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Producing method of glass performing body for precise pressing and optical element

A press-forming and pre-formed body technology, which is applied in glass forming, glass manufacturing equipment, manufacturing tools, etc., can solve the problems of glass spreading and defects, and achieve high-quality results

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-08-29
HOYA CORP
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If the shape of the preform is very different from the shape of the desired optical element, it will also be very different from the shape of the mold cavity, so it is difficult to make the glass spread throughout the glass without increasing the press-forming temperature to improve the fluidity of the glass. forming mold cavity, thus occurrence of bad

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Embodiment 1、2

[0050] [Example 1, 2, comparative example]

[0051] A glass block of borosilicate-based optical glass having a refractive index [nd]: 1.839 and an Abbe number [vd]: 24.15 after melting / cooling / solidification was put into a platinum crucible heated to 1120°C and placed in the crucible After melting, it was clarified and stirred at 1250° C. to obtain a uniform molten glass. Next, the molten glass flowed out at a flow rate of 0.56 kg / hr from the temperature-controlled outflow conduit connected to the bottom of the crucible.

[0052] Such as figure 2 In this way, 12 lower molds are evenly arranged on the outer periphery of the circular molding table. In the following steps, the forming table was indexed and rotated every 9.5 seconds. As a cycle, each lower mold utilizes the indexing rotation of the forming table from figure 2 The shown first stop position is moved to the twelfth stop position, and one preform for precision press molding is produced in one cycle.

[0053] A co...

Embodiment 1

[0060] At the third stop position, a gas nozzle (6 mm in inner diameter) was installed so as to be located vertically above the upper surface of the glass block moved to this position. The distance between the front end of the gas nozzle and the upper end of the glass block is 2 mm to 3 mm, and the position of the gas nozzle is adjusted in advance so that the center of the gas nozzle coincides with the center of the glass block. The lower mold on which the pressed glass block is placed is moved to the third stop position by index rotation, and after 500 milliseconds have elapsed after the stop, the gas nozzle is supplied to the glass block at a flow rate of 10 L / min for 2000 msec. Nitrogen gas is ejected from the center of the upper surface ( figure 1 (d)). Thereafter, the same operation as in Comparative Example 1 was performed to obtain a preform having a similar shape.

Embodiment 2

[0062] The lower mold on which the pressed glass block is placed is moved to the third stop position by index rotation, and after the stop, from the moment when 500 milliseconds have elapsed, during 7000 milliseconds, the flow rate of 10 L / min from the gas nozzle to the Except that nitrogen gas was sprayed from the center of the upper surface of the glass block, the same operation as in Example 1 was carried out to obtain a preform having a similar shape.

[0063] exist image 3 The upper surface shape figure which measured the upper surface shape of the glass preform obtained in Example 1, 2 and the comparative example with the Mitutoyo contact type surface shape measuring instrument is shown. In addition, Table 1 below shows the results of measuring the shapes of the glass preforms obtained in Examples 1 to 3 and Comparative Example with the same surface shape measuring device.

[0064] [Table 1]

[0065]

[0066] Such as image 3 As shown in Table 1, after the pressin...

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Abstract

The invention provides a producing method of a glass performing body for precise pressing which uses heat forming method to form a shape that is similar to a desired shape and a producing method of an optical element. In the producing method of the glass performing body for precise pressing, fusing glass casted to the recessed part of a lower die keeps floating by means of floating gas ejected from a plurality of gas outlets disposed on the surface of the recessed part of the lower die, floating gas continues to be ejected and the glass block is pressed from above with an upper die, and the upper surface of a glass block is formed into a regulated shape. When the pressing by means of the upper die is released, at least one of the upper and lower dies is moved, and the upper die is removed from above the upper surface of the glass block, and the upper surface of the glass block is provided with a gas nozzle. Before the upper surface of the glass block in the desired shape is solidified, a period in which wind pressure is applied by ejecting gas from the gas nozzle to the upper surface of the glass block, and the glass block formed by pressing can be prevented from being changed into a glass block with a thickened center is provided.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a method for producing a preform for precision press molding and a method for producing an optical element by performing precision press molding on the preform produced by the method. Background technique [0002] As a technique for mass-producing high-precision glass optical elements such as aspheric lenses with high productivity, a precision press molding method (molded optical element method) is known. In the precision press molding method, a method of producing a molded body called a preform, heating the preform, and performing press molding in a molding die is generally employed. [0003] Precision press molding is a method of forming the optical function surface of an optical element by transferring the molding surface of a press molding die. Therefore, the shape of the space (cavity) inside the molding die is designed to be the same shape as the desired optical element. If the shape of the preform is very diffe...

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IPC IPC(8): C03B11/00C03B11/08
CPCC03B40/04
Inventor 中村谦吾宇津木克己
Owner HOYA CORP