Method and device for determining at least one customized adjustment parameter of a lens carried by a spectacles frame facing the eye of a wearer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9529212-B2
Application number	US-201214118645-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2012
Priority date	May 23, 2011
Publication date	Dec 27, 2016
Grant date	Dec 27, 2016

Abstract

A method for evaluating at least one individualized fitting parameter for a lens mounted in a spectacle frame. The method includes the following steps: (a) evaluating a postural parameter of the wearer of the spectacle frame in a vision posture, the postural parameter being selected from a plurality of preset postural parameters; (b) evaluating a second pantoscopic angle formed between, on the one hand, the projection of the temple of the frame onto the sagittal plane of the wearer, and on the other hand, the trace, on the same plane, of the front side of the frame; and (c) evaluating the first pantoscopic angle as a function of, on the one hand, the second pantoscopic angle evaluated in step (b), and on the other hand, the postural parameter of the wearer evaluated in step (a).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A device for evaluating at least one individualized fitting parameter for a lens mounted in a spectacle frame facing the eye of a wearer, said spectacle frame comprising at least one temple and means for holding at least one lens in a holding plane,
characterized in that:
said fitting parameter comprises a first pantoscopic angle TETA 1 formed between the holding plane and the vertical in the vision posture of the wearer;

and in that a measuring device comprises:
a flat supporting member containing a mark taking the form of a line segment;
a flat protractor rotatably mounted about a rotation axis cutting the straight line of the line segment forming the mark, so that said protractor is able to rotate in a plane parallel to the flat supporting member, said protractor comprising at least one visual radial marker passing through the rotation axis and designed to be aligned with the holding plane of the spectacle frame when the spectacle frame is placed on said flat supporting member, a temple being aligned with the mark of the flat supporting member, and the end of the temple proximal the holding plane of the frame being placed next to the rotation axis so that the angle formed between the mark of the flat supporting member and the radial marker corresponds to a second pantoscopic angle TETA 2 formed between, on the one hand, the projection of the temple of said frame onto the sagittal plane of the wearer, and on the other hand, the trace, on the same plane, of the front side of said frame; and
said flat supporting member comprises a plurality of graduated scales, each graduated scale being associated with a preset postural parameter, the position of the radial marker relative to a graduated scale allowing said first pantoscopic angle TETA 1 to be read directly.

2. The measuring device as claimed in claim 1 , in which said flat supporting member comprises a first graduated scale associated with a first preset postural parameter for which the first pantoscopic angle is equal to the second pantoscopic angle TETA 2 , and at least one second graduated scale associated with a second preset postural parameter, the graduations of said second scale being offset by a preset correction angle relative to said first scale.

3. The measuring device as claimed in claim 1 , in which said flat supporting member is formed from a transparent plastic sheet and in which the graduated measurement scales are printed in a combination of four colors, each color being associated with a preset postural parameter of the wearer of the spectacle frame in a vision posture.

4. The measuring device as claimed in claim 2 , in which said flat supporting member is formed from a transparent plastic sheet and in which the graduated measurement scales are printed in a combination of four colors, each color being associated with a preset postural parameter of the wearer of the spectacle frame in a vision posture.

Assignees

• Haddadi Ahmed
• Essilor Int

Inventors

• Haddadi Ahmed

Classifications

• G02C13/005 Primary

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