Rear projection display apparatus and transmission type screen

• US 7,460,299 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2007
• Issued: 12/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Yasufumi, Iwaki, Takaaki, Hagiwara, Yoshihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E
• Application Number:
  US11/714,099
• Publication Number:
  US 20070211222A1
• Time in Patent Office: 637 Days
• Field of Search: 359/443, 359455-456, 359/460, 359/450
• US Class Current: 359/443
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/62 Translucent screens

Abstract

In a rear projection display apparatus including a transmission type screen installed on the front face of an apparatus main body, and a video projector disposed inside the apparatus main body and projecting video on the transmission type screen from the rear side thereof, the transmission type screen includes a lens sheet and is configured such that a plurality of pull portions provided along horizontal and longitudinal sides of the lens sheet are pulled upward and downward, and leftward and rightward, respectively, by a pulling device provided to extend along the circumference of the lens sheet.

Claims

1. A rear projection display apparatus, comprising:

a main body;

a transmission type screen on a front face of the main body;

a video projector inside the main body for projecting a video image on the transmission type screen from a rear side thereof;

a pulling device; and

a frame body;

wherein the transmission type screen includes a lens sheet with a plurality of pull portions provided along horizontal and longitudinal sides of the lens sheet, the pull portions being pulled up, down, left, and right, respectively, by the pulling device which extends along a circumference of the lens sheet, and

wherein the frame body is pressed against a portion of the lens sheet inside the plurality of pull portions.

2. The rear projection display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein among the plurality of pull portions provided on the lens sheet, the pull portions provided at respective corner portions of the lens sheet are each pulled almost-diagonally and outwardly.

3. The rear projection display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the pulling device is a string.

4. The rear projection display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of pull portions are holes, and the lens sheet is pulled by the string which passes through the holes.

5. The rear projection display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the string is passed through the holes obliquely relative to each of the sides of the lens sheet.

6. The rear projection display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein tensile force is applied to the lens sheet by an elastic body connected to the string.

7. A transmission type screen installed on a front face of a rear projection display apparatus, comprising:

a lens sheet with a plurality of pull portions,

wherein the plurality of pull portions are provided along horizontal and longitudinal sides of the lens sheet, the pull portions being pulled up, down, left, and right, respectively, by a pulling device which extends along a circumference of the lens sheet, and

wherein a frame body is pressed against a portion of the lens sheet inside the plurality of pull portions.

8. The transmission type screen according to claim 7, wherein among the plurality of pull portions provided on the lens sheet, the pull portions provided at respective corner portions of the lens sheet are each pulled almost-diagonally and outwardly.

9. The transmission type screen according to claim 7, wherein the pulling device is a string.

10. The transmission type screen according to claim 9, wherein the plurality of pull portions are holes, and the lens sheet is pulled by the string which passes through the holes.

11. The transmission type screen according to claim 10, wherein the string is passed through the holes obliquely relative to each of the sides of the lens sheet.

12. The transmission type screen according to claim 9, wherein tensile force is applied to the lens sheet by an elastic body connected to the string.