Projector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9860496-B2
Application number	US-201615005010-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 25, 2016
Priority date	Feb 12, 2015
Publication date	Jan 2, 2018
Grant date	Jan 2, 2018

Abstract

A projector includes a light source, a digital micro-mirror device (DMD), a first prism, and a second prism. The light source emits incident light. The DMD reflects the incident light as an image light. The first prism is disposed between the light source and the DMD. The second prism is disposed between the first prism and the DMD. The first prism includes a first plane, a second plane, and an intermediate portion including a reflecting portion. The incident light is reflected by the reflecting portion and then passes through the second plane. The second prism includes a fourth plane, a fifth plane, and a sixth plane. When the DMD is operated in an OFF-state, the image light is reflected to the sixth plane, and the sixth plane reflects a leakage light of the image light along a predetermined light path away from the prisms.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A projector comprising:
a light source for emitting an incident light;
a digital micro-mirror device having a first side in a first direction and a second side in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the first side is longer than the second side, the digital micro-mirror device receives and reflects the incident light as an image light;
a first prism disposed between the light source and the digital micro-mirror device for receiving and transmitting the incident light, the first prism comprising:
a first plane faced to the light source for receiving the incident light;
a second plane adjoined to the first plane; and
an intermediate portion adjoined to the first plane and comprising a reflecting portion, wherein the incident light is transmitted to the reflecting portion and is reflected by the reflecting portion, then, the incident light passes through the second plane; and

a second prism disposed between the first prism and the digital micro-mirror device, the second prism comprising:
a fourth plane paralleled to the second plane for receiving the incident light and reflecting the image light;
a fifth plane adjoined to the fourth plane and paralleled to the digital micro-mirror device, wherein the fifth plane comprises an adjoining side paralleled to the first side; and
a sixth plane adjoined to the fourth plane and the fifth plane, wherein the sixth plane is faced to a lens;

wherein the incident light is transmitted to the digital micro-mirror device through the fourth plane and the fifth plane, the incident light is reflected by the digital micro-mirror device as the image light to the sixth plane, when the digital micro-mirror device is operated in an OFF-state, the sixth plane reflects a leakage light of the image light along a predetermined light path away from the prisms.

2. The projector of claim 1 , wherein the digital micro-mirror device is a two-axis tilting digital micro-mirror device.

3. The projector of claim 1 , wherein the fifth plane is perpendicular to the sixth plane.

4. The projector of claim 1 , wherein the intermediate portion further comprises a third plane, and the reflecting portion is a mirror coating on the third plane.

5. The projector of claim 1 , wherein the intermediate portion further comprises a third plane, and the reflecting portion is a reflecting plane faced to the third plane.

6. The projector of claim 1 , further comprising:
a lens module disposed between the light source and the first plane.

7. The projector of claim 6 , wherein an equivalent focal length of the lens module is 80 mm˜82 mm.

8. The projector of claim 6 , further comprising:
a light pipe disposed between the light source and the lens module for receiving and transmitting the incident light.

9. The projector of claim 8 , wherein the light pipe is a wedge-shaped light pipe.

10. The projector of claim 8 , wherein the light pipe, the lens module, the prisms, and the digital micro-mirror device form an optical mechanical system with the magnification of the optical mechanical system being 1.7˜1.9.

11. The projector of claim 1 , wherein the reflecting portion is disposed outside the predetermined light path.

Assignees

• Qisda Optronics (Suzhou) Co Ltd
• Qisda Corp

Inventors

• Chien Chih-Shiung

Classifications

• H04N9/315 Primary

  Modulator illumination systems (general applications of lighting devices F21V; general optical systems G02B; lamp houses for projectors not peculiar to the presence of an electronic spatial light modulator G03B21/20) · CPC title

• G03B21/2066

  Reflectors in illumination beam (in projection beam G03B21/28) · CPC title

• G02B26/0833

  the reflecting element being a micromechanical device, e.g. a MEMS mirror, DMD (G02B26/0825 takes precedence; micromechanical devices in general B81B) · CPC title

• G02B5/04

  Prisms · CPC title

• G02B27/126

  The splitting element being a prism or prismatic array, including systems based on total internal reflection · CPC title