EP0143468A2 - Procédé et dispositif pour meuler les bords - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour meuler les bords Download PDF

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EP0143468A2
EP0143468A2 EP84114476A EP84114476A EP0143468A2 EP 0143468 A2 EP0143468 A2 EP 0143468A2 EP 84114476 A EP84114476 A EP 84114476A EP 84114476 A EP84114476 A EP 84114476A EP 0143468 A2 EP0143468 A2 EP 0143468A2
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Atsushi C/O Tokyo Kogaku Kikai Hara
Nobuhiro C/O Tokyo Kogaku Kikai Isokawa
Yasuo C/O Tokyo Kogaku Kikai Suzuki
Yoshiyuki C/O Tokyo Kogaku Kikai Hatano
Hiroaki C/O Tokyo Kogaku Kikai Oogushi
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24B—MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
    • B24B9/00—Machines or devices designed for grinding edges or bevels on work or for removing burrs; Accessories therefor
    • B24B9/02—Machines or devices designed for grinding edges or bevels on work or for removing burrs; Accessories therefor characterised by a special design with respect to properties of materials specific to articles to be ground
    • B24B9/06—Machines or devices designed for grinding edges or bevels on work or for removing burrs; Accessories therefor characterised by a special design with respect to properties of materials specific to articles to be ground of non-metallic inorganic material, e.g. stone, ceramics, porcelain
    • B24B9/08—Machines or devices designed for grinding edges or bevels on work or for removing burrs; Accessories therefor characterised by a special design with respect to properties of materials specific to articles to be ground of non-metallic inorganic material, e.g. stone, ceramics, porcelain of glass
    • B24B9/14—Machines or devices designed for grinding edges or bevels on work or for removing burrs; Accessories therefor characterised by a special design with respect to properties of materials specific to articles to be ground of non-metallic inorganic material, e.g. stone, ceramics, porcelain of glass of optical work, e.g. lenses, prisms
    • B24B9/144—Machines or devices designed for grinding edges or bevels on work or for removing burrs; Accessories therefor characterised by a special design with respect to properties of materials specific to articles to be ground of non-metallic inorganic material, e.g. stone, ceramics, porcelain of glass of optical work, e.g. lenses, prisms the spectacles being used as a template

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  • the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for edging a spectacle lens so that it fits to a spectacle frame. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for grinding the edge portion of a spectacle lens in accordance with the shape of a spectacle frame.
  • a spectacle lens is ground at the edge portion before it is fitted to a spectacle frame so that its peripheral configuration conforms to the shape of the frame.
  • a template is usually prepared modeling the spectacle frame and the lens edge is ground copying the template.
  • the lens is ground directly copying the spectacle frame.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for edging a spectacle lens, in which accuracy of the edging work can be readily measured.
  • a method for grinding an edge portion of a spectacle lens comprising steps of digitally measuring a shape of a spectacle frame to which the lens is to be fitted to obtain first digital values of measurement, and grinding the edge portion of the lens based on the digital values to obtain a peripheral configuration of the lens which conforms to the shape of the spectacle frame.
  • further steps are carried out for digitally measuring the peripheral configuration of the lens which has been ground to obtain second digital values of measurement and comparing the first and second digital values to judge accuracy of the grinding.
  • the present invention further provides an apparatus for performing the aforementioned method.
  • an apparatus for grinding an edge portion of a spectacle lens comprising a grinding wheel rotatable about a first axis, driving means for rotating the grinding wheel about said first axis, a carriage including lens holding means for holding the lens and rotating it about a second axis, shifting means for controlling a spacing between said first and second axes in accordance with an angle of rotation of said lens, first measuring means including a rotating arm rotatable about a enter of rotation and a feeler provided on said arm and adapted to be moved along a shape of a spectacle frame to which the lens is to be fitted so as to measure digitally the shape of the spectacle frame in terms of a distance from said center of rotation of the rotating arm and an angle of rotation of said rotation arm, memorizing means for memorizing values obtained by measurements of said first measuring means, control means for controlling the angle of rotation of said lens and the spacing between said first and second axes in accordance with the values memorized in said memorizing means, second measuring means including a second feel
  • a grinding section in accordance with one embodiment of the lens edging apparatus of the present invention.
  • a grinding wheel 3 comprising a roughing wheel 3a, a beveling wheel 3b having a large V-shaped groove in its periphery, and a cylindric precision grinding wheel 3c, and the wheel 3 is secured on a shaft 5 having a pulley 4.
  • the pulley 4 is connected with a grinding motor 6 through a belt 7 so that the wheel 3 is rotated by the motor 6.
  • bearing members 10, 11 which are adapted to rotationally, axially-movably hold a carriage shaft 12.
  • One end of the carriage shaft 12 is rotationally mounted on a bearing member 21a provided on a later mentioned transfer station 20.
  • a work holding shaft 18 comprising a pair of shafts 18a, 18b for holding a lens LE to be edged.
  • the shaft 18a has an operation handle 19 at its end, and by rotation of the handle 19 the shaft 18a is slided along its axis so that the shafts 18a, 18b supports the lens LE between them.
  • a base plate 21 of the station 20 has a pair of wheels 22 which are adapted to roll on rails 23 secured on the housing 1 so that the station 20 is possible to move along the rails 23.
  • the station 20 has a female screw 24 to be engaged with a transfer male screw 41, which is rotated by a motor 40 so that the station 20 is moved in both directions as shown by an arrow 25.
  • the shaft 12, as mentioned above, is rotationally mounted on the member 21a, and therefore the carriage 13 horizontally moves simultaneously with the station 20.
  • the base plate 21 has two vertical shafts 26, 26' parallel to each other, which movable mount a stopping member 27.
  • the stopping member 27 has a female screw 28 to be engaged with a transfer male screw 43, which is rotated by a Z-axis motor 40 so that the stopping member 27 is upward or downward moved.
  • the carriage 13 also has an arm portion 16a which mounts a rotation wheel 16b at. its end, and the rotation wheel 16b is placed on an upper surface of the stopping member 27 so that the carriage 13 is possible to swing in response to a vertical motion of the stopping member.
  • FIG. 2A there is shown means for digitally measuring a configuration of the eyeglass frame or a lens pattern previously made in accordance with the eyeglass frame.
  • the shaft 18b is supported by a bearing member 50 formed on the carriage 13.
  • the shaft 18b mounts a detecting arm 51 at its end 18c, and a long side frame 52 of the detecting arm 51 is mounted on an end portion 18c of the shaft 18b at right angle to a rotation axis of the shaft 18b.
  • a detector 54 is provided on another long side frame 53 to be moved thereon and biased to the end portion of the frame 53 by a pressure spring 59 coiled around the frame 53.
  • On short side frames 55, 56 of the arm 51 there are rotationally provided with pulleys 57, 58, respectively.
  • a detecting head 62a of the encoder 61 is secured to an outside of the arm 16.
  • a first wire 80 is wound around the pulley 60 and secured to the detector 54 through the pulley 57 and the side of the pulley 60 at their ends, respectively.
  • a second wire 81 is would around the pulley 60 in an opposite direction to the first wire 80 and secured to the detector 54 through the pulley 60 and the side of the pulley 60 at their ends, respectively, thereby, displacement of detector 54 on the frame 53 may be detected as rotation angle of the pulley 60 or the disc 62.
  • the detector 54 as shown in Figure 3, comprises a sliding seat 541 movably mounted on the frame 53, a sliding rotationed shaft 543 rotationally supported by the seat 541, and a detecting feeler 542 secured to the shaft 543.
  • the detecting feeler 542 has a lens pattern feeler 544 and an eyeglass frame contacting wheel 546.
  • the feeler 542 is a portion of the shaft 543, which is partionally cut down so as to form a semicircular cross section.
  • the wheel 546 is rotationally provided on an end of a U-shaped arm member 545 which is mounted on the shaft 543.
  • a contacting surface 544a of the feeler 544 and a contacting periphery 546a of the wheel 546 are located so as to include an axis 0, of the shaft 543.
  • a pin 547 is inserted so as to be parallel to the surface 544a, and the pin 547 engages with a stopping member 548 fixed on the frame 52 on its side surface when the detector 54 is on the first position.
  • the shafts 18, 18a have sprocket wheels 74, 75, respectively.
  • Chains 76, 77 link between the sprockets 72, 74, the sprockets 73, 75, respectively, so that the shafts 18, 18a are rotated by the motor 70.
  • an eyeglass frame holding means 90 a station 91 of which is located parallel to longitudinal direction of the arm member 16 at the time when the carriage 13 is on the first position.
  • the station 91 has a pair of rails 92, 93 parallel to the longitudinal direction of the arm member 16, which movably support eyeglass frame supporting members 94, 95.
  • the supporting members 94, 95 are always biased by a spring 96 toward each other.
  • the supporting member 95 has a screw portion at its leg portion 95a, which engages with a transfer screw 97a provided on a shaft of a Y-axis motor 97.
  • the supporting members 94, 95 have fitting member 94c, 95c at upper portions of arms 94b, 95b in order to fit an eyeglass frame holding member 100.
  • the holding member as shown in Figure 2B, has a base plate 101 providing a circle opening 102 at its center, eyeglass frame holding arms 103, 104 provided on the plate 101 being opposite to each other, and a pressure member 105 for pressing an eyeglass frame 200.
  • the arms 103, 104 hold upper and lower limbs of the eyeglass frame 200 and the pressure member 105 presses the lens frame 200, so that the eyeglass frame 200 is secured on the opening 102 of the member 100.
  • a fore end 105a and a rear end 105b of the pressure member 105 are projected from concavities 103a, 104a of the arms 103, 104, thereby a fore end 101a and a rear end 101b (not shown in Figures) of the plate 101 are on the same plane with the ends 105a, 105b, respectively.
  • the member 100 holding the eyeglass frame 200 is supported by the members 94c, 95c.
  • the base plate 101, the pressure member 105 and the concavities 103a, 104a are designed so that an upper edge of the rear and 106b and a lower edge of the rear end 101b are positioned at the same distance d from a center axis of a V-shaped groove of the lower limb.
  • the supporting members 94c, 95c have V-shaped grooves 94d, 95d, respectively.
  • a template holding member 110 is used in the case of that a lens template 210 is supported by the supporting members 94, 95.
  • the member 110 comprises a holding frame 111, pole members 112, 113 secured on an opposite ends of the holding frame 111, a template holding pole llla fixed to the frame 111 at its center, and pins 114, 115, 116 projected from the template holding pole llla at its end.
  • the pattern 210 has three holes to be engaged with the pins 114, 115, 116.
  • the eyeglass holding member 100 is held by the supporting members 94, 95, and the carriage 13 is moved by rotation of the Z-axis motor 40 in a direction of an arrow A (shown in Figure 1) by the predetermined displacement.
  • the eyeglass handling member 100 is moved along the rails 92, 93 by the predetermined displacement and the eyeglass frame 200 is moved to the first set position so that the center 201b of the V-shaped groove of the lower limb is in contact with the contacting wheel 546 in the same plane, and the rotation axis 0 1 of the detecting arm 51 is located in the eyeglass frame 200.
  • a radius vector ⁇ n of the detecting arm 51 being at the rotation angle ⁇ n includes rotation of the detecting arm 51, and therefore
  • the values (p n , ⁇ n ) are those in the case where the rotation center 0 2 of the detecting arm 51 is located at any position in the eyeglass frame 200 and not in the case where the rotation center 0 2 is located at a geometric center of the eyeglass frame 200.
  • FIGs 6A and 6B there is shown a method to invert the former into the latter. Locating the carriage 13 at the first position, a Y-axis is taken to be line connecting between the rotation center 0 2 and a swing center 0 of the carriage 13, and a X-axis is taken to be one crossing the Y-axis at a right angle.
  • the eyeglass frame data (p n , ⁇ n ) under rectangular coordinate are converted into those (x n , y n ) under polar coordinate through the following transforming equations (3);
  • the operation mentioned above leads to make the rotation center of the detecting arm 51 coincident with the geometric center 0 3 of the eyeglass frame 200. Subsequently, the detecting arm 51 is rotated by an angle ⁇ in order to shift a position of the origin. In the present condition, the detecting arm 51 is rotated along the whole periphery of the lens frame 200 again, so that the digital configuration values (Pn, ⁇ n ) of the eyeglass frame 200 are obtained and memorized.
  • FIG 7 there is shown a method for measuring the lens template which is used instead of the eyeglass frame.
  • elements corresponding to those shown in Figure 5 are with the same reference numerals and explanations thereof are omitted.
  • the feeler 544 is moved to be in contact with a periphery of the lens template 210 and the detecting arm 51 is rotated.
  • the detecting arm 51 is shifted from the origin 0 by the predetermined distance to locate the rotation axis 0 2 thereof in the lens pattern 210.
  • a radius vector t ⁇ n is represented as follows; while, in case where the detecting arm 51 is positioned at the first standard position, a radius vector t ⁇ o is represented as follows;
  • a contact point 546a between the groove of the eyeglass frame 200 and the contacting wheel 546 and the contacting surface 544a are adapted to be located on the axis 0, of the shaft 543, at the measuring time the contacting wheel 546 and the feeler 544 supported by the U-shaped arm member 545 are pressed against the groove of the eyeglass or the lens template, and the member 545 is turned to a line perpendicular to a contact surface between the wheel 546 and the groove or the feeler 544 and the lens pattern. Consequencly, the measurement mentioned above is always carried out with precision.
  • FIG 8 there is shown an edging means for edging pre-edged lens LE in accordance with the values obtained by the above mentioned measuring means and the operation thereof.
  • the pre-edged lens is mounted by the shafts 18, 18a (refer to Figure 1), and the motor 6 is energized, so that the pre-edged lens falls on the wheel 3 by its gravity in order to be edged thereby.
  • Displacement of the carriage 13 is measured by the linear encoder 610, which comprises a scale 611 provided on a side of the arm portion 31 of the lens measuring means 30 so as to rotate it about a pivotal point P, and a detector head 612 pivoted on the side of the carriage 13.
  • a rotation angle y of the carriage 13 in response to displacement from the center 0 3 to the center 0 2 is the same as the rotation angle y' of the detector head 612.
  • the rotation angle y ' being equal to one of the carriage 13 is read out on the scale 611.
  • a distance between e, and k 2 is substantially equal to a length c between e' 1 and e 2 .
  • the present embodiment is designed so that, suppose that a radius is equal to the length between the shaft 12 and the point P and an included angle is equal to a rotation angle of the carriage 13, a hypotenuse P in response to an arc 613 becomes equal to the length C. Thereby, the value read by the encoder 610 becomes equal to the hypotenuse P in the case where the carriage 13 is rotated by angle T, and the length e n becomes twice as much as the above value.
  • FIG. 9 there is shown the lens measuring means 30 disclosed in Figure 1.
  • Shafts 302, 303 are fixed on a base 301 normally projected from the arm portion 31 and pivot link arms 304, 305 at their ends, respectively.
  • Arm members 309, 310 are mounted on a link bar 306 at its ends and pivoted by the link arms 304, 305 at their other ends through shaft 307, 308, respectively.
  • the link arms 304, 305 the link bar 306 and the base 301 form a link motion.
  • the arm members 309, 310 have shafts 311, 312 lying parallel to the link bar 306 through deformed elliptical frames 317, 318. Other deformed elliptical frames 313, 314 pivot the shafts 311, 312 at their ends, respectively.
  • a U-shaped arm portion 315a of a shaft member 315 is movably engaged with the shaft 311 at its middle portion and the shaft member 315 is movably engaged with a bearing portion 316a of a moving member 316.
  • the moving member 316 has a pin 319 on its upper surface which is movably engaged with a slit 320a of an arm member 320.
  • the arm member 320 is pivoted by a shaft 321 projected from the base 301 at its end.
  • a U-shaped arm portion 322a of a shaft member 322 is movably engaged with the shaft 312 at its middle portion and the shaft member 322 is movably engaged with a bearing portion 323a of a moving member 323.
  • the moving member 323 has a pin 319 on its upper surface which is movably engaged with a slit 325a of an arm member 325.
  • the arm member 325 is pivoted by a shaft 326 projected from the base 301 at its end.
  • the base 301 mounts an arm motor 330 a rotation shaft of which is provided with an arm plate 331.
  • the arm plate 331 has rotary wheels 332, 333 at its opposite ends, which are pressed to each side of the arm members 320, 325.
  • the arm member 320 mounts a detecting head 335 of an encoder 334 at its middle portion, and a scale 337 of the encoder 334 passes through the detecting head 335.
  • the base 301 pivots a scale 337 at its end.
  • a detecting head 339 is mounted on the arm member 325 at its middle portion, and a scale 340 of the encoder 334 passes through the detecting head 339.
  • Two rail members 341, 342 passing through frames 313, 314 are supported by frames 317, 318 parallel to the link bar 306 so as to support the frames 313, 314.
  • the frame 313 is engaged with a cylindric member 345 at its end into which a cylindric member 343 is rotationary inserted on a common axis thereof.
  • the U-shaped arm portion 315a of the shaft member 315 is movally engaged with a groove 343a formed on an outer periphery of the cylindric member 343.
  • the frame 314 is engaged with a cylindric member 345 at its end into which a cylindric member 346 is rotationally inserted on a common axis thereof.
  • the U-shaped arm portion 322a of the shaft member 322 is movably engaged with a groove 346a formed on an outer periphery of the cylindric member 343.
  • a ring 347 having a bevel 347a and a ring 348 having a bevel 348 are movably mounted on the cylindric member 345.
  • the cylindric member 345 has a groove 345a parallel to an axis thereof, and a pin 349 connects the ring 347 with the cylindric member 343 and a pin 350 connects the ring 348 with the cylindric member 346.
  • FIGs 14 through 18 there is shown operations of the lens measuring means mentioned above.
  • the carriage 13 is returned to the first position so that the edged lens LE is brought to the predetermined position.
  • an eccentric cam 360 is rotated by a driving means (not shown in Figure) so that the lens measuring means is turned about the shaft 12 to make the cylindric member 345 contact with the periphery of the edged lens LE.
  • the rotary work holder 18 is stepwise rotated by the predetermined angle in the same manner as edging the lens, and the radius vector p' of the edged lens is measured at each stepped angle.
  • the radius vector is read out by the detecting head 612 moving on the scale 611 in response to swing of the carriage 13, while on measuring the radius vector of the edged lens the radius vector, as shown Figure 14, is read out on the scale 611 moved in response to the swing of the arm portion 31 by the detecting head 612 mounted on the fixed carriage 13.
  • FIG. 15 through 17 there is shown measuring of curvature and peripheral thickness of lens by the lens measuring means 30.
  • the motor 330 is energized not to make the arm plate 331 press the arm members 320, 325, so that the cylindric members 343, 346 are moved toward each other by the spring 353.
  • the periphery of the lens LE is got between the rings 347, 348 linked with the cylindric members 343, 346.
  • the cylindric members 343, 346 make the arm member 320, 325 swing, and the rotation angle of the arm members 320, 325 or the displacement of the rings 347, 348 are measured by the encoders 334, 338.
  • the lens LE is stepwise rotated, and the displacement of the rings 347, 348 are measured at each rotation angle of the lens LE.
  • f Z A and f Z B mean readings measured through the ring 347 at position A and B, respectively
  • ⁇ ' A and ⁇ ' B mean radius vectors at the position A and B, respectively
  • R f means curvature radius of a front surface having a curvature center f Z 0 on the rotation axis of the lens LE
  • n means a refractive index of lens or usually 1.523
  • C f means a curve value of the front surface of the lens
  • the curvature radius R f is calculated from the equation (8) and the curve value C f is calculated from the equation (9) using the above radius R f .
  • iZ A , r Z B mean readings measured through the ring 348, and R r means curvature radius of a rear surface having a curvature center r Z 0 ,
  • C r means a curve value of the rear surface
  • peripheral thicknesses AA, AB of the lens LE is calculated from the following equation
  • the control circuit includes an operation and control circuit 1500 comprising a micro-processor for carrying out various operations and program control, a motor control circuit 1200, a counting circuit 1100 for counting output signals of the encoders 61, 334, 338 and 610, a frame configuration memory 1300 for memorizing value signals of the eyeglass frame and the lens pattern produced by the circuit 1500, a bevel edge input and output system 1400 having an input keyboard 1401, a liquid crystal display device 1402 and an interface 1403, and a bevel edge data memory 1600.
  • an operation and control circuit 1500 comprising a micro-processor for carrying out various operations and program control, a motor control circuit 1200, a counting circuit 1100 for counting output signals of the encoders 61, 334, 338 and 610, a frame configuration memory 1300 for memorizing value signals of the eyeglass frame and the lens pattern produced by the circuit 1500, a bevel edge input and output system 1400 having an input keyboard 1401, a liquid crystal display device 1402 and an interface 1403, and a bevel edge data memory
  • the motor control circuit 1200 is adapted to control the Y-axis motor 97, the motor 70 for rotating the lens shaft 18, the motor 1208 for rotating the lens measuring means 30, the Z-axis motor 40 for moving the carriage 13 in the Z-axis, the X-axis motor 42 for moving the stopping member 27 in the X-axis and the grinding motor 6.
  • Step 1-1 Having received starting instructions, the operation and control circuit 1500 makes the motor control circuit 1200 operate in accordance with the program memorized in a program memory to energize the motor 40, so that the detector 54 fixed on the carriage 13 is moved to the eyeglass frame holding position.
  • Step 1-2 The motor control circuit 1200 energizes the Y-axis motor 97 so that the eyeglass frame 200 is moved to be in contact with the detector 54 and further to include the rotation center of the detecting arm 51 in the eyeglass 200.
  • Step 1-3 The motor control circuit 1200 energizes the motor 70 under controlled by clock pulses CP generated by a clock pulse generating circuit 1501 included in the circuit 1500, so that the detecting arm 51 is rotated.
  • the detector 54 is moved along the periphery of the eyeglass frame 200 so as to be moved on the detecting arm 51 by the radius vector P , and displacement of the detector 54 is measured by the encoder 61 the outputs of which are counted by the counting circuit 1100. Since the counting circuit 1100 is connected with an output of the clock pulse generating circuit 1501 to receive the clock pulses therefrom, so that the circuit 1100 counts the radius vector p under synchronizing with the clock pulses or responding to the rotation angle e of the detecting arm 51.
  • a set of value signals of the radius vector (P n , e n ) in a rotation of the detecting arm 51 are given to the frame configuration memory 1300 through the operation and control circuit 1500 and memorized in the memory 1300.
  • the present step is called a pre-measuring step of a configuration of eyeglass frame.
  • Step 1-4 After the pre-measured values under the rectangular coordinate memorized in the memory 130 are converted into the one under the polar coordinate through the equation (3), the geometric center of the eyeglass frame 200 is calculated from the equation (4).
  • the motor control circuit 1200 energizes the X-axis motor 42, the Y-axis motor 42 and the motor 70 to let the rotation center of the detecting arm 51 locate at the geometric center of the eyeglass frame 200.
  • Step 1-5 The same operation as that of the step 1-3 is carried out to get the radius vector (p n , 8n) in the case where the rotation center of the detecting arm 51 is positioned on the geometric center of the eyeglass frame.
  • the readings are memorized in the memory 1300.
  • the present step is called a final measuring of frame configuration.
  • Step 2-1 The motor control circuit 1200 energizes the grinding motor 6.
  • Step 2-2 The motor control circuit 1200 energizes the Z-axis motor 40 so that the pre-edged lens supported by the carriage 13 is moved to be positioned on the roughing wheel 3a.
  • the X-axis motor 42 is energized to raise the stopping member 27 so that the carriage 13 is raised to stop roughing the lens LE.
  • Step 2-6 After the whole periphery of the lens LE is roughed, the X-axis motor 42 is energized to let the carriage 13 return to its original position and the rotation of the grinding motor 6 is stopped.
  • Step 3-1 In accordance with instructions from the operation and control circuit 1500, the motor 1208 is energized by the motor control circuit 1200 to rotate the eccentric cam 360, thereby the cylindric member 345 is placed on the edged lens LE by its gravity.
  • Step 3-2 The arm motor 330 is energized by the motor control circuit 1200 to make the arm members 320, 325 free, so that the rings 347, 348 are placed on the periphery of the lens LE.
  • Step 3-3 The motor 70 is energized to rotate the lens LE roughed in the way of the aforementioned steps.
  • the encoder 610 measures the radius vector ⁇ 'n at each rotation direction of the lens shaft 18, for example, referring to Figure 17, the radius vector ⁇ 'A is measured at the rotation angle ⁇ A .
  • the outputs of the encoder 610 are counted by the counting circuit 1100 and the radius vector ⁇ 'A thus counted is fed to the operation and control circuit 1500.
  • the encoder 334 measures the position of the front periphery of the edged lens LE or the value f Z a at the rotation angle t A as shown in Figure 17.
  • the outputs of the encoder 334 are counted by the counting circuit 1100 and the counted value f Z a is fed to the circuit 1500.
  • the encoder 334 measures the position of the rear periphery of the edged lens LE or the value r Z a at the rotation angle ⁇ A .
  • the outputs of the encoder 334 are counted by the counting circuit 1100 and the counted value r Z a is fed to the circuit 1500.
  • Step 3-4 The motor 1208 is energized by the motor control circuit 1200 to make the lens measuring means 30 return to the original position.
  • Step 4-1 Wheather an output display of a V-shaped bevel edge configuration is determined by an automatic calculation or by a result calculated according to an operator's optional input is selected by the keyboard 1401.
  • Step 4-2 In reviewing the curve values C f , C r and the peripheral thickness An calculated in the step 3-3, the best curve values and the best peripheral thickness are selected. Based on the best ones mentioned above, the cross sections of the bevel edges of the thickest and thinest peripheral portions are displayed by the display device 1402. A curve value of the bevel edge, a shift length of the bevel edge or a distance between the front periphery and a top of the bevel edge, and the like as desired as also displayed thereby.
  • Step 4-3 The selected curve values and shift length of the bevel edge are fed through the keyboard 1401.
  • Step 4-4 The input fed through the keyboard 1401 is transferred to the circuit 1500 through the interface 1403. Based on the curve value C f , C r , the peripheral thickness An, and the curve value and shift of the bevel edge, the circuit 1500 calculates the cross sections of the thickest and thinest peripheral portions which are displayed by the display device 1402 in the ways of picture images and numerals.
  • Step 5-1 In the case where an operator admits that the bevel edge displayed by the device 1402 is proper a beveling starting button on the keyboard 1401 is depressed, and in accordance with the instructions given thereby, the grinding motor 6 is energized by the motor control circuit 1200, and at the same time, the bevel edge data memory 1600 memorizes the finally selected value of bevel edge, for example, the curve value and the shift as related with the radius vector (p' n , 8 n ).
  • Step 5-2 The Z-axis motor 40 is energized by the circuit 1200 to let the edged lens LE supported by the carriage 13 place on the beveling wheel 3b.
  • Step 5-3 The X-axis motor 42 is enegized by the circuit 1200 to lower the stopping member 27, so that the lens LE supported by the carriage 13 is downward swinged to be placed on the beveling wheel 3b and then the beveling starts.
  • the circuit 1500 controls the circuit 1200 in such a way that, while the counting circuit 1100 is counting the output of the encoder 610, the Z-axis motor 40 and the X-axis motor 42 are energized until the beveling wheel 3b performs the curve value and the shift of the bevel edge at the radius vector (p' n , 8 n ) memorized by the memory 1600. The operation is repeated at every radius vector angle ⁇ n .
  • Step 5-4 After finishing the beveling at every radius vector angle ⁇ n , the X-axis motor 42 is energized to return the carriage 13 to the first position and the rotation of the grinding motor 6 is stopped.
  • Step 6-1 The aforementioned steps 3-1 through 3-4 are carried out to measure the radius vector (p" n , ⁇ n ) of the beveled lens.
  • Step 6-2 By the circuit 1500 the radius vector (p" n , ⁇ n ) detected in the step 6-1 is compared with the radius vector (p n , ⁇ n) memorized by the memory 1300. In case both the radius vectors are the same as each other, the display device 1402 display "finish edging". In another case, the steps 5-2 and below are carried out to bevel the lens again.

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EP0235021A2 (fr) * 1986-02-10 1987-09-02 Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON Dispositif de meulage de lentille
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EP0298129A1 (fr) * 1987-01-12 1989-01-11 Hoya Corporation Procede et dispositif de traitement de la circonference de verres de lunettes
EP0298129A4 (en) * 1987-01-12 1991-01-09 Hoya Corporation Method and apparatus for processing circumference of spectacle lens
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