Spectacle Lens

• US 20050225719A1
• Filed: 03/29/2005
• Published: 10/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hoya Lens Manufacturing Philippines, Inc. (Hoya Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: KAMISHITA, Kaoru, KAGA, Tadashi, KATO, Kazutoshi
• Granted Patent: US 7,070,274 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 351/159
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/02 Lenses; Lens systems ; Methods of designing lenses
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/027 considering wearer's parameters

Abstract

To provide a spectacle lens that is designed optically to suit a spectacle frame with a large camber angle such as a wraparound type spectacle frame. A spectacle lens that is mounted in a spectacle frame with a camber angle of 200° or more, in which cylindrical power for offsetting astigmatic aberration, which is caused by the camber angle at a design reference point, is added to a refractive surface on an object side or a refractive surface on an eye side, prismatic power for offsetting prismatic effect, which is caused by the camber angle at the design reference point, is added to the refractive surface on the object side or the refractive surface on the eye side, and aspherical surfaces different from each other on a nose side and an ear side are formed on the refractive surface on the object side or the refractive surface on the eye side.

Claims

1. A spectacle lens, intended for use in a spectacle frame with a camber angle of 200°

or more, comprising;

cylindrical power, offsetting an aberration due to a camber angle, provided at a design reference point of a refractive surface of the spectacle lens, the refractive surface being at least one of an object side and an eye side of the spectacle lens;

prismatic power, offsetting prismatic effect due to a camber angle, provided at the design reference point; and

a nose side aspherical surface provided on a nose side of the spectacle lens and an ear side aspherical surface being on an ear side of the spectacle lens, the nose side and the ear side aspherical surfaces having respectively different manners of curvature change.

2. The spectacle lens according to claim 1, wherein the intended spectacle frame includes a pantoscopic angle, the spectacle lens further comprising:

cylindrical power, offsetting aberration due to a pantoscopic angle, provided at the design reference point; and

prismatic power, offsetting prismatic effect due to a pantoscopic angle, provided at the design reference point.

3. The spectacle lens according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising an upper aspherical surface on an upper side of the spectacle lens having a manner of curvature change different from that of a lower aspherical surface on a lower side of the spectacle lens.

4. The spectacle lens according to claim 1, wherein the power of the refractive surface on the object side is five diopters or more.

5. A spectacle lens design method, comprising:

determining a frame camber angle and a design reference point on a refractive surface of the spectacle lens;

adding to the refractive surface one or more of;

cylindrical power offsetting an aberration due to a camber angle, based on the frame camber angle, and

prismatic power offsetting a camber angle prismatic effect, based on the frame camber angle; and

providing on a nose side and on an ear side of the spectacle lens respective aspherical surfaces having respectively different manners of curvature change.

6. The spectacle lens design method as set forth in claim 5, wherein the nose side aspherical surface and the ear side aspherical surface are provided on different sides of a vertical line passing through the design reference point.

7. The spectacle lens design method as set forth in claim 5, further comprising:

determining a pantoscopic angle for the spectacle lens; and

adding to the refractive surface one or more of;

cylindrical power offsetting a pantoscopic angle aberration, based on the pantoscopic angle of inclination, and

prismatic power offsetting a pantoscopic angle prismatic effect, based on the pantoscopic angle.

8. The spectacle lens design method as set forth in claim 7, further comprising providing on an upper side and on a lower side of the spectacle lens respectively different manners of curvature change in the aspherical surfaces.

9. The spectacle lens design method as set forth in claim 8, wherein the upper side and the lower side are provided on different sides of a horizontal line passing through the design reference point.

10. The spectacle lens design method as set forth in claim 5, wherein the refractive surface is on an object side of the spectacle lens.

11. The spectacle lens design method as set forth in claim 5, wherein the refractive surface is on an eye side of the spectacle lens.

12. The spectacle lens design method as set forth in claim 11, wherein the refractive surface is also on an object side of the spectacle lens.

13. Spectacles, comprising:

a frame having a camber angle of 200°

or more; and

a spectacle lens, disposed in the frame, having a respective nose side and a respective ear side, the spectacle lens comprising;

cylindrical power, offsetting an astigmatic aberration due to the camber angle, provided at a design reference point of a refractive surface of the spectacle lens, the refractive surface being at least one of an object side and an eye side of the spectacle lens;

prismatic power, offsetting a prismatic effect due to the camber angle, provided at the design reference point; and

a nose side aspherical surface provided on the nose side of the spectacle lens and an ear side aspherical surface being on the ear side of the spectacle lens, the nose side and the ear side aspherical surfaces having respectively different manners of curvature change.

14. The spectacles as set forth in claim 13, further comprising:

the spectacle lens being disposed in the frame at a pantoscopic angle;

the spectacle lens further including;

cylindrical power, offsetting an astigmatic aberration due to the pantoscopic angle, provided at the design reference point; and

prismatic power, offsetting a prismatic effect due to the pantoscopic angle, provided at the design reference point.

15. The spectacles as set forth in claim 13 or 14, wherein the spectacle lens has at an upper side a manner of curvature change different from that at a lower side of the spectacle lens.

16. The spectacles as set forth in claim 13 or 14, wherein the nose side aspherical surface and the ear side aspherical surface are provided on different sides of a vertical line passing through the design reference point.

17. The spectacles as set forth in claim 13 or 14, wherein the upper and the lower sides of the spectacle lens are provided on different sides of a horizontal line passing through the design reference point.

18. The spectacles as set forth in claim 13 or 14, wherein the frame is of the wraparound type, and wherein the manner of curvature change of the spectacle lens is different in each of four quadrants of the spectacle lens.