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Opthalmic lens

US5124734A · kind A · utility

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31Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMar 28, 1990
Grant dateJun 23, 1992
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 28, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02C7/085
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An ophthalmic lens that includes a construction that provides a static grading or some other means that yields a nonuniform power function which depends on the surface of the lens. The lens also includes a selectively operable element that effects a dynamic change in the power of the lens which is a uniform or nonuniform function of the location point on the lens. The actual power of any point on the lens is then the super position of the power due to static grating and the power due to the selectively operable element. The proper design of each power function facilitates ophthalmic lenses that are suitable and optimized for special applications as well as for general purpose usage.

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