WO2006009657A1 - Progressive addition lenses with reduced unwanted astigmatism - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to multifocal ophthalmic lenses.
- the invention provides progressive addition lens designs, and lenses in which unwanted astigmatism is reduced, which lenses are substantially free of localized unwanted astigmatism maxima.
- ophthalmic lenses for the correction of ametropia
- multifocal lenses such as progressive addition lenses ("PALs") are used for the treatment of presbyopia.
- PALs progressive addition lenses
- the progressive surface of a PAL provides far, intermediate, and near vision in a gradual, continuous progression of vertically increasing dioptric power from far to near focus, or top to bottom, of the lens.
- PALs are appealing to the wearer because PALs are free of the visible ledges between the zones of differing dioptric power that are found in other multifocal lenses, such as bifocals and trifocals.
- an inherent disadvantage of PALs is the presence of unwanted astigmatism, or astigmatism that is undesirable and is introduced or caused by one or more of the lens' surfaces. Unwanted astigmatism can produce swim, image magnification, and motion effects for the lens wearer that disrupts the wearer's vision.
- the unwanted astigmatism borders the lens channel and near vision zone.
- the unwanted astigmatism may extend into the distance zone.
- the unwanted astigmatism at or near its approximate center reaches a maximum that corresponds approximately to the near vision dioptric power of the lens.
- Figure Ia is a contour map of the unwanted astigmatism of a first prior art progressive lens.
- Figure Ib is a power and cylinder contour profile of the lens of Figure Ia.
- Fig ⁇ re 2a is a contour map of the unwanted astigmatism of a second prior art progressive lens.
- Figure 2b is a power and cylinder contour profile of the lens of Figure 2a.
- Figure 3 a is a contour map of the unwanted astigmatism of a third prior art progressive lens.
- Figure 3b is a power and cylinder contour profile of the lens of Figure 3 a.
- Figure 4a is a contour map of the unwanted astigmatism of a surface of a lens of the invention.
- Figure 4b is a power and cylinder contour profile of the lens of Figure 4a.
- Figure 5 a is a contour map of the unwanted astigmatism of a second surface of a lens of the invention.
- Figure 5b is a power and cylinder contour profile of the leris of Figure 5a.
- the present invention provides lenses, and methods for their design and manufacture, in which the maximum unwanted astigmatism is reduced and distributed over a wide area.
- the lenses of the invention are provided by locally manipulating sag values of a progressive surface.
- the invention provides a method for designing a progressive addition lens, comprising, consisting essentially of, and consisting of: a.) designing a first progressive addition surface having a channel and one or more areas of unwanted astigmatism on either side of the channel, each area of unwanted astigmatism comprising a maximum unwanted astigmatism; b.) expressing the first surface as a plurality of sag values; and c.) modifying each of the one or more areas of unwanted astigmatism to provide a second progressive addition surface in which the maximum unwanted astigmatism of each of the areas is reduced and the unwanted astigmatism is substantially constant within each of the areas.
- the invention provides lenses made according to this method.
- lens is meant any ophthalmic lens including, without limitation, spectacle, contact, intraocular lenses and the like.
- the lens of the invention is a spectacle lens.
- sin value is meant the absolute value of the z axis distance between a point on a progressive surface located at coordinates (x, y) and a corresponding point on a reference plane.
- the z axis is the axis orthogonal to the x-y plane.
- progressive addition surface or “progressive surface” is meant a continuous, aspheric surface having distance and near viewing zones, and a zone of increasing dioptric power connecting the distance and near zones.
- progressive surface is the convex surface of the lens
- the distance vision zone curvature will be less than that of the near zone curvature and if the progressive surface is the lens' concave surface, the distance curvature will be greater than that of the near zone.
- channel is meant the corridor of vision that is free of unwanted astigmatism of about 0.75, preferably about 1.00, diopters or greater when the wearer's eye is scanning through the intermediate vision zone to the near vision zone and back.
- unwanted astigmatism is meant astigmatism that is undesirable and is introduced or caused by the lens surface.
- the areas of unwanted astigmatism considered are those located on either side of the channel and preferably below the fitting point.
- fitting point is meant is the point on a lens aligned with the wearer's pupil in its distance viewing position when the wearer is looking straight ahead.
- a first progressive surface is provided by any convenient optical design method.
- This surface, u(x, y), may be a single progressive surface or a surface that is the result of combining one or more progressive and regressive surfaces.
- regressive surface is meant a continuous, aspheric surface having zones of distance and near vision and a zone of decreasing dioptric power connecting the distance and near zones. If the regressive surface is the convex surface of the lens, the distance zone curvature will be greater than that of the near zone and if the regressive surface is the lens' concave surface. The distance curvature will be less than that of the near zone.
- Designing of the first progressive surface u(x, y) preferably is carried out using a method that divides the surface into a number of sections and provides a curved surface equation for each area as disclosed, for example, in United States Patent No. 5,886,766 incorporated herein in its entirety by reference. Optimization of the surface may be carried out by any convenient method. Additional properties of a specific lens wearer may be introduced into the design optimization process including, without limitation, variations in the pupil diameter of about 1.5 to about 7 mm, image convergence at a point about 25 to about 28 mm behind the front vertex of the surface, pantoscopic tilt of about 7 to about 20 degrees and the like, and combinations thereof.
- the distance and near vision powers for the progressive addition surface design u(x, y) are selected so that powers of the lens are those needed to correct the lens wearer's visual acuity.
- the dioptric add power will typically be about +0.10 to about +6.00 diopters.
- the distance curvature of the progressive surface will be within about 0.25 to about 8.50 diopters.
- the near vision curvature will be about 1.00 to about 12.00 diopters.
- the surface u(x,y) is expressed as a plurality of sag values.
- This step may be carried out by subtracting u(x,y) from the base spherical surface u o (x, y), with a curvature equal to the distance curvature or base curvature, to yield the surface's sag values v(x,y).
- the coordinates of the point of maximum unwanted astigmatism x m ,y m on one side of the channel are located.
- the dioptric power, P(x,y), and unwanted astigmatism, A(x,y), at a point on the lens at x,y are given by:
- A Abs[ C 1 - c 2 ] (VII) wherein n is the refractive index; and Abs stands for "absolute value.”
- the coordinates of the maximum unwanted astigmatism may be defined as Xm 5 V m and are typically located on either side of the channel.
- the equations may be used to reduce the magnitude of the unwanted astigmatism on a progressive surface while maintaining the required power in the area.
- a result of this reduction will be that the astigmatism will increase at another location on the surface due to a change in curvature at that location.
- Optimization techniques have been developed which include merit functions to specify where the astigmatism may be allowed to increase.
- One such technique is disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 6,302,540. Such techniques generally are complicated, time consuming, and tend to impact the progressive surface on a global rather than local scale compromising distance, reading, and channel zone widths, channel length and the like. Thus, such methods are unsuited for producing a progressive surface having areas of unwanted astigmatism in which the magnitude of astigmatism is low.
- the progressive surface u(x,y) is specified as z sag values at points s on an x-y grid.
- the grid spacing may be any convenient spacing, but preferably is between about 0.01 and 4 mm, more preferably between about 0.1 and about 2 mm, and most preferably about 0.5 to about 1 mm.
- the sag values v(x,y) in a local area that includes a point (X ⁇ uY m ) of maximum unwanted astigmatism are selected for the optimization method.
- This vicinity conveniently may be defined as any geometric shape, but preferably is defined a s a circle or more preferably as a square centered at (x m5 y m )-
- a square centered around (x mj y m ) may be formed from a grid with a minimum number of 5 points to a maximum number of 81 points.
- 9 points arranged as a grid of 3 x 3 points is used.
- the circle's diameter is between about 1 and 10 mm, more preferably between about 3 and 6 mm, most preferably about 4 mm.
- the 4 mm circle is most preferred because the average pupil diameter projected on the lens surface is approximately 4 mm at normal illumination conditions.
- the sag values v(x, y) are approximated by a tone surface in the local area centered around the unwanted astigmatism maximum. Using this local approximation, the principal curvatures at x m , y m are recalculated using Equations I and II. Adjustments are made in the sag values in the surface v(x,y) in increments of between about 0.00001 mm and about 0.01 mm, preferably about 0.0001 mm depending on the grid spacing selected, at grid points which lay closest to the ' periphery of the area until the maximum unwanted astigmatism shifts to another surface location that is within the area.
- the sag value of each of the points surrounding (x m ,y m ) may be sequentially increased by about 0.0001 mm to determine if the astigmatism at (x m ,y m ) decreases. If the astigmatism does not decrease, then the sag value of each of the points may be sequentially decreased to determine if the astigmatism at (Xm,y m ) decreases. Once the unwanted astigmatism at (X m5 Y m ) decreases sufficiently to move the maximum to another point location (x'm,y' m ), the process at (xm,y m ) stops and is resumed at points surrounding (x' m , y'm).
- the process is then repeated until the unwanted astigmatism within the area is substantially free of points at which the magnitude of the maximum astigmatism is at its original level.
- An area results in which the magnitude of the maximum astigmatism is substantially constant, meaning that the unwanted astigmatism has a peak height less than about 0.1 diopters in a 5 mm diameter area. Additionally, the magnitude of the maximum astigmatism is reduced as compared to the maximum astigmatism originally found in the area.
- the process is then repeated for the areas of maximum, localized unwanted astigmatism on the opposite side of the channel.
- the resulting surface is smoothed by any suitable fitting technique to eliminate any significant curvature discontinuities, or discontinuities that result in localized power changes of greater than about 0.05 diopters.
- Any known technique may be used including, without limitation, fitting using polynomial, splines and the like.
- the resulting optimized and smoothed surface will not change substantially from the first surface because the optimization is performed locally in the areas of unwanted astigmatism. However, if significant changes do occur, appropriate compensations in power may be incorporated into a complementary surface of the lens to offset the changes. Accordingly, other surfaces designed to adapt the lens to the ophthalmic prescription of the lens wearer may be used in combination with, or addition to, the optimized progressive addition surface.
- the individual surfaces of the lens may have a spherical or aspherical distance vision zone.
- the channel or corridor of vision free of unwanted astigmatism may be closer to the distance or near viewing zone. Further, combinations of any of the above variations may be used.
- the lens of the invention has as its convex surface the surface of the invention and a complementary concave surface which concave surface corrects the wearer's astigmatism and prism.
- the convex surface preferably is of a symmetric, soft design produced by combining two convex progressive surfaces. Both of the progressive surfaces have a channel length of about 10 to about 22 mm.
- One surface has an aspherical distance viewing zone and the maximum, localized unwanted astigmatism is located closer to the distance than the near viewing zone preferably on either side of the upper two thirds of the channel.
- the distance zone is aspherized to provide additional plus power to the surface of up to about 2.00 diopters, preferably up to about 1.00 diopters, more preferably up to about 0.50 diopters. Aspherization may be outside of a circle centered at the fitting point having a radius of about 10 mm, preferably about 15 mm, more preferably about 20 mm.
- the other surface has no aspherical distance viewing zone and the maximum, localized unwanted astigmatism is located closer to the near viewing zone than the distance viewing zone, preferably on either side of the lower two thirds of the channel.
- the lenses of the invention may be constructed of any known material suitable for production of ophthalmic lenses. Such materials may be constructed of any known material suitable for production of ophthalmic lenses. Such materials are either commercially available or methods for their production are known. Further, the lenses may be produced by any conventional lens fabrication technique including, without limitation, grinding, whole lens casting, molding, thermoforming, laminating, surface casting, or combinations thereof.
- Example 1 A contour map for a commercially available lens, Varilux COMFORTTM, progressive addition lens was created using a coordinate measuring machine and using the sag values obtained in a ray trace program to obtain power and cylinder profiles.
- the map is shown as Figure Ia.
- Figure Ib shows the cylinder profile (A) and power profile (B) of a cross-sectional portion of the lens at the narrowest portion of the channel.
- the lens, Lens 1 had a refractive index of 1.498, base curve of 95.1 mm and add power of 2.04 diopters.
- Figures Ia and Ib show that there is a noticeable maximum unwanted astigmatism on either side of the channel.
- Figure 2a is a contour map created for Lens 2, a second commercially available lens, Sola PERCEPTATM, having a refractive index of 1.498, a base curve of 99.9 mm and 2.10 diopter add power.
- Figures 2a and 2b show that there is a noticeable maximum unwanted astigmatism on either side of the channel.
- Figure 3a is a contour map created for a Lens 3, third commercial lens, DEFESFITYTM, having a refractive index of 1.51, a base curve of 106.2 mm and 2.04 diopter add power.
- Figures 3a and 3b show that there is a noticeable maximum unwanted astigmatism on either side of the channel.
- Example 2 A convex progressive surface (A) was designed using a material refractive index of 1.586, base curve of 104.4 mm, and add power of 2.02 diopters.
- This surface, Surface 1 had a noticeable maximum unwanted astigmatism on either side of the channel.
- Figure 4b is the power and astigmatism profile of the surface across the jiarr.ow.est cross-se_ction of the channel. The profile shows a maximum in the unwanted astigmatism.
- the surface produced by the above design methodology is a convex progressive addition surface B made from a material refractive index of 1.586, base curve of 103.7 mm and add power of 1.94 diopters.
- a grid spacing of 2 mm, a local area for the toric approximation of 9 points arranged as a 3 x 3 grid and increments of 0.0001 mm for sag changes were used.
- Figure 5b shows the power and astigmatism profiles across various cross-sections of the channel (denoted by their y coordinates).
- the profile shows that the unwanted astigmatism maxima are significantly reduced in magnitude and are 0.10 diopters in a 10 mm diameter circle.
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