HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20150123881A1
• Filed: 11/05/2014
• Published: 05/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: SUGIHARA, Ryohei, TATSUTA, Seiji, TOMITA, Teruo, SAKAMOTO, Tetsuyuki
• Application Number:
  US14/533,457
• Publication Number:
  US 20150123881A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/8
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0176 characterised by mechanical features

Abstract

A head-mounted display device including: a holder which is mounted on the head of a user; and a display unit which is supported by the holder and has a display element, wherein the holder includes: a first casing which includes an electronic circuit board having at least a drive circuit for generating a drive signal for driving the display element of the display unit; a second casing on which the display unit is fixed; and a flexible support part having flexibility which has a wire for electrically connecting the drive circuit and the display element and which connects the first casing and the second casing.

Claims

1. A head-mounted display device comprising:

a holder which is mounted on the head of a user; and

a display unit which is supported by the holder and has a display element, wherein

the holder comprises;

a first casing which includes an electronic circuit board having at least a drive circuit for generating a drive signal for driving the display element of the display unit;

a second casing on which the display unit is fixed; and

a flexible support part having flexibility which has a wire for electrically connecting the drive circuit and the display element and which connects the first casing and the second casing.

2. The head-mounted display device according to claim 1, wherein the holder is mounted on the head of the user through the first casing.

3. The head-mounted display device according to claim 2, wherein

the first casing includes a battery for supplying power to the drive circuit, and

the battery is disposed on the side opposite to the second casing across a support position in the first casing at which the head-mounted display device is mounted on the head of the user.

4. The head-mounted display device according to claim 1, wherein

the display unit has:

the display element;

an illumination optical system for illuminating an image displayed on the display element; and

an eyepiece optical system that allows the user to observe an image displayed on the display element as a virtual image

5. The head-mounted display device according to claim 1, wherein

the flexible support part is cylindrical, and

the wire is inserted through the inside of the flexible support part.

6. The head-mounted display device according to claim 5, wherein

the wire has a connector, which is connected with the drive circuit, at the end on the first casing side, and

the dimension of the connector in the direction perpendicular to the direction of the wire is set to be smaller than the inner diameter of the cylindrical flexible support part.

7. The head-mounted display device according to claim 5, wherein the cylindrical flexible support part is made of metal and has an inner diameter of 2.5 mm or larger and an outer diameter of 5 mm or smaller.

8. The head-mounted display device according to claim 1, wherein the wire is wound around the outer circumferential surface of the flexible support part.