| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 351159600 | With light filtering means | 41 |
| 20120120366 | VISION MASK - The invention relates to a vision screen having a continuous convex surface ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120293768 | ANTIREFLECTION OPHTHALMIC LENS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE METHOD - The invention relates to an optical article including a transparent substrate of organic glass, preferably a substrate of an ophthalmic lens, an adhesive layer covering at least one of the faces of the transparent substrate, a transparent film of thermoplastic polymer fixed on the transparent substrate by means of the adhesive layer, an anti-abrasion hard coating covering the transparent film of thermoplastic polymer, and a multilayer antireflection coating formed from alternating mineral layers with high and low refractive index. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing said article. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20130235334 | OPHTHALMIC LENS FORMING OPTIC - This invention provides for a forming optic used for the manufacture of at least one customized ophthalmic lens in a single optical quality surface. In some embodiments, the forming optic can include a mandrel with the optical quality forming surface portion that includes different shapes, design features and surface characteristics. In addition, in some embodiments of the invention a coating or monolayer is provided to provide lens edge properties desired. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20140016083 | SPECTACLE LENS AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING THE SAME - A spectacle lens has a colored mark, a colored graphics image with a predeterminable color and brightness impression. The spectacle lens includes a lens body having a light-refracting effect and having a surface with an interference layer system arranged on the surface. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140185004 | Adjustable Spectral Transmittance Eyewear - Embodiments of the present invention relate to eyewear having an electrically switchable spectral transmittance lens(es). The eyewear includes a lens driver that controls the variable spectral transmittance lens(es). The lens driver is functional to alter a duration of a spectral transmittance state based on a desired frequency and/or duty cycle of the spectral transmittance state. A user may provide an input indicating the desired level of difficulty provided by the eyewear, wherein the input may indicate that the frequency, the duty cycle, or a combination of the two should be changed. As a result of changing a perceived level of difficulty presented by the eyewear, a wearer of the eyewear may train his or her visual abilities to provide a competitive advantage. The input may be received at a receiving module as a remote signal from the user or a third party. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20150146161 | OPHTHALMIC LENS COMPRISING A BASE OF POLYMERIC MATERIAL WITH A COATING HAVING AN INTERFERENTIAL, ANTI-REFLECTIVE, ANTI-IRIDESCENT AND IR FILTER MULTIPLE LAYER STRUCTURE - Ophthalmic lens including a base of polymeric material with a coating having an interferential, anti-reflective, anti-iridescent and infrared filter multiple layer structure. An interphase, a first layer (of 91-169 nm) with a refraction index higher than 1.8, a second layer (of 128-248 nm) with a refraction index lower than 1.65, a third layer (of 73-159 nm) with a refraction index higher than 1.8 and a fourth layer (of 40-138 nm) with a refraction index lower than 1.8. A total thickness of the multiple layer structure is less than 600 nm. The structure can have intermediate layers with intermediate refraction indices, in which case a doublet of two adjacent layers that fulfil the thicknesses above is replaced by a triplet so that the thickness and an optical thickness of the triplet differ from those of the doublet by less than 5%, respectively. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20160085090 | OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR CORRECTING COLOR BLINDNESS - Described herein are devices, compositions, and methods for improving color discernment. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160377888 | Using Subtractive Chromatic Modulation for Regulating Visual Acuity - Acuity is a function of the photoreceptors of the retina which combine their pixelized stimulation to create the perception of a contiguous image and use that stimulus to regulate the acuity focal length of the biological lens. That image perception is also modulated by the intensity of the light as a stimulus absorbed by those pixelized photoreceptors and, for most individuals, the color frequency of that light. The regulation of visual acuity is primarily determined by the comparative chromatic response of the cone photoreceptors in creating a response matrix to the relative chromatic intensity of the perceived light and using that response to regulate the focal length of the biological lens. | 12-29-2016 |
| 351159610 | Photochromatic | 12 |
| 20120127425 | ONE-PIECE LENS WITH SURPLUS INNER OPTICAL MATERIAL - The invention relates to one-piece lens made from optical material and including an outside part and an inside part, in which the inside parts comprises a surplus amount of the same optical material as the lens, for the purpose of cutting ophthalmic lenses, said surplus material being positioned close to the central part of the lens. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120218512 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ANTI-UV PLASTIC FILM WITH NON-UNIFORM SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE UV ABSORBER AND PHOTOCHROMIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS COVERED WITH SUCH A PLASTIC FILM - Method for producing a plastic film containing a compound absorbing ultraviolet radiation comprising (a) depositing an alcoholic solution of polyvinyl butyral on a transparent plastic support film, (b) evaporating the solvent from the alcoholic solution of polyvinyl butyral so as to form a polyvinyl butyral layer on the transparent support film, (c) printing the polyvinyl butyral layer with an ink absorbing ultraviolet radiation (UV absorber) in a pattern, (d) heating the transparent plastic support film, coated with the printed polyvinyl butyral layer so as to enable at least part of the UV absorber to pass from the polyvinyl butyral layer to the plastic support film, (e) removing the polyvinyl butyral layer, preferably by washing with a suitable solvent. The application also relates to the film obtained by this method and the use of this film for producing a photochromic element with a spatially non-uniform behaviour. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120224139 | COMPOSITE OPTICAL ARTICLES - Provided is a composite optical article including (a) a polymeric base layer comprising a sulfur-containing urethane-based material having a refractive index of at least 1.57; and (b) a polymeric outer layer cast over a surface of the base layer (a) comprising (i) a poly(urea-urethane) material having a refractive index of less than 1.57, and (ii) a photochromic compound and/or a static dye. The thickness of the base layer (a) is greater than the thickness of the outer layer (b). | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120242954 | PHOTOCHROMIC OPTICAL ARTICLE COMPRISING A SATURATED PHOTOCHROMIC COATING AND A FILM ABSORBING UV RADIATION - The invention relates to a photochromic optical article with reduced thermal dependency, comprising: (a) a transparent substrate, (b) a saturated photochromic layer having, in the activated state and at a temperature of 20° C. or greater, a relative transmission factor of less than 1% in the visible range, and (c) an anti-UV coating of plastic material at least partially covering the saturated photochromic layer, the said anti-UV coating containing at least one agent which absorbs UV radiation (anti-UV agent) and is distributed in a pattern consisting of a multitude of points, each having a surface area of less than 0.15 mm 2, the average distance between two neighbouring points lying between 0.5 and 2 mm and the ratio of the overall surface area of all the points to the total surface area of the anti-UV coating being such that the relative transmission factor of the optical article in the visible range in the activated state and at 20° C. or greater is at least equal to 5%. The invention also relates to two methods for manufacturing such an optical article. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20140043586 | Photochromic Composition and Optical Article Using Photochromic Composition - To provide a photochromic composition which functions as an adhesive layer for bonding two optical sheets that are formed of a polycarbonate resin or the like, so that a laminate that is obtained by bonding two optical sheets with the composition being sandwiched therebetween has excellent adhesion, heat resistance and photochromic properties. In particular, to provide a photochromic composition which is capable of forming an adhesive layer that is not decreased in the adhesion between the optical sheets even in cases where the adhesive layer is in contact with hot water. Provided is a photochromic composition which contains a urethane polymer having a polymerizable group (component A) and a photochromic compound (component B). | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140125947 | PLASTIC LENS - The present invention provides a plastic lens capable of suppressing deformation while having a photochromic film. A plastic lens according to the present invention is configured to include a plastic substrate formed in a meniscus shape with a concave surface and a convex surface, a photochromic film provided on the convex surface of the plastic substrate, and a stress compensation film provided on the concave surface of the plastic substrate. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140146285 | PHOTOCHROMIC CURABLE COMPOSITION - A photochromic curable composition comprising, | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140198296 | PHOTOCHROMIC LENS FOR EYE GLASSES - [Problem] To provide a photochromic lens for eye glasses, which has a high refractive index and excellent light-controlling properties and has such a constitution that the weight and thickness of the lens can be reduced. [Solution] Provided is a photochromic lens for eye glasses, which is produced by polymerizing a polymerizable composition prepared by dissolving a photochromic compound into a monomer mixture comprising a first radically polymerizable monomer represented by general formula (I), a second radically polymerizable monomer represented by general formula (II) and divinylbenzene that has a purity of 50% or more and contains a divinylbenzene component and an ethylvinylbenzene component at a total content of 90% or more. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20150022776 | PHOTOCHROMIC SPECTACLES - Photochromic spectacles which use solar energy as the power source include a frame, two lenses arranged in the frame, and a driving circuit. Each lens includes a substrate, an electrochromic film and a solar cell film. The solar cell is a transparent and outer film and absorbs infrared light and ultraviolet light from the sun, to convert the infrared and ultraviolet light to electrical power. The driving circuit is arranged on the frame and electrically connected with the electrochromic film and the solar cell, the driving circuit can be switched to apply or not to apply electrical power generated by the solar cell film to the electrochromic film to darken the spectacles. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150049303 | Photochromic Composite Lens - The present invention provides a photochromic composite lens which includes a penetration layer located exteriorly, and a blocking layer located interiorly, and a transition layer located between the penetration layer and the blocking layer. A thickness of the transition layer can be adjusted in view of the field requirements. In addition, functional coatings, such as abrasive-proof coating, fog-free coating, refraction free coating, and other functional coatings can be coated onto the penetration layer and the blocking layer, respectively. With this, the photochromic composite lens can be configured by polycarbonate lens or lens made from other material. Scratches over the surfaces will not impair the intended function of transition. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150098058 | OPHTHALMIC LENS - An ophthalmic lens having a main front face and a main rear face includes: an element for cutting off ultraviolet (UV) light incident on the main front face of the ophthalmic lens; an anti-reflection coating on the main rear face of the ophthalmic lens, having a weighted average reflection factor in the UV region of less than or equal to 7%; and at least one element for at least partially blocking the blue light in the wavelength region from 400 to 460 nanometers, preferably from 420 to 450 nanometers. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150301227 | COMPOSITION FOR OPTICAL MATERIAL AND USE OF SAME - A composition for optical materials of the present invention includes a polyolefin (A) obtained by (co)polymerizing at least one kind of olefin selected from α-olefins having 3 to 20 carbon atoms and a photochromic compound (B). | 10-22-2015 |
| 351159620 | Laminated structure | 11 |
| 20120147323 | OPHTHALMIC LENSES MODIFIED WITH FUNCTIONAL GROUPS AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF - Described are methods for covalently attaching one or more functional compounds to an ophthalmic lens. The method involves (a) contacting the lens with a functional compound, wherein the functional compound comprises at least one group capable of forming a covalent bond with the lens upon exposing the lens to irradiation and/or heat; and (b) irradiating and/or heating the lens produced in step (a) to covalently attach the functional compound to the lens. Also described herein are ophthalmic lens produced by the methods described herein. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20130038834 | Optical Article Comprising an Antireflective Coating with a Low Reflection Both in the Ultraviolet Region and in the Visible Region - This invention relates to an ophthalmic lens with a low reflection both in the ultraviolet region and in the visible region, comprising a substrate provided on its rear main face with a multilayered antireflective coating (3-7 layers) comprising a stack of at least one layer with a high refractive index and at least one layer with a low refractive index, having a mean reflection factor on the rear face in the visible region R m lower than or equal to 1.15%, a mean light reflection factor on the rear face in the visible region R v lower than or equal to 1%, a mean reflection factor R UV on the rear face between 280 nm and 380 nm, weighted by the function W(l) defined in the ISO 13666:1998 standard, lower than 5%, for angles of incidence of 30° and 45°, the antireflective coating outer layer being a silica-based layer. The lens according to the invention does especially prevent the reflection of the UV radiation produced by light sources located behind the wearer. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130155373 | Optical Article Comprising an Antireflective Coating with a Low Reflection Both in the Ultraviolet Region and in the Visible Region - This invention relates to an ophthalmic lens with a low reflection both in the ultraviolet region and in the visible region, comprising a substrate provided on its rear main face with a multilayered antireflective coating (3-7 layers) comprising a stack of at least one layer with a high refractive index and at least one layer with a low refractive index, having a mean reflection factor on the rear face in the visible region R | 06-20-2013 |
| 20140139803 | Ophthalmic lenses with melanin and ocular lens pigment having low fluorescence - Fluorescence as a new source of haze caused by the light-filtering agent in ophthalmic lenses is introduced. A transparent ophthalmic lens comprising melanin as the light filtering agent with reduced fluorescence from melanin is described and the techniques used to quench the melanin fluorescence. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140354945 | ARTICLE COATED WITH AN INTERFERENCE COATING HAVING PROPERTIES THAT ARE STABLE OVER TIME - The invention relates to an article comprising a substrate having at least one main surface coated with a multilayer interference coating, said coating containing a layer A having a refractive index less than or equal to 1.55. The article is characterised in that: layer A forms either the outer interference coating layer or an intermediate layer that is in direct contact with the outer interference coating layer, said outer interference coating layer being a layer B having a refractive index less than or equal to 1.55; layer A is obtained by ion beam deposition of activated species from at least one compound C in gaseous form and containing in its structure at least one silicon atom, at least one carbon atom, at least one hydrogen atom and, optionally, at least one nitrogen atom and/or at least one oxygen atom, layer A being deposited in the presence of nitrogen and/or oxygen when compound A does not contain nitrogen and/or oxygen; and layer A is not formed from inorganic precursor compounds. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140368788 | Optical Article Comprising an Antireflective Coating With a Low Reflection Both in the Ultraviolet Region and in the Visible Region - This invention relates to an ophthalmic lens with a low reflection both in the ultraviolet region and in the visible region, comprising a substrate provided on its rear main face with a multilayered antireflective coating (3-7 layers) comprising a stack of at least one layer with a high refractive index and at least one layer with a low refractive index, having a mean reflection factor on the rear face in the visible region R | 12-18-2014 |
| 20150103310 | OPHTHALMIC LENS - An ophthalmic lens having a front and back face, at least one including a filter, which provides the main face/filter with the following properties:
| 04-16-2015 |
| 20150146166 | BLUE EDGE FILTER OPTICAL LENS - Optical lenses are described and include a polymeric interference filter disposed on a curved polymeric substrate. The optical lens has an average light transmission of less than 2% across a band of blue light from 400 nm to at least 420 and up to 440 nm and substantially transmits blue light greater than 450 nm. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150370094 | OPTICAL MATERIAL, COMPOSITION FOR OPTICAL MATERIAL, AND USE THEREOF - The optical material of the present invention contains one or more kinds of ultraviolet absorber (a) having a maximum absorption peak within a range of equal to or greater than 350 nm and equal to or less than 370 nm, in which a light transmittance of the optical material having a thickness of 2 mm satisfies the following characteristics (1) to (3),
| 12-24-2015 |
| 20160026006 | Molded Lens - A composite ophthalmic lens having a thin functional first molded portion that is fused and/or re-molded during formation of a second, transparent molded portion. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160147085 | OPTICAL ARTICLE HAVING A RED RESIDUAL REFLECTION COLOUR - The present invention relates to a transparent article comprising a substrate comprising at least one front face and one back face, at least one of these two main faces being coated with an interference coating having a reflection value in the visible R | 05-26-2016 |
| 351159630 | With different light absorption sections | 3 |
| 20140300857 | OPHTHALMIC FILTER - An optical device including: an optical substrate provided with selective optical filtering element configured to selectively inhibit transmission, through the optical substrate of at least one selected range of wavelengths of incident light in the visible light spectrum at an inhibition rate of at least 5%, the selective optical filtering element being further configured to transmit at least 8% of incident light of the visible spectrum outside the at least one selected range of wavelengths; wherein the at least one selected range of wavelengths has a bandwidth in a range of from 10 nm to 70 nm, preferably 10 nm to 60 nm centered on a wavelength within a range of between 430 nm and 465 nm. | 10-09-2014 |
| 351159640 | Gradient sections | 2 |
| 20140268031 | EYEWEAR LENSES WITH CONTROLLED FILTERS FOR NIGHT DRIVING - The present invention is embodied in an eyewear lens with at least two controlled, limited visible light blocking filters that attenuate its transmittance spectrum. More specifically, in the present invention, the eyewear lens attenuates limited amounts of light in at least two visible wavelength regions via controlled, limited blocking filters, wherein the overall luminous transmittance is at least 75%. The at least two controlled, limited blocking filters have their peak blocking wavelengths in the region of 410-500 nm and 530-620 nm, respectively. In a preferred embodiment, the minimum transmittance that occurs within the 410-500 nm region is ≧55% and the minimum transmittance that occurs within the 530-620 nm region is ≧65%. In another preferred embodiment, the eyewear lens comprises an anti-reflective coating on its inner surface (the eye-side of the lens). | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150378166 | Method and System for Shaped Glasses and Viewing 3D Images - Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses and spectrally complementary filters disposed on the curved surface lenses configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. The spectrally complementary filters include guard bands to prevent crosstalk between spectrally complementary portions of a 3D image viewed through the shaped glasses. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters are disposed on the curved lenses with increasing layer thickness towards edges of the lenses. The projected complementary images may also be pre-shifted to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts occurring while viewing the images. | 12-31-2015 |
| 351159650 | Specific light filtering range | 7 |
| 20120188503 | EYEGLASS LENS MADE OF ALLYL DIGLYCOL CARBONATE RESIN - [Problems] The invention provides a plastic lens for eyeglasses by using diethylene glycol bisallyl carbonate as a lens material and which is made to have a main absorption peak in a wavelength range of 565 nm to 605 nm by mixing a coloring agent in which a visible light-absorption spectroscopic spectrum contains an azaporphyrin compound and to be durable for use as eyeglasses and polarized eyeglasses owing to the good antiglare and visibility properties of the coloring agent. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20130250235 | OCULAR LENS - According to embodiments of the present invention, an ocular lens is provided. The ocular lens includes an optical filter configured to change a chromaticity of light impinging on the ocular lens so as to transmit a filtered light to an eye of a viewer, wherein the filtered light comprises a first light having a first peak wavelength in a range of between about 460 nm and about 490 nm and a second peak wavelength in a range of between about 490 nm and about 550 nm. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20150015844 | Light filters that simulate the transmission spectra of the ocular lens pigment with age - This invention relates to the use of light filters, for example sunglass lenses, that have transmission spectra characteristic of the pigment found in the human ocular lens and that correspond to different age groups and different darkness. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150022777 | EYEWEAR WITH CHROMA ENHANCEMENT - Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in a plurality of spectral bands. Each of the plurality of spectral bands can include an absorptance peak with a spectral bandwidth, a maximum absorptance, and an integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth. An attenuation factor obtained by dividing the integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth by the spectral bandwidth of the absorptance peak can be greater than or equal to about 0.8 for the absorptance peak in each of the plurality of spectral bands. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150309335 | Blue-Light-Inhibiting Resin Lens and Manufacturing Method Therefor - A blue-light-inhibiting resin lens includes a reinforcing protective substrate and a reinforcing layer which comprises eight layers coating on a surface of a reinforcing protective substrate from lower to upper by a vacuum evaporation method; wherein reinforcing layer comprises a first layer, which is a nano-composite coating layer mixing with polyurethane acrylate and SiO2, a second layer, which is a SiO2 layer I, a third layer, which is a ZrO2 layer I, a fourth layer, which is a SiO2 layer II, a fifth layer, which is a ZrO2 layer II, a sixth layer, which is an indium-tin-metal oxide nano-coating layer, and a seventh layer, which is a SiO2 Layer III, and an eighth layer, which is a waterproof-medicine layer. And, a manufacturing method for the blue-light-inhibiting resin lens is provided. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150323812 | SELECTIVE WAVELENGTH FILTERING WITH REDUCED OVERALL LIGHT TRANSMISSION - A system is provided that selectively blocks blue light in addition to having low overall transmittance values. The average value of the transmission spectrum of the system across the wavelength range 400 nm-470 nm is between 0% and 30% and the average value of the transmission spectrum across the wavelength range 470 nm-700 nm is between 0% and 70%. The transmission spectrum of the system has a first local minimum in transmission between 400 nm-470 nm. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20160170234 | HIGH PERFORMANCE SELECTIVE LIGHT WAVELENGTH FILTERING PROVIDING IMPROVED CONTRAST SENSITIVITY | 06-16-2016 |
