Issue |
J. Eur. Opt. Soc.-Rapid Publ.
Volume 9, 2014
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Article Number | 14027 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.2971/jeos.2014.14027 | |
Published online | 21 July 2014 |
Regular papers
Quality control of injection molded eyewear by non-contact deflectometry
1
Experimental Ophthalmology, Saarland University, Kirrberger Strasse 100, 66424 Homburg, Germany
2
SAOT Erlangen Graduate School of Advanced Optical Technologies, Paul-Gordan-Strasse 6, 91052 Erlangen, Germany
Received:
23
April
2014
Revised:
23
June
2014
Occupational eye wear such as safety spectacles are manufactured by injection molding techniques. Testing of the assembled safety spectacle lenses in transmission is state of the art, but there is a lack of surface measurement systems for occupational safety lenses. The purpose of this work was to validate a deflectometric setup for topography measurement, detection of defects and visualization of the polishing quality, e.g. casting indentations or impressions, for the production process of safety spectacles. The setup is based on a customized stereo phase measuring deflectometer (PMD), equipped with 3 cameras with f’1,2 = 16 mm and f’3 = 8.5 mm and a specified measurement uncertainty of ± 3 µm. Sixteen plastic lenses and 8 corresponding injection molds from 4 parallel cavities were used for validation of the deflectometer. For comparison an interferometric method and a reference standard (< λ/10 super polished) was used. The accuracy and bias with a spherical safety spectacle sample was below 1 µm, according to DIN ISO 5725-2.2002-12. The repeatability was 2.1 µm and 35.7 µm for a blind radius fit. In conclusion, the PMD technique is an appropriate tool for characterizing occupational safety spectacle and injections mold surfaces. With the presented setup we were able to quantify the surface quality. This can be useful and may optimize the quality of the end product, in addition to standardized measuring systems in transmission.
Key words: PMD / safety spectacle / mold / surface measurement / deflectometry / wave front measurement / surface analysis / injection molding
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