Vehicle projection lens and vehicle lamp

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12578069-B2
Application number	US-202318173280-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 23, 2023
Priority date	Mar 1, 2022
Publication date	Mar 17, 2026
Grant date	Mar 17, 2026

Abstract

A vehicle projection lens includes an aspheric first lens, a cemented lens consisting of a spherical second lens and a spherical third lens, and a spherical fourth lens in order from a magnified side to a minified side. An F-number of the vehicle projection lens is smaller than or equal to 0.86, a field of view of the vehicle projection lens is greater than 14 degrees and smaller than 44 degrees, and the vehicle projection lens consists essentially of four lenses respectively with positive, negative, positive and positive refractive powers.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A vehicle projection lens, comprising in order along a direction:
a first lens being an aspheric lens; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a refractive power; and a fourth lens having a positive refractive power and being closest to a minified side of the vehicle projection lens among all lenses of the vehicle projection lens, wherein an F-number of the vehicle projection lens is smaller than or equal to 0.86, a field of view of the vehicle projection lens is greater than 14 degrees and smaller than 44 degrees, the vehicle projection lens consists essentially of four lenses, the first lens has a greatest diameter among all lenses of the vehicle projection lens, and the vehicle projection lens satisfies a condition of |EFL/BFL|>3.8, where EFL is an effective focal length of the vehicle projection lens, and BFL is a back focal length of the vehicle projection lens.

2 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
an aperture stop is disposed between a magnified side of the vehicle projection lens and the third lens.

3 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a magnified-side surface of the first lens has a positive radius of curvature.

4 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the four lenses are an aspheric lens, a meniscus lens, a bi-convex lens and a meniscus lens in order from a magnified side to the minified side.

5 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the four lenses respectively have positive, negative, positive and positive refractive powers from a magnified side to the minified side.

6 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an interval between the first lens and the second lens is within a range of 15 mm to 40 mm.

7 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a ratio of a maximum diameter of the first lens to an overall length of the vehicle projection lens is within a range of 0.63 to 0.8.

8 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the aspheric lens is made from plastic.

9 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the vehicle projection lens further comprises a prism or a reflective mirror disposed on the minified side.

10 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the vehicle projection lens has an F-number within a range of 0.4 to 0.86.

11 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a total track length of the vehicle projection lens is smaller than 90 mm.

12 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the four lenses are an aspheric lens, a bi-concave lens, a bi-convex lens and a meniscus lens in order from a magnified side to the minified side.

13 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a ratio of an interval between the first lens and the second lens to an overall length of the vehicle projection lens is within a range of 0.22 to 0.56.

14 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a ratio of a maximum diameter of the second lens to an overall length of the vehicle projection lens is within a range of 0.51 to 0.79.

15 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the vehicle projection lens comprises both glass and plastic materials.

16 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the vehicle projection lens includes a cemented lens.

17 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second lens and the third lens form a cemented doublet.

18 . The vehicle projection lens as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the second lens, the third lens and the fourth lens is a spherical lens.

19 . A vehicle projection lens consisting essentially of, in order from a magnified side to a minified side:
a first lens being an aspheric lens; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a refractive power; and a fourth lens having a positive refractive power and being closest to a minified side of the vehicle projection lens among all lenses of the vehicle projection lens, wherein an F-number of the vehicle projection lens is smaller than or equal to 0.86, a field of view of the vehicle projection lens is greater than 14 degrees and smaller than 44 degrees, the vehicle projection lens consists essentially of four lenses, the first lens has a greatest diameter among all lenses of the vehicle projection lens, and the vehicle projection lens satisfies a condition of |EFL/BFL|>3.8, where EFL is an effective focal length of the vehicle projection lens, and BFL is a back focal length of the vehicle projection lens.

Assignees

• Young Optics Inc

Inventors

• Wang Kuo-Chuan
• Chiang Chen-An

Classifications

• F21S41/25

  Projection lenses · CPC title

• F21S41/148 Primary

  the main emission direction of the LED being perpendicular to the optical axis · CPC title

• F21S41/285

  Refractors, transparent cover plates, light guides or filters not provided in groups F21S41/24 - F21S41/2805 · CPC title

• F21S41/153

  arranged in a matrix · CPC title

• F21S41/265

  Composite lenses; Lenses with a patch-like shape · CPC title