Method for producing plastic lens

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9481137-B2
Application number	US-201013504364-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 25, 2010
Priority date	Oct 28, 2009
Publication date	Nov 1, 2016
Grant date	Nov 1, 2016

Abstract

Provided is a method for producing a plastic lens, wherein, in molding a plurality of plastic lenses having different optical surface shapes simultaneously in a single mold 50 , by designing cavities 3 a and 3 b such that each of the plastic lenses to be molded has the same volume, a plurality of plastic lenses having different optical surface shapes can be molded simultaneously in a single molding die without impairing the molding accuracy, and an injection compression molding apparatus used for such method.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for producing a plastic lens wherein, when a plurality of plastic lenses having different optical surface shapes is molded simultaneously in a single molding die,
cavities are designed such that each of the plastic lenses to be molded has a same volume, and
a raw material resin is filled in the cavities by injection and is molded into a predetermined lens shape,
the method comprising:
setting temporal lens shapes of the plastic lenses such that the temporal lens shapes have a same diameter and a same central thickness,
obtaining a virtual average thickness of the temporal lens shapes,
taking a plastic lens having a largest virtual average thickness as a standard lens, and
correcting a thickness of one or more of the other plastic lenses by taking into consideration a difference between a virtual average thickness of the one or more of the other plastic lenses and a virtual average thickness of the standard lens such that a central thickness of the one or more of the other plastic lenses becomes larger than a central thickness of the standard lens by an amount corresponding to the difference, whereby cavities for the plastic lenses to be molded have the same volume.

2. The method for producing a plastic lens according to claim 1 , wherein the optical surface shape is formed from the same base curve.

3. The method for producing a plastic lens according to claim 1 , wherein the plastic lenses are meniscus lenses having a convex surface and a concave surface.

4. The method for producing a plastic lens according to claim 3 , wherein the plastic lenses are lenses for eyeglasses to be molded as a semi-finished lens, and a convex surface of one lens is molded in different optical surface shape from another plastic lens and the concave surface of the one lens is molded as a same concave surface as the another plastic lens.

5. The method for producing a plastic lens according to claim 3 , wherein the molding die has a movable die and a fixed die divided by a parting line,
in all of the cavities which mold the plastic lens, a structure of the mold which molds the concave surface is allowed to be common, and
in a cavity which molds a plastic lens of which a height from the edge of the convex surface along an optical axis to a center of the lens is largest among the plastic lenses, a peripheral edge of the molding surface which molds the convex surface is allowed to be positioned on the parting line.

6. The method for producing a plastic lens according to claim 1 , wherein, when the raw material resin injected from a nozzle of an injection apparatus is filled in the cavity through a resin passage including a sprue formed within the molding die, after the injection of a prescribed amount of the raw material resin, a blocking member is allowed to be protruded in the sprue, thereby to block the nozzle.

7. The method for producing a plastic lens according to claim 1 , wherein the volume of the cavity formed when the molding die is closed becomes a volume obtained by adding a compression allowance to the volume of a plastic to be molded, and the plastic lens is molded by injection compression molding by allowing the volume of the cavity to be variable when clamping.

Assignees

• Saitou Kiyohiro
• Kitabayashi Hayato
• Hoya Corp

Inventors

• Saitou Kiyohiro
• Kitabayashi Hayato

Classifications

• B29C45/561 Primary

  Injection-compression moulding · CPC title

• B29C2045/2687

  controlling the filling thereof (B29C2045/2691 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B29D11/00 Primary

  Producing optical elements, e.g. lenses or prisms (grinding or polishing of optical elements B24B; constructional form of optical elements G02B; {optical parts of spectacles G02C7/00}) · CPC title

• B29L2011/0016

  Lenses · CPC title