Projection lens including first lens group and second lens group and projection device including planar reflector

• US 9,348,122 B2
• Filed: 10/11/2012
• Issued: 05/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Young Optics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Young Optics, Inc.
• Inventors: Lin, Hsin-Hung, Chen, Yi-Hsueh, Chen, Chao-Shun
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, BAO-LUAN Q
• Application Number:
  US13/649,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20130229635A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,321 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/16 for use in conjunction with image converters or intensifiers , or for use with projectors, e.g. objectives for projection TV
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/18 with lenses having one or more non-spherical faces, e.g. for reducing geometrical aberration G02B13/002 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 17/08 Catadioptric systems used in non-imaging applications G02B19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 9/64 having more than six components
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/147 Optical correction of image distortions, e.g. keystone
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/28 Reflectors in projection beam in illumination beam G03B21/2066

Abstract

A projection lens provided is for projecting an image beam. The projection lens is disposed on a transmission path of the image beam and includes a first group of lenses and a second group of lenses. The first group of lenses includes a first spherical lens and a first aspheric lens. After the image beam passes through the first group of lenses, an intermediate image is formed between the first group of lenses and the second group of lenses, in which the first aspheric lens is the lens in the first group of lenses closest to the second group of lenses. A projection device using the projection lens is also provided. The projection device further includes a planar reflector on the transmission path of the image beam.

Claims

1. A projection lens, comprising:

a first lens group, comprising a first spherical lens and a first aspheric lens, wherein an image beam is formed by a light valve passes through the first lens group to form an intermediate image with a first tangential field curvature; and

a second lens group, comprising a second spherical lens, a second aspheric lens, a third aspheric lens, a fourth aspheric lens and a twelfth spherical lens;

wherein refractive-powers of the third aspheric lens, the fourth aspheric lens, the second spherical lens, the twelfth spherical lens and the second aspheric lens are sequentially negative, positive, positive, negative and negative,

wherein the first lens group is located between the light valve and the second lens group, and a lens in the first lens group closest to the second lens group is the first aspheric lens and the intermediate image is formed between the first aspheric lens and the second lens group, wherein the intermediate image with the first tangential field curvature passes through the second lens group to produce a second tangential field curvature, and one of the first tangential field curvature and the second tangential field curvature is a positive tangential field curvature while the other one is a negative tangential field curvature.

2. The projection lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the projection lens has an optical axis, a height of the light valve on a direction perpendicular to the optical axis is A, a shortest distance along the direction perpendicular to the optical axis between the light valve and the optical axis is B, and A and B are subject to following condition expression:

3. The projection lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the intermediate image is a pincushion-like light spot or a light spot with distortion less than 1.5%.

4. The projection lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first lens group further comprises a third spherical lens located between the first spherical lens and the first aspheric lens, and the first spherical lens and the third spherical lens together formed a first cemented lens.

5. The projection lens as claimed in claim 4, wherein the first lens group further comprises a fourth spherical lens and a fifth spherical lens, and the fourth spherical lens and the fifth spherical lens are sequentially arranged between the third spherical lens and the first aspheric lens and together formed a second cemented lens.

6. The projection lens as claimed in claim 5, wherein the first lens group further comprises a sixth spherical lens, a seventh spherical lens and an eighth spherical lens, wherein the sixth spherical lens, the seventh spherical lens and the eighth spherical lens are sequentially arranged between the fifth spherical lens and the first aspheric lens and together formed a third cemented lens.

7. The projection lens as claimed in claim 6, wherein the first lens group further comprises a ninth spherical lens, a tenth spherical lens and an eleventh spherical lens, wherein the ninth spherical lens, the tenth spherical lens and the eleventh spherical lens are sequentially arranged between the eighth spherical lens and the first aspheric lens.

8. The projection lens as claimed in claim 7, wherein refractive-powers of the first spherical lens, the third spherical lens, the fourth spherical lens, the fifth spherical lens, the sixth spherical lens, the seventh spherical lens, the eighth spherical lens, the ninth spherical lens, the tenth spherical lens, the eleventh spherical lens and the first aspheric lens are sequentially negative, positive, positive, negative, positive, negative, positive, negative, positive, positive and positive.

9. The projection lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second spherical lens is located between the first lens group and the second aspheric lens.

10. The projection lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the third aspheric lens and the fourth aspheric lens are sequentially arranged between the first lens group and the second spherical lens, and the twelfth spherical lens is disposed between the second spherical lens and the second aspheric lens.

11. The projection lens as claimed in claim 2, wherein a position of the first lens group is fixed, and the second lens group is moveable along the optical axis relatively to the first lens group for focusing.

12. A projection device, comprising:

an illumination unit, capable of providing an illumination beam;

a light valve, disposed on transmission path of the illumination beam to convert the illumination beam into an image beam; and

a projection lens, disposed on a transmission path of the image beam and comprising;

a first lens group, comprising a first spherical lens and a first aspheric lens, wherein the image beam passes through the first lens group to form an intermediate image with a first tangential field curvature;

a second lens group, comprising a second spherical lens, a second aspheric lens, a third aspheric lens, a fourth aspheric lens and a twelfth spherical lens;

wherein refractive-powers of the third aspheric lens, the fourth aspheric lens, the second spherical lens, the twelfth spherical lens and the second aspheric lens are sequentially negative, positive, positive, negative and negative, wherein the first lens group is located between the light valve and the second lens group, a lens in the first lens group closest to the second lens group is the first aspheric lens and the intermediate image is formed between the first aspheric lens and the second lens group, wherein the intermediate image with the first tangential field curvature passes through the second lens group to produce a second tangential field curvature, and one of the first tangential field curvature and the second tangential field curvature is a positive tangential field curvature while the other one is a negative tangential field curvature; and

a planar reflector, disposed on the transmission path of the image beam, wherein the second lens group is located between the first lens group and the planar reflector, and the planar reflector is configured for reflecting the image beam from the second lens group.

13. The projection device as claimed in claim 12, further comprises a screen for receiving the image beam passing through the second lens group and reflected by the planar reflector.

14. The projection device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the projection lens has an optical axis, a shortest distance along an extension direction of the optical axis between the planar reflector and the screen is C, a width of the screen on a first direction is D, the first direction is perpendicular to the extension direction of the optical axis, and C and D are subject to following condition expression:

(C/D)<

0.45.

15. The projection device as claimed in claim 14, wherein a height of the light valve on a direction perpendicular to the optical axis is A, a shortest distance along the direction perpendicular to the optical axis between the light valve and the optical axis is B, and A and B are subject to following condition expression:

16. The projection device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the intermediate image is a pincushion-like light spot or a light spot with distortion less than 1.5%.

17. The projection device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the first lens group further comprises a third spherical lens located between the first spherical lens and the first aspheric lens, and the first spherical lens and the third spherical lens are together formed a first cemented lens.

18. The projection device as claimed in claim 17, wherein the first lens group further comprises a fourth spherical lens and a fifth spherical lens, and the fourth spherical lens and the fifth spherical lens are sequentially arranged between the third spherical lens and the first aspheric lens and together formed a second cemented lens.

19. The projection device as claimed in claim 18, wherein the first lens group further comprises a sixth spherical lens, a seventh spherical lens and an eighth spherical lens, wherein the sixth spherical lens, the seventh spherical lens and the eighth spherical lens are sequentially arranged between the fifth spherical lens and the first aspheric lens and together formed a third cemented lens.

20. The projection device as claimed in claim 19, wherein the first lens group further comprises a ninth spherical lens, a tenth spherical lens and an eleventh spherical lens, wherein the ninth spherical lens, the tenth spherical lens and the eleventh spherical lens are sequentially arranged between the eighth spherical lens and the first aspheric lens.

21. The projection device as claimed in claim 20, wherein refractive-powers of the first spherical lens, the third spherical lens, the fourth spherical lens, the fifth spherical lens, the sixth spherical lens, the seventh spherical lens, the eighth spherical lens, the ninth spherical lens, the tenth spherical lens, the eleventh spherical lens and the first aspheric lens are sequentially negative, positive, positive, negative, positive, negative, positive, negative, positive, positive and positive.

22. The projection device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the second aspheric lens is located between the planar reflector and the second spherical lens.

23. The projection device as claimed in claim 22, wherein the third aspheric lens and the fourth aspheric lens are sequentially arranged between the first lens group and the second spherical lens, and the twelfth spherical lens is disposed between the second spherical lens and the second aspheric lens.

24. The projection device as claimed in claim 14, wherein a position of the first lens group is fixed, and the second lens group is moveable along the optical axis relatively to the first lens group for focusing.