Kabushiki Kaisha Hoya Lens

Akira Ikeda

Hayao Akaba

Masayoshi Lee

Sho Michihiro

An improved automatic lens grinding machine and process for shaping lenses to fit any particular glasses frame. The machine includes a recording assembly by which the pattern of a glasses frame which will hold a lens is recorded on a heat or photosensitive substrate. The paper and lens are mounted on a carriage assembly which is movable into and out of a grinding position adjacent a grinding assembly. When positioned in the grinding position, grinding is under control of a scanner assembly and a control circuit. Thus, the relevant process for automatically grinding a lens to fit any particular lens includes the steps of recording a desired pattern on a recording substrate, moving the lens into position to be ground, subsequently scanning the recorded pattern and generating signals indicating the presence or absence of the pattern earlier recorded on the heat or photosensitive substrate, sensing the contact pressure between the lens and the grinding stone and controlling the position for the lens to be ground with respect to a rotating grinder stone in response to the signals generated during the scanning and pressure sensing process.

Method for automatically grinding lenses

Automatic lens grinding machine

A servo system to permit the lens finishing for example, corresponding to a registered pattern and permit such finishing at desired pressure, etc. for the conveniences of the easy and effective grinding and finishing, in a manner that the detectors supply to the lower and upper limit voltage comparators the detectors outputs, which are then supplied to the logic circuits as well as the outputs for the servo-driving and the outputs from flip-flops, so that the servo motor rotates in normal and/or reverse directions.

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Fussa, Japan

Akira Ikeda