IP Library Granted Patent US 7,063,421
Granted Patent B2
US 7,063,421 · App. 11/113,122 · Granted Jun 20, 2006

Spectacle lens with small higher order aberrations

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Patent No.
US 7,063,421
App. No.
11/113,122
Granted
Jun 20, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A unifocal spectacle lens with an aspheric and/or atoric surface, or a progressive spectacle lens, in which the unifocal spectacle lens or the progressive spectacle lens has small higher order aberrations.

Claims (7)

1. A unifocal spectacle lens having an aspheric or atoric surface, wherein said lens exhibits a small spherical aberration of less than 0.1/mm at a distance r up to 30 mm from the vertex of the lens.

2. A unifocal spectacle lens having an aspheric or atoric surface, wherein said lens exhibits a small coma of less than 0.2/mm at a distance r up to 30 mm from the vertex of the lens.

3. A progressive spectacle lens having higher order aberrations comprising a coma, wherein the ratio of coma and addition is limited such that at an addition of 1, the maximum coma is 0.08; at an addition of 2, the maximum coma is 0.14; and at an addition of 3, the maximum coma is 0.18.

4. A progressive spectacle lens according to claim 3 , wherein the maximum value of the coma is located in a rectangle that is bounded vertically at the top by the centering point and at the bottom by the near reference point, and horizontally on one side by a vertical straight line that goes through the centering point and distance reference point, and on the other side by a vertical straight line that goes through the near reference point of the lens.

5. A progressive lens according to claim 3 , wherein as a function of the pupil diameter, the coma has a smaller gradient at the prism reference point and the near reference point than at the point of maximum coma.

6. A progressive spectacle lens having higher order aberrations comprising a spherical aberration, wherein the ratio of spherical aberration and addition is limited such that at an addition of 1, the spherical aberration is between −0.05 and 0.06; at an addition of 2, the spherical aberration is between −0.13 and 0.11; and at an addition of 3, the spherical aberration is between −0.16 and 0.12.

7. A progressive spectacle lens according to claim 6 , wherein both the maximum value and the minimum value of the spherical aberration are located in a rectangle that is bounded vertically at the top by the centering point and at the bottom by the near reference point, and horizontally on one side by a vertical straight line that goes through the centering point and distance reference point, and on the other side by a vertical straight line that goes through the near reference point.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 7, 2005
From: SECOND OPTICAL HOLDING GMBH
To: RODENSTOCK GMBH
Reel/Frame 017286/0744 →
MERGER Recorded Dec 7, 2005
From: RODENSTOCK GMBH
To: SECOND OPTICAL HOLDING GMBH
Reel/Frame 017286/0756 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 18, 2005
From: WEHNER, EDDA; WELK, ANDREA; HAIMERL, WALTER; ALTHEIMER, HELMUT; ESSER, GREGOR
To: RODENSTOCK GMBH
Reel/Frame 017043/0940 →