METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROGRESSIVE POWER EYEGLASS LENS

• US 20120013030A1
• Filed: 03/31/2010
• Published: 01/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hoya Corporation
• Original Assignee: Hoya Corporation
• Inventors: Kadowaki, Shinichiro, Hoshi, Yuji, Watanabe, Ken
• Granted Patent: US 9,120,278 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 264/2.5
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 39/006 Monomers or prepolymers by reaction injection moulding B29C67/246
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 39/26 Moulds or cores
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 11/00028 Bifocal lenses; Multifocal lenses
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2011/0016 Lenses

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for producing a progressive-addition plastic lens having a prism thinning applied thereto without cutting and polishing.

The method comprises: a lens molding die forming step of forming a lens molding die configured by a first molding die having a molding face for forming one optical surface, which is a progressive-addition surface, of the lens and a second molding die having a molding face for forming the other optical surface of the lens, wherein the first molding die and the second molding die are arranged so that the respective molding faces thereof face inner side; a filling step of filling a lens material liquid containing a monomer composition into the formed lens molding die; and a curing step of polymerizing and curing the filled lens material liquid so as to form the lens. The molding face of the first molding die is formed so that a normal line at a point where the molding face of the first molding die intersects with a reference axis of the first molding die is inclined in the vertical direction with respect to the reference axis of the first molding die.

Claims

1. A method for producing a progressive-addition spectacle lens having a prism thinning applied thereto comprising:

a lens molding die forming step of forming a lens molding die configured by a first molding die having a molding face for forming one optical surface, which is a progressive-addition surface, of the lens and a second molding die having a molding face for forming the other optical surface of the lens, wherein the first molding die and the second molding die are arranged so that the respective molding faces thereof face inner side;

a filling step of filling a lens material liquid containing a monomer composition into the formed lens molding die; and

a curing step of polymerizing and curing the filled lens material liquid so as to form the lens,

wherein the molding face of the first molding die is formed so that a normal line at a point where the molding face of the first molding die intersects with a reference axis of the first molding die is inclined in the vertical direction with respect to the reference axis of the first molding die, and

wherein the lens molding die forming step comprises;

a molding die holding step of holding the both molding die so that the reference axis of the first molding die is inclined in the vertical direction with respect to a reference axis of the second molding die; and

an adhesive tape wrapping step of wrapping an adhesive tape around circumferential surfaces of the both molding dies held in the molding die holding step with the adhesive face of the adhesive tape facing inward.

2. The method for producing the progressive-addition spectacle lens according to claim 1,

wherein the lens molding die forming step comprises a molding face inclination angle calculating step of calculating a molding face inclination angle in the vertical direction between the both optical surfaces, the molding face inclination angle being formed for reducing the edge thickness of the lens shape after edging, and a molding die inclination angle calculating step of calculating a molding die inclination angle of the first molding die with respect to the second molding die in the molding die holding step based on the difference between the molding face inclination angle obtained in the molding face inclination angle calculating step and a first molding die molding face inclination angle with respect to the first molding die, and wherein the molding die holding step inclines the first molding die with respect to the second molding die according to the molding die inclination angle obtained in the molding die inclination angle calculating step and holds the molding dies.

3. The method for producing the progressive-addition spectacle lens according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the circumferential surfaces of the both molding dies are cylindrical surfaces respectively substantially parallel to the reference axes of the respective molding dies, and the adhesive tape wrapping step stretches the adhesive tape and attaches the adhesive face of the adhesive tape to the circumferential surfaces of the both molding dies.

4. The method for producing the progressive-addition spectacle lens according to claim 3, wherein the adhesive tape wrapping step wraps the adhesive tape with the reference axis of either molding die as a rotation axis.

5. The method for producing the progressive-addition spectacle lens according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein in the molding die holding step, the second molding die is held so that the rotational position with the reference axis thereof as the center is adjustable and the position of the second molding die along the direction of the reference axis thereof is adjustable, and the first molding die is held so that the inclination angle of the reference axis thereof in the vertical direction is adjustable.

6. The method for producing the progressive-addition spectacle lens according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the holding force of the adhesive tape is set so that during the polymerization and cure in the curing step, the adhesive face of the adhesive tape peels off from the circumferential surface of at least one of the both lens molding dies.

7. The method for producing the progressive-addition spectacle lens according to claim 6, wherein the holding force of the adhesive tape is in a range of 5 to 30 minutes.