Abstract: An optical system, an eyewear device, and a method of manufacturing the optical system, the optical system comprises a wafer and an optical element. The wafer and the optical element are bonded to each other by an adhesive material, and the wafer has a perimeter shoulder.

Abstract: An ophthalmic device satisfying a prescription for at least one power correction for a wearer, a method for manufacturing the ophthalmic device, and a method for applying a semi-finished hybrid ophthalmic lens. The ophthalmic device includes at least one electro-active cell which includes a rear shell and a front shell defining a backside surface and an opposite front surface, the shells being provided with transparent electrodes and delimiting a sealed cavity. The rear shell derives from a semi-finished hybrid ophthalmic lens including a front mineral part having a first mineral face proximal to the front shell and a second mineral face opposite to the first mineral face, and a rear plastic part attached to the front mineral part.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes optical articles comprising a film layer that has first and second film surfaces and is embossed such that the first film surface defines a plurality of concave optical elements and the second film surface defines a plurality of convex optical elements. The present optical articles can include one or more optical layers coupled to the film layer. Each of the optical layer(s) can encapsulate the concave optical elements or the convex optical elements.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes an optical article for use with an eyewear apparatus. In some implementations, the optical article includes a single optical member having opposing first and second lens surfaces and a magnet coupled to the optical member and configured to be coupled to a frame of an eyewear apparatus. The optical article may also include a mounting bracket coupled to the optical member and configured to be coupled to the frame of the eyewear apparatus.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an eyewear skeleton to be integrated into an active eyewear adapted for a wearer, including at least two elements selected among the following elements: a lens housing, and/or at least one temple, and/or at least one optical lens. At least part of the two elements is to be dressed by at least one dressing element, each of the at least two elements including at least one electronic component, the at least one electronic component of the at least two elements interacting one with the other.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes optical articles comprising a film layer that has first and second film surfaces and is embossed such that the first film surface defines a plurality of concave optical elements and the second film surface defines a plurality of convex optical elements. The present optical articles can include one or more optical layers coupled to the film layer. Each of the optical layer(s) can encapsulate the concave optical elements or the convex optical elements.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes optical articles comprising a lens having first and second lens surfaces and a protective layer having first and second protective surfaces that is coupled to the lens such that the first protective surface is disposed on the second lens surface. The optical article can comprise a plurality of convex or concave optical elements defined on the second lens surface or the first protective surface. The protective layer can have a maximum thickness larger than a maximum height of each of the optical elements such that the protective layer encapsulates the optical elements.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes optical articles comprising a lens having first and second lens surfaces and a protective layer having first and second protective surfaces that is coupled to the lens such that the first protective surface is disposed on the second lens surface. The optical article can comprise a plurality of convex or concave optical elements defined on the second lens surface or the first protective surface. The protective layer can have a maximum thickness larger than a maximum height of each of the optical elements such that the protective layer encapsulates the optical elements.

Abstract: A method and an optical system adapted for a wearer having an ophthalmic prescription. The optical system includes an optical device having a planar optical function, and an optical lens having an optical function based on the prescription of the wearer. The rear face of the optical device is attached to the front face of the optical lens, the optical device having at least one mechanical reference so as to allow an accurate relative position of the optical device and the optical lens.

Abstract: An optical device for a wearer intended to form an electrochromic ophthalmic lens, spectacle glasses comprising two such lenses fitted on a frame, and a method for manufacturing such an optical device. The optical device includes at least one electrochromic cell which has a rear shell and a front shell respectively defining for the optical device a backside surface proximal to at least one eye of the wearer and an opposite front surface, the rear shell and the front shell being provided with at least one pair of transparent electrodes and delimiting a sealed cavity filled with an electrochromic composition. One of the front shell and the rear shell includes a mineral glass substrate, and the other one includes an organic polymeric substrate, and the electrochromic cell forms a hybrid mineral-organic ophthalmic lens selected from plano lenses and prescription lenses satisfying a prescription for power correction.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes optical articles comprising a lens having first and second lens surfaces and a protective layer having first and second protective surfaces that is coupled to the lens such that the first protective surface is disposed on the second lens surface. The optical article can comprise a plurality of convex or concave optical elements defined on the second lens surface or the first protective surface. The protective layer can have a maximum thickness larger than a maximum height of each of the optical elements such that the protective layer encapsulates the optical elements.

Abstract: An optical system, an eyewear device, and a method of manufacturing the optical system, the optical system comprises a wafer and an optical element. The wafer and the optical element are bonded to each other by an adhesive material, and the wafer has a perimeter shoulder.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes optical articles comprising a lens having first and second lens surfaces and a protective layer having first and second protective surfaces that is coupled to the lens such that the first protective surface is disposed on the second lens surface. The optical article can comprise a plurality of convex or concave optical elements defined on the second lens surface or the first protective surface. The protective layer can have a maximum thickness larger than a maximum height of each of the optical elements such that the protective layer encapsulates the optical elements.

Abstract: Disclosed is a holding system for supporting a wafer having a first surface, a second surface and a third surface joining the first and second surfaces, and an optical element having a first surface, a second surface and a third surface joining the first and second surfaces, the holding system including: a support including first support unit configured to support the second and/or third surface of the wafer and second support unit configured to support the second and/or third surface of the optical element; a positioning unit configured to position the second surface of the wafer relative to the first surface of the optical element; and a mechanical unit configured to move the first and second support units one relative to the other so as to move the second surface of the wafer and the first surface of the optical element to form an optical system.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ophthalmic device (1) satisfying a prescription for at least one power correction for a wearer, to a method for manufacturing it and to a use of a semi-finished hybrid ophthalmic lens. The device comprises at least one electro-active cell (3) which comprises a rear shell (4) and a front shell (5) defining for the device a backside surface and an opposite front surface, the shells (4 and 5) being provided with transparent electrodes and delimiting a sealed cavity.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical article including the following steps: a. providing a first substrate with a main surface, b. depositing a second substrate on the main surface with an adhesive layer so that the space between the first substrate and second substrate is filled by the adhesive layer, c. curing the adhesive layer to induce a polymerization of the adhesive layer, wherein a tension step takes place after steps a. and b., and before step c., the tension step including applying symmetrically a tension, preferentially with a central symmetry, preferentially a radial isotropic tension or an ortho-distributed symmetrical tension, on the edges of the second substrate sensibly in a tension plan parallel to a plan representative of the main surface.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes optical articles comprising a lens having first and second lens surfaces and a protective layer having first and second protective surfaces that is coupled to the lens such that the first protective surface is disposed on the second lens surface. The optical article can comprise a plurality of convex or concave optical elements defined on the second lens surface or the first protective surface. The protective layer can have a maximum thickness larger than a maximum height of each of the optical elements such that the protective layer encapsulates the optical elements.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes an optical article for use with an eyewear apparatus. In some implementations, the optical article includes a single optical member having opposing first and second lens surfaces and a magnet coupled to the optical member and configured to be coupled to a frame of an eyewear apparatus. The optical article may also include a mounting bracket coupled to the optical member and configured to be coupled to the frame of the eyewear apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical device usable in a head-mounted display which comprises a light conducting element and at least one wafer, and to a head-mounted device which is configured to provide an informative display of augmented reality for a wearer of the head-mounted device and which comprises such an optical device. This optical device (1) comprises: a light conducting element (4) which has two first and second opposite main faces (4a and 4b) and which inputs and conducts by total internal reflections a light (6) received from the light source (5) and partially outputs it out of said element, at least one wafer (2, 3) which comprises an internal surface (2a, 3a) facing a said first main face of said light conducting element, and interposition means in contact with said first main face and said internal surface and defining a gap (11a, 11b) optically isolating said element.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes optical articles comprising a lens having first and second lens surfaces and a protective layer having first and second protective surfaces that is coupled to the lens such that the first protective surface is disposed on the second lens surface. The optical article can comprise a plurality of convex or concave optical elements defined on the second lens surface or the first protective surface. The protective layer can have a maximum thickness larger than a maximum height of each of the optical elements such that the protective layer encapsulates the optical elements.