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Granted Patent B2
US 12,339,420 · App. 17/784,529 · Granted Jun 24, 2025

Eyeglass lens

Inventors: Hua Qi (Tokyo, JP); Takako Ishizaki (Tokyo, JP); Shigetoshi Kono (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
G02B1/11G02C7/022
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Patent No.
US 12,339,420
App. No.
17/784,529
Granted
Jun 24, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is an eyeglass lens 1 configured to cause rays that have entered from an object-side surface 3 to be emitted from an eyeball-side surface 4 , and cause the emitted rays to converge at a predetermined position A. The eyeglass lens 1 includes a lens substrate 2 having a plurality of substrate convex portions 6 on at least one of the object-side surface 3 and the eyeball-side surface 4 , and a coating film covering the surface provided with the substrate convex portions 6 . The shape of convex portions present on the outermost surface of the eyeglass lens located on a side on which the substrate convex portions 6 are provided is an approximate shape of the substrate convex portions configured to cause rays that have entered the eyeglass lens 1 to converge at a position B that is closer to the object than the predetermined position A is.

Claims (24)

1. An eyeglass lens configured to cause rays that have entered from an object-side surface to be emitted from an eyeball-side surface, and cause the emitted rays to converge at a predetermined position A on a retina of a wearer, the eyeglass lens comprising:

a lens substrate having a plurality of substrate convex portions on at least one of the object-side surface and the eyeball-side surface; and

a coating film covering the surface provided with the substrate convex portions, wherein

the shape of coating film convex portions present on the outermost surface of the eyeglass lens located on a side on which the substrate convex portions are provided is an approximate shape of the substrate convex portions configured to cause rays that have entered the eyeglass lens to converge at a position B that is closer to the object than the predetermined position A is,

the maximum absolute value of differences in a lens thickness direction between a sphere that is optimally approximated to the shape of the coating film convex portion and the shape of the actual coating film convex portion is 0.1 μm or less, and

the below (1) or (2) is satisfied:

(1) a shape of the sphere that is approximated to the shape of the coating film convex portion is a spherical shape, disposed to overlap the shape of the coating film convex portion, that is set such that the differences in the lens thickness direction between the two shapes of portions whose protrusions start from the base portion on the outermost surface of the eyeglass lens and end at the base portion through the vertex are squared and the sum of the squared differences is minimized, or

(2) the shape of the sphere that is approximated to the shape of the coating film convex portion is a spherical shape that is set by matching the vertex of the shape of the sphere that is approximated to the shape of the coating film convex portion with the vertex of the coating film convex portion.

2. The eyeglass lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein, out of a large number of rays that can be obtained by ray tracing calculation, evenly enter a predetermined range of the object-side surface of the eyeglass lens, and pass through the coating film, the number of stray light rays that do not pass through the vicinity of the predetermined position A and also do not pass through the vicinity of the position B that is closer to the object is less than or equal to 30% of the number of incident rays.

3. The eyeglass lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein a profile curve of astigmatism at a base of the coating film convex portion in an astigmatism distribution for the shape of the outermost surface of the coating film is 0.20 mm or less.

4. The eyeglass lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein (1) is satisfied.

5. The eyeglass lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein a relationship between a protruding length Lc of the coating film convex portion and a protruding length Ll of the substrate convex portion satisfies Formula (1) below,

0.6≤ Lc/Ll ≤1.5  Formula (1).

6. The eyeglass lens according to claim 2 ,

wherein a profile curve of astigmatism at a base of the coating film convex portion in an astigmatism distribution for the shape of the outermost surface of the coating film is 0.20 mm or less.

7. The eyeglass lens according to claim 6 ,

wherein (1) is satisfied.

8. The eyeglass lens according claim 7 ,

wherein a relationship between a protruding length Lc of the coating film convex portion and a protruding length Ll of the substrate convex portion satisfies Formula (1) below,

0.6≤ Lc/Ll ≤1.5  Formula (1).

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 11, 2022
From: QI, HUA; ISHIZAKI, TAKAKO; KONO, SHIGETOSHI
To: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-237938 · Dec 27, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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