IP Library Granted Patent US 12,353,065
Granted Patent B2
US 12,353,065 · App. 17/423,811 · Granted Jul 8, 2025

Spectacle lens and method for designing the same

Inventors: Hua Qi (Tokyo, JP); Toshiaki Sonehara (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
G02C7/06G02C7/024G02C2202/24
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Patent No.
US 12,353,065
App. No.
17/423,811
Granted
Jul 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An aspect is to not impair an effect of suppressing the progression of myopia or hyperopia even in a peripheral area of a spectacle lens. A spectacle lens and a technology related thereto are provided, the spectacle lens including: a first area that causes light rays incident on an object-side face of the lens to exit from an eyeball-side face of the lens and to converge at a predetermined position A on a retina of a wearer; a plurality of defocusing second areas configured to cause light rays to converge at a position B on the object side or a position C on the distal side relative to the position A, wherein at least some of the second areas in a peripheral area of the spectacle lens that is a radius range from 4.5 mm to 25 mm from a lens center have a shape that suppresses a variation in a defocusing effect, the variation being more likely to occur as a distance from the lens center increases.

Claims (22)

1. A spectacle lens comprising:

a first area that causes light rays incident on an object-side face of the lens to exit from an eyeball-side face of the lens and to converge at a predetermined position A on a retina of a wearer; and

a plurality of second areas configured to cause light rays to converge at a position B on the object side or a position C on the distal side relative to the position A,

wherein refractive power of the second areas in the peripheral area of the spectacle lens, that is a radius range from 4.5 mm to 25 mm from a lens center, is continuously reduced as the distance from the lens center increases over an entirety of the radius range.

2. The spectacle lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein the second areas comprise convex areas, and

refractive power in at least some of the second areas in the peripheral area of the spectacle lens differs from refractive power in the second areas in a central area of the spectacle lens that is a radius range less than 4.5 mm from the lens center.

3. The spectacle lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein refractive power of at least some of the second areas in the peripheral area of the spectacle lens is reduced evenly in meridional direction and sagittal direction as the distance from the lens center increases.

4. The spectacle lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein refractive power of at least some of the second areas in the peripheral area of the spectacle lens is reduced in meridional direction more than sagittal direction as the distance from the lens center increases.

5. The spectacle lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein the second areas comprise convex areas, and

at least some of the second areas in the peripheral area of the spectacle lens comprises toric shape.

6. The spectacle lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein the second areas comprise convex areas, and

the convex areas are arranged in a state of being spaced apart with each other and the first area is present between the convex areas.

7. A method for designing a spectacle lens that includes:

a first area that causes light rays incident on an object-side face of the lens to exit from an eyeball-side face of the lens and to converge at a predetermined position A on a retina of a wearer; and

a plurality of second areas configured to cause light rays to converge at a position B on the object side or a position C on the distal side relative to the position A,

the method including:

designing the second areas in a peripheral area of the spectacle lens, that is a radius range from 4.5 mm to 25 mm from a lens center, to have refractive power that is continuously reduced as the distance from the lens center increases over an entirety of the radius range.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 16, 2021
From: QI, HUA; SONEHARA, TOSHIAKI
To: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
Reel/Frame 056887/0354 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-117843 · Jun 25, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220082864A1 · Mar 17, 2022
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