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Granted Patent B2
US 10,549,398 · App. 15/108,520 · Granted Feb 4, 2020

Block device, spectacle lens manufacturing method, and program

Inventors: Takashi Daimaru (Tokyo, JP); Hidetoshi Nishimura (Tokyo, JP); Takao Tanaka (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
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Patent No.
US 10,549,398
App. No.
15/108,520
Granted
Feb 4, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a block device that mounts a lens shape processing lens holder to a convex surface of a spectacle lens with two alignment reference marks for identifying a distance portion design reference point on a concave surface. The block device includes an imaging unit that images the alignment reference marks of the spectacle lens supported by a support unit from a convex surface side of the spectacle lens, an information processing unit that obtains expected imaged positions of the alignment reference marks imaged by the imaging unit, using information regarding the spectacle lens, when a posture of the spectacle lens supported by the support unit becomes a reference posture suitable for mounting the lens holder, and a display control unit that displays images of index marks indicating the expected imaged positions obtained in the information processing unit and images of the alignment reference marks.

Claims (15)

1. A block device that mounts a lens shape processing lens holder to a convex surface of a spectacle lens with two alignment reference marks for identifying a distance portion design reference point formed on a concave surface, the block device comprising:

a support unit configured to support the spectacle lens in a position adjustable manner;

an imaging unit configured to image the alignment reference marks of the spectacle lens supported by the support unit from a convex surface side of the convex surface of the spectacle lens;

a monitor configured to display an image;

an information processing unit configured to obtain expected imaged positions of the alignment reference marks imaged by the imaging unit, using information regarding the spectacle lens, when a posture of the spectacle lens supported by the support unit becomes a reference posture suitable for mounting the lens holder; and

a display control unit configured to display, on the monitor, images of index marks indicating the expected imaged positions obtained in the information processing unit and images of the alignment reference marks actually imaged by the imaging unit.

2. The block device according to claim 1 , wherein

the information regarding the spectacle lens includes an eccentric amount of a center position where the lens holder is to be mounted, with respect to the distance portion design reference point, and

the information processing unit individually obtains the expected imaged position of one alignment reference mark and the expected imaged position of the other alignment reference mark, of the two alignment reference marks, according to the eccentric amount.

3. The block device according to claim 1 , wherein

the support unit supports the spectacle lens by receiving the convex surface of the spectacle lens at three points from below, and

the images of the index marks and the images of the alignment reference marks are displayed on the monitor, when the position of the spectacle lens supported by the support unit is adjusted.

4. The block device according to claim 1 , wherein

the reference posture of the spectacle lens is a state in which a normal vector of a center position where the lens holder is to be mounted, in the convex surface of the spectacle lens, becomes parallel to an optical axis of an optical system of the imaging unit, and the two alignment reference marks become horizontal, and

the posture of the spectacle lens in the support unit becomes the reference posture, when the images of the alignment reference marks are positioned to the images of the index marks on the monitor.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 29, 2016
From: DAIMARU, TAKASHI; NISHIMURA, HIDETOSHI; TANAKA, TAKAO
To: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
Reel/Frame 040450/0868 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-270087 · Dec 26, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160325393A1 · Nov 10, 2016