Abstract: An electrochromic element in which a decrease in responsiveness is minimized by making a laminated structure have gas barrier properties, and a lens for spectacles, the electrochromic element in which a support and an electrochromic film having an electrode layer and an electrochromic layer are laminated, wherein a barrier layer is laminated in the laminated structure constituting the electrochromic element. The barrier layer preferably has gas barrier properties and transparency.

Abstract: There are provided indeno-fused naphthopyran compound particles having a degree of crystallization of 10.00% or less and a maximum primary particle size of 200 ?m or less.

Abstract: A method for producing a spectacle lens, the method including: determining the positions of at least three marks so as to specify the center position of a frame shape on the basis of the at least three marks; making marks at the determined positions; calculating the shape of a non-optical surface of a semifinished lens with respect to the center position when processing the non-optical surface according to a prescription; and processing the non-optical surface into the calculated shape with respect to the center position. When the semifinished lens is viewed in an optical axis direction, the at least three marks include a pair of marks located on a first straight line passing through the center position and a mark located on a second straight line that is orthogonal to the first straight line and passes through the center position.

Abstract: A method of producing a polymerizable composition including mixing a photochromic compound with one or more polymerizable compounds using an ultrasonic homogenizer.

Abstract: Provided is technology that makes it possible to measure visual behavior with respect to objects that are at different distances in the depth direction, while reducing burden on a subject. A method for measuring visual behavior of a subject to design an eyeglass lens includes: a step (a) of ascertaining a head rotation amount that is generated by the subject in a sagittal plane of the subject when gazing at each of a plurality of gaze points that are set at predetermined distances different from each other in a forward depth direction; and a step (b) of determining an eyeball rotation amount that is generated by the subject when gazing at each of the plurality of gaze points, based on the head rotation amount.

Abstract: An optical product is provided that has a metal layer on a base material, wherein a surface layer portion of the metal layer on an opposite side thereof to a base material side thereof is passivated. A method of manufacturing the optical product includes forming the metal layer on the base material, and passivating the surface layer portion of the formed metal layer by an oxidation treatment.

Abstract: Provided is 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. The eyeglass lens includes a lens base material having a plurality of base material convex portions on at least one of the object-side surface and the eyeball-side surface, and the eyeglass lens has a configuration for suppressing stray light rays that do not pass through the vicinity of the predetermined position A or the vicinity of the position B that is closer to the object than the predetermined position A is.

Abstract: A photochromic composition contains, in a predetermined combination: one or more photochromic compounds represented by General Formula 1; and one or more selected from the group consisting of a photochromic compound represented by General Formula A, a photochromic compound represented by General Formula B, and a photochromic compound represented by General Formula C.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing an optical member. The method includes removing a portion of a low refractive index layer, which is the outermost layer of a multilayer structure in which the low refractive index layer and a high refractive index layer are layered on each other. Non-heating processing is performed on an antireflection film that is formed to cover an optical surface of an optical base member and has the multilayer structure, through irradiation with an ultrashort pulse laser beam, so as to expose the high refractive index layer.

Abstract: A spectacle lens according to the first embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens body; and a contrast adjustment section provided on or in the lens body and including a dot-portion group in which dot portions are arranged, wherein the arrangement of the dot portions is non-uniform. A spectacle lens according to the second embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens body; and a contrast adjustment section provided on or in the lens body and including a dot-portion group in which dot portions are arranged, wherein the dot-portion group includes dot portions each having an aspect ratio, which is the ratio of the length in the short-axis direction to the length in the long-axis direction in the plan-view shape, of less than 1.

Abstract: With regard to an eyeglass lens that is provided with a plurality of defocus regions on at least one of an object-side surface and an eyeball-side surface, the surface shape is evaluated through measuring the surface shape of the surface of the eyeglass lens that has the plurality of defocus regions, and acquiring three-dimensional data regarding the surface shape; a classifying data groups regarding the plurality of respective defocus regions and a data group regarding a base region, which is a region where the defocus regions are not formed, by performing cluster analysis on the three-dimensional data; combining curved surface shape data obtained by performing curve fitting on each of the classified data groups, and extracting reference shape data regarding the object-side surface; and comparing the three-dimensional data and the reference shape data, and obtaining degrees of deviation of the three-dimensional data from the reference shape data.

Abstract: A technique capable of easily and highly accurately perform positioning of a lens member having a convex optical surface. A lens positioning mechanism is configured to include: a member holding unit that has a function of holding a lens member via an auxiliary tool attached to a second surface of the lens member having a first surface, which is a convex optical surface, and the second surface, which is an optical surface facing the first surface, and biasing the held lens member toward a side of the first surface; and an attitude control unit that abuts on a predetermined portion on the first surface of the lens member biased on the member holding unit to regulate a position of the predetermined portion and positions the lens member in a predetermined attitude.

Abstract: There is provided a method of producing a spectacle lens, wherein the spectacle lens has a water-repellent layer, and the method including film-forming the water-repellent layer by a heat deposition method and heating a plurality of deposition sources according to different temperature profiles in the film-forming by the heat deposition method, wherein, in the plurality of deposition sources, at least one deposition source contains a water-repellent component and at least one deposition source contains a metal component.

Abstract: A photochromic composition containing one or more compounds represented by General Formula A and one or more compounds represented by General Formula B. In General Formula A, R1, R2, B1, and B2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and R3 to R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an electron-withdrawing group, provided that one or more of R3 to R6 represent an electron-withdrawing group. In General Formula B, R7 to R12, B3, and B4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and R13 and R14 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an electron-donating group, provided that one or more of R13 and R14 represent an electron-donating group.

Abstract: A semifinished lens is configured with at least three marks for specifying the center position of a frame shape. When the semifinished lens is viewed in an optical axis direction, the at least three marks include a pair of marks located on a first straight line passing through the center position and a mark located on a second straight line that is orthogonal to the first straight line and passes through the center position.

Abstract: Provided are a method with which a spectacle lens molding mold having a minute recess can be made with high accuracy, and the like. A method for producing a molding mold 12 for molding a spectacle lens 1 in which a minute protrusion 6 is formed on at least one surface thereof includes a first molding mold preparation step of preparing a first mold 14 that includes a base material 26 and a coating portion 28, the coating portion being made of a nickel alloy, coating the base material, and having a surface formed into a shape corresponding to the shape of one surface of the spectacle lens; and a cutting step of cutting a recess 28A corresponding to the protrusion into the surface of the coating portion of the first mold.

Abstract: A lens, system for designing, computer program for designing and a method for designing, with a computer, a progressive addition lens including a distance vision region, a near vision region, and an intermediate vision region, wherein a power gradually changes between the distance vision region and the near vision region, and wherein the progressive addition lens is based on prescription data, the method including: determining a transmission astigmatic performance parameter corresponding to a sum of a prescribed astigmatism included in the prescription data and of a predetermined amount of extra astigmatism; determining lens surface data corresponding to the determined transmission performance parameter.

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 base material 2 having a plurality of base material 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 base material convex portions 6. The shape of convex portions present on the outermost surface of the eyeglass lens located on a side on which the base material convex portions 6 are provided is an approximate shape of the base material 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.

Abstract: A method of processing a spectacle lens that has an electronic element overlapping an optical element and supplies electric energy to the electronic element through a terminal portion to produce a dimming effect, the method including: acquiring inner dimension information of a retaining portion of a frame, the retaining portion sandwiching and retaining a periphery of the spectacle lens between a front and a rear; acquiring thickness information of the periphery of the spectacle lens processed into an external shape corresponding to the frame; determining an interference area of the periphery of the spectacle lens; and performing thickness adjustment processing for removing the interference area, on a surface on the other side of the spectacle lens opposite to the surface on the one side of the spectacle lens. This configuration enables easy assembly of a spectacle lens to a frame without being restricted by the thickness of a lens periphery.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electronic light-modulating device that obtains a light-modulating effect by supplying electrical energy to an electronic element overlapping an optical element includes: forming a laminate in which a pair of electrode layers and a light-modulating layer between the pair of electrode layers are laminated; and setting, in the laminate, an overlapping region having a shape overlapping the optical element in a formation region of the light-modulating layer, setting two or more terminal regions which are continuous to an outer side of the overlapping region and in which one and the other of the pair of electrode layers are independently present, and cutting a portion including the overlapping region and the terminal regions from the laminate to form the electronic element. As a result, production efficiency is improved.