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US 10,871,661 B2Granted
Eyewear and lenses with multiple molded lens components
AssigneeOakley, Inc.
InventorsRyan Saylor, Benjamin J. Meunier
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Abstract
Certain embodiments disclosed herein include lenses for eyewear with a molded wafer and a molded clear resin lens component integrated onto a surface of the molded wafer. The molded wafer can include an optical filter that enhances one or more properties of filtered light. The optical filter can be, for example, a contrast-enhancing, color-enhancing, and/or chroma-enhancing filter. The clear resin lens component can be shaped such that the lenses have optical power. In some embodiments, the molded wafer is integrated onto a surface of a polarizing wafer.
Claims32
Eyewear comprising:
- a lens with optical power, the lens comprising:
- a non-laminate wafer, wherein the non-laminate wafer comprises a non-laminate chroma enhancement wafer having a thickness less than 1.1 mm, and wherein the non-laminate chroma enhancement wafer comprises one or more chroma enhancement dyes disposed in a synthetic resinous material, and wherein the non-laminate chroma enhancement wafer is configured to increase an average chroma value of uniform intensity light stimuli having a bandwidth of 30 nm transmitted through the non-laminate chroma enhancement wafer within a spectral range of 440 nm to 510 nm as compared to a neutral filter that uniformly attenuates the same average percentage of light as the non-laminate chroma enhancement wafer within the spectral range of 440 nm to 510 nm;
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- a base layer integrated with the non-laminate wafer, the base layer comprising:
- a concave boundary surfaced to provide the lens with a desired amount of optical power, and
- a convex boundary at which the base layer is physically in contact with the non-laminate wafer,
- wherein an absorption spectrum of the non-laminate chroma enhancement wafer is substantially uniform across the surface of the lens for light incident along a direction parallel to a line of sight of a wearer, and wherein the non-laminate wafer further comprises an exposed surface opposite to the base layer.
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Eyewear comprising:
- a lens with optical power, the lens comprising:
- a non-laminate wafer, wherein the non-laminate wafer comprises a non-laminate chroma enhancement wafer having a thickness less than 1.1 mm, and wherein the non-laminate chroma enhancement wafer comprises one or more chroma enhancement dyes disposed in a synthetic resinous material, and wherein the non-laminate chroma enhancement wafer is configured to increase the average chroma value of uniform intensity light stimuli having a bandwidth of 30 nm transmitted through the non-laminate chroma enhancement wafer within a spectral range of 560 nm to 600 nm as compared to a neutral filter that uniformly attenuates the same average percentage of light as the non-laminate chroma enhancement wafer within the spectral range of 560 nm to 600 nm;
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- a base layer integrated with the non-laminate wafer, the base layer comprising:
- a concave boundary surfaced to provide the lens with a desired amount of optical power, and
- a convex boundary at which the base layer is physically in contact with the non-laminate wafer,
- wherein an absorption spectrum of the non-laminate chroma enhancement wafer is substantially uniform across the surface of the lens for light incident along a direction parallel to line of sight of a wearer, and wherein the non-laminate wafer further comprises an exposed surface opposite to the base layer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.