PROJECTION DEVICE

• US 20120092629A1
• Filed: 07/07/2011
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Young Optics, Inc. (Coretronic Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Young Optics, Inc. (Coretronic Corporation)
• Inventors: Chang, Chih-Wei, Liu, Pei-Ching, Huang, Chien-Jung, Yen, Jui-Hsiang
• Application Number:
  US13/177,567
• Publication Number:
  US 20120092629A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 353/97
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/008 using micromirror devices
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/145 Housing details, e.g. position adjustments thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/20 Lamp housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3173 wherein the projection device is specially adapted for enhanced portability

Abstract

A projection device including an optical engine base, a light source, a light valve, and a projection lens is provided. The light source includes a component holder, a light component, and light lens. The component holder is assembled to the optical engine base, and has a component slot and a lens slot communicated with the component slot. The lens slot has at least one slot section plane. The light component is disposed within the component slot. The light lens is disposed within the lens slot, and adapted to form the light generated by the light component into a lighting beam. The light valve and the projection lens are assembled to the optical engine base. The light valve is adapted to convert the lighting beam into an image beam. The projection lens is adapted to convert the image beam into a projection beam.

Claims

1. A projection device, comprising:

an optical engine base;

a light source, adapted to provide a lighting beam, comprising;

a component holder, assembled to the optical engine base, and having a component slot and a lens slot communicated with the component slot, wherein the lens slot has at least one slot section plane;

a light component, disposed within the component slot; and

a light lens, disposed within the lens slot and adapted to form a light generated by the light component into the lighting beam;

a light valve, assembled to the optical engine base, located on a transmission path of the lighting beam, and adapted to convert the lighting beam into an image beam; and

a projection lens, assembled to the optical engine base, located on a transmission path of the image beam, and adapted to convert the image beam into a projection beam.

2. The projection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein an outer edge of the component holder has at least one holder section plane, and the holder section plane is parallel to the slot section plane.

3. The projection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein an outer edge of the component holder has at least one sunken arc adapted to compensate a shape of an automatic locating detent.

4. The projection device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

an optical lens, located on the transmission path of the lighting beam and having a pair of embedded wings on two sides of the optical lens respectively, wherein the optical engine base has a pair of embedded slots and the pair of embedded wings is embedded in the pair of embedded slots.

5. The projection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the light valve comprises:

a field lens;

an elastic frame;

a light valve component; and

a fixation holder,

wherein the optical engine base has a light valve slot, and the field lens, the elastic frame, and the light valve component are embedded in the light valve slot, and the fixation holder is assembled to the optical engine base so as to fix the field lens, the elastic frame, and the light valve component within the light valve slot.

6. The projection device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a slide block, connected to the projection lens; and

a slide rod, mounted on the optical engine base and compensated with the slide block, so that the projection lens moves linearly along the slide rod relative to the optical engine base through the slide block,

wherein the optical engine base has a first mounting hole and a second mounting hole, two ends of the slide rod compensate with the first mounting hole and the second mounting hole respectively, the first mounting hole is a circular axle hole, the second mounting hole includes a first segment and a second segment, the first segment limits the slide rod to move in both way along a first dimension and in one way along a second dimension on a two-dimensional plane perpendicular to the slide rod, and the second segment limits the slide rod to move along the other way of the second dimension.

7. The projection device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the first segment is a U-shaped surface and the second segment is a planar surface.

8. The projection device as claimed in claim 6, further comprising:

a driver, mounted on the optical engine base and coupled to the projection lens for driving the projection lens to move linearly along the slide rod relative to the optical engine base through the slide block.

9. The projection device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a shading body, located between the light valve and the projection lens.

10. The projection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shading body and the optical engine base are formed as an integrative unit.

11. The projection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the component holder further has a component gluing slot and a lens gluing slot, and the light source further comprises:

a first glue body, disposed between the component gluing slot and the light component, so as to fix the light component to the component slot; and

a second glue body, disposed between the lens gluing slot and the light lens, so as to fix the light lens to the lens slot.

12. The projection device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the component gluing slot has a slant surface.