Method for producing an ophthalmic lens comprising a base lens and a film structure
AssigneeEssilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
InventorsPeiqi Jiang, Bruce Keegan
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Abstract
A method for producing an ophthalmic lens comprised of a base lens and a film structure bound to said base lens includes a pressure-free heating. Said heating is performed after assembling the film structure with a semi-finished lens (1), and before said semi-finished lens is machined for obtaining the base lens. Although a maximum heating temperature is higher than a glass-transition temperature of the semi-finished lens, no image distortion and optical aberration is produced for the final ophthalmic lens. The maximum heating temperature is also lower than a glass-transition temperature of the film structure.
Claims16
A method for producing an ophthalmic lens including a base lens and a film structure bound to a first optical surface of said base lens, the method comprising:
- /1/ obtaining a semi-finished lens, having the first optical surface and a temporary surface opposite to said first optical surface;
- /2/ obtaining the film structure;
- /3/ applying the film structure onto the first optical surface of the semi-finished lens, with layered connecting means arranged between said film structure and said first optical surface of the semi-finished lens;
- step /3/ being performed using a pressing device for producing pressure so as to push the film structure and the first optical surface of the semi-finished lens against each other;
- /4/ after step /3/ and after pressure has been removed:
- heating the semi-finished lens with the film structure connected to said semi-finished lens, up to a maximum heating temperature which is higher than a glass-transition temperature of a constituting material of the semi-finished lens and less than another glass-transition temperature of a material of the film structure;
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- /5/ after step /4/:
- machining the temporary surface of the semi-finished lens so as to obtain a second optical surface opposite to the first optical surface, thereby producing the base lens comprised in the ophthalmic lens, the machining causing said base lens to be thinner than the semi-finished lens.
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