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Rawze Sharif Mosque
Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
Rawze Sharif Mosque Mazar-i-Sharif Reviews
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Apr 15, 2006
The Rawze Sharif Mosque (Also known as the Shrine of Ali) lies at the center of Mazar-i-Sharif. Along the sides of the giant park where the mosque sits is Mazar's central bazar, with carpet shops on one side, car parts on another side, household items on a third side, and fruits and vegetables on the fourth side, around the big square. The Mosque itself is off-limits to non-Muslims, but the grounds outside are well-kept and are a perfect place for people watching. The view from the park provides a vantage point where men in turbans and piran-tambon outfits walk hand in hand with their friends, women wearing the white burqas of Afghanistan's north float by, and all the while the chaotic rumblings from the streets beyond the park float in as background music. This is a photographer's dream world, with camels, horses, donkeys, and seas of men and women in exotic outfits pass by the beautiful Timurd architecture of the Shrine of Ali. Getting to Mazar is relatively easy from Kabul, as taxis pry the paved highway in 7-8 hours. Security is always a concern, so access to good, recent information is essential. For more information on traveling to Mazar go to www.greatgametravel.com
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NHL rumors: Is Nail Yakupov on New York Rangers' radar?
Edmonton Oilers executives were in New York Monday night scouting the Rangers game. Could a deal be on the horizon between New York and Edmonton?
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The Edmonton Oilers had a contingent of team president Kevin Lowe, general manager Craig MacTavish and special advisor Mark Messier at Madison Square Garden for Monday night's Rangers game against the Anaheim Ducks, according to Larry Brooks of the New York Post.
With the Oilers mired in last place in the Western Conference, the team could be looking to make some deals.
Edmonton, which has opened 3-10-2 under first-year coach Dallas Eakins, is believed to be accepting offers for veteran winger Ales Hemsky while also exploring the market for second-year winger Nail Yakupov, the first overall selection in the 2012 Entry Draft.
Blueshirts would have to maneuver to get under the cap in order to accommodate the 30-year-old. Hemsky is on the final year of a contract worth a $5 million cap charge and is eligible for unrestricted free agency in July.
It is unclear whether the organization would have (or be willing to part with) the necessary assets to match Edmonton's needs and acquire the extremely talented Yakupov, who led the Oilers with 17 goals a year ago, but has just one goal and two assists in 13 games after being scratched twice in the early season.
Especially with all of Edmonton's top brass in New York for the game, something could really be brewing. If the Rangers were going to gamble a little, Yakupov brings much more value to them than Hemsky's large cap hit and expiring contract.
Though New York got off to a rough start, the Blueshirts are still in the thick of things in the disastrous Metropolitan Division. With Rick Nash still sidelined with a concussion and no real timetable set for his return, the Rangers might need an influx of skill.
That could be Yakupov. The speedy Russian forward is in only the second year of his entry-level contract, which gives the Rangers some time to see if things could work out in New York if they so choose.
Yakupov has struggled in his sophomore campaign after tying for the rookie lead in points last season, but his potential remains incredibly high. Though the Oilers seem to have soured on him, the price tag should still be relatively high as well.
Yakupov may be falling victim to the perception of Russian players being unreliable, enigmatic, uncoachable and whatever other stereotype you might throw his way, but in Yakupov's case in particular, those allegations seem unfair.
After coming to North America to play in the Ontario Hockey League two years ahead of his NHL draft season, Yakupov made a fairly early commitment to playing in the NHL. Any Russian could be considered a KHL flight risk, but Yakupov's risk would seem to be quite a bit lower than average, particularly with former NHLer Igor Larionov as his agent.
For the Oilers, it could be a bit of a short-sighted move to deal Yakupov as rumors continue to swirl that he's available, but their youthful roster could use a dose of experience. Still seems a tad early to be shopping one of the three players Edmonton nabbed with a first overall selection in consecutive years.
A potential deal involving a No. 1 pick is always intriguing. When it's one year after his rookie season, even moreso. If Glen Sather was looking to make a splash, it appears he at least has the chance. It'd be a gamble, but there's potential for high reward if New York has interest in putting together a deal.
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Plastikote? I'll see if I can source that number---thanks.
Plastikote 1004 is a universal white....?
Oh, really? Wow, guess I had that written down wrong lol
Another one I have down in my notes would be PK 7179. Don't know if that's anymore correct.
To be fair, my notes haven't been updated in forever. Have to remove any outdated paint codes.
The orange mist is to bright.
And 1004 was met silver, I still have 2 cans
The PK1004 I looked up gave me the current color, not the obsolete color.I found some old PPG reference charts and the Dupont, Glasurit and Sherwin Williams cross reference codesbut nothing for a current rattle can.
Wonder, if we asked the company what it changed to?
I tried, and came up with this PlastiKote 1052 GM Gray Metallic
Just shot them an email. The only other thing, would be spray a nice sized sample on plastic. take it down, let them scan it, and mix a few.
IIRC two different shops built Nemesis phasers, and it appears there are two "correct" colors...
Here are some photos of screen used phasers... in comparing the stunt color to the hero, it looks like the hero is a lighter shade, more like regular 7173 (or the Endgame color). I don't know if that's because the photo lighting is different or more likely ISS used a different color when they built the hero.
Nemesis stunts (I think made by HMS since there's no cowl seam line?)https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/30471920_type-2-dolphin-phaser-from-star-trek-nemesishttps://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/9238156_star-trek-nemesis-type-ii-phaser
Nemesis hero:https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/7457726_illuminating-dolphin-phaser-from-star-trek-nemesis
The color of the stunt phasers is slightly darker and more blue than the regular 7173 and resembles the old Plasti-kote 1004.
For a modern equivalent I used Duplicolor BFM0225 Medium Charcoal Met on a recent build as it looks close to that old Plasti-kote 1004.
Here are some photos I took comparing the old and new paints -- the static one is an old build using the PK 1004, and the hero is the newer Dupli-color. Not exact, but close enough for me. Color changes a lot with lighting.
Reply about 1004 Thank you for contacting Valspar. I checked into the Metallic Charcoal color and we have two available, a GM Charcoal Gray Metallic and a Ford Silver Charcoal Metallic. I have a feeling you would be looking for the GM labeled color, which can be found under item number 1076.
DOVE GRAY! In a CAN!!
Hi Guys and Gals! This is by far the BEST DOVE GRAY counterpart! You need to locate a Sherwin-Williams COMMERCIAL store in your area. You MUST ask them 2 questions: 1) Do you make LACQUERS and 2) Can you make Spray Cans. Not all Sherwin-Williams can do this. But quite a few of them can! You need to ask! If the store you contacted doesn't ask them for the closest store to you that does! Give them a copy of the attached picture for the formula!
You won't be disappointed!! The paint is AMAZING! Literally dries in 5 minutes and sandable in 10!!!
The guy that color matched this formula for me spent 2 hours getting it just right for me!! It's a perfect match to the original Krylon Dove Gray!
BTW! You will have to purchase a minimum of 1 gallon of the paint to begin with. Take that gallon with you every time you need a can made!
Interesting that there doesn't appear to be any blue or purple pigment in the formula. Dove gray is usually described as gray characterized by a slight blue or purple cast. Maybe it's a particular pigment of black that they're using which has a color cast.
I was thinking the same.
Well I can tell you guys it's a perfect match to all the Dove gray painted pieces I have lying around the house! And there is a purplish hue to it!
Hi guys. I called Sherwin Williams to ask what is in the first colorant formula. They said there are colors in that group of first numbers that are not listed. So there are probably the purple or blue in there. All I know is it looks great! And does match all my other dove gray painted items!
That would make sense.
I know photos don't really do paint justice, but @ivoyage would you take and post a few comparison photos of the Sherwin-Williams Dove Gray and items painted with the original Dove Gray?
If it looks like this is the closest match, then I might have to pick some up for an up coming prop build.
Hi Gabe! I only have a DustBuster phaser available here at the moment. I just took all my other props over to storage. I took these two pics at different angles so you can see the different lighting. The Tricorder (the one I'm working on now) is painted with the Sherwin-Williams formula. The dust buster is painted in original Krylon Dove Gray.
Let me know what you think!
Thanks for the comparison photos. From the lighting and angles, they do look like a super close match.
Trust Me!!!! Exact match in person!!! George at Sherwin-Williams here in Anaheim spent 2 hours getting it right!! I'm VERY impressed with the quality of the paint! You won't be disappointed!!


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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Strategic Factor Analysis Summary (SFAS) Framework (Quantitative SWOT) Analysis & OEMs Ranking - 2017 - Global Top 6 Military Helicopter Manufacturers - Airbus Helicopters, Leonardo Helicopters, Bell Helicopters, Boeing, Russian Helicopters, Sikorsky" swot analysis to their offering.
The report provides an overall SFAS score on each of the Top 6 Military Helicopter manufacturers based on an analysis of each company's strategic positioning in the current as well as projected market dynamics and its degree of responsiveness to its internal & external environment respectively with the objective of assessing as to how favorably is each company positioned (with its business portfolio, underlying strategy & state of operations etc.) and how responsive it is to the nature & pace of changes taking place within its internal and external environment respectively.
Against the backdrop of an evolving industry landscape & shifting global dynamics with the global military helicopter market witnessing traction as of-late with the stabilization & slight uptick in defense spending across most key global markets mandated by a strong, external threat perception, the evolution of traditional world order, complex as well as challenging geo-political dynamics coupled with an ageing, in-service helicopter fleet and availability of next generation technologies driving an expansion of operational spectrum as well as capabilities of these machines which is likely to further incentivize & accelerate replacement decisions across most markets globally.
Key Topics Covered:
- Business Structure & Snapshot - For each of the Top 6 Military Helicopter Manufacturers
- Financial Performance Snapshot
- Internal Factor Analysis Summary (IFAS. Matrix)- For each of the 6 Key Industry Players
- External Factor Analysis Summary (EFAS. Matrix)
- Strategic Factor Analysis Summary (SFAS. Matrix - With reprioritization, quantification & ranking of respective strategic factors deriving from IFAS & EFAS matrices)
- Comparative Ranking of Industry Players - based on SFAS Scores
- Global Military Helicopter Market - Force Field Analysis - Analysis of Driving & Restraining Forces and their Overall Dynamics
- Key Market & Technology Trends - Analysis of Key Trends poised to Shape & Transform the future
- Key Issues, Challenges & Risk Factors
- Strategic Market Outlook through 2020
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A world-renowned pedestrian bridge which is one of Malaysia's most popular tourist attractions has been shut for 20 months as a result of urgently needed maintenance work.
The Langkawi Sky Bridge, a world-renowned pedestrian walkway in the northwestern part of Peninsular Malaysia which has been acclaimed as an "engineering marvel" by tourist writers, has been shut for 20 months now as a result of a lack of funds for the necessary work.
The curved cable-stayed pedestrian bridge extends for 125 metres, and hangs a hair-raising 700 metres above sea-level from the peak of Gunung Mat Chinchang on the popular tourist isle of Pulau Langkawi. Its winding structure and lofty height have earned it the appellation of "Crazy Curves" from TripAdvisor, which also placed it first on a list of the world's top five scariest bridges.
The Sky Bridge quickly became one of Malaysia's landmark tourist destinations following its completion in 2005, attracting an average of 400,000 visitors a year as well. It featured prominently in the 2006 Bollywood hit Don: The Chase Begins Again, starring Indian matinee idol Shah Rukh Khan.
The bridge shut in July 2012, just seven years following its completion, however, and has remained closed ever since as a result of interminable delays in funding from the government for maintenance work.
Panorama Langkawi Sdn Bhd (PLSB), the company responsible for operation of the Sky Bridge, said it had experienced difficulty obtaining a funding allocation from the Malaysian federal government, with a year usually needed for completion of the approval process.
While the allocation has been approved and work on the bridge is slated to resume in April, PLSB's chief operating officer Mohd Ali Makkit said ensuring the safety of pedestrians was the company's top priority and that if funds were not forthcoming, the bridge would just have to wait on the sidelines in 2014 - a key year for the country's tourist industry which is being officially billed as "Visit Malaysia Year."
Scheduled work on the bridge will require at least 10 million Ringgit (approx. US$3.04 million) for rectification of the main bridge structure, as well as a further 8 million Ringgit (approx. US$2.4 million) for the construction of an inclinator to convey visitors up to the bridge itself.
Another factor hampering efforts to restore the Sky Bridge to a proper bill of health has been difficulty enlisting the help of the original contractors, architects and designers from Switzerland to conduct surveying work.
PLSB hopes to thoroughly abide by the standard operating procedures for maintenance work laid out by the bridge's designers in order to prevent the occurrence of any mishaps or contingencies.
There would be no way you would ever get me walking across that thing.
Seems a shame, though, given it has been built, that it should remain idle.
Get scared and enjoy natural paradise


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BPA in the News
Via 11 Alive : http://www.11alive.com/news/new-reading-approach-is-a-game-changer-for-atlanta-school/315469746
Principal David White calls the move a game changer.
"I didn't learn as a teacher how to teach children specific phonics skills, how to decode words and make sense of letters and sounds," White told 11Alive's Jennifer Leslie. "And I'm not alone in that."
When White became principal of Burgess-Peterson Academy last year, he quickly realized his students were falling behind in reading.
"They're good sight readers early on in kindergarten and first grade," he explained. "But by the end of second grade, third grade, they start hitting a wall because there's a cap to the amount of sight words they can hold in their working memory."
White's solution is the Orton-Gillingham approach.
Instructors with the Atlanta nonprofit Reading Is Essential for All People (REAP) are teaching every homeroom and special education teacher at Burgess-Peterson Academy how to use it.
"The brilliance of the approach is that it's not a curriculum. It's knowledge. The teachers hold that knowledge and use it," said REAP founder Jen Rhett. "It makes all readers stronger, not just those who are struggling."
REAP used donations to help pay for part of the training.
The school raised the rest using tax dollars, PTO funds and coke machine money.
The school-wide, two-year training will cost about $50,000.
"The entire student population will move forward with this knowledge and this foundation," Rhett added. "By making sure they have this foundational skill, their opportunities are limitless."


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A pensioner has been jailed for 10 years for what a judge described as "terrible" sex abuse on two girls.
Preston Crown Court heard on Friday how John Gill, 75, raped one of the girls, and carried out 17 sex offences including 15 counts of indecently assaulting his victims.
Gill, of Norbreck Road, Norbreck, pleaded guilty to the crimes, which date back more than 30 years.
In victim impact statements, both women spoke of their lives having been profoundly affected by what had happened to them.
Gill has been banned from working with children and has been made the subject of a sexual offences prevention order.
For more on this story, see Monday's Gazette.


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|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Jun 10, 1997
|Filing date
|Dec 17, 1991
|Priority date
|Jul 19, 1988
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Manabu Takami, Noboru Akazawa, Atsunori Matsuda, Yoshihiro Matsuno, Shinya Katayama, Toshio Tsuno
|Original Assignee
|Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (8), Referenced by (43), Classifications (8), Legal Events (9)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/713,571 filed on Jun. 11, 1991 now abandoned, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/381,060 filed on Jul. 17, 189, now abandoned.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to optical parts with surfaces for incident and emergent light.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In the art, optical parts such as lenses and prisms can be made generally through steps as of grinding, lapping, polishing, and finally smoothing as mirror surface.
In the following will be given the description by an example of manufacturing process of a gradient index lens array unit.
As shown in FIG. 1, a lens array unit 1 is constructed of a pair of upper and lower opposed plates 3, a pair of lateral oppossed spacers 4 (these being made of glass fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP), and a lens array surrounded and held by them. The lens array is composed of a number of glass rod lenses 2 arranged parallel in their optical axes and in at least one row, and each adjoining to other. In addition, gaps in the unit are filled with an adhesive 5 of black silicon resin, or the like, to be firmly bonded to each other into an integrated unit.
Each rod lens 2 has a distribution of refractive index that even viewed in the cross-section, it decrease parabolically from maximum value in the center axis towards the pheriphery. Even if the ends (planes for incident and emerging light) are parallel, they have the same image-forming effect as the usual spherical lens.
The process of manufacturing the lens array unit 1 involves first a number of suitable prolonged glass rod made by the ion-exchange technique, and arranged in such way as closed to each other. Prolonged holding plates 3 are mounted on the upper and lower sides of the arrangement so as to hold it between them and spacers 4 were bilaterally mounted to assemble a long parent 10 of lens array unit as shown in FIG. 2A.
Subsequently, the resultant parent 10 of lens array unit is cut into a number of rod lens units 1 of a predetermined length with a diamond wheel cutter 6.
A plurality of lens array units 1 are piled vertically with respect to the lens rods, as shown in FIG. 2B, and held with a holder 7 and the lens ends are ground roughly with diamond pellets in a both-face lapping apparatus 8.
After finish grinding with lapping abrasive, polishing is made with polishing agent of free abrasive such as zirconia to impart the mirror surface smoothness.
The lens array units manufactured as described above have short focus and besides permit wide image as compared with the spherical lens system in the prior art. They therefore are used in optical systems for photocopying machine, photoprinter, etc. much contributing to compacting them.
As such an example, an LED photoprinter is schematically diagrammed in FIG. 3, in which reference characters designate as follows: 11 a photosensitive drum, 12 a charger, 13 an exposed head, 14 a developing device, 15 a transferring device, 16 a fixing unit, 17 a paper cassette and 18 a paper stacker.
The exposure head 13 incorporates a high density LED array and a lens array for condensing light on the peripheral surface of the drum 11. The LED emits light in accordance with electric signals sent in sequence to the exposure head 13 to form the electrostatic latent image on the drum 11, onto which toner is deposited, and then transferred to a paper.
Electrophotographic recording system including the exemplified LED photoprinter are provided with a charger for use in charging the photosensitive drum.
In the prior art optical device mentioned above however there are differences in workability among the rod lenses 2 of glass and the structural components 3, 4 and 5 surrounding them, which is made of different resins, this resulting in more rapid polishing of resins than glass by the effect of free abrasive. Conjointly with the influence of the elasticity of the polishing cloth, therefore, the end of the rod lens unit 1 can be polished with the result of irregularities between the end of the lens 2 projected and the area around it depressed as shown in FIG. 4, and this affects with deviation in image distance and occurrence of astigmatism.
There are additional encountered difficulties, for example, of requiring many steps of cutting, rough grinding, lapping, and finish polishing, and high cost of abrasive and others.
In addition, the high voltage charger of the LED photoprinter shown in FIG. 3 is responsible, by the electrical discharge from it, for production of much ozone (O3) from oxygen in the air. The ozone can react with water content in the air to produce nitric acid, which corrodes the surface of glass lens of the lens array, and in turn a reaction product with alkali metal contained in the lens glass separates, leading to making the lens surface cloudy and in turn reducing the optical performance.
A countermeasure against this is known which is to bake the lens array itself at about 200� C. to previously separate alkali on the lens surface. This treatment alone however can effect not enough to prevent the deterioration.
The optical parts according to the invention has a feature of having a solid transparent coating applied to the rough surface directly resulting from cutting or grinding, so as to fill the irregularities thus to obtain smooth surface as desired, conjointly with effect of omitting polishing with free abrasive as finishing.
If the refractive index of the coated material is substantially equal to that of the optical device, the coating-filled surface functions as in the case of a smoothly-polished surface, without diffuse reflection from there, which is due to the surface irregularities, that is, incident light advancing straightly through there. This permits omission of polishing without deteriorating the optical performance.
According to the invention, the shape formed by the cutting or grinding with the fixed abrasive remained unaffected in accuracy thereof. For this reason, particularly the gradient index lens array unit, lens surface of which are flat, has a reduced aberration as compared with aberration coming from irregularities of surface remaining as polished. This permits omission of polishing or grinding/polishing, and the associated great reduction of cost for lens working.
Besides lens array units can be ground with minimized waste, and this contributes to greatly improved yield from raw materials.
Additional advantages are improvement in weatherproofness resulting from the insulation of the surface of the glass lens with effect to protect it against ozone and moisture, and that the coating can bond strongly to and is difficult to peel from the cut surface of the lens unit having small irregularities compared with the smoothly-polished surface.
Besides according to the invention is used a coating containing a compound as an ingredient, in which one alkoxide group (OR) of metal alkoxide is replaced with an organic group (R) inactive on hydrolysis and polycondensation, and hence the coating layer to be obtained has an increased flexibility, which permits formation of a sufficiently thick coating film to fill the irregularities of the unpolished or rough surface of the lens array unit as substrate. Thus it is possible for the surface to be worked to a smoothness as good as replaceable with mirror polishing.
Thus polishing, or grinding and polishing can be omitted and as a result processing cost can be much reduced.
Since the coating layer functions as protective layer for the optical part as substrate, the thus-coated optical part having the associated smooth surface can be used in a high reliability.
Besides, according to the present invention, a coating layer TiO2 --SiO2 is provided on the surfaces for incident and emergent lights by the sol-gel technique.
The coating layer, if provide, functions to prevent salts of alkali metals from separating, resulting in much-reduced lowering in the optical performance in ozone atmosphere. This implies that a certain optical performance can be maintained for a long term also in an apparatus such as, electrophotographic copying machine or LED photoprinter, which operates while producing much ozone in the interior of it owing to application of high voltage.
Since the coating layer according to the invention can be formed at low temperatures by the sol-gel process, the formation of it on the lens unit surfaces can be accomplished following assembly of lens array unit, even if the holding plates, spacers and adhesive of organic resins are used except the lenses of glass, without damaging the resinous materials. The coating process therefore can be performed at a single step and suitable for the manufacture of large quantities.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a lens array unit as an optical part in the prior art;
FIG. 2A is a perspective view illustrative of cutting a parent product into the lens array units;
FIG. 2B is a side view schematically illustrating grinding and polishing of the lens array units in the prior art;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrative of the construction of an LED photoprinter with the lens array unit;
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the lens end polished in the prior art and, as the result, having irregularities;
FIG. 5 is a sectional view of the end of the lens array unit, showing the construction of the surfaces with irregularities and a coating applied to them;
FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of a part of FIG. 5;
FIGS. 7A through 7C give various characteristics of the measured resolving power of the lens array unit against the refractive index of the coating;
FIG. 8A is a cross-sectional view of the lens substrate and the coating;
FIG. 8B is as graph showing the relationship between the thickness of the coating and the irregularities of the surface;
FIG. 9 is a sectional view of a gradient index lens array embodying the present invention;
FIG. 10A is a sectional view of a spherical lens embodying the present invention;
FIG. 10B is a sectional view of a spherical lens embodying the present invention;
FIG. 11 is a sectional view of an aspherical lens embodying the present invention;
FIG. 12 is a fragmentary sectional view of an optical part embodying the present invention drawn to an enlarged scale;
FIG. 13 and FIG. 14 are enlarged sectional views illustrative of difficulties with coating layers in the prior art.
FIG. 15 is a side view of an alternative embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 16A and FIG. 16B give graphs plotting the results of the exposure of articles according to the present invention and in the prior art to ozone atmosphere, respectively.
In FIG. 5, reference character 20 designates the surface of one of the lens array units 1 into which their parent long assembly 10 is cut by the diamond wheel cutter 6 previously shown in FIG. 2A.
As shown, both ends (for incident and emergent lights) of the rod lens 2 of the unit 1 have each a surface 20 with fine irregularities.
The height of the surface irregularities depends on the particle size of abrasive. The irregularities of the surface cut by diamond wheel measure generally about 0.5 to 5 μm in height, and irregularities within this range are preferred from the aspect of being easy to be obtained.
After the cutting mentioned above, a coating 9 of solid transparent material is applied to the surface 20 with irregularities at least enough thickness to fill the irregularities, instead of grinding and polishing, as shown in FIG. 6 to an enlarged scale, thus to provide new smooth surface.
Suitable for use in the coating 9 are acrylic and epoxy synthetic resins, such as thermosetting silicon hard coatings, UV-setting resins, cold-setting two-part system epoxy resins and light-setting epoxy acrylate; and inorganic materials such as sol-gel glasses; and so on.
The coating can be applied to a substrate in a known process, for example, by immersion in a liquid of it or by spraying it, and then may be hardened by heating, ultraviolet radiation (for UV resin), or the like.
Transparent coating layer 9 may not be always necessary to be applied except to the end of the lens 2. Taking efficiency of working into consideration, the lens array unit 1 is advantageous in applying coating 9 overall to the end of the unit including holding plates 3, spacer 4 and filler-adhesive 5.
The following experiments were performed for assessing the effects of the present invention.
Rod lenses 2 of angular aperture 20�, center refractive index 1.639, peripheral refractive index 1.614 were manufactured, and the ends for incident and emergent lights of it were ground and polished to different surface irregularities. Then the optical performance was measured while immersing the end in matching oils having different refractive indices. The results were plotted in FIGS. 7A through 7C, in which N2 's are the refractive indices of the matching oils, respectively.
In graphs, curve "a" is of polished surface of Rmax (R:roughness)=0.1 μm or less, "b" is of surface ground with abrasive (JIS particle size No. 600) of Rmax =0.8 μm, "c" is of surface ground with abrasive (JIS particle size No. 400) of Rmax =2.2 μm, and "d" is of surface ground with abrasive (JIS particle size No. 325) of Rmax =3.2 μm.
As understood from the figures, optical performance as good as the polished article can be realized either in the range (average value �0.025) of the refractive index N2 of the coating layer 9 between the surrounding refractive index and the center refractive index of the lens or in the range of Rmax of the lens surface not exceeding 1 μm. Also if the refractive index of the coating 9 is an average value among the center refractive index and the surrounding refractive index of the lens, improvement may be expected in resolving power at high frequency band compared with the polished device.
FIGS. 8A and 8B show the relationship between the thickness and the irregularities of the coating layer 9 formed on the substrate of Rmax =1.5 μm. As apparent from FIG. 8B, for setting the Rmax to up to 0.1 μm, which prevents deterioration of optical performance, the coating layer 9 is necessary to have the same thickness of 1.5 μm as the irregularities of the substrate.
The present invention is described above by the example of lens array unit 1, and it is a matter of course to apply that to a single rod lens 2 as illustrated in FIG. 9.
It can be applied to spherical lens 22 (as illustrated in FIG. 10) as well as to the gradient index lens array.
Besides suitable selection of the irregularities of the lens material and the refractive index of the coating permits adjustment of scattering of light against the interface between the lens and the coating, and this enables to manufacture a soft focus lens having intendedly-worsed low frequency characteristic.
As illustrated in FIG. 11, it also is possible that a glass material is ground into a spherical lens 22, and then provided with resinous coating 9 by molding with an aspherical metal mold finally to form into a corresponding aspherical lens 23.
This method, owing to the low thermal limitation compared with the press-molding of glass with an aspherical metal mold, permits simplified manufacture and easy realization of high accuracy. The lens can be used with poor deterioration in thermal performance compared with the method of molding lens of resin alone.
Besides there can be provided a mount frame around the lens on molding.
In addition the original object of taking the place of polishing, the coating 9 according to the invention can be provided with various functions by the use of transparently-colored resin, heatproof resin, conductive resin, or the like.
Suitable materials of the coating 9 are hydrolysis-polycondensation products of organometallic compound represented by formula R1 M1 (OR2)m wherein R1 and R2 are organic radicals having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, M1 is a metal and m is a natural number.
Suitable materials for use in manufacturing optical parts are any solid of plastic, glass, light transmitting ceramic, etc. Particularly inorganic materials of glass, ceramics etc. can be used with great effects. In the present invention, the irregularities of the non-polished surface to be provided with coating are preferred to be Rmax 2 μm or less, and center line average roughness Ra 0.2 μm or less. If the irregularities exceeds these values, it is difficult to obtain new surface of complete smoothness.
Preferred range of thickness of the coating to be applied is from 0.5 to 10 μm. The thicknesses of the coating of up to 0.5 μm may result in inadequate smoothing by the coating while coating to thicknesses exceeding 10 μm is difficult to be formed by a single operation, and requires to repeat coating operation, which reflects increased steps of process.
The reason that R1 M1 (OR2)m was selected as raw material, which is a substitution product of M1 (OR2)m+1 (generally called metal alkoxide and used as raw material in the sol-gel film-forming technique) by the replacement of one of alkoxide groups (OR2 group) of it with an inactive organic group (R1) on the hydrolysis and polycondensation, is that it allows increase of the degree of flexibility of hydrolysis-polycondensation product from this raw material, and as a result enables the formation of enough thick coating to smooth the non-polished surface with irregularities by applying a transparent coating layer.
Suitable metals as M1 of the above-mentioned metal organic compounds are such as Si, Ti, Ta, Nb, Zr, Al, Sn, Sb, and B. As organic radicals R1 and R2 are suitable alkyl, acyl, phenyl, etc.
Coating for use in the present invention, which is a hydrolysis-polycondensation product of a metal organic compounds, is required to be as transparent as the optical part substrate. The refractive index of the baked composite layer is preferable to be identical substantially (within �0.1) with the refractive index of the optical part substrate, this contributing to reduced reflection of light by the interface between the substrate and coating.
For obtaining more appropriate refractive index of the coating and hardness, etc., it is preferred to use a composite polycondensation product by the addition of one or more kinds R3 M2 (OR4)l or M3 (OR3)n to R1 M1 (OR2)m, compared with the use of the latter alone. In these formulae, R3, R4 and R5 are organic radicals having up to 6 carbon atoms, respectively, M2 and M3 are metals, and l and n are natural numbers.
The coating according to the invention is preferred to be baked to accelerate the polycondensation and to evaporate volatile constituents such as solvent.
The baking temperature may be set to any temperature not causing lowering of the characteristic of the optical part substrate, and preferred to be within an range between 70� and 400� C. taking the characteristics such as the hardness of the baked coating and the bonding strength to the optical part substrate into consideration.
At baking temperatures of up to 70� C., water content tends to stay in the coating layer, and hence it is difficult to become sufficiently hard. At baking temperatures exceeding 400� C., there is an tendency of the coating to peel from the optical part substrate.
In the following, an example of coating according to the present invention will be described. Methyltriethoxysilane [CH3 Si(OCH2 H5)3 ] was added to ethanol in a molar ratio of 1 to 2 and then well blended. To the solution, a diluted hydrochloric acid (3% by weight) was added and hydrolysis was made with stirring at room temperature for 20 minutes.
In this case, amount of water added was 1 in molar ratio to methyltriethoxysilane.
Subsequently, titaniumtetra-n-butoxide [Ti(On-Bu)4 ] was added, and stirred for further 20 minutes. Then the same diluted hydrochloric acid was further added so that the amount of water added was 1 in molar ratio to methyltriethoxysilane (sum of the first and second addition of water: 2), and stirred for further 20 minutes. Thus a coating solution was obtained.
The composition of this solution was adjusted so that the molar ratio of Si to Ti of the final baked product of oxide was 4 to 1. As above-mentioned, the first addition of water was only 1 in molar ratio to methyltriethoxysilane because, when the first addition of water was made in 2 molar ratio to a uniform solution of ethanol and methyltriethoxysilane (1 to 2 in molar ratio), white cloudy precipitate of fine particles was produced in the solution.
Second addition of water (1 in molar ratio to methyltriethoxysilane; sum of both additions: 2 in molar ratio) after adding titaniumtetra-n-butoxide, was added because of improving in wetting property of the sol in the coating solution to the optical part substrate. Actually, with a coating solution not processed as above-mentioned, it may be repelled by the optical part substrate, resulting in ununiform coating layer. Following the addition of titaniumtetra-n-butoxide, the second addition of water so that the sum of first and second additions was 2 in molar ratio produced no white cloud of fine particles because probably the reaction of methyltriethoxysilane with titaniumtetra-n-butoxide, in the presence of small amount of water by the first addition of it, into inorganic chain-structure high molecules having Ti--O--Si bond to a certain degree in size occurred, and by virtue of this, sudden production of fine particles could not occur by the second addition of water.
The thus-prepared coating solution was applied to the surface of an optical part substrate 2 to form a coating layer 9 on it, as shown in FIG. 12.
As substrate 2, a gradient index lens array of which ends for incident and emergent lights have a Rmax of about 0.5 μm, respectively, was used, and the coating solution was applied to them.
Application to the coating was performed by the so-called dip coating technique comprising immersing a lens in a coating solution and withdrawing at a fixed rate.
After coating, the lens with coating layer 9 was dried at room temperature and subjected to such heat treatment as heated to 140� C. at a temperature rising rate of 1� C. per minute and then kept at this temperature for 30 minutes.
One time of the above-mentioned procedure can form a coating layer 9 of thickness of 2.2 μm having a refractive index of 1.47, with new surface having a reduced Rmax of up to 0.1 μm and thus as smooth as the mirror surface, and increased resolving power.
The coating layer 9 had a good bonding strength of pencil test hardness 4 H or more.
The manufactured glass lens with coating layer was subjected to weatherproofness test.
For comparison, also uncoated glass lenses were subjected to weatherproofness test. The test was made under conditions: 70� C., relative humidity 90% and keeping time 100 hours.
After weatherproofness test, the uncoated lens was observed to undergo a deterioration called yellowing on the surface. On the other hand, the surface of the optical part with coating layer 9 was noted to have remain unchanged compared with that before test. Neither deterioration nor alkari reaction product was observed.
It therefore has been proved that the coating layer layer 9 constitutes the smooth surface film over the unpolished optical part substrate, and in addition functions as protective layer for it.
In the same procedure as the embodiment of the present invention, glass lenses with the coating layer 9 were subjected baking at 100�, 200� and 350� C., respectively, and evaluation was made similarly.
The obtained results revealed that any of bakings at 100�, 200� and 350� C. effected the same optical characteristics and weatherproofness.
The composition of TiO2 --SiO2 coating according to the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned TiO2 to SiO2 ratio of 20 to 80, and can be changed to any ratio in accordance with the optical property of the optical part substrate.
In the embodiment of the present invention, as an above-mentioned compound which is a substitution product of M(OR')n+1 by the replacement of one of alkoxide groups (OR') of it with an inactive organic radical (R) on the hydrolysis-polycondensation was used methyltriethoxysilane [CH3 Si(OCH2 H5)4 ]. Instead of this, phenyltrimethoxysilane [C6 H5 Si(OCH3)3 ] or hexyltrimethoxysilane [C6 H13 Si(OCH3)3 ] can be used.
For the purpose of setting the refractive index as desired, titanium tetraisopropoxide [Ti(OC3 H7)4 ], titanium acetylacetonato complex [Ti(OC4 H9)2 (C5 H7 O2)2 ], or the like can be used in the place of titanium tetra-n-butoxide [Ti(On Bu)4 ] in the embodiment.
Besides, organometallic compounds containing such as Zr or Sn instead of Ti can be used with formation of good coating layer over an optical part substrate.
The conception of the present invention can be applied not only to gradient index lens array but also as a matter of course to spherical lens, prism and so on.
In the following a different coating prepared with a metal alkoxide of silicon tetraethoxide [Si(OC2 H5)4 ] as raw material of it will be described as an comparative example to that according to the invention.
To an ethanol solution of silicon tetraethoxide, a diluted hydrochloric acid (1% by weight) was added and stirred for 1 hour. In this case, the amount of water in the diluted hydrochloric acid was set to 6 in molar ratio to the silicon tetraethoxide. The added amount of ethanol was varied in accordance with the thickness of the coating layer to be formed. The thus-prepared solution was colorless, transparent and used as a coating solution.
This solution was applied to the non-polished surface (Rmax =0.5 μm) of a gradient index lens array to form coating film over the surface as in Example above-mentioned.
In this comparative example, a single coating can form only small coating thickness up to 0.4 μm thus to make a still unsmooth surface with somewhat irregularities corresponding the unpolished surface, as shown in FIG. 13. In addition, owing to being impossible to set the refractive index as desired, the reflectance by the interface between the coating layer 9 and the optical substrate (lens) 2 become increased.
Trial to form larger thicknesses of the coating 9 failed with the result of causing the coating layer 9 to become cracked as shown in FIG. 14.
The description of an alternative Example is given in the following.
FIG. 15 shows the ends 1A and 1B of the lens array unit 1 each with a transparent coating layer 9 of TiO2 --SiO2 formed by the sol-gel process using titanium tetra-n-butoxide and silicon tetraethoxide as starting materials.
As an example, ethanol (42 g) was added to silicon tetraethoxide (38 g) and stirred. Then 3% (by weight) diluted hydrochloric acid (13 g) was dropped and well stirred to make hydrolysis of the compound. The obtained solution was called "solution A".
Besides ethanol (17 g) was added to titanium n-butoxide (6 g), and stirred to make "solution B".
Subsequently solution B was dropped to solution A with violent agitation, and "solution C" was obtained as the reaction product.
The solution C was diluted with ethanol and in this dilution a previously-assembled lens array unit 1 was immersed.
After being withdrawn from the solution, the lens array unit 1 was subjected to baking at 200� C. for 2 hours.
In the above-mentioned process, a coating layer 9 represented as 9TiO2.91SiO2 (in mole %) was formed.
For the evaluation of antiozonant property, the lens array unit with the coating layer 9 and uncoated lens array unit for comparison, respectively, were kept in an atmosphere of 40� C., relative humidity 80% and ozone concentration 5 ppm, and their optical performances (resolving power and light transmittance) was measured at intervals of a certain time. The obtained results are plotted in FIGS. 16A and 16B. FIG. 16A shows the change in resolving power, the ordinate exhibiting MTF values expressed in percent when the initial value is taken as 100%.
FIG. 16B shows the change in light transmission of the lens, the ordinate exhibiting light transmittance expressed in percent when the initial value is taken as 100%.
In FIGS. 16A and 16B, solid lines are of the lens array of the embodiment of the present invention, and broken lines are of those of the comparative example.
As apparent from the graphs in FIGS. 16A and 16B, likewise in the ozone atmosphere, the optical performance of the lens array unit with the coating layer according to the invention is subjected to deterioration to very small degree with the course of time.
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Letter(s) from Maria Nvitskaya to Dana (USA)
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Hey there! I seen personal profile before.However I do not recall to my mind the place... I precisely really don't remember... I possibly could come up with another excuse to talk, nevertheless do not want to fool your head :). Could we dispense with no procedures?May I speak to you actually ? My nickname "Kuma"! :) I'd desire to become your pal, and correspond with you. I talk 2 different languages. Now i'm twenty-four. I am from the Russian federation. I actually emailed you my personal picture. I'm sorry for this particular image. I hope that you don't think I am a horrible woman. I'll email you again if you'll pardon me for these types of sincere photograph.
Letter 2
Dana hello! Thank you for letter!
Please forgive me, I could not write you earlier.
I hope all is fine with you. i can say about myself.
my real name Marija! Now I am writing to you from pers-l email!
I am patient,generous, kind, and loving. I am always upbeat, have a positive attitude about most things and I like to have fun. I love museums,romantic dinners, and sunsets and I am a fun loving person who is ready to love and hook up with a man for a better future for the rest of my life. its my first time of trying this internet of a thing , so am new to this i pray it works for me. I'm seeking for Someone special to capture my heart and knows how to handle it with care,one who will cherish me and be willing to share life's greatest joys and sorrows, Someone who's willing to spoil, pamper and love me unconditionally,whom is kind, sincere, honest, passionate, loyal,sense of humour,someone that can make me laugh loving and wants lifetime of passion..
I'm a lonely person in a big world and I'm searching for a honest man, who is eager to find his second half and perfect fit.
Life is not so easy and I am too naive to understand this. I believe in happy future.
Maybe you too? So, though my life wasn't easy,to find my desire. I need a man who will be strong enough to care about me and also ready to explore new things about my views of life, who will love me passionately every moment of our future happy life, who won't use me and my feelings. well, how do i start this just feel free to ask me any question if you want to know more about me.
and will love to read more about you with some pictures...
kiss, Marija
Letter 3
HI!! It is Marija!
You did not answer me yesterday:(( Just tell me and I will never write you again...
I would like to have a relationship with you although I don't know if that's possible in Int. but you know so I'm looking just for a good man!
I want to see real life and it is impossible to see without person who knows all sides of the life .......
Today many used a special program for young people who wants to work abroad. I also decided to do so and to use it. This program just helps to register documents and gives suitable work in any state(town)of USA, Canada or Europa (or other big country). I just need to choose.
I already started to register documents and now I need to decide in which city I want to work..
I plan to work in sphere of services or trade!
I decided to find a men and make his city to be my purpose.
I will leave my town in a few days or so. I can't tell you everything exactly right now......
I do hope that you will be not disappointed to meet me in the real life if we will meet....I think that my e-mail starts to be too long ?
I also want to see your different photos and hope to know you better!
I want you to know that I have only good intentions.
kiss... Marija
Letter 4
Dana, thank's for your reply so much!!! I find it nteresting...
I write you my emails from Internet cafe, I don't have my own computer.
You heard a saying the older the violin the sweeter the music?!
I hope soon I will be able to come to your area and we will meet each other!
Today I will tell my parents about you, I'm sure they will be happy that someone is waiting for me over there!
This time I will write you more about myself. I think you should know more about my life and my hobbies so you will know if we have any common interests.
First of all my full name is Marija Nvitskaya . 24years old, not too young I think? My birthday is 20 March I'm 153cm tall (5.5) and 52 kg weight..
I don't know exactly my waist, hips measurements, I don't have a reason to measure it because I think it's OK and my body is proportionate )) I take care of my body, I do aerobics three times a week and I go to the swimming pool twice a week.I have a younger brother!
We all (me, my brother and my parents) live in two-rooms flat.
As I wrote you I live in Russa. The name of my city is Kochergino, it's near Krasnoyarsk city. Kochergino is very small and Krasnoyarsk is a large city, the main city in our district.
I graduated from Krasnoyarsk Humanitarian University two years ago.
I`m a menager of the big shop, my city is small but we have a big shop here. Sometimes I attend courses in Krasnoyarsk so I have several diplomas, but you know in russia we don`t have good work opportunities.
But this work help me to take care about myself.
When I come to your city I think it won`t be a problem to find work on my specialization (I shall work as the simple seller).
My mother is a teacher of music in the school. I also could play a piano a little. I like classic music, jazz, rock, lounge. I like all kinds of music!
A little about my father: he is in a good shape because we usually make exercises together, he doesn`t work now, because he is retired already.
I love both my parents and I'm happy my parents will be not alone when I leave them and will go to another country. Of course I will miss everybody but I want to have my own happiness!
do you have an International Airport in your city? please write me it's name an code.
or write me the name of the nearest INTERNATIONAL Airport to you.
If you want I can call you when I will be in Capital, it would be nice to talk to you. We don't have international calls here. I suppose in few days I will fly to Moscov and start my trip!
There is no any messenger in this Cafe so we can only keep emailing each other. I hope you are not getting bored to read my emails?
My address here is Rus.Federation, Kochergino, Gagarina street 5 flat 1, post code(zip) - 662921.
So now you have a representation of who I am....
I like to try new things.. :-) do you like my photos?
ok... it's time to finish my email. I'm sending a kiss by the wind ...catch my kiss !!
bye, Marija
Letter 5
hello!! Are you OK? I am writing you thefifth letter..:)
I hope you read all of these? sorry, I just want to add few things...
I think last time I wrote you not all my thoughts...
My mind is always in a mess when I write you because it's hard to write everything to somebody who is so far away. I don't remember if I wrote last time I've never been married, don't have kids but I love them and they love me! I And I want to tell you that I always wanted to find an older man.
Why? I have two answers..
Firstly, I think older men are much more serious and they can take care of me, they are more experienced in life and can teach me many things. Have you heard a saying "The older the violin, the sweeter the music"? I believe in it... I think I'm not that young already but I don't have much experience in life and I want to have someone who has more experience in life then me.
Secondly... maybe I'm not right about it... but I want to be honest I've always had such worry... if I marry a man nearly my age...
and after some years I will become not that young and beautiful... I think it's more hard for a woman to be attractive then for a man...
and he will find a younger mistress and I will become very miserable.
I don't want my man to be unfaithful. I know I can be faithful to my man and I will never cheat on him.
But this is just my worries. This is not my goal. Please tell me if you think you will love your woman at any age and not find a younger one? Can you be faithful?
Also I want to tell you that I learned english in university, so I don`t use any translators, and I can speak english as good as I write on it.
I hope we will have no problems in communications. I feel that you are very nice man I really want to meet you. If you will not like me or something else we can be just friends.
I hope I will get my work visa soon in Moscow and all documents and I come to you! I don't have any area limits with this visa so I can work where I want. I don`t know exact day of my arrival, but as soon as I will know I will write it to you.
You know, I'm just trying to be honest with you and write you all my thoughts on different issues. Please be always honest with me also....
I am sending you my best pic! I am sorry for my strange attitude.
My thought are so contradictive about us. This pic was taken by my girlfriend.
I want you to see all of my body so you know how I look and don't get too much surprised after we meet. I understand that it is important to all men and you're not the exception. I respect men's attitude.
Once again, I am sorry and I hope you don't get me wrong for sending this photo to you.
I have no more similar pics! sorry!
I will write you later, I will look if I have more nice photos to sendyou.
Have a good day!
bye, Marija
Letter 6
I am very glad to write you again!!! I in Capital of our country!!
I was in a travel agency, all my documents are ready.
Now they are checking a possible flight to your air port.
They will give me all information (date and time of my arrival, etc.) tomorrow I think or after tomorrow.
Tomorrow I will continue to see M o s c o w, like a tourist.
In Moscov there are so many different museums! Here good weather, about -7`C, but I feel myself so alone.
Everything here is very expensive, not like in my city...
Everywhere are big crowds of people!
Everyone rush somewhere and I don`t know anybody here. I feel uncomfortable because of it but I hope I will be OK soon.
You can't imagine how happy I am because I already started my trip to you!
I still cannot believe I've done it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Something amazing occurs inside of me after I have received your first letter!
My heart lost calm since then. But it's interesting that it does not want to find it again!
Every my cell shouts about how it wants to see you. I want to see and kiss you!
My sun, you know perhaps, but I'll tell you that you are the clearest man in the world. My sun!
I cannot even think without you, I become silly! I do not want even to breath without you!
I need you as an air. It's so incredibly stuffy without you, and I can really breathe of you!
I'm finishing my letter and I want to thank you for hope you offer me.
Please CONFIRM the name of int. airport (and his code) and be sure you wrote it right.
kiss you ,Marija


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