US 11,835,802 B2
Lens and eyewear
Alexander MacDonald, Swindon (GB)
Assigned to HS Vision Ltd., Edinburgh (GB)
Filed by HS Vision Ltd., Edinburgh (GB)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/027,752.
Application 17/027,752 is a continuation of application No. PCT/GB2019/050721, filed on Mar. 14, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 1804838 (GB), filed on Mar. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0026161 A1, Jan. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. G02C 7/14 (2006.01); G02C 5/02 (2006.01)
CPC G02C 7/14 (2013.01) [G02C 5/02 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lens for eyewear, wherein: a curvature of the lens has a discontinuity, the discontinuity defining a first portion of the lens on one side of the discontinuity, and a second portion of the lens on another side of the discontinuity, the second portion thereby being angled relative to the first portion;
wherein the first portion is transparent or translucent and the second portion has a reflective side being at least partially reflective;
wherein an angle subtended between a surface of the lens on the reflective side of the second portion and an adjacent surface of the first portion is obtuse;
wherein the reflective side of the second portion comprises a reflective coating and the reflective coating is partially reflective; and
wherein the reflective coating partially covers the reflective side of the second portion.