An encapsulated waveguide system for a near eye optical display includes a first outer layer, a second outer layer, at least one waveguide substrate comprising an input area and an output area, a first spacer and a sealing element. The at least one waveguide substrate is disposed between the first and second outer layers and spaced therefrom by the first spacer. The sealing element joins edges of the first and second outer layers so as to encapsulate the at least one waveguide substrate within a cavity formed by the first and second outer layers. The formed cavity includes a first cavity between the at least one waveguide substrate and the first outer layer and a second cavity between the at least one waveguide substrate and the second outer layer.

A resin part includes a plate-shaped molded main body that is constituted of an injection-molded product. Of plate surfaces of the molded main body, a surface on an opposite side to a surface requiring surface accuracy constitutes a pressure-application surface to which pressure is applied by a movable insert. A parting line is formed on the pressure-application surface by the movable insert to satisfy the following relationship: (t/4)≤x≤(3t/2), where x is a distance from an end edge part of the molded main body to the parting line and t is a thickness of the molded main body.

In the present invention, sealing tape is wrapped around the outer circumferential surface of an introduced mold, and a monomer solution is injected into a cavity formed therein, wherein the injection amount of the monomer solution can be precisely controlled by using a vision recognition system. According to a preferable embodiment, a monomer solution of a monomer solution tank is suctioned, in advance, into a syringe capable of adjusting a capacity corresponding to a mold; most of the monomer solution, which has been injected into the syringe, is firstly injected into the mold at a high injection flow rate or injection speed; while the residual amount of the monomer solution is secondly injected at a reduced injection flow rate or injection speed, it is finally confirmed, by using a vision recognition system, whether the monomer solution is filled in the mold; and then injection is finished.

The present disclosure includes optical articles comprising a film layer that has first and second film surfaces and is embossed such that the first film surface defines a plurality of concave optical elements and the second film surface defines a plurality of convex optical elements. The present optical articles can include one or more optical layers coupled to the film layer. Each of the optical layer(s) can encapsulate the concave optical elements or the convex optical elements.

A molding device for casting an optical article with a thermoset resin the optical article defining two opposed main surfaces, one of which being formed by an optical functional wafer, the molding device comprising:—a. a molding element (2) forming a rear or a front part of a casting mold—b. a gasket (3) intended to surround the molding element—c. an initially curved wafer (4) defining a predetermined curvature depending on one of the two main surfaces of the optical article to be molded—d. a closing element (6) defining in a closing position in which the peripheral part of the wafer on the gasket is pinched, a pouring space between the molding element, the gasket and the wafer—e. spacing means (9) interposed between the wafer and the molding element to define an internal volume between the wafer and the closing element, the spacing means, wafer and closing element being configured to form a set hermetic to the resin to be poured into the molding device the closing member occupies a closing position.

The invention presents molding tools, in which a position of a molding tool within a base tool or a position of molding cores relative to each other can be set by adjusting a position of base tools by means of controllable adjustment elements.

Systems and methods for lighting system lens heating are described. The systems and methods include a substantially clear thermoplastic substrate; and a conductive ink or film circuit on the thermoplastic substrate.

Certain embodiments disclosed herein include lenses for eyewear with a molded wafer and a molded clear resin lens component integrated onto a surface of the molded wafer. The molded wafer can include an optical filter that enhances one or more properties of filtered light. The optical filter can be, for example, a contrast-enhancing, color-enhancing, and/or chroma-enhancing filter. The clear resin lens component can be shaped such that the lenses have optical power. In some embodiments, the molded wafer is integrated onto a surface of a polarizing wafer.

Systems, articles, and methods that integrate photopolymer film with eyeglass lenses are described. One or more hologram(s) may be recorded into/onto the photopolymer file to enable the lens to be used as a transparent holographic combiner in a wearable heads-up display employing an image source, such as a microdisplay or a scanning laser projector. The methods of integrating photopolymer film with eyeglass lenses include: positioning photopolymer film in a lens mold and casting the lends around the photopolymer film; sandwiching photopolymer film in between two portions of a lens' applying photopolymer film to a concave surface of a lens' and/or affixing a planar carrier (with photopolymer film thereon) to two points across a length of a concave surface of a lens. Respective lenses manufactured/adapted by each of these processes are also described.

A lens-mold producing method includes a position and posture determining step of specifying positions and postures, in space coordinates, of a first mold having a molding surface for forming one optical surface of a lens and a second mold having a molding surface for forming the other optical surface, a mold holding step of rotating and/or inclining, based on the positions and postures in the space coordinates, at least one of the first and second mold, maintaining a rotation angle and/or an inclination angle of a reference plane of the first mold with respect to a reference plane of the second mold, and holding the first and second mold, and an assembling step of arranging the molding surfaces of the first and second mold so as to face each other, fixing outer peripheries of the first mold and the second mold, and assembling a lens mold.