Abstract:
A gel medium containing at least one non-aqueous solvent and a crosslinked polymer resulting from the reaction of a polyfunctional polymer containing at least two carboxyl moieties capable of undergoing crosslinking reactions, the polyfunctional polymer having a molecular weight from 2,000 g/mol to 3,000,000 g/mol, and a crosslinking agent chosen from a polycarbodiimide or a polyaziridine.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a multilayer structure for an electrochromic cell, to a electrochromic cell and an ophthalmic device incorporating the multilayer structure, to corresponding uses of the multilayer structure, and to methods for manufacturing the multilayer structure, the electrochromic cell and the ophthalmic device. The multilayer structure includes:—a transparent flexible substrate including a thermoplastic polymeric film, the flexible substrate having two main surfaces, at least one being configurated to be a barrier to oxygen, water vapor and/or solvents, and—a electrically conductive layer which surmounts the flexible substrate to form a flexible first part of the electrochromic cell, the electrically conductive layer being configured to form an electrode of the electrochromic cell and including a deformable electrically conductive nanostructure. The flexible first part is formed to a curved shape defined by a first curvature including at least one of a cylindrical, toric and spherical curvature.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a group of novel electrochromic materials. More specifically, it relates to electrochromic materials having two-core viologens and the use of these two-core viologens as a variable transmittance medium for the manufacture of an optical article, such as an ophthalmic lens.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing an ophthalmic element that comprises a vision base element (12) and a film structure (14) adhered to said vision base element allows limiting or suppressing wrinkles and delaminations. This method implements an auxetic part (27) within a sacrificial film portion (26) that belongs initially to the film structure. In this way, stresses generated in a useful area (24) of the film structure by the sacrificial film portion are reduced. The sacrificial film portion is then removed so that only the useful area of the film structure remains in the ophthalmic element.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a group of novel electrochromic compounds. More specifically, it relates to benzazoles and condensed azole compounds substituted with one or several pyridinium rings and the use of these compounds as a variable transmittance medium for the manufacture of an optical article, such as an ophthalmic lens.
Abstract:
An optical article including a substrate, and a holographic waveguide covering at least part of the substrate and including two main surfaces, at least one of them conforming to a surface of the substrate, and at least first and second zones that are configured so that light incoming on one of the first and second zones is at least partially guided towards the other of the first and second zones.
Abstract:
An optical article including a substrate, and a holographic waveguide covering at least part of the substrate and including two main surfaces, at least one of them conforming to a surface of the substrate, and at least first and second zones that are configured so that light incoming on one of the first and second zones is at least partially guided towards the other of the first and second zones.
Abstract:
An electrochromic cell including a chamber including an electrochromic formulation, and at least two electrodes that are part of the same electrochemical cell and that include a conducting material deposited on the inner surface of the chamber. At least one of the electrodes includes a layer of a transparent conductive oxide and a layer including a conductive polymer, the layer including a conductive polymer being the only part of the at least one electrode that is in contact with the electrochromic formulation.
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:
An electrically-controlled optical device intended to be placed in front of a user's eye, the electrically-controlled optical device being an ophthalmic device, the electrically-controlled optical device comprising: a front shell defining a front surface and a back surface opposed to the front surface, the front shell comprising a slab, at least one functional layer arranged on the back surface and one primer layer, said primer layer being arranged between the at least one functional layer and the slab; and an electrically-controlled object facing the back surface of the front shell wherein the primer layer is conformed such that the electrically-controlled optical device is mechanically resistant to an impact energy of at least 200 mJ.