Patent ID: 7779778
Filing Date: 2010-08-24
Classification: B29D

Abstract:
1. A coating apparatus for an optical lens, comprising: a coating device which applies a coating solution to a coating target surface of an optical lens; a light beam radiating device which emits a light beam to the coating solution applied to the optical lens to cure the coating solution; and a lens rack which stores a set of two optical lenses and conveys the stored optical lenses from a coating position to a curing position of the coating solution, said coating device comprising two rotary tables where the set of two optical lenses are set each with the coating target surface thereof facing up, a driving device which rotates said rotary tables independently of each other, and two coating solution dripping means each for dripping the coating solution onto the coating target surface of the optical lens set on said rotary tables, wherein said light beam radiating device emits the light beam to the optical lenses in said lens rack with said lens rack being hermetically closed; characterized in that said light beam radiating device comprises a light source stored in a housing and a transparent member which covers an opening of said housing on a irradiation direction side and transmits the light beam emitted from said light source therethrough, and said lens rack has a storing portion in and from which the optical lenses can be stored and extracted, said storing portion having such a shape as to be closed when said lens rack is brought into tight contact with said transparent member through a seal member.