Patents Assigned to Nikon-Essilor Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20190293840Abstract: Provided is a hard coat layer-forming composition with which it is possible to form a hard coat layer that has excellent abrasion resistance and causes little change in shape to the surface of a substrate on which the hard coat layer is disposed. This hard coat layer-forming composition is used for forming a hard coat layer on a substrate, and comprises a compound having multiple epoxy groups, a silsesquioxane compound having an oxetanyl group, a photo cationic polymerization initiator, and a thermal cationic polymerization initiator, wherein the contained amount of the silsesquioxane compound having an oxetanyl group exceeds 70 mass with respect to the total mass of: the compound having multiple epoxy groups; and the silsesquioxane compound having an oxetanyl group.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Katsuyoshi TAKESHITA
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Publication number: 20190271859Abstract: A method for designing a spectacle lens includes: presenting a plurality of blurred images created by applying different degrees of blur to an original image and having a wearer see the blurred images; acquiring information on a sensitivity to blur of the wearer; and designing a spectacle lens based on the information on the sensitivity to blur of the wearer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Applicant: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Sungjin CHO
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Publication number: 20190258081Abstract: A progressive power lens pair is provided with an object-side surface and an eyeball-side surface of the right-eye lens and an object-side surface and an eyeball-side surface of the left-eye lens which are set by ensuring that ADDR1?ADDR2 and ADDL1?ADDL2 take values different from each other, when prescribed additional power for the right-eye lens and prescribed additional power for the left-eye lens are equal to each other; and prescription information for the progressive power lens pair indicates: that spherical power SR at the right-eye lens and spherical power SL at the left-eye lens are different from each other, that astigmatic power CR at the right-eye lens and astigmatic power CL at the left-eye lens are different from each other, or that an astigmatism axis angle AxR corresponding to the right-eye lens and an astigmatism axis angle AxL corresponding to the left-eye lens are different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuhiro YANARI, Daisuke UNO
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Patent number: 10386652Abstract: A lens design method includes: changing curve data including a curve value of a distance vision part and a curve value of a near vision part of a progressive power lens on an object side and a curve value of a distance vision part and a curve value of a near vision part of the progressive power lens on an eyeball side so as to be suited to prescription values to calculate a plurality of sets of the curve data; and calculating, for each of the calculated sets of the curve data, a thickness at a second position on the progressive power lens that satisfies thickness conditions for a first position on the progressive power lens.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yukio Honma
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Publication number: 20190246095Abstract: An image creation device includes: a storage unit in which target scene three-dimensional information related to a position, a shape and optical characteristics of a structural object present in a virtual target scene, eyeglass lens three-dimensional information related to a position, a shape and optical characteristics of an eyeglass lens and eyeball three-dimensional information related to a position, a shape and optical characteristics of an eye of a wearer viewing the target scene through the eyeglass lens used as a virtual lens; and a retina image creation unit that creates a retina image based upon the target scene three-dimensional information, the eyeglass lens three-dimensional information and the eyeball three-dimensional information, wherein: the retina image is a virtual image projected onto a retina of the eye of the wearer viewing the target scene through the eyeglass lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi KISHIMOTO
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Patent number: 10371867Abstract: An optical component includes: a plastic base which has a convex surface and a concave surface; and a multilayer film which is disposed on at least the convex surface of the plastic base. The multilayer film has an average reflectivity of 2% to 10% over a wavelength range of 400 nm to 500 nm.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaoki Tomoda, Satoru Ito, Kei Ishimura, Hirotatsu Okumura
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Publication number: 20190187487Abstract: A manufacturing method of a spectacle lens provided with hidden markings includes: setting forming positions of the hidden markings to certain positions; changing the forming positions of the hidden markings based on at least one parameter obtained from spectacle lens product-related information that indicates information about a spectacle lens product, spectacle frame-related information that indicates information about a spectacle frame, prescription-related information that indicates information about a prescription for a wearer, and fitting-related information that indicates information about fitting for the wearer; and forming the changed hidden markings.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2019Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Osamu ABE, Mitsuo OBATA
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Publication number: 20180297343Abstract: The present invention provides a hard-coat-layer-forming composition whereby a hard coat layer having excellent scratch resistance and cracking resistance can be formed, and an optical member. The hard-coat-layer-forming composition is a composition used to form a hard coat layer on a plastic substrate, and includes: metal oxide particles; at least one type of component X selected from the group consisting of an organic silicon compound represented by a predetermined formula, a hydrolysate thereof, and a hydrolytic condensate thereof; and at least one type of component Y selected from the group consisting of an organic silicon compound represented by a predetermined formula, a hydrolysate thereof, and a hydrolytic condensate thereof, and a glycoluril crosslinking agent, a hydrolysate thereof, and a hydrolytic condensate thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro SHIODA
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Patent number: 10025117Abstract: A functional dyed lens for spectacles is obtained by dyeing at least one of the surfaces of an undyed plastic lens, and in the functional dyed lens, a dyeing density defined as a difference in luminous transmittance from the undyed plastic lens is 2% or more but 4% or less, and a difference in average transmittance from the undyed plastic lens in a wavelength region of 530 nm to 570 nm is 3% or more but 5% or less.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuka Takedomi, Yuko Kawamura
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Publication number: 20180067339Abstract: Provided is a spectacle lens (1) comprising one multilayer film (3a, 3b) on each surface of a plastic lens base material (2), wherein by setting an average reflection rate in at least the 530-570 nm wavelength range to 2.5-5.5% in at least one of the multilayer films (3a, 3b) disposed on a surface of the plastic lens base material, it is possible to attain, in dim environments, an improvement in vividness and brightness in visibility of objects, particularly those that are red in color, as well as an improvement in visibility of the white in white computer screens and the like, and the lens is thereby suitable for the eyes of elderly people.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventor: So MIYAMOTO
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Patent number: 9886027Abstract: A lens processing management system includes a lens processing section that processes a lens based on design data, an authentication section that is substantially attached to a lens material or a semi-finished lens product, and an authentication processing section that performs an authentication process for the processing of the lens using the authentication section.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2012Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignees: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD., NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinori Yoshida, Yukio Honma, Hideya Inoue, Koji Yamagaki
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Publication number: 20160313574Abstract: A functional dyed lens for spectacles is obtained by dyeing at least one of the surfaces of an undyed plastic lens, and in the functional dyed lens, a dyeing density defined as a difference in luminous transmittance from the undyed plastic lens is 2% or more but 4% or less, and a difference in average transmittance from the undyed plastic lens in a wavelength region of 530 nm to 570 nm is 3% or more but 5% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicant: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuka TAKEDOMI, Yuko KAWAMURA
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Patent number: 9311684Abstract: A lens processing management system (1) includes: a processing device (20) which processes lenses; a data supply device (10) which can supply design data to the processing device; and a control means (24) which limits the processing of lenses using the design data in the processing device.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2009Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Yoshida, Yukio Honma
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Publication number: 20130222913Abstract: An optical component includes: a plastic base which has a convex surface and a concave surface; and a multilayer film which is disposed on at least the convex surface of the plastic base. The multilayer film has an average reflectivity of 2% to 10% over a wavelength range of 400 nm to 500 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventor: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.
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Patent number: 8189261Abstract: An optical component includes an antireflection film that is a multilayer film having alternately-laminated six or more layers including high refractive index layers and low refractive index layers; wherein a first layer of the antireflection film deposited closest to the substrate is a high refractive index layer; ? satisfies 480 nm???530 nm where ? is the wavelength of light incident into the antireflection film; an optical thickness D1 of the first layer satisfies 0.02??D1?0.04?; an optical thickness Dm of a layer of the antireflection film that is located fifth from an outermost layer deposited furthest from the substrate satisfies 0.19??Dm?0.75?; a total physical thickness dt of the entire antireflection film satisfies 350 nm?dt?480 nm; and a total physical thickness da of the low refractive index layers satisfies 0.65 dt?da?0.80 dt.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Nikon-Essilor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masaoki Tomoda
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Patent number: 7959285Abstract: A subject matter is to provide an efficient method for designing a progressive refraction lens in consideration of not only its optical performance but also its appearance performance. The method for designing the progressive refraction lens includes a step (S030) for determining addition power of an entire lens that is a summation of addition power of a front surface and that of a back surface and a step (S040) for determining the addition power of the front surface. The method for designing the progressive refraction lens is characterized in determining to make the addition power of the front surface not less than 0 but smaller than that of the entire lens in the case that the appearance performance is considered to be more important than the optical performance while determining to make the addition power of the front surface larger than that of the entire lens in the case that the optical performance is considered to be more important than the appearance performance.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Nikon-Essilor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mitsuhiro Yanari
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Patent number: 7954944Abstract: The disclosure relates to a spectacle lens comprising: a lens base member; a multi-layered anti-reflection film placed on the lens base member, and including a layer mainly made of silicon dioxide as an outermost layer; and a water-and-oil repellent layer provided in contact with the outermost layer of the multi-layered anti-reflection film, and made by using, as raw materials: at least one kind of a first fluorine-substituted alkyl group-containing organosilicon compound and a second fluorine-substituted alkyl group-containing organosilicon compound. The disclosure also relates to methods of producing a spectacle lens that is capable of retaining a sufficient water-and-oil repellency over an extended period, and having sufficient edge processability.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2009Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Nikon-Essilor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Abe, Hidemoto Uekusa, Fazlat Ali
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Patent number: 7829198Abstract: An oil-repellent coating layer 2 is disposed on both surfaces of a lens material 1 consisting of glass or a plastic. Furthermore, a minute particle layer 3 in which minute particles of a metal oxide or minute particles of a fluoride, or both, are dispersed is formed on the surface of the oil-repellent coating layer 2, and a resin layer 4 consisting of an organic compound is disposed on the surface of the minute particle layer 3. Since the adhesion between the resin layer 4 and the two-sided adhesive tape that is used when the lens is set in the lens edging machine is good, axial shifting tends not to occur during working.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2006Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Nikon-Essilor Co., LtdInventors: Masanobu Urabe, Tsukasa Monma, Osamu Abe, Toru Yashiro
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Publication number: 20090047424Abstract: The present invention relates to tinted optical lenses and to methods of manufacturing tinted optical lens. This invention relates to a method for tinting optical lenses using an ink receptor film. The method of the invention allows a good transfer of the color to the substrate which represents the support of lens, a good final coloration of the substrate with good color homogeneity. The invention relate also to a method of tinting optical lenses, using the said ink receptor film which is applied onto a primer layer coating the substrate of the lens. The ink receptor material comprises an inorganic filler and an water-based emulsion. Preferably the ink receptor material also comprises a water-soluble polymer, a modified cationic polymer and a carrier able to accelerate the absorption of the ink into the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2006Publication date: February 19, 2009Applicant: Essilor International/ Nikon-Essilor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tsukasa Momma
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Patent number: D762858Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Nikon-Essilor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masanobu Iwabuchi