Projection screen assembly

• US 4,165,154 A
• Filed: 10/05/1977
• Issued: 08/21/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Yoshimasa
• Primary Examiner(s): Wintercorn, Richard A.
• Application Number:
  US05/839,597
• Time in Patent Office: 685 Days
• Field of Search: 350/127, 350/128
• US Class Current: 359/455
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/602 Lenticular screens G03B21/625 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/625 Lenticular translucent screens

Abstract

The screen assembly includes a transparent plate which has one surface formed with lenticuler lens and the other surface matted, so as to diffuse light beams projected thereon and scatter in directions toward the surroundings of the screen assemby where the observers are situated, and not in directions upwards and downwards nor sidewards of the screen assembly.

Claims

1. A screen assembly for projecting thereon light beam emitted from a source of light carrying an image, so as to form the image thereof, which comprises:

a transparent plate having on one side thereof a lenticulated surface means comprising a plurality of elongated cylindrical lens elements extending in a parallel relation to each other and on the other side thereof a mat-finished surface means, wherein said lenticulated surface means diffuses the incoming light in a horizontal direction which is perpendicular to the elongated cylindrical lens elements, and said mat-finished surface means diffuses the incoming light in all directions, relative to the direction of travel of the incoming light, whereby the light projected on the screen assembly diffuses at a first predetermined angle of diffusion which is small relative to the direction of the longitudinal axis of any one of said elongated cylindrical lens elements and at a second predetermined angle of diffusion which is great relative to the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of any one of said elongated cylindrical lens elements.

2. A screen assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said plate is made of acrylic resin.

3. A screen assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said plate is made of polyvinyl-chloride.

4. A screen assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first and second predetermined angles are ±

15° and

±

30°

, respectively.

5. A screen assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said light beams are projected onto said lenticulated surface means.

6. A screen assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said light beams are projected onto said mat-finished surface means.

7. A screen assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said plate comprises a first layer having one surface thereof formed with the lens elements and other surface thereof polished to give a mirror-finish, second layer made of rigid material and having opposite flat surfaces thereof being mirror-finished, and a third layer having one surface thereof mat-finished and the other surface thereof polished to give a mirror-finish, said first, second and third layers being bonded together with said second layer positioned between the first and second layers in such a manner that the first layer is bonded to the second layer with the mirror-finished surface of the first layer held in contact with one of the opposite mirror-finished surface of the second layer and that the third layer is bonded to the second layer with the mirror-finished surface of the third layer held in contact with other of the opposite mirror-finished surface of the second layer.

8. A screen assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said plate comprises a first layer having one surface thereof formed with the lens elements and the other surface thereof polished to give a mirror-finish, and a second layer having one surface thereof mat-finished and the other surface thereof polished to give a mirror-finish, said first and second layers being bonded together with each other in such a manner that the first layer is bonded to the second layer with the mirror-finished surface of the first layer held in contact with the mirror-finished surface of the second layer.