US 11,656,481 B2
Eyewear frame, an eyewear, and a method of adjusting an eyewear frame
Muriel Godeau, Charenton-le-Pont (FR); Mathieu Feuillade, Charenton-le-Pont (FR); Pauline Colas, Charenton-le-Pont (FR); Anna Yeo, Singapore (SG); and Yee Ling Wong, Singapore (SG)
Assigned to Essilor International, Charenton-le-Pont (FR)
Appl. No. 16/970,570
Filed by Essilor International, Charenton-le-Pont (FR)
PCT Filed Feb. 19, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/054039
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 17, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/162248, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 29, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18305184 (EP), filed on Feb. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0109371 A1, Apr. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. G02C 5/00 (2006.01); G02C 5/20 (2006.01); G02C 5/04 (2006.01); G02C 5/12 (2006.01)
CPC G02C 5/008 (2013.01) [G02C 5/001 (2013.01); G02C 5/20 (2013.01); G02C 5/04 (2013.01); G02C 5/122 (2013.01); G02C 2200/02 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An eyewear frame having at least one frame component comprising a stimuli-responsive polymer, wherein the frame component has a physical property which is reversibly changeable in response to a stimulus of non-thermal origin applied to the stimuli-responsive polymer, wherein a first said frame component is a frame temple or a portion thereof that further comprises a rotatable element rotatable with respect to predefined axes that is covered or encapsulated by the stimuli-responsive polymer so as to assist said stimuli-responsive polymer in adopting a new or predefined shape.