PHOTOCHROMIC LENS MANUFACTURING SYSTEM, PHOTOCHROMIC LENS MANUFACTURING DEVICE, PHOTOCHROMIC LENS MANUFACTURING PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PHOTOCHROMIC LENS MANUFACTURING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREUPON, AND PHOTOCHROMIC LENS MANUFACTURING METHOD

• Main Authors: IMIZU Takeshi, HASHIMOTO Toshikazu, OHTA Hiroshi, HIROSE Takamitsu
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 18.10.2017
• Subjects: ADHESIVES; CHEMISTRY; CONTACT LENSES; DYES; MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FORELSEWHERE; METALLURGY; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; NATURAL RESINS; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PAINTS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; POLISHES; PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCESIN A PLASTIC STATE; SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURESAS SPECTACLES; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

An object of the present invention is to make it possible to manufacture a photochromic lens on made-to-order basis within short time, without keeping a stack of the photochromic lens. A photochromic lens manufacturing system has an orderer side computer (101) and a manufacturer side computer (201) connected with each other through a communication line (300), and is adapted to manufacture a photochromic lens under control of the manufacturer side computer (201). The orderer side computer (101) transmits lens substrate data related to a substrate material of the lens, optical surface data related to optical surfaces of the lens, data related to the photochromic film and data related to a hard film to the manufacturer side computer (201) through the communication line (300). Further, the manufacturer side computer (201) includes: a lens substrate selecting means adapted to select a lens substrate having a suitable optical surface formed thereon based on the lens substrate data and the optical surface data received from the orderer side computer (201); a photochromic film forming data selecting means adapted to select forming data of the photochromic film based on the data related to the photochromic film, and output the selected data to a photochromic film forming device (202); and a hard film forming data selecting means adapted to select forming data of the hard film based on the data related to the hard film, and output the selected data to a hard film forming device (203).