Appeal No. 1997-1040
Application 08/175,893
(paper number 9), claims 1, 6 through 9 and 11 were amended.
The disclosed invention relates to a lens component, and to a method of making the same. The
lens component is comprised of two plastic lens elements cemented together or a plastic lens element
and a glass lens element cemented together. The interface between the plastic lens element and the
cement is isolated by a glass coating on the plastic lens element.
Claims 1 and 10 are illustrative of the claimed invention, and they read as follows:
1. A lens component comprising:
a plastic lens element having an internal surface covered with a thin glass coating; and
another lens element cemented to said glass coating.
10. A method of cementing a plastic lens element to a glass lens element comprising:
(i) coating said plastic lens element with a layer of thin glass coating; and
(ii) cementing said glass coating of said plastic lens element to said glass lens element, thereby
cementing both elements to each other.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Tillyer 2,092,789 Sept. 14, 1937
Addiss et al. (Addiss) 3,953,652 Apr. 27, 1976
Clarke et al. (Clarke) 4,948,447 Aug. 14, 1990
Claims 1 through 4, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
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