US 12,261,031 B2
System, method and support for coating eyeglass lenses
Gunter Schneider, Marburg (DE); and Markus Fuhr, Erlensee (DE)
Assigned to SCHNEIDER GMBH & CO. KG, Fronhausen (DE)
Appl. No. 16/469,254
Filed by SCHNEIDER GMBH & CO. KG, Fronhausen (DE)
PCT Filed Nov. 16, 2017, PCT No. PCT/EP2017/079383
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 17, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/108426, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 21, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2016 014 835.7 (DE), filed on Dec. 14, 2016; application No. 10 2016 014 982.5 (DE), filed on Dec. 16, 2016; and application No. 10 2016 125 273.5 (DE), filed on Dec. 21, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2020/0140994 A1, May 7, 2020
Int. Cl. H01J 37/34 (2006.01); C23C 14/34 (2006.01); C23C 14/35 (2006.01); H01J 37/32 (2006.01); C23C 14/50 (2006.01); C23C 14/56 (2006.01); G02B 1/10 (2015.01); G02B 1/11 (2015.01); G02B 1/14 (2015.01); G02B 1/18 (2015.01)
CPC H01J 37/3417 (2013.01) [C23C 14/3464 (2013.01); C23C 14/35 (2013.01); C23C 14/352 (2013.01); H01J 37/32715 (2013.01); H01J 37/32779 (2013.01); H01J 37/3405 (2013.01); H01J 37/3423 (2013.01); C23C 14/505 (2013.01); C23C 14/568 (2013.01); G02B 1/10 (2013.01); G02B 1/11 (2013.01); G02B 1/14 (2015.01); G02B 1/18 (2015.01); H01J 37/32899 (2013.01); H01J 37/347 (2013.01); H01J 2237/20214 (2013.01)] 47 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Installation for coating eyeglass lenses, comprising:
a plurality of coating devices for coating eyeglass lenses in a vacuum by means of gaseous-phase deposition;
a conveying apparatus for conveying eyeglass lenses or a carrier with eyeglass lenses from a coating device to another coating device;
a plurality of coating lines, each coating line being formed by at least two successive coating devices of the plurality of coating devices; and
a transfer chamber,
wherein at least two coating lines are connected in parallel to the transfer chamber and wherein the transfer chamber is designed for further conveying of the eyeglass lenses selectively to one of the at least two parallel connected coating lines,
wherein the plurality of coating devices, including the coating devices of the at least two parallel connected coating lines, have separate coating chambers, wherein the coating chambers and the transfer chamber form a continuous or interconnecting vacuum system, and
wherein the coating lines differ from each other in a manner such that each of the coating lines coats eyeglass lenses differently as a function of at least one of eyeglass lens size, eyeglass lens shape, or eyeglass lens surface curvature of the eyeglass lenses to be coated.