To improve workability productivity by forming hard-coating layers, antireflection films and water repellent coating layers on spectacle lenses with a series of devices without exposing process chambers to the atm.
This apparatus is successively provided with hard-coating chambers 45, 47 which form the hard-coating layers on the surfaces of the spectacle lenses 13 under a vacuum atmosphere, an antireflection coating chamber 49 which forms the antireflection film on the surfaces of the spectacle lenses under the vacuum atmosphere and a water repellent coating chamber 53 which forms the water repellent coating layers on the surfaces of the spectacle lenses under the vacuum atmosphere. A substrate holder mounted with the spectacle lenses is transported in the respective chambers described above without exposing the respective chambers to the atm, by which the hard-coating layers, the antireflection films and the water repellent coating layers are successively formed on the surfaces of the spectacle lenses.
YOSHIHARA MASAAKI
KAMIYA HAJIME
MATSUMOTO SHIGEJI
KIKUCHI KAZUO
SHINCRON KK
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