B29D11/00961

System and method for compensating deviations in an optical lens manufacturing process
10639765 · 2020-05-05 · ·

A real-time calculation system capable of computing the industrial optical performance and yields of a prescription laboratory is disclosed. The system uses statistical analysis to determine the compensation factors that can be applied to given products, Semi-Finish, materials, or lens designs to increase the lab yields. Using a monitoring and configuration system, the user tracks the evolution of the laboratory's performance and identifies areas in which yields are impacted. The user defines how the calculation system will optimize the laboratory's performance, such as by defining how the compensation factors will be calculated and applied.

FILM, METHOD FOR EVALUATING OPTICAL HOMOGENEITY OF FILM, AND FILM PRODUCTION METHOD

A film having excellent optical homogeneity, which is suitably used as an optical film in an image display device, and a method for manufacturing the same. Moreover, an evaluation method which can evaluate the optical homogeneity of the film with a higher precision than in conventional evaluation methods is provided. A film that is a cast film containing a resin having a weight average molecular weight of 200,000 or more, wherein, when line profiles in a direction h and a direction v which are orthogonal to each other in a film inverse space image obtained by Fourier transforming a projection image obtained by a projection method using the cast film are a line profile h and a line profile v.

METHOD FOR EVALUATING PRODUCTION PRECISION OF SPECTACLE LENS
20200132441 · 2020-04-30 · ·

Provided is a method for evaluating production precision of a spectacle lens having micro convex segments protruding from a convex surface on an object side of the spectacle lens, including measuring a shape of the convex surface of the spectacle lens; setting an actual device virtual model including a spectacle lens model based on the measured shape and an eyeball model; performing ray tracing calculation on the actual device virtual model and specifying an actual device convergence position where light rays converge on an front side of a retina of the eyeball model; and evaluating production precision of the spectacle lens on the basis of the actual device convergence position.

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN OPTICAL LENS

A device and a method for processing, in particular edge processing, an optical lens, wherein the device has a measuring system, a processing system, a loading system, an unloading system, an intermediate conveyor, and a belt conveyor. The loading system is arranged between the measuring system and the processing system. The unloading system is arranged on the opposite side of the processing system. A lens that is to be processed is picked up and oriented at the optical reference point that is determined by the measuring system in order to determine as precisely as possible the blocking point for the subsequent processing. The loading system and unloading system each have a linearly movable swiveling system with linearly movable suction devices arranged therein. The processing system is designed for the simultaneous processing of two lenses.

OPTICAL ELEMENT FABRICATION WITH OPTICAL SCANNER FEEDBACK
20200122417 · 2020-04-23 ·

A computer-implemented method for optical element fabrication with optical scanner feedback includes initiating the optical scanner to obtain an optical measurement of an optical layer of a multi-layer film. A rotational orientation for an optical element that is to be cut from the multi-layer film is then determined based on the optical measurement. The method also includes initiating a cutting instrument to cut the optical element from the multi-layer film at the rotational orientation.

Method for “real time” in-line quality audit of a digital ophthalmic lens manufacturing process

The present invention relates to a method for providing a model assessing a quantitative expected global quality level of an ophtalmic lens, said lens having given lens and environment parameters, and being produced by a digital lens manufacturing process. A method for real-time in-line quality audit of the freeform production line is provided, by means of a process quality score, built as the result of the normalization of the computed global quality level based on the expected value of manufactured lenses obtained by normal production.

OPHTHALMIC APPARATUS
20200077882 · 2020-03-12 ·

An ophthalmic apparatus includes: a light source; a measurement optical system that irradiates an eye with light from the source and guides reflected light from the eye; a reference optical system that guides the light from the source to use the light from the source as reference light; an abnormality detection optical system that has an optical path length of a predetermined length and to guide the light from the source to use the light from the source as abnormality detection light; a light receiving element that receives measurement interference light being combination of the reflected light from the eye and the reference light and abnormality detection interference light being combination of the abnormality detection light and the reference light, and the ophthalmic apparatus determines whether the measurement interference light is abnormal based on waveform of an abnormality detection interference signal outputted from the light receiving element.

Lens supply system and related methods
10558060 · 2020-02-11 · ·

The supply systems for providing spectacle ophthalmic lenses have improved efficacy, in particular with respect to lens blank picking performance and/or lens manufacturing performance.

Device and method for processing an optical lens

A device and a method for processing, in particular edge processing, an optical lens, wherein the device has a measuring system, a processing system, a loading system, an unloading system, an intermediate conveyor, and a belt conveyor. The loading system is arranged between the measuring system and the processing system. The unloading system is arranged on the opposite side of the processing system. A lens that is to be processed is picked up and oriented at the optical reference point that is determined by the measuring system in order to determine as precisely as possible the blocking point for the subsequent processing. The loading system and unloading system each have a linearly movable swiveling system with linearly movable suction devices arranged therein. The processing system is designed for the simultaneous processing of two lenses.

SPECTACLE LENSES AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME FROM A SINGLE SEMI FINISHED LENS
20200033634 · 2020-01-30 · ·

A method, program, computer program, system for obtaining multiple lenses from one single semi-finished lens, and to corresponding lenses; steps are foreseen for obtaining lens specification information, and generating, on the basis of the lens specification information, integrated surface data including lens surface data and junction surface data. The lens surface data includes data representing at least one surface for each of the at least two lens units; the junction surface data includes data representing at least one junction surface joining respective surfaces of the at least two lens units. The integrated surface data represents a physical surface that is to be obtained by machining one single semi-finished lens.