plate takes place by injection molding or injection embossing of a transparent plastic material in the injection unit. The introduction then takes place of a laser-transparent, opaque paint material into a one-sided gap between the cover plate and a boundary of the first cavity of the painting tool. The treated cover plate is turned into a second cavity of the painting tool and the introduction of a self-healing paint layer into the second cavity takes place in such a way that a gap surrounding the treated cover plate is completely filled by the self-healing plastic material and surrounds the free-form optical component.

Intraocular implants and methods of making intraocular implants are provided. The intraocular implant can include a lens body having a lens material and a mask having a mask material. The lens body can be secured to the mask. The mask material can include a modulus of elasticity that is greater than or equal to a modulus of elasticity of the lens material.

An system includes an optical element including a glazing-function substrate and an electrochromic stack formed on this substrate, this electrochromic stack including a first transparent conductive layer, a working electrode arranged above the first transparent conductive layer, a counter-electrode arranged above said working electrode, a second transparent conductive layer arranged above the counter-electrode, lithium ions introduced into the electrochromic stack, and optionally a separate layer of an ionic conductor, the latter layer being intermediate between the electrode and the counter-electrode, a protective layer arranged on the electrochromic stack, the protective layer including an inorganic lubricating compound.