Abstract:
An ink jet printing method of tinting a spectacle lens substrate comprising the steps: (a) providing a spectacle lens substrate having a front surface and a back surface, wherein said spectacle lens substrate can be precoated, (b) printing droplets of at least a first inkjet printing ink (PI1) to form at least a first layer (L1) and droplets of at least a second inkjet printing ink (PI2) to form at least a second layer (L2) on at least one of said front surface and back surface, wherein at least one of said at least first inkjet printing ink (PI1) and said at least second inkjet printing ink (PI2) is colored, said at least first layer (L1) and said at least second layer (L2), each covering fully or partially at least one of said front surface and back surface, forming a stack which covers at least one of said front surface and back surface, wherein said at least first layer (L1) and said at least second layer (L2) are at least partially overlapping in said stack, (c) curing said at least first layer (L1) and said at least second layer (L2) together in a combined curing step. Moreover the invention is directed to a tinted spectacle lens having a front surface and a back surface wherein said tinted spectacle lens comprises a color design on at least one of said front surface and back surface, said color design is selected from the group consisting of a non-linear color gradient, contoured di- or polychromatic pattern, contoured di- or polychromatic figure, di- or polychromatic alphabetic code, di- or polychromatic numerical code, di- or polychromatic alphanumerical code, and combinations thereof.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a novel method of producing a functional coating layer on an optical lens, and an optical lens including a functional coating layer formed thereon, produced by the method. Provided is a method of forming a functional coating layer on an optical lens including printing or coating a functional coating material on a base film to form a functional coating layer, drying or curing the functional coating layer, and transferring the dried or cured functional coating layer from the base film to an optical lens. In accordance with the present invention, functionality such as photochromism or self-healing can be imparted to the completed lens using an additional simple process. The method according to the present invention has a high production efficiency, can realize mass-production and can greatly reduce production costs, as compared to conventional methods.
Abstract:
A method for coloring an optical element in a non-uniform linear pattern is provided. The method includes (a) preparing at least one colorant composition containing at least one photochromic material; (b) depositing the colorant composition on at least one surface of the optical element in a controlled, predetermined pattern using an inkjet printing apparatus to provide a linearly gradient color pattern on the optical element when the optical element is exposed to actinic radiation; and (c) drying the colorant composition on the surface of the optical element. An optical element prepared by the method also is provided.
Abstract:
Provided is a method for producing an optical lens in which a processed pattern can be accurately formed on a lens surface at a predetermined position of a lens substrate without limiting the material. A mark adapted to perform position alignment is formed outside a lens region set in a lens substrate (11). A masking layer (21) is pattern-formed above one principal surface of the lens substrate (11) by an inkjet method while formation position of the masking layer (21) is controlled with the mark as a reference, wherein the masking layer (21) has an aperture pattern (21a) at a predetermined position in the lens region. A selective process with respect to a surface exposed from the aperture pattern (21a) of the masking layer (21) is performed by performing a process from above the masking layer (21). The masking layer (21) is removed from above the lens substrate (11) to form a transparent pattern (19a), as the processed pattern, by the selective process on the side of the one principal surface of the lens substrate (11).
Abstract:
Provided is a functional dyed spectacle lens obtained by dyeing at least one of the surfaces of an undyed plastic lens, characterized in that the density of the color formed by dyeing which is defined as a difference in luminous transmittance between the dyed lens and the plastic lens is 2-4% and the difference in average transmittance in the wavelength range of 530-570 nm between the dyed lens and the plastic lens is 3-5%.
Abstract:
A method and system for dyeing a plastic lens by printing a colored layer (2) on a print base body (3) with a dyeing solvent by using a printer (5) electrically controlled, the dyeing solvent containing a dissolved or fine-grained dispersed sublimatable dye, then, placing the print base body having the colored layer in a position where the colored layer faces a plastic lens (14) to be dyed without contact therewith, and heating the print base body in a vacuum to sublimate the dye from the colored layer and deposit the sublimated dye on the lens.
Abstract:
A dyeing device dyes a resin body by vaporizing and depositing a sublimation dye adhered to a dyeing base to a resin body provided in an installing unit and fixing the dye to the resin body. The dyeing device lowers the pressure inside a closed chamber that closes the periphery of the resin body by a pump (S27). In the state where the adhesion surface of the dyeing base to which the dye is adhered faces the resin body without contact, by heating the dye adhered to the dyeing base inside the closed chamber of which the pressure is lowered, the dye is sublimated, vaporized, and deposited on the resin body (S28). The pressure inside the closed chamber is raised higher than the pressure at the vaporizing and depositing time (S30). By irradiating the resin body on which the dye is vaporized and deposited with electromagnetic wave, the resin body is heated and the dye is and fixed (S36).
Abstract:
A method for preparing an optical element which colors in a non-uniform linear pattern is provided. The method includes (I) providing an optical element which previously has been treated with a photochromic composition containing at least one first photochromic material, the photochromic composition having an absorbance spectrum in the region of photochromic activation; (II) preparing at least one light-absorbing composition containing ultraviolet light absorber, a second photochromic material which is the same or different than the first photochromic material, or mixtures thereof, where the light-absorbing composition has an absorbance spectrum overlapping with that of the photochromic composition in the region of photochromic activation; (III) depositing the light-absorbing composition over the surface of the photochromic optical element in a controlled, predetermined pattern using an inkjet printing apparatus to provide a linearly gradient color pattern upon exposure to actinic radiation; (IV) and drying the composition. An optical element also is provided.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a novel method of producing a functional coating layer on an optical lens, and an optical lens including a functional coating layer formed thereon, produced by the method. Provided is a method of forming a functional coating layer on an optical lens including printing or coating a functional coating material on a base film to form a functional coating layer, drying or curing the functional coating layer, and transferring the dried or cured functional coating layer from the base film to an optical lens. In accordance with the present invention, functionality such as photochromism or self-healing can be imparted to the completed lens using an additional simple process. The method according to the present invention has a high production efficiency, can realize mass-production and can greatly reduce production costs, as compared to conventional methods.