Offset Hook Lens Holder for Grazing Light Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing lens holder devices are unable to perform analyses in transmission and grazing light for lenses of different sizes due to their conformation, which interferes with maintaining consistent measurement settings for optical lenses of varying weights.

Innovation Solution

A lens holder device with a rigid body and counterweight system that maintains a constant alignment position, featuring fixed and adjustable support points to accommodate lenses of different sizes and weights, allowing for analyses in transmission, reflection, and grazing light without interference.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the lens holder device uses a conventional body conformation, then it can hold optical lenses, but it cannot perform analysis in transmission and grazing light for lenses of different sizes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecapability to perform analysis in transmission and grazing lightVSAvoidbody conformation
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The body is divided into multiple functional parts: a holding portion for the optical lens, a counterweight portion for balancing, and a connecting portion with offset hook. This segmentation allows each part to perform its specific function independently, enabling versatile analysis capabilities while maintaining manageable device complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A counterweight is integrated into the body structure to compensate for the weight of optical lenses of different sizes. This allows the device to maintain proper balance and positioning during transmission and grazing light analysis, regardless of the lens weight variations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #8Anti-weight (Counterweight)

2Measurement precision

If the lens holder device uses a conformed body to hold lenses, then it can support lens weight, but it interferes with maintaining consistent measurement settings for optical lenses of varying weights

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconsistent measurement settingsVSAvoidoptical lens weight variation
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSWeight of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The counterweight portion is specifically designed to offset the weight variations of different optical lenses. By adjusting or designing the counterweight to compensate for lens weight, the device maintains consistent measurement settings and positioning accuracy regardless of whether a light or heavy lens is being analyzed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #8Anti-weight (Counterweight)

Solution Approach 2:

The offset hook connection creates a balanced suspension system where the center of gravity is positioned to ensure that lenses of different weights hang at the same measurement position. This equipotential design ensures that weight variations do not affect measurement consistency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #12Equipotentiality

3Stability of the object's composition

If the lens holder device body is rigid, then it maintains the same location for the optical lens over time, but it may interfere with analysis for lenses of different sizes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesame location for optical lensVSAvoidanalysis capability for different lens sizes
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The rigid body is segmented into functional zones: a stable holding portion that maintains consistent lens positioning, and a flexible connecting portion with the offset hook that allows adaptation to different lens sizes. This segmentation preserves location stability while enabling versatility

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The rigid body is designed with universal features including the offset hook connection and integrated counterweight that allow it to accommodate and maintain proper positioning for optical lenses of various sizes, making the same rigid structure adaptable to different analysis requirements

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enables consistent measurement settings and stable positioning for optical lenses of varying thicknesses and weights, facilitating accurate optical analyses across different types of lenses without deforming under weight stress.

Implementation Method 1

elastic return means (6) defining at least two other support points (b, c) for said optical glass

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElasticity: Elasticity

Data Source

PatentEP2643105B1Lens-holder with offset hook
Publication Date: 2020.10.21 SCL INT SPECIAL COATING LAB
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AI summary

The subject of the present invention is a lens-holder device (1) intended to be hooked onto a support (101) of determined direction belonging to a conveyor carriage intended for transporting optical lenses (10) so that an optical test can be carried out on said optical lenses following a treatment of said optical lenses, said lens-holder device (1) comprising a body (2), suspension means (3) for suspending from the support (101) which are connected to the body (2), retaining the means (4) for keeping an optical lens (10) in position on the lens-holder device (1), which are connected to the body (2), these retaining means (4) comprising support means (5) defining at least one first resting point (a) for the optical lens (10), elastic return means (6) defining at least two further resting points (b, c) for the optical lens (10), the various resting points (a, b, c) defining a location for the optical lens (10), the body of the lens-holder device (1) being shaped in such a way as to pass around the portions of space that are situated facing the location occupied by the optical lens (10).