CA1167198A - Lens having a high refractive index with a low dispersion - Google Patents

Lens having a high refractive index with a low dispersion

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CA1167198A
CA1167198A CA000388393A CA388393A CA1167198A CA 1167198 A CA1167198 A CA 1167198A CA 000388393 A CA000388393 A CA 000388393A CA 388393 A CA388393 A CA 388393A CA 1167198 A CA1167198 A CA 1167198A
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refractive index
high refractive
low dispersion
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Niro Tarumi
Mitsuo Sugimura
Shigeo Komiya
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Hoya Lens Corp
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    • GPHYSICS
    • G02OPTICS
    • G02BOPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B1/00Optical elements characterised by the material of which they are made; Optical coatings for optical elements
    • G02B1/04Optical elements characterised by the material of which they are made; Optical coatings for optical elements made of organic materials, e.g. plastics
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C08ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
    • C08FMACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING CARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS
    • C08F220/00Copolymers of compounds having one or more unsaturated aliphatic radicals, each having only one carbon-to-carbon double bond, and only one being terminated by only one carboxyl radical or a salt, anhydride ester, amide, imide or nitrile thereof
    • C08F220/02Monocarboxylic acids having less than ten carbon atoms; Derivatives thereof
    • C08F220/10Esters
    • C08F220/26Esters containing oxygen in addition to the carboxy oxygen
    • C08F220/30Esters containing oxygen in addition to the carboxy oxygen containing aromatic rings in the alcohol moiety
    • C08F220/301Esters containing oxygen in addition to the carboxy oxygen containing aromatic rings in the alcohol moiety and one oxygen in the alcohol moiety
    • GPHYSICS
    • G02OPTICS
    • G02BOPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B1/00Optical elements characterised by the material of which they are made; Optical coatings for optical elements
    • G02B1/04Optical elements characterised by the material of which they are made; Optical coatings for optical elements made of organic materials, e.g. plastics
    • G02B1/041Lenses
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/31504Composite [nonstructural laminate]
    • Y10T428/31551Of polyamidoester [polyurethane, polyisocyanate, polycarbamate, etc.]
    • Y10T428/31645Next to addition polymer from unsaturated monomers
    • Y10T428/31649Ester, halide or nitrile of addition polymer

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A lens having a high refractive index with a low dispersion produced by copolymerizing polyfunctional allyl monomer with at least one selected from the monomer group represented by the general formula A:

...... A

X : H, CH3, C?
Y: H, CH3, C2H5, n-C3H7, iso-C3H7- OCH3, C6H11' C?, Br, CH2C? CH2Br, C6H5, CH2C6H5' SCH3 m - 0, 1, 2 n - 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

This lens is excellent in its transmittance, pencil hardness, impact resistance, dyeability, coating adhesion, solvent resistance, workability, etc.

Description

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVFJNTION
1. Field of the Invention This invention relates to a plastic lens having a high refractive index with a low dispersion.
2. Description of the Prior Art Recently plastic lenses have been widely uscd instead of inorganic glass lenses, because plastic lenses are more advantageous than inorganic glass lenses in the many properties such as lightness, sa-fety, workability, dyeability, etc. For example, lenses made from diethylene glycol bisallyl carbonate (hereinafter referred to CR39~ have been widely used.
But, lenses made from ~R39 have such a disadvantage that the lenses must be thicker than inorganic glass lenses, because of their relatively low refractive index such as 1.499.
As the material for the plastic lenses with a high refractive index are known polystyrene or polycarbonate. However, they are considerably inferior to the polymer of CR39 in the superficial hardness, solvent resistance, wea~herability, cutting-ability, dyeability, etc. Moreover, they have such a large dispersion tha~ they are unfavorable as spectacle lens.
We ha~e now found that the copolymer produced from polyfunctional allyl monomer and ~meth~ acrylate having an aromatic ring enables to produce a plastic lens having a low dispersion and a high refractive index, so that ~ 6~7~

above-said drawbacks are dissolved.
An object of this invention is to provide a plastic lens having a high refractive index with a low dispersion.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a lens obtained by a process comprising polymerizing polyfunctional allyl monomer with at least one selected from the monomer group represented by the general formula A:

CHz = C - COO -~ CH2 ~ ~ / n .~................. A

X : H, CH3, CQ
3' C2H5~ n-C3H7~ iso-c3H7~ OCH3, C~Hll, , ~ CH2CQ~ CHzBr, C6H5, CH2CGH5, SCH3 m = 0, 1, 2 n = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
As the polyfunctional allyl monomer of this invention are cited diallylorthophthalate, diallylisophth~late, diallylterephthalate, diallylchlorendate, triallylcyanurate, triallylisocyanurate 7 etc. They can be used 501ely or in ~3 ~7~

a mixture of two or more. In the mixture of diallyl monomer and triallyl monomer, triallyl monomer is preferably used in an amount of at mos~ 10 wt.%. The use of triallyl monomer in an amount more than 10 wt.~ is practically unfavorable, because of lowering the impact resistance of the lens obtained therefrom.
The lens of this in~ention can be prepared by the method comprising pouring the mixed solution consisting of above-said monomers and a polymerizatîon initiator into a mold mad0 of two plates of glass mold and a plastic gasket, and ~hen heating or irradiating with ultraviolet ray the resulting one.
The lens of this invention has an improved dispersion compared with well known lens made from polycarbonate or polystyrene, so that very l;ttle chromatic aberration appears in spite of the high refractive index in the lens 9 which is one of the features of this invention. The superficial hardness 3 solvent resistance, and workability thereof are considerably superior to those of polycarbonate lens or polystyrene lens. Coating glass film thereon by vacuum evaporation coating method can be easily effected, so that the ability of anti-reflectlon of the lens is excellent.
This invention will be more clearly understood with reference to the following Examples.

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Example 1 A mixed solution consisting of 30 wt. parts of phenyl methacrylate, 70 wt. parts of diallylisophthalate and 2.5 wt. parts of diisopropylperoxydicarbonate was poured into a mold made of two plates of glass mold, and a gasket of ethylene-vinylacetate copolymer, and the resulting one was heated to raise gradually the temperatur~ from 40C to 90C in 24 hours. After end of the polymerization, the lens was taken out of the mold, and then was post-cured at 120C
for one hour. The resulting lens had 1.569 of refractive index, 35 of Abbé's number, 91 % transmittance (550 nm), 2H of pencil hardness, a high impact resistance which passed inspection of FDA Standard, a good solvent resistance, a good dyeability, a good adhesion of coating glass film, and such a good workability that cutting and grinding it can be easily carried outO

Example 2 - 11, Comparative Example 1 - 2 The lenses were made in ~he same manner as in Example 1, except that conditions in Table 1 were used.
The result is shown in Table 1.

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~'7 Note 1.
CQPhMA : o-chlorophenyl methacrylate, CQBzMA : o-chlorobenzyl met}lacTylate, CQ5PhMA : pentachlorophenyl me~hacryla~e, PhMA : phenyl methacrylate, BrPhMA : p-bromophenyl methacrylate, Br3PhMA : 2,4,6-tribromophenyl methacrylate~
TAIC : triallylisocyanurate, DATP : diallylterephthalate, TAC : triallylcyanurate, DAIP : diallylisophthalate, BzMA : benzyl methacrylate Note 2.
Transmittance (%) : measured at 550 nm light using the lens of 2.0 mm thickness, Refractive Index, and Abbé's Number: measured by Abbe's refractometer, Pencil Hardness: measured by JIS K5400 Solvent Resistance: by immersing it in acetone, methanol, and benzene for 24 hours O : the surface did not become dull, X the surface became dull, Workabili~y: O : can be ground by lens grinder, X : can not be ground by lens grinder.

Claims

WHAT IS CLAIMED IS:
1. A lens having a low dispersion and a high refractive index prepared from the copolymer obtained by copolymerizing polyfunctional allyl monomer with at least one selected from the monomer group represented by the general formula A

...................... A

X : H, CH3, C?
Y : H, CH3, C2H5, n-C3H7, iso-C3H7, OCH3, C6H11, C? Br, CH2C?, CH2Br, C6H5, CH2C6H5,SCH3 m : 0, 1, 2 n : 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
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