Patent classifications
B29D11/00009
METHOD OF CALCULATING A FINISHED LENS
A finished lens with a predetermined shape, including one front face, one back face and a perimeter corresponding to the shape, including a prescription part on the lens that together with the front face fulfills prescription data of a wearer and a peripheral part on the lens, the prescription part being delimited by a thickness curve and the peripheral part extending from the thickness curve towards an outer edge of the lens, the thickness curve corresponding to a value of thickness less than or equal to a predetermined thickness requirement.
Method of producing photochromic resin body and method of producing function-adding base body
A method of producing a photochromic resin body includes a first step, a second step and a third step. In the first step, a sublimable photochromic dye having sublimability is applied to a base body so as to obtain a function-adding base body. In the second step, the function-adding base body obtained in the first step is set to face a resin body, the function-adding base body is heated to sublimate the sublimable photochromic dye applied to the function-adding base body, and the sublimable photochromic dye is deposited on the resin body. In the third step, the resin body on which the sublimable photochromic dye is deposited in the second step is heated to fix the sublimable photochromic dye on the resin body.
OPHTHALMIC LENSES FOR TREATING MYOPIA
Eyeglasses are disclosed that include eyeglass frames and a pair of ophthalmic lenses mounted in the frames. The lenses include a dot pattern distributed across each lens, the dot pattern including an array of dots spaced apart by a distance of 1 mm or less, each dot having a maximum dimension of 0.3 mm or less, the dot pattern including a clear aperture free of dots having a maximum dimension of more than 1 mm, the clear aperture being aligned with a viewing axis of a wearer of the pair of eyeglasses.
METHOD OF LAMINATING A FUNCTIONAL FILM ONTO AN OPTICAL ARTICLE AND OPTICAL ARTICLE
This method of laminating a functional film onto an optical article includes: thermoforming the functional film so as to provide the functional film with a predetermined target curvature based on a curvature of a face of the optical article on which the functional film is to be applied; applying the functional film onto that face of the optical article; pressing the functional film against that face of the optical article so as to adhere the functional film to that face of the optical article. This method further includes heating the functional film at at least one predetermined temperature after the applying, so that the functional film conforms to the curvature of that face of the optical article.
SHAPING AN OPHTHALMIC LENS
Apparatus and methods are described including an additional lens (24) made from an amorphous viscoelastic material and having an optical design. A curvature of the additional lens (24) is changed such as to conform with a curvature of abase eyeglasses lens (22), without causing a loss of the optical design of the additional lens (24), by heating the additional lens (24) to a temperature at which a Tan Delta of the amorphous viscoelastic material is between 0.2 and 0.8, and shaping the additional lens (24). Subsequently, the additional lens (24) is adhered to the base eyeglasses lens (22). The optical design of the additional lens (24) is such that, upon being adhered to the base eyeglasses lens (22), the adhered base eyeglasses lens (22) and the additional lens (24) provide a combined lens (20) having a desired optical prescription. Other applications are also described.
SELF-ALIGNED INTEGRATED LENS ON PILLAR
Various embodiments provide methods for fabricating a couplable electro-optical device. An example method comprises fabricating a pillar on a substrate by forming a lens spacer portion about an electro-optical component fabricated on the substrate; and adhering unshaped lens material to an exposed surface of the pillar. The exposed surface of the pillar is disposed opposite the substrate. The example method further comprises maintaining the unshaped lens material at a reflow temperature for a reflow time to allow the lens material to reflow into a formed lens shape, and curing the lens material to form an integrated lens having the formed lens shape secured to the lens spacer portion and formed about the electro-optical component on the substrate.
PRIMER COATING COMPOSITION FOR POLARIZING OPHTHALMIC LENS
A primer coating composition for bonding a functional laminate to a lens during cast-polymerization, including an acrylic polymer; a urethane acrylate oligomer; a reactive component capable of reacting with a lens-casting monomer for casting the cast-polymerized lens, a UV initiator or a thermal initiator, and a solvent. A method for cast-polymerizing a lens, including applying the primer coating composition to at least one external surface of a functional laminate; cutting and forming the functional laminate, placing the shaped functional laminate to which the primer coating is applied and a monomer for casting a lens in a casting cell so that the monomer contacts the primed surface of the functional laminate, and cast-polymerizing the monomer in the casting cell. An ophthalmic lens, including a cast-polymerized lens including at least one polymer, a functional laminate, and a primer coating obtained y curing the primer coating composition and deposited on at least one external surface of the functional laminate.
FUNCTIONAL WAFERS BY 3D PRINTING
A method of manufacturing an optical lens (417, 901), comprising: obtaining (S301) a transparent thermoplastic (TP) carrier (410, 1210) with at least one smooth surface; printing (S305), via a 3-D printer on the side opposite to the at least one smooth surface of the transparent TP carrier (410, 1210), at least one transparent layer (420, 1220) using a thermoplastic filament (403), each transparent layer (420, 1220) having a predetermined light filtering property, thereby forming a functional layer (420, 1220); and performing (S307) an injection over-molding process (415) to fuse bond the functional layer (420, 1220) to a thermoplastic substrate thereby forming the optical lens, wherein the at least one smooth surface of the transparent TP carrier (410, 1210) forms a smooth surface of the manufactured optical lens (417, 901).
METHOD OF PREPARING A FUNCTIONAL LAMINATE
The present disclosure relates to a method of preparing a laminate or a laminated lens, comprising obtaining a first plastic substrate having a front surface and a back surface, treating the front surface of the first plastic substrate or the back surface of the first plastic substrate, and laminating a second plastic substrate on the treated front surface of the first plastic substrate or the treated back surface of the first plastic substrate. The treating may include applying a polyurethane resin to a surface of the first plastic substrate. The method may further comprise treating a surface of the second plastic substrate. The method may further comprise applying activator to the treated surfaces of the first plastic substrate and the second plastic substrate and laminating by apposing the treated surfaces of the first plastic substrate and the second plastic substrate.
OPTICAL MICROSTRUCTURE-CONTAINING LAMINATE FOR OPHTHALMIC LENS INCORPORATION
The present disclosure relates to a laminate, comprising a first film including a pattern of microstructures embossed on a first surface of thereof, each microstructure being arranged at a predetermined distance between adjacent microstructures, and a second film including structures arranged on a first surface thereof at positions corresponding to areas of the first surface of the first film defined by the predetermined distance, wherein when the second film is laminated to the first film, the structures arranged on the first surface of the second film are in contact with the areas of the first surface of the first film defined by the predetermined distance, a height of the structures is greater than a height of each microstructure, and a delta defined therebetween encapsulates a void fill material in at least a portion of at least one void defined by the delta.