Virtual image display apparatus

1. A virtual image display apparatus comprising:

a video image element which generates video image light;

a light guiding member which includes a plurality of optical surfaces and guides the video image light from the video image element by reflecting the video image light on an inner surface side thereof; and

an optical device portion through which the video image light passes when the video image light from the video image element is made to be incident on the light guiding member, wherein:

the light guiding member is a block-shaped member which includes, as the plurality of optical surfaces, a pair of facing planar optical surfaces which extend substantially in parallel with each other and fully reflect the video image light, and

an optical axis of the optical device portion on a light emitting side thereof extends in a direction in which the optical axis forms an obtuse angle from a light incident portion of the light guiding member with respect to a traverse reference axis in parallel with an eye alignment direction.

2. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the obtuse angle formed by the optical axis of the optical device portion on the light emitting side with respect to the traverse reference axis of the light guiding member is from 95° to 135°.

3. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the optical axis of the optical device portion on the light emitting side extends along a reference plane which is in parallel with the traverse reference axis and a visual line reference axis extending substantially in a front direction of a face of a viewer.

4. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the light guiding member extends so as to be inclined with respect to the traverse reference axis.

5. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the optical device portion includes a lens and a lens barrel portion which holds the lens.

6. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the optical device portion includes an abutting portion which enables relative positioning by abutting a positioning reference surface additionally provided in the light incident portion of the light guiding member.

7. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the abutting portion is a fitting frame body provided at an end portion of the lens barrel portion which holds the lens therein.

8. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the light guiding member includes a projecting portion provided with the positioning reference surface, and the fitting frame body receives the projecting portion.

9. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the light guiding member is a relay optical system which forms an intermediate image therein.

10. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the optical device portion includes a holding portion which holds the video image element, and wherein the holding portion includes an abutting portion which enables relative positioning by abutting a positioning reference surface additionally provided in the light incident portion of the light guiding member.

11. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising: a frame portion which supports the light guiding member and the optical device portion, wherein the frame portion includes a fixation portion for fixing the light guiding member and the optical device portion which are relatively positioned.

12. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the light guiding member includes a rib which is formed at a predetermined location along an outer periphery, and wherein the rib is fitted into a groove provided in the frame portion.

13. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein:

the frame portion includes a frame portion which is arranged on a far side from a viewer and is made of metal and a resin portion which is arranged on a close side to the viewer, and

the frame portion and the resin portion extend from locations at which the frame portion and the resin portion face temporal areas of the viewer in a direction in which the frame portion and the resin portion form an obtuse angle with respect to the traverse reference axis in the same manner as the optical axis of the optical device portion on the light emitting side.

14. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the light guiding member includes four or more surfaces as the plurality of optical surfaces, and wherein the video image light from the video image element is fully reflected by a third surface which faces a first surface, is then fully reflected by the first surface, is reflected by a second surface, and is thus incident on the first surface before transmitting through the first surface from among the plurality of optical surfaces and reaching a viewer side.

15. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 14 , further comprising: a light transmitting member which is attached to the second surface of the light guiding member to cause a viewer to visually recognize external light and the video image light in an overlapped manner.

16. The virtual image display apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:

two display devices, wherein one of the two display devices includes the video image element and the light guiding member, and the other of the two display devices includes another video image element and another light guiding member.