A method and printing system for printing a three-dimensional structure, in particular an optical component, by depositing droplets of printing ink side by side and one above the other in several consecutive depositing steps by means of a print head. In each depositing step a plurality of droplets is ejected simultaneously by a plurality of ejection nozzles of the print head. After at least one depositing step, surface properties of a pre-structure built up by the deposited droplets are measured by a measuring unit in a measuring step. Ejection characteristics of the ejection nozzles are determined in dependency of the measured surface properties in a determining step and at least one following depositing step is performed in dependency of the determined ejection characteristics.

A process, in particular a 3D printing process, for producing a spectacle lens is disclosed. The process includes providing a coated substrate, providing a three-dimensional model of the spectacle lens, digitally cutting the three-dimensional model into individual two-dimensional layers, providing at least one printing ink, typically a 3D printing ink, building up the spectacle lens from the sum of the individual two-dimensional layers with a printing operation on the substrate, and hardening of the spectacle lens. The hardening can take place completely or partially after application of individual volume elements or after application of a layer, and the partial hardening can be completed after conclusion of the printing process.

A polymerizable composition for an optical material according to the present invention includes one or two or more compounds selected from the group consisting of component (A): an ester compound having a specific structure and component (B): an ether compound having a specific structure, and a polymerizable compound.

The present invention provides an automatic casting device for a lens monomer and a process thereof. When the lens monomer within a mold cavity reaches a liquid level monitoring point P, the cavity is exactly 50% filled with the lens monomer. The remaining of the casting process will be precisely controlled based on the obtained data from the past process to ensure an exact 100% monomer filling into the cavity.

A manufacturing method of a plastic lens formed by using a metal mold having a fixed mold and a movable mold. The plastic lens comprises a flange part surrounding a lens face, and an image side face of the flange part comprises a black coating part and an outer peripheral part. The manufacturing method may include a molding process in which the plastic lens is molded by using the fixed mold for molding an object side lens face and the movable mold for molding an image side lens face and the flange part, a mold opening process in which the metal mold is opened by moving the movable mold, and a pushing-out process in which the outer peripheral part is pushed out by an ejector pin disposed in the movable mold when the mold opening process is performed or, after the mold opening process has been performed.

An injection molding apparatus includes a substantially circular first substrate, a substantially circular second substrate disposed to face a surface of the first substrate, a fixing member which fixes a peripheral end portion of the first substrate and a peripheral end portion of the second substrate, and an injection portion which is provided in the fixing member and from which a composition is injected into a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate, in which a space connecting with the injection portion and the gap is provided in at least a part of a periphery of the gap, and a width of the space in a thickness direction is larger than a width of the gap in the thickness direction.

A stereolithography method of manufacture of a polymer structure having a spatially gradient dielectric constant, including: providing a volume of a liquid, radiation-curable composition; irradiating a portion of the liquid, radiation-curable composition with activating radiation in a pattern to form a layer of the polymer structure; contacting the layer with the liquid, radiation-curable composition; irradiating the liquid, radiation-curable composition with activating radiation in a pattern to form a second layer on the first layer; and repeating the contacting and irradiating to form the polymer structure, wherein the polymer structure comprises a plurality of unit cells wherein each unit cell is integrally connected with an adjacent unit cell, each unit cell is defined by a plurality of trusses formed by the irradiation, wherein the trusses are integrally connected with each other at their respective ends, and the trusses of each unit cell are dimensioned to provide the spatially gradient dielectric constant.

Apparatus and methods are described including a progressive lens that is configured to provide a far-vision correction and a near-vision correction. The progressive lens includes a single-focus, far-vision corrective lens that is configured to provide only a portion of the far-vision correction, and a film coupled to the single-focus, far-vision corrective lens. The film defines a far-vision corrective portion that is configured to provide the remainder of the far-vision correction, a near-vision corrective portion that is configured to provide additive near-vision correction, and an intermediate portion in which the film transitions between the far-vision corrective portion and the near-vision corrective portion. Other applications are also described.

Described herein is method of co-molding an optical lens includes injection-molding a first layer, injection-molding a second layer against at least a portion of the molded first layer to form a co-molded blank, and forming the optical lens from the co-molded blank. Co-molding apparatuses for implementing this and other co-molding methods are also described.

A production line for producing components to a high standard of cleanliness and sealed and protected in that state includes a loading device, a cleaning device, a detecting device, a pasting device, a heat-sealing device, a packing device, and transfer devices of the production line. The production line automatically processes the components for obtaining components with the high cleanliness. By the processes of protective film pasting, heat-sealing, and packing, the components may be further protected from subsequent pollution. A method for producing components with a high cleanliness applied to the production line is also disclosed.