B29K2105/0002

Methods for the manufacture of photoabsorbing contact lenses and photoabsorbing contact lenses produced thereby

Provided is a method for manufacturing photoabsorbing contact lenses and photoabsorbing contact lenses produced thereby. The method comprises: (a) providing a mold assembly comprised of a base curve and a front curve, the base curve and the front curve defining and enclosing a cavity therebetween, the cavity containing a reactive mixture, wherein the reactive mixture comprises at least one polymerizable monomer, a photoinitiator which absorbs at an activating wavelength, and a photoabsorbing compound which displays absorption at the activating wavelength; and (b) curing the reactive mixture to form the photoabsorbing contact lens by exposing the reactive mixture to radiation that includes the activating wavelength, wherein the radiation is directed at both the base curve and the front curve of the mold assembly, and wherein the radiation's radiant energy at the base curve is greater than the radiation's radiant energy at the front curve.

Materials for preparing intraocular lens

The present invention relates to a material for preparing an intraocular lens. In particular, it relates to an ophthalmic medical material suitable for manufacture of micro-incision intraocular lens, having suitable water content and a suitable refractive index.

OPTICAL FILM

The present invention provides a method for producing an optical film excellent in anti-fouling properties and scratch resistance as well as anti-reflection properties. The method includes the steps of: (1) applying a lower layer resin and an upper layer resin; (2) forming a resin layer having the uneven structure on a surface thereof by pressing a mold against the lower layer resin and the upper layer resin from the upper layer resin side in the state where the applied lower layer resin and upper layer resin are stacked; and (3) curing the resin layer, the lower layer resin containing at least one kind of first monomer that contains no fluorine atoms, the upper layer resin containing a fluorine-containing monomer and at least one kind of second monomer that contains no fluorine atoms, at least one of the first monomer and the second monomer containing a compatible monomer that is compatible with the fluorine-containing monomer and being dissolved in the lower layer resin and the upper layer resin.

METHOD FOR MAKING PHOTOCHROMIC CONTACT LENSES

Described herein is a method for producing photochromic silicone hydrogel contact lenses in a relatively efficient and consistent manner from a polymerizable composition under a controlled thermal curing scheme. The main polymerizable components in the polymerizable composition are a high radical-reactive hydrophilic (meth)acrylamido monomer, a high radical-reactive siloxane-containing (meth)acrylamido monomer, and a polysiloxane vinylic crosslinker(s) free of low-reactive ethylenically unsaturated group as the main crosslinker. The thermal free radical initiator having a 10 hour half-life temperature (T.sub.10hλ) of from about 50° C. to about 90° C. The controlled thermal curing scheme includes maintaining a first curing temperature of from about (T.sub.10hλ−20)° C. to about T.sub.10hλ° C. for a first curing time and maintaining a second curing temperature of from about (T.sub.10hλ+10)° C. to about (T.sub.10hλ+35)° C. for a second curing time.

Brush roller and its manufacturing method and brush roller mold
20220125193 · 2022-04-28 ·

A brush roller and its manufacturing method and brush roller mold is provided, the brush roller is manufactured by foaming a gaseous pore filler, while solving the problem of using a solid pore filler foaming method to manufacture the brush roller. In addition, the brush roller of the present invention has a plurality of fluid channels communicating between any adjacent two, and the plurality of fluid channels respectively extend to the surface of the brush roller to form pores to improve the fluid permeability of the brush roller, and in the brush roller manufacturing method of the present invention, after the PVA emulsified solution is cured, the compressive stress under the condition of the predetermined compression ratio can be formed to meet the expected brush roller, and it can be used to brush the circuit substrate.

LAMINATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USE OF SAME

Prepared is a laminate including: a first layer formed of a first resin composition containing a first resin; and a second layer formed of a second resin composition containing a second resin, the first layer and the second layer being in contact with each other and integrated. The first resin includes an alicyclic polyamide resin having 20 mmol/kg or greater of amino groups, and the second resin includes an acid-modified (meth)acrylic resin. The second resin may have 100 mmol/kg or greater of carboxyl groups. The acid-modified (meth)acrylic resin may be an acid-modified polymethylmethacrylate resin. An average thickness of the first layer may be 0.15 times or more of an average thickness of the second layer. The average thickness of the first layer may be 200 μm or greater. When a weight is dropped onto the second layer side, the laminate may have a DuPont impact strength of 500 N/inch or greater. The laminate has excellent transparency, lightness, light resistance, and impact resistance.

EYEWEAR LENS CREATION USING ADDITIVE TECHNIQUES WITH DIFFUSE LIGHT

Systems and methods for lens creations are disclosed. The method includes initiating light transmission from a light source through a diffuser into a container holding resin and a substrate. The light transmission is performed according to an irradiation pattern wherein each point in the resin is illuminated by at least 10% of the diffuser. This causes a lens to be formed. To achieve this illumination, at least 15% of the diffuser receives light from the light source. Further, a diameter of the diffuser is greater than or equal to a diameter of the substrate. The system performing the methods includes a polymerization apparatus and may include a resin conditioning and reservoir apparatus, a metrology unit, a resin drainage apparatus and an optional postcuring apparatus.

DELAYED CURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
20230302732 · 2023-09-28 ·

A method for manufacturing a part includes fabricating, in an additive fabrication stage, an object including build material for the part in a semi-solid state, the build material including a polymerization initiation catalyst separated from a monomer by a semi-solid component, a mold forming a cavity comprising a completed shape of the part and containing the build material, and curing the part, in a curing stage that occurs after the additive fabrication stage, the curing including heating the object to a first temperature sufficient to liquify the semi-solid component of the build material while maintaining a shape of the mold, liquification of the semi-solid component causing initiation of a polymerization mechanism by mixing the polymerization initiation catalyst with the monomer.

MANUFACTURE OF THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS FROM THERMOSETS
20230302733 · 2023-09-28 ·

Provided herein is a method for creating a three dimensional (3D) object from reactive components that form a thermoset product. In one embodiment, a method includes providing first and second reactive components that are effective to form the thermoset product. In one embodiment, the thermoset product includes a urethane and/or urea-containing polymer. In one embodiment, the first reactive component includes an isocyanate and the second reactive component includes a polyol having at least one terminal hydroxyl group, a polyamine having at least one amine that includes an isocyanate reactive hydrogen, or a combination of the polyol and the polyamine. In one embodiment, the first reactive component includes a prepolymer, and optionally the ratio of viscosity of the first and second reactive components is from 1:3 to 3:1. Also provided is a 3D object that includes a completely reacted thermoset product, and a thermoset system that includes a first and a second reactive component.

Cyclopolymerizable compounds for 3D printing
11767440 · 2023-09-26 · ·

In one aspect, inks for use with a three-dimensional (3D) printing system are described herein. In some embodiments, an ink described herein comprises 10-70 wt. % cyclopolymerizable monomer, based on the total weight of the ink. The cyclopolymerizable monomer comprises a first ethenyl or ethynyl moiety and a second ethenyl or ethynyl moiety. Additionally, the α-carbon of the first ethenyl or ethynyl moiety and the α-carbon of the second ethenyl or ethynyl moiety have a 1,5-, 1,6-, 1,7-, or 1,8-relationship.