Patent ID: 6428301
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: B29C,B29D,B29L,Y10S

Abstract:
A spectacle lens molding apparatus comprising:a lens molding tool having an annular forming frame with an annular step portion formed on an inner peripheral surface of said forming frame, a pair of lens forming molds opposed to each other with said annular step portion held therebetween to form a molding resin filling space; a housing having an optical characteristics measuring chamber and an ultraviolet ray irradiation chamber; a set table being movable so as to first place said lens molding tool in said optical characteristics measuring chamber and then in said ultraviolet ray irradiation chamber; a measuring system provided in said optical characteristics measuring chamber for measuring optical characteristics of an unhardened molded lens in said molding resin filling space; and an ultraviolet light source provided in said ultraviolet ray irradiation chamber for irradiating said unhardened molded lens with ultraviolet rays to form a hardened molded lens when said unhardened molded lens is sent from said optical characteristics measuring chamber to said ultraviolet ray irradiation chamber.