Light-receiving device and lidar

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11262439-B2
Application number	US-201716320402-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 25, 2017
Priority date	Jul 25, 2016
Publication date	Mar 1, 2022
Grant date	Mar 1, 2022

Abstract

Provided are a light-receiving device and lidar comprising the light-receiving device. The light-receiving device comprises: a first lens comprising a first lens surface for receiving light from an outside and a second lens surface for changing the path of the light received by the first lens surface and outputting the light to the outside; and a sensor on which light transmitted through the second lens surface is incident, wherein the first lens surface is a spherical surface, the second lens surface is an aspherical surface, and the focus of the first lens deviates from the sensor surface of the sensor.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A light-receiving device, comprising:
a first lens comprising a first lens surface for receiving a light from an outside and a second lens surface for changing a path of the light received by the first lens surface and outputting the light to the outside; and
a sensor on which light transmitted through the second lens surface is incident,
wherein the first lens surface is a spherical surface, the second lens surface is an aspherical surface having an aspheric shape, and a focus of the first lens surface deviates from a sensor surface of the sensor.

2. The light-receiving device of claim 1 , wherein the focus of the first lens surface deviates from the sensor surface of the sensor to an optic axis direction.

3. The light-receiving device of claim 1 , wherein a distance from a principal point of the first lens to the sensor surface of the sensor is shorter or longer than a focal distance.

4. A light-receiving device, comprising:
a first lens comprising a first lens surface for receiving a light from an outside and a second lens surface for changing a path of the light received by the first lens surface and outputting the light to the outside; and
a sensor on which light transmitted through the second lens surface is incident,
wherein the first lens surface is a spherical surface, the second lens surface is an aspherical surface, and a focus of the first lens surface deviates from a sensor surface of the sensor, and
wherein the first lens surface comprises a first spherical surface, and the second lens surface comprises a first aspherical surface, a second aspherical surface and a third aspherical surface.

5. The light-receiving device of claim 4 , wherein the first aspherical surface is disposed on a distal end of one side to a minor axis direction of the first lens, the third aspherical surface is disposed on a distal end of other side to the minor axis direction of the first lens, and the second aspherical surface is interposed between the first aspherical surface and the third aspherical surface.

6. The light-receiving device of claim 4 , wherein a first inflection point exists between the first aspherical surface and the second aspherical surface on a cross-section to a minor axis direction of the first lens, and
wherein a second inflection point exists between the third aspherical surface and the second aspherical surface on a cross-section to the minor axis direction of the first lens.

7. The light-receiving device of claim 4 , wherein the first spherical surface, the first aspherical surface, the second aspherical surface and the third aspherical surface are formed with a convex curvature to a direction opposite to a direction disposed with the sensor on a cross-section to a major axis direction of the first lens.

8. The light-receiving device of claim 4 , wherein the second aspherical surface is formed with a convex curvature to a direction disposed with the sensor on a cross-section to a minor axis direction of the first lens.

9. The light-receiving device of claim 4 , wherein the first lens comprises:
a first plane surface disposed between a distal end of one side to a minor axis direction of the first lens on the first spherical surface and a distal end of one side to the minor axis direction of the first lens on the first aspherical surface; and
a second plane surface disposed between a distal end of the other side to the minor axis direction of the first lens on the first spherical surface and a distal end of the other side to the minor axis direction of the first lens on the third aspherical surface, and
wherein the first plane surface and the second plane surface are perpendicular to the minor axis of the first lens.

10. The light-receiving device of claim 9 , wherein the first plane surface and the second plane surface is a surface generated when the first lens is manufactured by molding.

11. The light-receiving device of claim 4 , wherein the first lens comprises:
a third plane surface disposed between a distal end of one side to a major axis direction of the first lens on the first spherical surface and a distal end of one side to a major axis direction of the first lens on the first aspherical surface, the second aspherical surface and the third aspherical surface; and
a fourth plane surface disposed between a distal end of the other side to a major axis direction of the first lens on the first spherical surface and a distal end of the other side to the major axis direction of the first lens on the first aspherical surface, the second aspherical surface and a third aspherical surface,
wherein the third plane surface and the fourth plane are perpendicular to an optical axis of the first lens.

12. The light-receiving device of claim 11 , wherein the first lens comprises a plurality of support legs, and
wherein the plurality of support legs comprises a first support leg disposed on the third plane surface, a second support leg disposed on the third plane surface and spaced apart the first support leg to the minor axis direction of the first lens, a third support leg disposed on the fourth plane surface, and a fourth support leg disposed on the fourth plane surface and spaced apart the third support leg to the minor axis direction of the first lens.

13. The light-receiving device of claim 11 , wherein the first lens comprises a fifth plane surface disposed between the first spherical surface and the third plane surface, and a sixth plane surface disposed between the first spherical surface and the fourth plane surface,
wherein the fifth plane surface and the sixth plane surface is disposed to be symmetrical about an optic axis.

14. The light-receiving device of claim 12 , wherein the fifth plane surface and the sixth plane surface is respectively a cut surface generated when a plurality of first lenses is cut during manufacturing of the plurality of first lens using a molding.

15. The light-receiving device of claim 4 , wherein the first spherical surface has a positive (+) refractive power on a cross-section to a major axis direction of the first lens, the first aspherical surface, the second aspherical surface and the third aspherical surface have a negative (−) refractive power on a cross-section to the major axis direction of the first lens.

16. The light-receiving device of claim 4 , wherein the first spherical surface and the second aspherical surface have a positive (+) refractive power on a cross-section to a minor axis direction of the first lens, and the first aspherical surface and the third aspherical surface have a negative (−) refractive power on a cross-section to the minor axis direction of the first lens.

17. A light-receiving device, comprising:
a first lens comprising a first lens surface for receiving light from an outside and a second lens surface for changing a path of the light received by the first lens surface and outputting the light to the outside; and
a sensor on which light transmitted through the second lens surface is incident,
wherein the first lens surface comprises a spherical surface, the second lens surface comprises a first aspherical surface, a second aspherical surface and a third aspherical surface,
wherein the first aspherical surface is disposed on a distal end of one side to a minor axis direction of the first lens, the third aspherical surface is disposed on a distal end of other side to the minor axis direction of the first lens, and the second aspherical surface is disposed between the first aspherical surface and the third aspherical surface,
wherein the first spherical surface

Assignees

• Lg Innotek Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Chang Hyuck
• Kang Lee Im
• Kim Ji Sung
• Joo Yang Hyun

Classifications

• G01S17/931

  of land vehicles · CPC title

• G01S17/89

  for mapping or imaging · CPC title

• G01S17/14

  wherein a voltage or current pulse is initiated and terminated in accordance with the pulse transmission and echo reception respectively, e.g. using counters · CPC title

• G01S7/4865

  Time delay measurement, e.g. time-of-flight measurement, time of arrival measurement or determining the exact position of a peak (peak detection in noise, signal conditioning G01S7/487) · CPC title

• G02B3/02

  with non-spherical faces (G02B3/10 takes precedence) · CPC title