DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MACHINING OF AN OPTICAL LENS

• US 20140041184A1
• Filed: 02/10/2012
• Published: 02/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Schneider GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Schneider GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Schneider, Gunter, Gerrath, Torsten
• Application Number:
  US13/985,674
• Publication Number:
  US 20140041184A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 29/407.04
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 49/12 involving optical means
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 9/14 of optical work, e.g. lenses, prisms control of the position of the tool for bevelling optical work B24B47/225
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 11/30 for measuring roughness or irregularity of surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49769 Using optical instrument [excludes mere human eyeballing]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53022 with means to test work or product

Abstract

A device and a method for machining of a border of an optical lens in which the transition of the lens material to a blocking material or film material which adjoins along a border edge is optically detected in order to determine the shape of the border edge.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A device for machining of an optical lens, comprising:

a lens made of a lens material,

at least one of a blocking piece and a blocking material on which the lens has been blocked,

a machining apparatus for peripheral-side machining of the lens which has been blocked, and

a camera for optical detection of at least one transition of the lens material to at least one of the blocking piece or blocking material, a film which is located between the lens and the blocking piece and a transition of the film to the blocking piece or blocking material, and

an evaluation device for determining a shape of the border edge of the lens facing the blocking piece or the blocking material from the at least one transition detected,

wherein, to facilitate optical detection, the material of the film or blocking material differs from that of the lens with respect to at least one of color, reflectivity, transmissivity and/or luminescence.

17. The device as claimed in claim 16, wherein further comprising a tool for machining the border edge of the lens on the peripheral side facing the blocking piece with the lens blocked.

18. The device as claimed in claim 17, wherein the tool for machining is adapted to machine the peripheral side facing the blocking piece depending on the shape determined by said evaluation device.

19. The device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the camera is located laterally near the blocked lens.

20. The device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the camera is movable relative to the lens around the periphery of the lens for detecting said at least one transition.

21. The device as claimed in claim 16, further comprising an illumination apparatus positioned for at least one of lateral and axial illumination of the lens during said shape detection.

22. The device as claimed in claim 21, wherein the illumination apparatus is located on in proximity to the camera.

23. The device as claimed in claim 21, wherein the illumination apparatus is located on a side of the lens opposite that at which the camera is located.

24. A method for machining a peripheral side of an optical lens that is blocked on a blocking piece or blocking material, comprising the steps of:

optically detecting of at least one transition of the lens material to at least one of the blocking piece or blocking material, a film which is located between the lens and the blocking piece and a transition of the film to the blocking piece or blocking material and

determining an actual shape of a border edge of the lens facing the blocking piece or blocking material,

machining a peripheral side of the blocking piece or blocking material together with the lens,

wherein, to facilitate optical detection, a material of the film or blocking material is selected which differs from that of the lens with respect to at least one of color, reflectivity, transmissivity and luminescence.

25. The method as claimed in claim 24, comprising the further step of removing machining residues prior to optical detection.

26. The method as claimed in claim 24, wherein the determining step is performed by at least one of smoothing, approximation, using specified data from the detected at least one transition.

27. The method as claimed in claim 24, wherein said machining is performed as a precision machining based on the determined shape.

28. The method as claimed in claim 24, wherein at least the peripheral side of the blocking piece or blocking material is made of plastic.