Optical device and image display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9664980-B2
Application number	US-201514868793-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 29, 2015
Priority date	Sep 30, 2014
Publication date	May 30, 2017
Grant date	May 30, 2017

Abstract

An optical device includes an optical section, a moving section, a shaft section, and an actuator. The optical section includes a light-incident surface on which light is incident. The moving section supports the optical section and the shaft section swingably supports the moving section. The actuator swings the moving section based on a drive signal having a trapezoidal waveform. A swing waveform representative of a trajectory of the moving section as the moving section is swung has a trapezoidal waveform. A maintenance time of a flat portion of the trapezoidal waveform of the drive signal is shorter than a maintenance time of a flat portion of the trapezoidal waveform of the swing waveform of the moving section.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An optical device comprising:
an optical section that includes a light-incident surface on which light is incident;
a moving section that supports the optical section;
a shaft section that swingably supports the moving section such that a predetermined portion of the moving section is swung, wherein a swing waveform representative of a trajectory of the moving section as the moving section is swung has a trapezoidal waveform; and
an actuator that swings the moving section based on a drive signal, wherein the drive signal is applied to the actuator to swing the moving section and has a trapezoidal waveform, and a maintenance time of a flat portion of the trapezoidal waveform of the drive signal is shorter than a maintenance time of a flat portion of the trapezoidal waveform of the swing waveform of the moving section.

2. The optical device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the drive signal includes multiple frequency components that are configured by a fundamental frequency and odd order harmonics of a sine wave.

3. The optical device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the maintenance time of the flat portion of the drive signal is changed by changing a ratio between the fundamental frequency and the odd order harmonics.

4. The optical device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the frequency components contained in the drive signal differ from resonance frequencies of a vibration system that swings the moving section.

5. The optical device according to claim 4 ,
wherein a torsional resonance frequency that swings the moving section, among the resonance frequencies of the vibration system, is positioned between the fundamental frequency of the frequency components of the drive signal and a fifth harmonic of the odd order harmonics.

6. The optical device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the actuator is an electromagnetic drive actuator.

7. The optical device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the frequency components contained in the drive signal differ from resonance frequencies of a vibration system that swings the moving section.

8. The optical device according to claim 7 ,
wherein a torsional resonance frequency that swings the moving section, among the resonance frequencies of the vibration system, is positioned between the fundamental frequency of the frequency components of the drive signal and a fifth harmonic of the odd order harmonics.

9. The optical device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the actuator is an electromagnetic drive actuator.

10. An image display device comprising:
the optical device according to claim 2 .

11. The image display device according to claim 10 ,
wherein the optical device shifts a position of an image that is displayed by application of light by spatially modulating the light.

12. The optical device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the drive signal includes multiple frequency components that differ from resonance frequencies of a vibration system that swings the moving section.

13. The optical device according to claim 12 ,
wherein a torsional resonance frequency that swings the moving section, among the resonance frequencies of the vibration system, is positioned between a fundamental frequency of the frequency components of the drive signal and a fifth harmonic of odd order harmonics of a sine wave.

14. The optical device according to claim 12 ,
wherein the actuator is an electromagnetic drive actuator.

15. The optical device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the actuator is an electromagnetic drive actuator.

16. The optical device according to claim 15 ,
wherein the actuator includes a permanent magnet and a coil that generates an electric field that acts on the permanent magnet, and
wherein one of the permanent magnet and the coil is provided in the moving section, and the other is provided so as to face the other one.

17. The optical device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the moving section has light-transmitting property.

18. The optical device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the moving section and the shaft section include resin materials.

19. An image display device comprising:
the optical device according to claim 1 .

20. The image display device according to claim 19 ,
wherein the optical device shifts a position of an image that is displayed by application of light by spatially modulating the light.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Mizoguchi Yasushi
• Hirakura Takao

Classifications

• G02F1/29 Primary

  for the control of the position or the direction of light beams, i.e. deflection · CPC title

• G02B26/10

  Scanning systems · CPC title

• G03B21/14

  Details · CPC title

• G02B26/085

  the reflecting means being moved or deformed by electromagnetic means · CPC title