Projector comprising a light-shape adjusting element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9684231-B2
Application number	US-201514740166-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 15, 2015
Priority date	Aug 5, 2014
Publication date	Jun 20, 2017
Grant date	Jun 20, 2017

Abstract

A projector includes at least one light source, a light combination assembly, a light-shape adjusting element, an illuminating assembly, and an imaging assembly. The light source is used for emitting at least one light beam. The light combination assembly is disposed at the transmission path of the light beam for transferring the light beam to an illumination beam. The light-shape adjusting element is disposed in the light combination assembly and located at the transmission path of the light beam for adjusting a light shape of the light beam, in which the light shape of the light beam is adjusted to be an elliptical shape. The imaging assembly is disposed at the transmission path of the illumination beam for transferring the illumination beam to an image beam. The imaging assembly is disposed at the transmission path of the image beam for projecting the image beam.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A projector comprising:
at least one light source for emitting at least one light beam;
a light combination assembly disposed at a transmission path of the light beam for transferring the light beam to an illumination beam;
a light-shape adjusting element disposed in the light combination assembly and located at the transmission path of the light beam for adjusting a light shape of the light beam, wherein the light shape of the light beam is adjusted to be an elliptical shape by the light-shape adjusting element, wherein the light-shape adjusting element is a biconic surface lens;
an illuminating assembly disposed at a transmission path of the illumination beam and comprising a lens array and a light valve, wherein the light-shape adjusting element is located between the light source and the lens array, the illumination beam propagates to the lens array and the light valve and is transferred to an image beam by the light valve, and a pupil diagram of the image beam is elliptical shape; and
an imaging assembly disposed at a transmission path of the image beam for projecting the image beam.

2. The projector according to claim 1 , wherein the light combination assembly comprises a plurality of light guiding lenses and a plurality of dichroic mirrors, and the light beam is transferred to the illumination beam by one of the light guiding lenses and one of the dichroic mirrors.

3. The projector according to claim 2 , wherein the light-shape adjusting element is disposed adjacent to the light source.

4. The projector according to claim 2 , wherein each of the light guiding lenses has a light incidence surface adjacent to the light source and a light-emitting surface adjacent to the light-shape adjusting element.

5. The projector according to claim 4 , wherein the light-shape adjusting element is disposed between one of the light guiding lenses and the dichroic mirror disposed adjacent thereto.

6. The projector according to claim 2 , wherein the number of the dichroic mirrors is at least two and the light-shape adjusting element is disposed between the two dichroic mirrors.

7. The projector according to claim 2 , wherein the number of the light sources is three, the number of the dichroic mirrors is two and the two dichroic mirror intersect to each other, the number of the light-shape adjusting elements is three, and each of the light-shape adjusting elements is disposed between the corresponding one of light sources and the dichroic mirrors.

8. The projector according to claim 1 , wherein the illuminating assembly further comprises at least one relay lens and a total reflection prism, the illumination beam transmits across the lens array, the relay lens, the total reflection prism and the light vale.

9. The projector according to claim 8 , wherein the light-shape adjusting element is disposed adjacent to the lens array.

10. The projector according to claim 9 , wherein the light combination assembly comprises at least two dichroic mirrors, and a light guiding lens is disposed between the two dichroic mirrors.

11. The projector according to claim 9 , wherein the light combination assembly comprises a plurality of light guiding lenses and a plurality of dichroic mirrors, the number of the light sources is three and each of the light sources is corresponding to one of the light guiding lenses, the number of the dichroic mirrors is two and the two dichroic mirror intersect to each other, and the light beam is transferred to the illumination beam by one of the light guiding lenses and one of the dichroic mirrors.

12. The projector according to claim 1 , wherein the imaging assembly comprises a projection lens for projecting the image beam.

13. The projector according to claim 1 , wherein the light source is a light-emitting diode or a laser diode.

14. A projector comprising:
at least one light source for emitting at least one light beam;
a light combination assembly disposed at a transmission path of the light beam for transferring the light beam to an illumination beam;
a light-shape adjusting element disposed in the light combination assembly and located at the transmission path of the light beam for adjusting a light shape of the light beam, wherein the light shape of the light beam is adjusted to be an elliptical shape by the light-shape adjusting element;
an illuminating assembly disposed at a transmission path of the illumination beam for transferring the illumination beam to an image beam, wherein the illuminating assembly comprises a lens array, at least one relay lens, a total reflection prism, and a light valve, the illumination beam transmits across the lens array, the relay lens, the total reflection prism and the light vale, and the illumination beam is transferred to the image beam by the light valve; and
an imaging assembly disposed at a transmission path of the image beam for projecting the image beam, wherein a pupil diagram of the image beam emitted by the light valve at the on state, a pupil diagram of the image beam emitted by the light valve at the off state and a pupil diagram of the image beam emitted by the light valve at the flat state are not overlapped with each other.

15. A projector comprising:
at least one light source for emitting at least one light beam;
a light combination assembly disposed at a transmission path of the light beam for transferring the light beam to an illumination beam;
a light-shape adjusting element located at a transmission path of the illumination beam, wherein a light shape of the illumination beam is adjusted to be an elliptical shape by the light-shape adjusting element, and the light-shape adjusting element is a biconic surface lens;
an illuminating assembly disposed at a transmission path of the illumination beam and comprising a lens array and a light valve, wherein the light-shape adjusting element is located between the light source and the lens array, the illumination beam propagates to the lens array and the light valve and is transferred to an image beam by the light valve, and a pupil diagram of the image beam is elliptical shape; and
an imaging assembly disposed at a transmission path of the image beam for projecting the image beam.

Assignees

• Coretronic Corp

Inventors

• Chung Wen-Chieh
• Lin Meng-Hsuan

Classifications

• G02B27/102

  for generating a colour image from monochromatic image signal sources · CPC title

• G03B21/2013

  Plural light sources · CPC title

• G03B21/2033

  LED or laser light sources · CPC title

• G02B27/0966

  Cylindrical lenses (cylindrical lenses per se G02B3/06) · CPC title

• G02B27/149

  using crossed beamsplitting surfaces, e.g. cross-dichroic cubes or X-cubes · CPC title