Nidek Co., Ltd.

Kenichi Kamata

Tetsuo Yamada

Minoru Inuzuka

Minoru Inuduka

A subsystem for producing a dye base body used for dyeing a spectacle lens is disclosed. This subsystem includes a camera which photographs the face of a customer, a color memory which stores a plurality of color data, a color selection device for selecting a desired color data from among the plurality of color data stored in the color memory, a display controller for controlling a display to display an image of the customer's face photographed by the camera and coloring a lens area of a displayed spectacle frame image in accordance with the selected color data, a printer for printing using sublimatable dye contained therein, and a print controller for controlling the printer to print a predetermined shape with the dye on a printing base body in accordance with the selected color data to produce the dye base body.

Subsystem of producing dye base body used for dyeing of spectacle lenses and a spectacle lens dyeing system including the dye base body producing subsystem

A method and system for dyeing a plastic lens by printing a colored layer ( ) on a print base body ( ) with a dyeing solvent by using a printer ( ) electrically controlled, the dyeing solvent containing a dissolved or fine-grained dispersed sublimatable dye, then, placing the print base body having the colored layer in a position where the colored layer faces a plastic lens ( ) to be dyed without contact therewith, and heating the print base body in a vacuum to sublimate the dye from the colored layer and deposit the sublimated dye on the lens.

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Kyoto, Japan

Kenichi Kamata