Projection-type video display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9581795-B2
Application number	US-201314786944-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 24, 2013
Priority date	Apr 24, 2013
Publication date	Feb 28, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a projection-type video display device implementing further reduction of a projection distance and further miniaturization of a projection optical system. The projection-type video display device includes a lens group which includes a plurality of lenses, a free-form-surface lens, and a free-form-surface mirror which projects light from the free-form-surface lens on a screen, wherein the lens group includes a third lens which has a bi-convex shape, a fourth lens which has a bi-concave shape, a fifth lens which has a bi-convex shape, the third to fifth lenses constitute a triplet lens, and wherein the free-form-surface lens has a meniscus lens shape of which a convex surface is oriented toward the magnification side.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A projection-type video display device comprising:
a lens group which is disposed in a light propagation direction with respect to a video display element and includes a plurality of lenses;
a first free-form-surface lens which is disposed in the light propagation direction with respect to the lens group;
a second free-form-surface lens which is disposed in the light propagation direction with respect to the first free-form-surface lens; and
a free-form-surface mirror which reflects light emitted from the second free-form-surface lens to project the light on a screen in an inclined manner,
wherein the lens group includes, in order from a side close to the video display element, a first lens which has positive refractive power and a bi-convex shape of which a small radius of curvature is oriented toward the side close to the video display element, a second lens which has an aspherical shape, a third lens which has positive refractive power and a bi-convex shape, a fourth lens which has negative refractive power and a bi-concave shape, a fifth lens which has positive refractive power and a bi-convex shape, a sixth lens which has positive refractive power and a bi-convex shape of which a small radius of curvature is oriented toward a magnification side, a seventh lens which has negative refractive power and an aspherical meniscus shape of which a convex surface is oriented toward a reduction side, an eighth lens which has negative refractive power and a bi-concave shape, a ninth lens which has positive refractive power and a bi-convex shape of which a small radius of curvature is oriented toward the magnification side, and a tenth lens which has negative refractive power and an aspherical meniscus shape of which a convex surface is oriented toward the magnification side,
wherein the third, fourth, and fifth lenses constitute a cemented triplet lens, and
wherein the first and second free-form-surface lenses have a meniscus lens shape of which a convex surface is oriented toward the magnification side.

2. The projection-type video display device according to claim 1 , wherein a refractive index of the first lens is larger than 1.8.

3. The projection-type video display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein an Abbe number of the third lens is larger than 70,
wherein an Abbe number of the fourth lens is smaller than 25,
wherein an Abbe number of the fifth lens is larger than 70, and
wherein an absolute value of a ratio f 1 /f L3L4L5 of a focal length f L3L4L5 of the entire triplet lens and a focal length f 1 of the entire lens group is 0.2 or less.

4. The projection-type video display device according to claim 1 , wherein an Abbe number of the sixth lens is smaller than 35.

5. The projection-type video display device according to claim 1 , wherein a value (A/W 8 )×(B/W 5 ) obtained by multiplying a projection ratio (A/W 8 ) defined by a projection distance A of the projection-type video display device and a length W 8 of a long side of a projection image by a value (B/W 5 ) obtained by normalizing a length B of the lens group with a length W 5 of a long side of an image effective range of the video display element is 1.5 or less.

Assignees

• Hitachi Maxell

Inventors

• Yatsu Masahiko

Classifications

• G02B13/0045

  having five or more lenses · CPC title

• G03B21/142

  Adjusting of projection optics · CPC title

• G02B13/04

  Reversed telephoto objectives · CPC title

• G03B9/64

  Mechanism for delaying opening of shutter (separate from shutter G03B17/38) · CPC title

• G02B13/18

  with lenses having one or more non-spherical faces, e.g. for reducing geometrical aberration {(G02B13/002 takes precedence)} · CPC title