Progressive Patents (Class 351/159.42)
  • Patent number: 8292429
    Abstract: A progressive ophthalmic lens includes at least one complex surface having a principal progression meridian. The complex surface has a horizontal reseau of bands and at least one geometrical quantity of the complex surface is substantially equal in all bands of the reseau for a given point of a vertical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Inventor: Pascal Allione
  • Publication number: 20120257161
    Abstract: A progressive ophthalmic lens element is disclosed. The progressive ophthalmic lens element includes an upper viewing zone, a lower viewing zone, a corridor, and a peripheral region disposed on each side of the lower viewing zone. The upper viewing zone includes a distance reference point (DRP) and a fitting cross, and provides a first refractive power for distance vision. The lower viewing zone, which is for near vision, provides an addition power relative to the first refractive power. The corridor connects the upper and lower zones and provides a refractive power varying from that of the upper viewing zone to that of the lower viewing zone. Each peripheral region includes a zone of positive power relative to the addition power which provides therein a positive refractive power relative to the refractive power of the lower viewing zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS VISION INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventor: Saulius Raymond Varnas
  • Publication number: 20120236255
    Abstract: A method for laminating a functional film on to an optical base element and a tri-layer adhesive system for use in the method. The tri-layer adhesive includes a first latex adhesive layer disposed on the functional film and a second latex adhesive layer disposed on the optical base element. An HMA layer is disposed in between the latex layers to form a tri-layer adhesive to permanently retain the functionalized film on the optical base element. The method includes first coating a latex adhesive on the functional film and second coating a latex adhesive on the optical base element. An HMA is then coated on to one of the dried latex adhesive layers. The film is hot pressed on to the optical base element with the HMA sandwiched in between the latex layers to form a laminated optical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Peiqi Jiang, Bruce Keegan
  • Publication number: 20120229757
    Abstract: A progressive-power lens having an eyeball-side surface including a distance portion and a near portion having different values of dioptric power and an intermediate portion that connects the distance portion and the near portion to each other, and an object-side surface including a spherical first region having a first curvature and extending along a principal meridian, a spherical second region having a second curvature equal to the first curvature and facing the distance portion, and a third region located outside the first region and below the second region and having a third curvature smaller than the first curvature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi KATO, Yohei SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20120229756
    Abstract: A progressive-power lens has one surface which satisifies the following expressions CY(DP)=CT(DP) CY(P)>CT(P) where CT(DP) denotes a vertical direction curvature at the distance reference point, CY(DP) denotes a horizontal direction curvature, CY(P) denotes a horizontal direction curvature at a point on the principal meridian which is located further on the near portion than the progressive start point, and CT(P) denotes a vertical direction curvature at the point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi KATO, Yohei SUZUKI, Ayumu ITO, Toshihide SHINOHARA, Tadashi KAGA
  • Publication number: 20120229755
    Abstract: A progressive-power lens has one surface which satisfies the following expressions CY(DP)=CT(DP) CY(P)<CT(P) where CT(DP) denotes a vertical direction curvature at the distance reference point, CY(DP) denotes a horizontal direction curvature, CY(P) denotes a horizontal direction curvature at a point on the principal meridian which is located further on the near portion than the progressive start point, and CT(P) denotes a vertical direction curvature at the point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi KATO, Yohei SUZUKI, Ayumu ITO, Toshihide SHINOHARA, Tadashi KAGA
  • Patent number: 8256895
    Abstract: The invention relates to so-called progressive medical eyeglass lenses. A progressive lens is a type of lens for making eyeglasses for correcting human vision defects, being adapted simultaneously to far vision and to near vision. The present invention makes it possible to reconcile a design that is finely optimized over a wide range of variables; it enables the looked-for optical powers to be made for any progressive lens prescription while controlling and obtaining a distribution of virtually identical optical values on the entire surface of the lens, and doing so for a wide range of materials (i.e. of refractive indices) e.g. lying in the range 1.498 to 1.74 (values mentioned here in non-exhaustive manner), and for any combination of refractive index, of basecurves lying in the range 0.5 diopters to 10.5 diopters, and for any addition values, over an addition range of 0.5 diopters to more than 3.5 diopters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Swissphonics SA
    Inventor: Mauro Del Nobile
  • Publication number: 20120218510
    Abstract: A progressive-power lens includes an eyeball-side surface including a distance portion and a near portion having different values of dioptric power. An intermediate portion connects the distance portion and the near portion to each other. An object-side surface of the progressive-power lens includes a first region extending along a principal meridian and having a spherical shape having first curvature, a second region facing the distance portion and having a spherical shape having second curvature equal to the first curvature, and a third region located outside the first region and below the second region and having third curvature greater than the first curvature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi KATO, Yohei SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20120200822
    Abstract: An eye-side refractive surface 11 of a distance portion is concave and at least part of an eye-side refractive surface 3 of a near portion is a convex region 31 where one or both of principal meridians of the surface are convex. This provides a back surface progressive-power lens capable of solving disadvantages in terms of lens thickness, external appearance and the like in a back surface progressive-power lens in which the eye-side refractive surface is formed of a progressive-power surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi KAGA, Toshihide SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20120176583
    Abstract: An ophthalmic lens (1) for a given wearer (2), intended to be worn in an eyeglass frame, comprising: a prescription control point P corresponding to a downward gaze ?P of between ?10° and +25° and a lateral gaze displacement ?P of between ?10° and +10°; an upper area (11) defined by downward gaze values, ?, for the wearer (2), of between ?P?30° and ?P, along a downward gaze path, and by lateral gaze displacement values, ?, for the wearer (2), of between ?P?30° and ?P+30°, parallel to a lateral gaze displacement axis, a lower area (12) defined by downward gaze values, ?, for the wearer (2), of between ?P and ?P+30°, along a downward gaze path, and by lateral gaze displacement values, ?, for the wearer (2), of between ?P?30° and ?P+30°, parallel to a lateral gaze displacement axis; wherein: the power of the lens at point P is substantially equal to the prescription of the wearer, the upper area has, relative to the point P, along the downward gaze path, a continuous average power variation ?PuiSup, monotonic be
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale D'Optique)
    Inventors: Laurent Calixte, Cyril Guilloux, Isabelle Poulain
  • Publication number: 20120140165
    Abstract: Optical device (1) for modifying the optics of the eye in its peripheral retina as prophylaxis of the progression of myopia, that it consists in a lens in which its inferior nasal quadrant (2) modifies the strength in a progressive and controlled manner from the center to the outer zone of the lens. The rest of the quadrants (3) of device (1) have a configuration of a graduated crystal or flat crystal, depending, respectively, on whether the user has some visual defect that requires optical correction or lacks said defect. The lens can be either an optical lens, a contact lens or electro-optical systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Pablo Artal Soriano, Linda K. Lundstrom
  • Publication number: 20120113387
    Abstract: A progressive power lens including a distance portion for visual recognition of a far working distance, a near portion for visual recognition of a near working distance, and an intermediate portion provided between the distance portion and the near portion, the intermediate portion including a position of an amount of intermediate inset in which a visual line when the intermediate working distance is visually recognized passes an eyeball side surface of the progressive power lens, and addition at intermediate position for viewing an intermediate working distance smaller than the far working distance and larger than the near working distance being set to the position of the amount of intermediate inset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takateru MORI, Kazutoshi KATO, Ayumu ITO