Abstract:
The disclosure concerns to a process for manufacturing an optical element from glass, wherein a blank of glass is tempered, for example in such a way that the blank is cooler in its interior than on its exterior, wherein the tempered blank between a first mold and a second mold, which are moved towards one another to form a closed cavity, is press-molded, for example on both sides, to form the optical element, wherein the first mold and/or the second mold comprises an escape cavity slide which is compressed by the formation of a closed cavity by means of the first mold and the second mold as a function of the volume of the blank, so that, during press-molding, an additional edge which is dependent on the volume of the blank is formed with the optical element.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a technical field of optics, and discloses a glass product forming mold. The glass product forming mold comprising: a lower mold comprising a first surface and a upper mold comprising a second surface; the lower mold includes a first forming portion for forming the glass product, the upper mold includes a second forming portion corresponding to the first forming portion; the lower mold includes at least one first effluence portion, the first effluence portion is formed by bending from the first surface and is located on the same side of the first surface as the first forming portion, and/or, the upper mold includes at least one second effluence portion, the second effluence portion is formed by bending from the second surface and is located on the same side of the second surface as the second forming portion. The mold is easy to demould and the product consistency is good.
Abstract:
A product conveyance apparatus includes an actuator, a movement portion, a first position detection portion, a second position detection portion, and a controller. The controller performs a process of causing the actuator not holding a product to move to a predetermined position, detecting the position of the actuator and storing the position as a first position, a process of causing the actuator to move on a basis of a movement instruction value and hold the product, causing the actuator holding the product to move to the predetermined position, detecting the position of the product held by the actuator, and storing the position as a second position, and a process of correcting and updating the movement instruction value on a basis of difference between the first position and the second position.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing an optical element includes heating an optical material up to a first temperature that is higher than a transition point, pressurizing the optical material using a first mold and a second mold that are situated opposite to each other across the optical material, first cooling the optical material down to a second temperature that is higher than a strain point and lower than the first temperature while pressurizing the optical material with a predetermined load using the first mold and the second mold, releasing the predetermined load at a set speed that is higher than or equal to a speed obtained in advance, at which an elastic deformation occurs preferentially over a viscous deformation in the optical material upon releasing a load, and second cooling the optical material down to a third temperature that is lower than the second temperature.
Abstract:
An optical element shaping mold set includes a first shaping mold and a second shaping mold that face each other; a tubular third shaping mold which is located around the first shaping mold and the second shaping mold and in which at least one of the first shaping mold and the second shaping mold slides, and heating, pressing and cooling are conducted with a shaping-target material accommodated between the first shaping mold and the second shaping mold, the third shaping mold has a slit formed on at least one of ends in a sliding direction of the at least one of the first shaping mold and the second shaping mold, and the third shaping mold has a linear expansion coefficient that is smaller than a linear expansion coefficient of the first shaping mold and smaller than a linear expansion coefficient of the second shaping mold.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a barrel-integrated lens, in which a molded glass product is molded integrally with a barrel made of metal by means of a molten glass drop molding method, includes inserting an upper cylindrical die into a through opening from a side of a second cylindrical opening, and press molding the molten glass drop by a lower cylindrical die and the upper cylindrical die such that the molten glass drop is pressure welded to a connection opening.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing an SiO2—TiO2 based glass upon a target by a direct method, includes: an ingot growing step of growing an SiO2—TiO2 based glass ingot having a predetermined length on the target by flame hydrolysis by feeding a silicon compound and a titanium compound into an oxyhydrogen flame, wherein the ingot growing step includes: a first step of increasing a ratio of a feed rate of the titanium compound to a feed rate of the silicon compound as the SiO2—TiO2 based glass ingot grows until the ratio reaches a predetermined value; and a second step of gradually growing the SiO2—TiO2 based glass ingot after the ratio has reached the predetermined value in the first stage with keeping the ratio within a predetermined range.
Abstract:
In a method of manufacturing a glass molding, a lower mold includes a recess having a bottom portion and a side portion surrounding the bottom portion, and an outer peripheral planar portion surrounding an upper end of the side portion. A crossing angle between the side portion and the outer peripheral planar portion is set at more than or equal to 45 degrees. A dropping volume of the molten glass drop is such that, when dropped onto the lower mold, a volume of the molten glass drop located above the outer peripheral planar portion is 1.5 times to 6.0 times the volume of the molten glass drop filling the recess.
Abstract:
A manufacturing apparatus of the present invention has a pair of dies that form each cylindrical surface, and a plane member that forms side surfaces of an element. The upper die and the lower die has a cylindrical surface which is worked so as to have generatrix which connects intersection points between a non-arc axis and a cylindrical section and between an arc center axis and the cylindrical section. The plane member is pressed against reference surfaces of the upper die and the lower die. In this state, a glass material is put between the upper die and the lower die, and a distance between the upper die and the lower die is decreased. As a result, the cylindrical surfaces of the upper die and the lower die and the plane of the plane member are transferred onto the glass material.
Abstract:
The method for making a lens with a first convex lens surface (32) and a second lens surface (33) includes feeding a glass melt drop into a concave mold (2, 10), precise pressing both sides of the glass melt drop in the concave mold (2, 10) together with a press die (20) and immersing the press die (20) in the glass melt drop so that a supporting rim (34) with predetermined dimensions, which protrudes beyond a highest point of the second lens surface (33), is formed on the lens by glass material displaced by the precise pressing. The apparatus for precise pressing includes an upper mold part (10) a lower mold part (2) and the press die (20).