Projection optical system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9645362-B2
Application number	US-201615014668-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 3, 2016
Priority date	Feb 18, 2015
Publication date	May 9, 2017
Grant date	May 9, 2017

Abstract

A 1-2nd lens group includes two aspherical resin lenses, and thereby it is possible to perform effective correction in order to suppress aberration fluctuation to be reduced. At this time, a glass lens is disposed between the two lenses, and thereby it is possible to control an incident light angle to the resin lens and to reduce power of the resin lenses, and it is possible to prevent variations of shapes of the resin lens. Even in a case where the second optical group is configured of one mirror, it is possible for a primary image to have appropriate aberration and to hereby reduce aberration for a good image which is finally projected onto a screen through the second optical group.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A projection optical system comprising:
in order from a reduction side,
a first optical group which is formed of a plurality of lenses and has positive power; and
a second optical group which has one reflective surface having a concave aspherical shape,
wherein the first optical group is formed to include a 1-1st lens group having positive power, on the reduction side, and a 1-2nd lens group having weaker positive or negative power, compared to the power of the 1-1st lens group, on the enlargement side, with the widest air interval as a boundary, and
wherein the 1-2nd lens group includes at least two aspherical resin lenses and at least one glass lens disposed between the two aspherical resin lenses.

2. The projection optical system according to claim 1 ,
wherein an interval between the two aspherical resin lenses of the 1-2nd lens group is changed when focusing is performed in response to the magnification change.

3. The projection optical system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the 1-1st lens group is configured to have an aperture therein and two lenses of a positive lens with a convex surface facing the enlargement side and a negative lens with the concave surface facing the enlargement side, in this order from the reduction side, on the enlargement side from the aperture.

4. The projection optical system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the 1-1st lens group has an aperture therein, includes at least two sets of cemented lenses of positive lenses and negative lenses disposed on the reduction side from the aperture, and has at least one concave aspherical surface facing the enlargement side.

5. The projection optical system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the numerical aperture on the object side is equal to or more than 0.3.

6. The projection optical system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the reduction side is substantially telecentric.

7. The projection optical system according to claim 1 ,
wherein elements configuring the first optical group and the second optical group all have a rotationally symmetric system.

8. The projection optical system according to claim 1 ,
wherein a range of magnification change is equal to or greater than 1.5 times.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Minefuji Nobutaka

Classifications

• G02B13/0065

  having a beam-folding prism or mirror · CPC title

• G02B27/0977

  Reflective elements · CPC title

• G02B17/08 Primary

  Catadioptric systems {(used in non-imaging applications G02B19/00)} · CPC title

• G02B13/007

  the beam folding prism having at least one curved surface · CPC title

• G02B9/64

  having more than six components · CPC title