Transmission type projection screen

• US 5,745,288 A
• Filed: 06/03/1997
• Issued: 04/28/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Inventors: Miyata, Hideki, Honda, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): MALLEY, DANIEL PATRICK
• Application Number:
  US08/867,880
• Time in Patent Office: 329 Days
• Field of Search: 359/443, 359/453, 359/455, 359/456, 359/400
• US Class Current: 359/457
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/625 Lenticular translucent screens

Abstract

A transmission type projection screen is provided with a transparent film attached adhesively to only opaque or shading parts formed on top surfaces of ridges provided on the front surface of a lens sheet. The lens sheet is provided on its rear surface with a plurality of lenses for condensing light projected by a light source. The shading parts do not receive the light condensed by the plurality of lenses. The film protects the front surface of the lens sheet of the screen, and prevents scattering of the lens sheet in fragments when the lens sheet is cracked.

Claims

1. A transmission type projection screen having a single or a plurality of lens sheets for condensing and diffusing light, comprising:

lens sheet means having a front side directed to a viewer and a rear side directed to a light source;

a plurality of lenses provided on the rear surface of said lens sheet means at mutually spaced relation along said rear surface, said lenses condensing, on said front side, light received from the light source such that said front side will have dim parts which do not receive the light condensed by said lenses and bright parts which do receive the light condensed by said lenses;

at least one adhesive layer contacting said front side of said lens sheet means only at said dim parts; and

a continuous transparent protective film attached to said front side of said lens sheet means via only said at least one adhesive layer,

whereby air-gaps are formed between said bright parts and said transparent protective film.

2. A transmissive type projection screen according to claim 1, wherein said dim parts are in the form of ridges on said front side of said lens sheet means and said transparent protective film is attached to said ridges.

3. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 2, further comprising:

front lenses formed between adjacent ridges, respectively.

4. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 3, wherein said front lenses are convex lenses.

5. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 1, wherein said transparent protective film is attached to said front side of said lens sheet means via a substantially transparent adhesive layer.

6. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 1, further comprising:

a shading layer provided between each of said dim parts and said transparent protective film.

7. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 1, wherein said transparent protective film is attached to said dim parts with black adhesive layers, respectively.

8. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 1, wherein said transparent protective film has a hygroscopic elongation percentage smaller than that of said lens sheet means.

9. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 1, further comprising:

a coating layer applied to a surface of said transparent protective film, opposite said lens sheet means.

10. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 9, wherein said coating layer has irregularities formed in an exposed surface thereof.

11. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 1, wherein said lenses provided on said rear side of said lens sheet means are vertical lenticular lenses.

12. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 1, wherein said transparent protective film is colored to absorb external light.

13. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 12, wherein said transparent protective film has a maximum transmittance to wavelengths around 450 nm and a minimum transmittance to wavelengths around 570 nm.

14. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 1, wherein at least one of a front surface of the transparent protective film, a rear surface of said transparent protective film, and said front side of said lens sheet means is finished by an antistatic treatment.

15. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 1, wherein said lens sheet means comprises an acrylic resin.

16. A transmission type projection screen according to claim 1, wherein said transparent protective film has a front surface formed with lenticular lenses for vertical light diffusion.