Spectacle lens with high positive refractive power

Claim 2

A spectacle lens with high positive refracting power comprising a convex rotationally symmetric front surface, said front surface having an aspheric effective part, an adjacent transition zone, and a boundary zone, said lens having a concave rear surface forming together with the boundary zone a supporting edge, said lens being constructed so that a sagitta z of a point on the effective part from the vertex of the front surface in the direction of the optical axis is given by the equation: ##EQU12## where h is the distance of this point from optical axis; C is determined by the desired refracting power of the front surface at the vertex; and K, I 3 , I 4 , I 5 , and I 6 are aspheric coefficients so determined that |ΔR|+|ΔS| is a minimum over the entire range of the visual angle, where ΔR is the refracting power error, and ΔS is the astigmatism, and where ΔS=T-S and ΔR=(S+T)/2, T being the tangential refracting power error and S being the sagittal refracting power error.

Claim 3

A spectacle lens with high positive refracting power comprising a convex rotationally symmetric front surface, said front surface having an aspheric effective part, an adjacent transition zone, and a boundary zone, said lens having a concave rear surface forming together with the boundary zone a supporting edge, said lens being constructed so that a sagitta z of a point on the effective part from the vertex of the front surface measured in the direction of the optical axis is given by the equation: ##EQU13## where h is the distance of this point from optical axis; C is determined by the desired refracting power of the front surface at the vertex; and K, I 3 , I 4 , I 5 , and I 6 are aspheric coefficients so determined that the visual acuity is a maximum over the entire area of the visual angle.

Claim 4

A spectacle lens with high positive refracting power comprising a convex rotationally symmetric front surface, said front surface having an aspheric effective part, an adjacent transition zone, and a boundary zone, said lens having a concave rear surface forming together with the boundary zone a supporting edge, said lens being constructed so that a sagitta z of a point on the effective part from the vertex of the front surface measured in the direction of the optical axis is given by the equation: ##EQU13## where h is the distance of this point from optical axis; C is determined by the desired refracting power of the front surface at the vertex; and K, I 3 , I 4 , I 5 , and I 6 are aspheric coefficients so determined that the visual acuity is a maximum over the entire area of the visual angle.

Claim 5

A spectacle lens according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the sagitta z with increasing distance h from the optical axis is initially larger than the sagitta of points which are located at the same distance h from the optical axis and lie on a spherical surface which contacts the effective part at the vertex and has the same radius of curvature as the effective part at the vertex, and then is smaller than the sagitta of the points which are on the spherical surface and are located at the same distance h from the optical axis.

Claim 6

A spectacle lens according to claim 3, wherein the visual accuity V is approximated by the relationship: ##EQU14## where ΔR=min(|S|,|T|), ΔS=||S|-|T||, S being the sagittal refracting power error and T being the tangential refracting power error.

Claim 7

A spectacle lens according to claim 3, wherein the coefficients K and I i (i=3 . . . 6) are determined in accordance with the following equation: ##EQU15## where the integration takes place over visual angle σ, and ΔS=T-S is the astigmatism, and ΔR=(S+T)/2 is the refracting power error.

Claim 8

A spectacle lens according to claim 3, wherein the coefficients K and I i (i+3 . . . 6) are determined in accordance with the following equation: 3V(10°)+V(25°)=maximum, where V(10°) is the visual acuity at a visual angle σ=10° and V(25°) is the visual acuity at a visual angle σ=25°.

Claim 9

A spectacle lens according to claim 3, wherein the coefficients K and I i (i=3 . . . 6) are determined in accordance with the following equation: ##EQU16## where the integration takes place over the visual angle σ and, ΔS=T-S is the astigmatism, and ΔR=(S+T)/2 is the refracting power error.

Claim 10

A spectacle lens according to claim 3, wherein the coefficients K and I i (i=3 . . . 6) are determined in accordance with the following equation: |ΔR(25°)|+|ΔS(25°).vertline.=minimum where ΔS=T-S is the astigmatism at a visual angle σ=25° and ΔR=(S+T)/2 is the refractive power error at a visual angle σ=25°.

Claim 11

A spectacle lens according to claim 3, wherein the coefficients I 5 and I 6 are zero.

Claim 12

A spectacle lens according to claim 9, wherein the coefficient I 4 is zero.

Claim 13

A spectacle lens according to claim 3, wherein the rear surface of said lens is aspherical.

Claim 14

A spectacle lens according to claim 3, wherein the configuration of the transition zone is given by the following equation: ##EQU17## where a i is a coefficient so determined that the transition zone is always adjacent to the effective part with respect to the functional value and first derivative thereof.

Claim 15

A spectacle lens according to claim 3, wherein the boundary zone and the transition zone are so connected that at the separating line the functional value and first derivative of the function of the boundary zone and of the transition zone substantially coincide, and wherein the boundary zone is so constructed that the supporting edge has a substantially constant thickness.

Claim 16

A spectacle lens according to claim 3, wherein the configuration of the boundary zone is given by the equation: ##EQU18## where b i is a coefficient so determined that the boundary zone is always in contact with the transition zone with respect to the functional value and the first derivative thereof, the boundary zone being configured so that the supporting edge has a substantially constant thickness.

Claim 17

A spectacle lens according to claim 3, wherein numerical values for the effective part of the front surface of said lens are selected from the following table: TABLE 1 ______________________________________ C K I.sub.3 I.sub.4 I.sub.5 I.sub.6 ______________________________________ 1/47.511 -0.195 -1.4 × 10.sup.-6 0 0 0 1/44.757 -0.25 0 0 0 0 1/44.76 -0.073 -1.0 × 10.sup.-6 0 0 0 1/41.016 -0.284 0.9 × 10.sup.-6 0 0 0 1/38.405 -0.314 1.0 × 10.sup.-6 0 0 0 1/36.232 -0.332 -0.7 × 10.sup.-6 0 0 0 1/34.269 -0.398 7.0 × 10.sup.-6 0 0 0 1/32.710 -0.379 5.2 × 10.sup.-6 0 0 0 1/31.53 -0.394 10.0 × 10.sup.-6 0 0 0 ______________________________________

Claim 18

A spectacle lens according to claim 3, wherein numerical values for the effective part of the front surface of said lens are selected from the following table: TABLE 2 ______________________________________ C K I.sub.3 (× I.sub.4 (× I.sub.5 I.sub.6 (multiplication factor) 10.sup.-6) 10.sup.-7) (× 10.sup.-10) (× 10.sup.-12) ______________________________________ 1/44.76 -0.722 6.5 1.0 1.0 1.0 1/44.757 -0.272 5.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1/38.41 -0.485 8.2 1.4 7.0 1.0 1/34.27 -0.495 9.6 2.6 1.0 1.0 1/31.53 -0.474 11.1 3.02 2.0 1.0 1/29.64 -0.531 12.0 3.23 1.0 1.0 1/27.97 -0.54 12.7 3.40 8.0 1.0 1/27.1 -0.528 13.5 3.4 1.0 1.0 1/27.104 -0.62 13.5 3.6 1.0 1.0 ______________________________________