Patent ID: 7424773

Claim:
An eyeglass lens processing apparatus comprising: a lens holding unit that holds and rotates an eyeglass lens; a hole forming tool which forms a hole for attaching a rimless frame in a refractive surface of the lens; a tilt mechanism portion that tilts the hole forming tool relatively to the lens held by the lens holding unit; a movement mechanism portion that moves the hole forming tool in a rotating axis direction thereof relatively to the lens held by the lens holding unit; a calculator that calculates hole forming data based on target lens shape data, hole position data and hole direction data of the rimless frame; a breakage detector that is provided outside a partition forming a lens processing chamber and includes a sensor for detecting movement of a shaft due to an abutment against a tip of the hole forming tool or detecting a proximity state of the tip of the hole forming tool; and a controller that judges whether or not the hole forming tool is broken based on an output of the breakage detector and prohibits the hole forming based on the hole forming data when the hole forming tool is broken.