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Granted Patent B2
US 11,543,684 · App. 16/464,087 · Granted Jan 3, 2023

Non-corrective plastic spectacle lens

Inventors: Shinzo Tamura (Osaka, JP); Kenzo Wada (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: TALEX CO., LTD.
G02C7/061B29D11/0048G02C7/02G02C7/12
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Patent No.
US 11,543,684
App. No.
16/464,087
Granted
Jan 3, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a non-corrective spectacle lens which is a molded plastic lens used by a person having normal eyesight, or a polarizing lens constituted by the molded plastic lens and a polarizing film integrally superposed on the molded plastic lens. In order to moderately reduce the movement of the muscle necessary for focus adjustment, the non-corrective spectacle lens has a spherical power S within the range of −1.0 D≤S<−0.1 D, where D is diopter as a unit of the spherical power S.

Claims (7)

1. A method for manufacturing a molded plastic spectacle lens, the method comprising:

liquid-tightly combining a mold having a concave spherical surface, and a mold having a convex spherical surface through a ring-shaped gasket such that the concave spherical surface and the convex spherical surface are opposed to each other, so as to define a cavity between the opposed concave and convex spherical surfaces;

preforming and inserting a polarizing element into the cavity; and

introducing a resin material for lens molding into the cavity to form the plastic lens by molding, such that the plastic lens has a laminated structure comprising a front plastic layer and a back plastic layer that sandwich the polarizing film from a front side and a back side of the polarizing film, respectively,

wherein a front surface of the front plastic layer has a radius of curvature equal to a radius of curvature of the preformed polarizing film, and the concave spherical surface has a radius of curvature of 79.84R and the convex spherical surface has a radius of curvature larger than 66.533R and not larger than 76.769R such that the molded plastic spectacle lens has a spherical power S in a range of −1.0 D≤S<−0.1 D.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the resin material for lens molding comprises one or more resins for cast molding selected from the group consisting of diethylene glycol bis(allyl carbonate) resin, a polyurethane resin, a thiourethane resin, and an acrylic resin.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the resin material for lens molding comprises one or more resins for injection molding selected from the group consisting of a polyamide resin, a polycarbonate resin and an acrylic resin.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 24, 2019
From: TAMURA, SHINZO; WADA, KENZO
To: TALEX CO., LTD.
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Continuity (1)
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Cited By (1)
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