Patents by Inventor Frank Macionczyk

Frank Macionczyk has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230151478
    Abstract: An apparatus for accommodating an article in a vacuum-coating installation has a carrier with a coating opening and a retaining device for retaining the article in the coating opening. The retaining device has a pivot bearing that is secured on the carrier and a pivot axis, about which it is possible to pivot the retaining device to thereby turn the article in the coating opening. The pivot bearing has a bearing body with a circumferentially closed mount for a round body, which extends in the direction of the pivot axis, wherein the bearing body has a circumferentially closed mount and a circumferentially open mount for the round body, and therefore, when the retaining device is arranged on the carrier, the round body can be introduced through the circumferentially open mount into the circumferentially closed mount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Frank Macionczyk, Erwin Green
  • Publication number: 20230111018
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for introducing an optical lens into a turning device are disclosed. The apparatus includes a carrier body and a carrier element for receiving the lens. The carrier element is arranged in the carrier body. The carrier element has a supporting surface for receiving the lens and is displaceably mounted in relation to the carrier body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventor: Frank Macionczyk
  • Patent number: 11555239
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for introducing an optical lens into a turning device are disclosed. The apparatus includes a carrier body and a carrier element for receiving the lens. The carrier element is arranged in the carrier body. The carrier element has a supporting surface for receiving the lens and is displaceably mounted in relation to the carrier body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Macionczyk
  • Publication number: 20210348264
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for introducing an optical lens into a turning device are disclosed. The apparatus includes a carrier body and a carrier element for receiving the lens. The carrier element is arranged in the carrier body. The carrier element has a supporting surface for receiving the lens and is displaceably mounted in relation to the carrier body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventor: Frank Macionczyk
  • Patent number: 9778484
    Abstract: An optical element has a substrate body made from transparent plastic and a coating having multiple layers. The coating includes a hard lacquer layer adjoining the substrate. The coating has a diffusivity ensuring the absorption of water molecules passing through the coating in the substrate and the release of water molecules from the substrate through the coating from an air atmosphere on that side of the coating facing away from the substrate with a flow density which, proceeding from the equilibrium state of the quantity of water molecules absorbed in the substrate in an air atmosphere at 23° C. and 50% relative humidity, brings the setting of the equilibrium state of the quantity of water molecules absorbed in the substrate in an air atmosphere at 40° C. and 95% relative humidity within an interval not more than 10 h longer than for setting this equilibrium under corresponding conditions with an identical uncoated substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Hugenberg, Markus Haidl, Bernhard von Blanckenhagen, Lothar Holz, Stefan Kraus, Frank Macionczyk, Michael Krause, Erwin Green, Karl-Heinz Winter, Thomas Gloege, Silvia Faul, Anja Petereit, Bin Peng, Joerg Puetz, Patrick Kiefer, Adalbert Hanssen, Michael Krieger, Andreas Neuffer, Marc Stroisch
  • Patent number: 9122073
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Macionczyk, Simon Holtmann
  • Publication number: 20140327876
    Abstract: An optical element has a substrate body made from transparent plastic and a coating having multiple layers. The coating includes a hard lacquer layer adjoining the substrate. The coating has a diffusivity ensuring the absorption of water molecules passing through the coating in the substrate and the release of water molecules from the substrate through the coating from an air atmosphere on that side of the coating facing away from the substrate with a flow density which, proceeding from the equilibrium state of the quantity of water molecules absorbed in the substrate in an air atmosphere at 23° C. and 50% relative humidity, brings the setting of the equilibrium state of the quantity of water molecules absorbed in the substrate in an air atmosphere at 40° C. and 95% relative humidity within an interval not more than 10 h longer than for setting this equilibrium under corresponding conditions with an identical uncoated substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Hugenberg, Markus Haidl, Bernhard von Blanckenhagen, Lothar Holz, Stefan Kraus, Frank Macionczyk, Michael Krause, Erwin Green, Karl-Heinz Winter, Thomas Gloege, Silvia Faul, Anja Petereit, Bin Peng, Joerg Puetz, Patrick Kiefer, Adalbert Hanssen, Michael Krieger, Andreas Neuffer, Marc Stroisch
  • Publication number: 20140016083
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Frank Macionczyk, Simon Holtmann
  • Patent number: 8356808
    Abstract: An apparatus for turning over an article (12) in a vacuum coating system includes a holder (10) for the article (12), which is mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation (23) on a carrier. The apparatus further includes a turnover device (2, 4, 28) turning over the holder (10) by rotation about the axis of rotation (23) by utilizing a force generator. The turnover device (2, 4, 28) generates a force which turns over the holder (10) without mechanical coupling and without movable mechanical components between the turnover device (2, 4, 28) and the holder (10). A method of turning over an article (12) and for using the device or the method for turning over, in particular a plastic ophthalmic lens (12), is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Macionczyk
  • Publication number: 20090206535
    Abstract: An apparatus for turning over an article (12) in a vacuum coating system includes a holder (10) for the article (12), which is mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation (23) on a carrier. The apparatus further includes a turnover device (2, 4, 28) turning over the holder (10) by rotation about the axis of rotation (23) by utilizing a force generator. The turnover device (2, 4, 28) generates a force which turns over the holder (10) without mechanical coupling and without movable mechanical components between the turnover device (2, 4, 28) and the holder (10). A method of turning over an article (12) and for using the device or the method for turning over, in particular a plastic ophthalmic lens (12), is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventor: Frank Macionczyk