A method for producing an optical component, including a step of polymerizing a polymerizable composition including a polythiol component and a polyisocyanate component in a molding die, wherein the molding die includes a pair of molds and a tape for separating these molds apart and fixing the molds, the tape has a tape substrate and a tacky adhesive layer, and a percentage moisture content in the tacky adhesive layer is 950 ppm by mass or less, and also a molding die tape for a spectacle lens substrate, the molding die tape having a tape substrate and a tacky adhesive layer, wherein a percentage moisture content in the tacky adhesive layer is 950 ppm by mass or less.

A lens with an embedded foil is produced by positioning a foil on a holder, providing adhesive attachment dots on the foil on surface portions opposite to the holder, positioning a front mould ensuring the contact of the dots with a front mould surface, retracting the holder and positioning a back mould opposite to the front mould. The mould is then connected with a sealing bridge to build an assembly forming a mould cavity with a pouring opening. The edge of the foil is spaced apart from the bridge and the assembly has passages between the dots, the foil, and the front mould surface allowing pouring a monomer into the cavity before curing the monomer, decomposing the assembly and cutting the lens from the polymer block.

A method for manufacturing a photochromic lens includes: a step of injecting a polymerizable composition through an injection part in an injection molding apparatus and filling a gap with the polymerizable composition through a space; a step of heating the filled polymerizable composition to be polymerized and cured and forming a photochromic layer on a resin substrate; and a step of taking out a resulting laminate composed of the resin substrate and the photochromic layer, in which the polymerizable composition includes an isocyanate compound, a thiol compound, a polyol compound, and a photochromic compound.

An assembly for molding a lens including a peripheral gasket member having a surrounding wall around an axis to define a through-cavity, the surrounding wall having an internal circumferential ridge portion protruding inwardly towards the axis and partitioning the surrounding wall into an upper wall portion and a lower wall portion, wherein the internal circumferential ridge portion includes a first ridge-flank and a second ridge-flank; a film disposed at the first ridge-flank; an annular member disposed over the film to retain the film between the annular member and the first ridge-flank; a first mold part disposed with a circumferential edge in abutment with the upper wall portion; and a second mold part disposed opposite the first mold part and with a circumferential edge in abutment with the lower wall portion, wherein the peripheral gasket member, the first mold part and the second mold part define a molding cavity therebetween.

The invention provides a machine for manufacturing an ophthalmic article molded by casting and having a straight peripheral edge, comprising a mold assembly (2) having first and second molding shells (10, 13) provided with first and second predetermined molding surfaces (12, 14) and facing to each other, an adhesive tape member (20) joining said shells for forming a molding cavity (8), having a Young's modulus greater than 200 MPa and a maximum shear stress smaller than 0.05 MPa when measured at a temperature of polymerization of a molding material, and also configured to form a peripheral case of the mold assembly in which said first molding shell is able to be displaced relative to the second molding shell without affecting an intermediate portion (22) of the adhesive tape member which define said cavity, and a filling aperture formed in said adhesive tape member for introducing by casting said material into said cavity for forming the article.

The present invention provides a non-corrective spectacle lens which is a molded plastic lens used by a person having normal eyesight, or a polarizing lens constituted by the molded plastic lens and a polarizing film integrally superposed on the molded plastic lens. In order to moderately reduce the movement of the muscle necessary for focus adjustment, the non-corrective spectacle lens has a spherical power S within the range of 1.0 DS<0.1 D, where D is diopter as a unit of the spherical power S.

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.

An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a polarizing plastic lens, which comprises a reversing step of reversing a convex surface shape into a concave surface shape by pressing a polarizing film that has been curved surface processed, a casting mold assembling step of assembling a casting mold having a cavity within which the reversed polarizing film is positioned with the reversed polarizing film, an upper mold, a lower mold, and a sealing member that maintains a spacing between the upper mold and the lower mold, and a polymerizing and curing step of casting a curable composition into the cavity, and polymerizing and curing the curable composition that has been cast to provide a polarizing plastic lens within which a polarizing film is positioned.

An optical lens casting gasket, wafer, and system and method that provides for more efficient formation of optical lenses employing optically functional wafers.

The invention relates to a mold (2) for manufacturing an ophthalmic lens or an ophthalmic lens blank called a puck (3), equipped with an insert (1), said mold comprising a first portion (2A) intended to mold the front face of the ophthalmic lens or puck, a second portion (2B) intended to mold the back face of the ophthalmic lens or puck and at least one third portion (2C) intended to mold a peripheral lateral face of the ophthalmic lens or puck. According to the invention, said mold (2) comprises at least one recess (2B1, 2B2, 2B3, 2B4) for positioning the insert (1), before and during the molding.