IP Library Granted Patent US 7,914,153
Granted Patent B2
US 7,914,153 · App. 12/825,881 · Granted Mar 29, 2011

Projection type image display apparatus

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Patent No.
US 7,914,153
App. No.
12/825,881
Granted
Mar 29, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A projection type image display apparatus includes a lens group, being disposed adjacent to an image display element, which is configured to include a plural number of lenses, and a mirror, which is configured to reflect emission lights from the lens group, so as to project upon the screen obliquely. A ratio (Lo/Lp) between a distance (Lp) from a center of the mirror up to the screen and a diagonal size (Lo) of the screen is at least 2.

Claims (12)

1. A projection type image display apparatus, comprising:

a lens group, being disposed adjacent to an image display element, which is configured to include a plural number of lenses; and

a mirror, which is configured to reflect emission lights from said lens group, so as to project upon a screen obliquely;

wherein a ratio (Lo/Lp) between a distance (Lp) from a center of said mirror up to said screen and a diagonal size (Lo) of said screen is at least 2;

wherein said lens group comprises a first lens group, which is disposed beside said image display element, and a second lens group, which is disposed between said first lens group and said mirror;

wherein an optical path distance starting from a final surface of said second lens group and reaching to a reflection surface of said mirror, on a path, along which a central light beam of the projection type image display apparatus propagates to said screen, is at least five times a focus distance of said first lens group; and

wherein said second lens group includes a refractive lens having a negative power, which has a rotationally symmetric surface configuration, and further comprising a rod, which is configured to move in the optical direction, with respect to said first lens group.

2. The projection type image display apparatus, according to claim 1 , wherein an optical axis of said lens group is inclined to a normal line at a center of a surface of said image display element.

3. The projection type image display apparatus, according to claim 1 , wherein the following equation is satisfied:

| L 1− L 2|<1. 2*sin θ s*Dv;

wherein L 1 is distance of a path of a light beam entering from an upper end portion of a reflection surface of said mirror into an upper end portion of said screen, L 2 is distance of a path of a light beam entering from a lower end portion of the reflection surface of said mirror into a lower end portion of said screen, Dv is distance from the upper end portion of said screen to the lower end thereof, and θs is an angle defined by a central portion of said mirror and a normal line on said screen.

4. The projection type image display apparatus, according to claim 1 , wherein said rod is operable from an outside of said projection type image display apparatus.

Assignments (5)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 3, 2021
From: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
To: MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058666/0407 →
MERGER Recorded Nov 29, 2021
From: MAXELL, LTD.
To: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058255/0579 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 25, 2018
From: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
To: MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 045142/0208 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 8, 2014
From: HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.; HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO, LTD.
To: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033694/0745 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 12, 2013
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 030648/0217 →