EP2145730A1 - Verfahren und entsprechende Vorrichtung zum Halten und Lösen von Linsen - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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- This invention relates to a lens blocking and deblocking method and device for use in adhering an optical lens to a lens blocking device employed with machining, grinding and processing equipment in the generation of optical, namely ophthalmic, lenses.
- the process of preparing optical or ophthalmic lenses begins usually with an unfinished or semi-finished glass or plastic lens blank.
- a semi-finished lens blank has a finished polished front surface and an unfinished back surface.
- the required corrective prescription is generated.
- the surface having had the corrective prescription imparted thereto is polished and the peripheral edge of the thus processed lens blank is provided with a final desired contour thereby establishing a finished optical or ophthalmic lens.
- the finished ophthalmic lens can be directly processed from a lens blank using for example three directional machining.
- the lens blank can be either a plastic or a glass lens blank.
- lens blocking It is necessary during these various processing operations to securely maintain the lens blank in accurate alignment and in place on the lens blocking device. This procedure is often referred to as "lens blocking".
- Cadmium poisoning is similar to lead in many ways and is introduced into the body in the same way as lead. Like lead, cadmium is stored in the liver, kidney and bone. Procedures for the formulation of such alloys and reclamation processes so as to enable its re-use as a material to secure a lens blank to a lens block thus exposes workers to serious environmental and health hazards.
- the formation of these alloys often is accomplished through the use of powdered or particulate metals which are subjected to a sintering and heat treating process. Fumes and/or dust particles of these metals are released to the ambient atmosphere thereby creating environmental and health hazards for those formulating these alloys. The same hazards exist for those attempting to reclaim the used low temperature metal alloy blocking material.
- organic low shrinkage materials have been developed to be used as lens blocking materials.
- Patent US 6,036,313 in the name of 3M Innovative Properties Company discloses examples of compound families suitable for lens blocking with thermoplastic materials.
- the disclosed blocking compositions have many advantages over traditional metal alloy materials.
- the lens blocking compositions are non-toxic, environmentally safe, and preferably biodegradable.
- the materials preferably can be used with existing processing equipment and may be recycled.
- An optical lens blocking device can be used that comprises a solidified mass of a thermoplastic blocking composition.
- the blocking composition is solid at 21°C and has a low melting or softening point.
- thermoplastic blocking composition separating the thermoplastic blocking composition from the lens blank is an issue.
- This deblocking step comprises ordinarily a hammering step and a crack is generated at the interface between the thermoplastic blocking composition and the lens blank.
- Said step needs an operator, is often made after separating the ophthalmic lens block from the machine, is time consuming and may introduce defects on the final lens.
- the goal of the present invention is to improve blocking and/or deblocking methods to enhance the quality of resulting lens.
- the third layer consisting of an adhesive tape is arranged on the second layer consisting of a layer comprising a thermoplastic material and the optical lens is arranged on the third layer when the thermoplastic material of the second layer is soften or melted.
- the invention also relates to an optical lens blocking device comprising:
- An optical lens can be placed on the third layer of said optical lens blocking device before or after placing the third layer on the second layer consisting of a layer comprising a thermoplastic material.
- lens blocking device of the invention which can be considered alone or in all possible combinations:
- the invention also relates to a method for deblocking an optical lens which bottom surface is secured on a previously mentioned optical lens blocking device or according to previously mentioned method for blocking, comprising the steps of:
- step a) of the deblocking method consists in heating only the bottom part of the holding unit.
- This invention also relates to a method of machining, such as for example grinding and/or polishing and/or edging and/or engraving, an optical lens comprising the steps of:
- a "layer comprising a thermoplastic material” is a layer of material that can melt or soften when being heated.
- a thermoplastic material can be remelted or softened when heated and remoulded when cooling after melting or softening.
- Most thermoplastics are high molecular weight polymers whose chains associate through weak van der Waals forces (polyethylene); strong dipole-dipole interactions and hydrogen bonding (nylon); or even stacking of aromatic rings (polystyrene).
- Many thermoplastic materials are addition polymers; e.g., vinyl chain-growth polymers such as polyethylene and polypropylene.
- the layer comprising a thermoplastic material may also comprise additives (such as, for example, plasticizers, stabilizers, pigments, ...) and/or fillers (such as mineral and / or organic fillers, as for examples boron, carbon, clay, glass, cellulose, metals, oxides, aramide, polyamide, ...; fillers may be of different geometry, such as for example grains, lamella, short or long fibers, .
- additives such as, for example, plasticizers, stabilizers, pigments, .
- fillers such as mineral and / or organic fillers, as for examples boron, carbon, clay, glass, cellulose, metals, oxides, aramide, polyamide, ...
- fillers may be of different geometry, such as for example grains, lamella, short or long fibers, .
- an "optical lens” may be a lens which surfaces have already been machined, a semi-finished lens blank with a polished front surface, a lens blank with two unfinished surfaces.
- the optical lens can be made for example, but not limited to, of plastic or glass. More generally, any combination of material suitable to obtain an optical system may be used. One or two surfaces of the optical lens may be coated.
- an "optical lens" of the invention can be every optical part that needs to be machined, as for example to be cut and/or grinded and/or polished and/or edged and/or engraved, in order to provide a machined optical lens.
- a fully machined optical lens according to the present invention is for example an ophthalmic lens which surfaces form an optical system that fits a desired prescription.
- Said machined optical lens can be edged when blocked according to the present invention or edged in a further processing step, as for an example edged by an eye care practitioner.
- a "heat conducting holding unit” is a holding unit that can be inserted in the chuck or fixing part of a holding tool.
- Said holding tool may be part of a lathe or other movement inducing machine.
- the holding unit of the invention is heat conducting and can be a metallic part or any material suitable to let the heat propagate through said material.
- the holding unit is made of aluminium alloy.
- selected fixing means are provided to fix an optical lens on a holding unit.
- Said fixing means consist of three stacked layers, where the first layer consists of an adhesive tape, the second layer consists of a layer comprising a thermoplastic material and the third layer consists of an adhesive tape.
- the selected stacked layers afford a simple and efficient blocking device and/or method and afford easy deblocking, namely when heating the holding unit so as to soften or melt the thermoplastic material of the second layer.
- the optical lens can thus be blocked and/or deblocked without damage and the inventors have noticed that ophthalmic lenses manufactured using the blocking and/or deblocking method according to the present invention have undamaged and quality reliable optical surfaces.
- the quantity of material of the second layer may be limited and said material may be reused after deblocking the machined optical lens.
- the layer comprising a thermoplastic material may be prepared as an independent layer arranged on the first layer consisting of an adhesive tape and shaped on said tape by soft heating or be poured from a warm device onto the upper surface of the first layer consisting of an adhesive tape.
- the wording "upper” or “on” and “bottom” or “under” indicates positions relative to the optical lens when it is arranged so as the edge of the optical lens to be machined is substantially situated in a horizontal plane.
- Said position is purely conventional and the optical lens can be machined in a non horizontal position.
- an optical lens 100 is secured on a holding unit 200 thanks to fixing means 300.
- the edge of said optical lens 100 is substantially situated in a horizontal plane.
- the upper surface 110 of the optical lens 100 is a surface to be machined, as for an example to be grinded and/or polished.
- the optical lens 100 can be further edged.
- the bottom surface 120 of the optical lens 100 contacts the upper surface of the fixing means 300.
- the optical lens 100 is a semi-finished lens blank and the bottom surface 120 is a finished optical surface.
- the external diameter of the optical lens 100 is between 50 mm and 100 mm, for example equal to 80 mm.
- the holding unit 200 is a metallic part which comprises a bottom part 230, 220 and an upper part 250.
- the lower part 230 of bottom part comprises means to orientate the holding unit in corresponding orientating means of a tool (not represented) of a lens machining unit such as a lathe or another movement inducing machine.
- Said tool may be a chuck or another fixing tool.
- Internal surface 240 of the holding unit may contact an upper surface of said tool.
- the bottom part of the holding unit also comprises a central part 220 which is a cylindrical part to be squeezed by said fixing tool of the machining unit.
- Upper part 250 has an external diameter larger than the diameter of the central part 220 and its bottom surface 255 may lay on the upper surface of the tool of the lens machining unit and may comprise positioning means.
- the upper part 250 also comprises an upper assembling surface 210.
- the diameter of the upper part 250 is 70 mm
- the diameter of the central part 220 is 43 mm
- the height of the holding unit 200 is between 20 and 30 mm.
- Fixing means 300 are arranged between the upper assembling surface 210 and the bottom surface 120 of the optical lens and consists of three stacked layers where:
- the thermoplastic material of the second layer 310 melts or softens at a low temperature, less than the temperature at which the material(s) of the lens component may degrades or flows.
- the melting or softening point of the thermoplastic material is between 45°C and 75°C.
- Suitable thermoplastic material may be selected from the group consisting of polyesters, polyurethanes, ionomer resins of ethylene copolymers, polyester-polysiloxane block copolymers, segmented copolyesters and polyetheresters, ethylene vinyl acetate resins and copolymers, waxes, polycaprolactones, and blends thereof.
- thermoplastic material may comprise a homopolymer or copolymer of epsilon-caprolactone.
- thermoplastic materials are given in previously cited patent US 6,036,313 and are suitable for the present invention.
- the adhesive tapes 320, 330 have a pressure-sensitive adhesive surface and a tack-free adhesion promoting surface.
- the tapes 320, 330 assist in the firm bonding of the optical lens 100 to the thermoplastic material layer 310 and to the holding unit assembling surface 210.
- the tapes are conformable, that is, they follow the curvature of the lens blanks without any wrinkles or air bubbles; and translucent, that is, they permit light to pass there through.
- the lens may be visually aligned in the appropriate device prior to blocking.
- the tapes when removed from the lens, they leave virtually no adhesive residue. Thus, messy and time consuming cleaning operations need not be performed on the lens before it can be used.
- suitable tapes may exhibit excellent adhesion to the optical lens, to the thermoplastic material and to the holding unit. Additionally, the tapes may be able to withstand the shear forces encountered during the machining operations. As a result, lenses are held in accurate position throughout these operations.
- An added benefit offered by using an adhesive tape is the protection provided to the optical lenses from thermal and mechanical shock.
- composition of the exposed surface of the tape i.e., the non-adhesive surface away from the optical lens or from the upper assembling surface of the holding unit
- the composition of the exposed surface of the tape may be selected so as to achieve the desired degree of adhesion with a particular thermoplastic material.
- tapes commercialized by the company 3M and referred as 1640 and 1641 are particularly suitable.
- a 1641 adhesive tape commercialized by the company 3M comprises a baking made of polyethylene film covered by an acrylate adhesive.
- the upper surface 312 of the thermoplastic material layer 310 is heated, for example with UV or IR lamps, so as to let a zone of the thermoplastic material layer melt or soften.
- the optical lens 100 is then placed onto the adhesive tape 320 arranged on the partly molten or soften thermoplastic material layer and moderate pressure is applied onto the lens component.
- the optical lens is securely blocked after the cooling of the thermoplastic material and the optical lens is machined using conventional tools to provide grinding and/or polishing and/or edging.
- the thermoplastic material is previously heated and then poured on the upper surface 332 of the adhesive tape 330, the adhesive tape 320 is arranged on the upper surface 312 of the thermoplastic material layer 310 and moderate pressure is applied on the optical lens 100 arranged on said layer 310 when the thermoplastic material is still at least partly melted or softened.
- the adhesive tape 320 is previously arranged on the bottom surface 120 of the optical lens 100 and moderate pressure is applied on the optical lens 100 with said adhesive tape 320 when the thermoplastic material of layer 310 is at least partly melted or softened. Melting or softening said thermoplastic material can be achieved by heating it, for example with UV or IR lamps, or by pouring it when warm on the upper surface 332 of the adhesive tape 330.
- the machined optical lens is deblocked and detached from the holding unit 200.
- Consecutive deblocking steps are shown on figures 2 to 6 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Heating means 400 on figure 2 Heating means can be for example IR or UV lamps, as well as hot liquids, be provided by contacting a heated metal part or by other conductive heating means.
- only the bottom part of the holding unit 200 is directly heated by the heating means and the heat propagates then through the holding unit to the upper part 250 thanks to heat conduction.
- Heating the holding unit 200 makes possible to deblock the optical lens without significant heating of the optical lens.
- thermoplastic material layer 310 After heating the bottom surface 314 of the thermoplastic material layer 310 thanks to conductive heating through the holding unit 200, a zone of thermoplastic material close to said surface 314 melts or softens and the separation of the thermoplastic material layer 310 from the adhesive tape 330 is very easy when pulling according to arrow 510 as shown on figure 3 .
- the holding unit 200 and the first layer consisting of the adhesive tape 330 remain together.
- the optical lens 100, the third layer consisting of the adhesive tape 320 and the thermoplastic material layer 310 remain together.
- the third layer consisting of the adhesive tape 320 is peeled or pulled according to arrow 520 and the third layer and the thermoplastic material layer remain together after being separated from the optical lens 100.
- the third layer consisting of the adhesive tape 320 can then be easily removed from the upper surface 312 of the thermoplastic material layer 310 when said layer is pulled according to arrow 530 as shown on figure 5 .
- the thermoplastic material can be rapidly reused to prepare another lens blocking device.
- the first layer consisting of the adhesive tape 330 can be easily removed from the upper assembling surface 210 of the holding unit 200 by peeling or pulling said adhesive tape 330 according to arrow 540 as shown on figure 6 .
- the holding unit can be rapidly reused to prepare another lens blocking device.
- thermoplastic material as well as the holding unit are not contaminated during the blocking / machining / deblocking steps and are immediately reusable.
- the present invention provides a method for blocking and/or deblocking all kinds of optical lenses, particularly ophthalmic lenses, e.g. single vision (spherical, torical), bi-focal, progressive, aspherical lenses (etc..), semi-finished optical lenses and/or blanks, blanks for manufacturing optical lenses.
- ophthalmic lenses e.g. single vision (spherical, torical), bi-focal, progressive, aspherical lenses (etc..), semi-finished optical lenses and/or blanks, blanks for manufacturing optical lenses.
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EP08160603A EP2145730A1 (de) | 2008-07-17 | 2008-07-17 | Verfahren und entsprechende Vorrichtung zum Halten und Lösen von Linsen |
EP09797475A EP2321092B1 (de) | 2008-07-17 | 2009-07-10 | Verfahren und entsprechende vorrichtung zum halten und lösen von linsen |
US13/054,622 US20110124272A1 (en) | 2008-07-17 | 2009-07-10 | Lens Blocking and Deblocking Method and Related Device |
PCT/EP2009/058806 WO2010006995A1 (en) | 2008-07-17 | 2009-07-10 | Lens blocking and deblocking method and related device |
PT97974752T PT2321092E (pt) | 2008-07-17 | 2009-07-10 | Método de compactação e de descompactação de bloco de lente e dispositivo relacionado |
PL09797475T PL2321092T3 (pl) | 2008-07-17 | 2009-07-10 | Sposób i odpowiednie urządzenie do blokowania i odblokowania soczewki |
CN200980132867.XA CN102123824B (zh) | 2008-07-17 | 2009-07-10 | 镜片锁闭和解锁的方法和相关装置 |
BRPI0916220A BRPI0916220A2 (pt) | 2008-07-17 | 2009-07-10 | método de bloqueio e desbloqueio de lente e dispositivo relacionado |
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