Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nissan Chemical Industries Limited

Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Incorporated

Kureha Chemical Industry Company, Limited

Teruo Sakagami

Naohiro Murayama

Hiroki Katono

Takeo Ogihara

Noriyuki Arakawa

Yasufumi Fujii

Masuhiro Shouji

Makoto Fukuda

Kenichi Nakamura

Hideaki Doi

Shirou Suzuki

Masuhiro Shoji

Takayuki Katto

Yo Iizuka

Yoshikichi Teramoto

Toshio Enoki

Yoshikazu Kokubu

Katsuichi Machida

Nobuhiro Watanabe

Akira Saito

Hiroshi Hasebe

Yukio Ichikawa

Tadaaki Kato

Shoichiro Hayashi

Osamu Tanegashima

Hiroshi Obara

Haruko Kakutani

Masakatsu Wagu

Toru Hirai

Ken'ichi Nakamura

Haruyoshi Takatu

Sirou Sujuki

Kenichi Kokubun

An absorber of rays outside the visible region. The absorber includes a base made of a transparent synthetic resin with electroconductive anhydrous zinc antimonate incorporated therein; or a base made of a transparent synthetic resin with a layer formed of a synthetic resin and electroconductive anhydrous zinc antimonate incorporated therein, for absorbing rays outside the visible region, being disposed on a surface of the base; or wherein the layer is formed by depositing electron conductive anhydrous zinc antimonate powder on a surface of the base made of a transparent synthetic resin. The electroconductive anhydrous zinc antimonate can be a powder having a molar ratio of ZnO to Sb,O,of 0.8 to 1.2 and a primary particle size of 5 to 200 nm. The light transmittances of the absorber are high in the visible region and low in both the ultraviolet and infrared wavelength regions.

Method of absorbing rays outside a visible region

Plastic lens material and process for preparing the same

A polymeric optical low-pass filter of the birefringent type is provided which is lightweight and small, and which can be easily produced. Also provided are a polymeric optical low-pass filter device including the polymeric optical low-pass filter; and a composite optical filter including the polymeric optical low-pass filter. The optical low-pass filter comprises an optically anisotropic polymer film in which the displacement distance S between the ordinary ray and the extraordinary ray represented by the following formula is 1-70 .mu.m:

Polymeric optical low-pass filter and device thereof

A component optical filter and a process for production of the filter includes the steps of arranging a pair of transparent plates, at least one of which has an optical low-pass filtering function, to oppose each other with a gap therebetween and filling the gap with a monomer composition of the formula PO(OH).sub.n R.sub.3 -n wherein R is a polymerizable functional group represented by CH.sub.2 .dbd.CXCOO(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.m- and (c) a metallic compound composed of a copper compound, and then subjecting the monomer composition to a polymerization treatment. The result is a laminated composite filter having at least one optical low-pass filter and an intermediate layer forming a luminosity factor-compensating filter.

Production process of composite optical filter

Plastic lens and production process thereof

Disclosed herein is a plastic optical material, which has excellent glare-proofness and transparency and is low in the degree of coloring. The plastic optical material of the invention comprises a polymer containing a phosphate group and a trivalent neodymium ion therein, wherein the polymer further contains at least one metal ion selected from the group consisting of a trivalent praseodymium ion and a trivalent holmium ion. The phosphate group may preferably be chemically bonded to a molecular structure constituting the polymer. In particularly, the polymer may preferably be a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing a monomer represented by the following formula I:

Plastic optical material

Disclosed herein is an infrared-blocking optical filter having optical properties that the transmittance to rays in a visible region is excellent while rays in a near infrared region, particularly, in a wavelength range longer than 1200 nm are cut off or attenuated with high efficiency. The infrared-blocking optical filter includes a transparent substrate and either of the following infrared-blocking film (A) and (B) provided on a surface of the transparent substrate. Film (A): an infrared-blocking film formed on a synthetic resin in which fine powder of metal oxide material composed of indium oxide and/or tin oxide is dispersed; and Film (B): an infrared-blocking film formed of a deposit of a metal oxide material composed of indium oxide and/or tin oxide. The infrared-blocking film may be formed on a transparent support member to constitute an infrared-blocking composite film which is provided on a surface of the transparent substrate to form an infrared-blocking optical filter.

Infrared-blocking optical fiber

Disclosed herein are plastic optical materials having properties that rays in a specific visible range are absorbed, being low in specific gravity and easy to conduct processing or machining, and having excellent glare-proofness. One of the plastic optical material comprises an acrylic polymer containing a specific phosphate group represented by the formula PO(OH).sub.n -- (n being 1 or 2) of 0.5-60%, and a metal ion component comprising a neodymium ion of 0.04-10 parts based on 100 parts of the acrylic polymer, and has properties that rays in a wavelength range about 580 nm are absorbed. Another plastic optical material comprises 100 parts of the same acrylic polymer, and 0.1-12 parts of a metal ion component composed of a manganese ion in a predominant amount and a neodymium ion, and has properties that rays in wavelength ranges of 400-500 nm and 555-605 nm are absorbed with high efficiency. This plastic optical material is particularly suitable for use in plastic lenses for sunglasses. A production process of the material is also disclosed which comprises the step of polymerizing a monomer mixture composed of a specific phosphate group-containing monomer and at least one copolymerizable monomer in the presence of at least one metallic compound of the desired kind and proportion.

Plastic optical material and production process thereof

Disclosed herein is a plastic optical filter which has a combined optical function that it has an effect of effectively blocking or attenuating rays in the wavelength range of a near infrared region and excellent luminosity factor-compensating ability and is provided with an optical low-pass filtering function, and is low in specific gravity and hygroscopicity, free from devitrification with time and easy to conduct its processing or machining and polishing treatment. This plastic optical filter includes a filter base formed of a plastic material comprising a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing a monomer represented by the following formula I:

Plastic optical filter

Disclosed herein is an optical filter comprising: a resin material obtained by copolymerizing a monomer represented by the following formula (I) and a monomer copolymerizable therewith; and a metallic compound mainly composed of a copper compound;

Process for producing an optical filter

Optical filter

An optical material of a high refractive index is formed of a copolymer obtained by polymerizing 10-90 wt. % of a monomer represented by the following formula (I) and 90-10 wt. % of a monomer copolymerizable with the first-mentioned monomer. ##STR1## wherein R is a hydrogen atom or methyl group.

Optical material formed by casting polymerization of a phenyl phosphine

Disclosed herein is a photochromic compound comprising a spirooxazine compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 means an alkyl, allyl or alkoxyalkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl or aryloxyalkyl group, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 individually denote a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 stand individually for a hydrogen or halogen atom, or an alkyl, alkoxy, hydroxy, alkoxyalkyl, or substituted or unsubstituted amino group. A photochromic composition comprising the photochromic compound and a phenol derivative, fluorine-containing alcohol or hindered amine type light stabilizer is also disclosed.

Spirooxazine photochromic compounds

An optical material of a high refractive index is formed of a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing 3-40 wt. % of 4-isopropenylbiphenyl, 30-97 wt. % of a monofunctional aromatic monomer represented by the following formula (I) or (II) and 0-67 wt. % of another monomer copolymerizable with 4-isopropenylbiphenyl and the monofunctional aromatic monomer. ##STR1## wherein R means a hydrogen atom or methyl group, X denotes ##STR2## in which n stands for an integer of 0-3, Y is a halogen atom other than a fluorine atom, or a methyl, hydroxyl or methoxy group, and m stands for an integer of 0-3, with the proviso that Y may be different from each other when m is 2 or 3.

Optical material

An optical material formed of a copolymer is disclosed. The copolymer is obtained by polymerizing a monomer composition composed of a particular N-substituted trifunctional monomer having a triazine ring structure and a monomer copolymerizable with the isocyanurate. Where the copolymerizable monomer is a specific aliphatic bifunctional monomer, the monomer composition additionally contains a further monomer which is copolymerizable with the aforementioned components and contains at least one ethylenically-unsaturated group.

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Teruo Sakagami