Utilised in everyday life, from the mouse that you are currently navigating your computer with to endoscopes and life-saving diagnostic tests in healthcare all use miniature optics lenses. Even in the ...

Forvia has been granted a patent for a process to manufacture optical lenses from glass. The method involves tempering a glass blank, press-molding it between molds to form the lens, and using an ...

There are some types of projects that we see quite often here on Hackaday; 3D Printers, Development Boards and Video Game Hardware to name a few. Once in a while we see an optics-based project but ...

New Monolithic Lens Molding (MLM) capability enables up to eight-megapixel-and-higher-resolution devices. CHIBA, Japan, Dec. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- SEMICON JAPAN -- EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier ...

Zhong Yang Technology (JMO), a maker of precision molds used to make glass and plastic optical lens pieces, has been standardizing its manufacturing process of various molds to allow production of ...

As the final step in the production process, inspection is of critical importance to the manufacturing industry. Manufacturers generally allot adequate staff resources to perform inspection for the ...

Researchers have come up with an economical one-step process to coat contact lenses with an antimicrobial film (Biomacromolecules 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00359). The coating could cut the risk ...

OT steps behind the scenes at Moorfields Eye Hospital – the only UK hospital with an in-house contact lens manufacturing laboratory ...