Projection optical system, projection-type image display device, and imaging device

Inventors: Hirotaka Yanagisawa (Azumino, JP); Eiji Morikuni (Matsumoto, JP)

Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

G03B21/28 G03B21/145 G03B21/44

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Patent No.: US 11,073,753
App. No.: 16/804,447
Granted: Jul 27, 2021
Kind: B2

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Abstract

A projection optical system has first and second optical systems disposed in order from a demagnification side toward a magnification side. An intermediate image is formed between demagnification-side and magnification-side imaging surfaces. The second optical system is an optical element having first transmission, reflecting, and second transmission surfaces in order from the demagnification toward the magnification sides. The first transmission and reflecting surfaces are located at one side with respect to an optical axis. The second transmission surface is located at the other side with respect to the optical axis. The reflecting surface has a concavely curved surface shape. The second transmission surface has a convexly curved surface shape protruding toward the magnification side. The optical element has a first member and a second member different in refractive index from the first member. A bonding surface between the first member and the second member has a curved surface shape.

Claims (62)

1. A projection optical system comprising:

a first optical system; and

a second optical system, wherein

the first optical system and the second optical system are disposed in order from a demagnification side toward a magnification side,

an intermediate image is formed between a demagnification-side imaging surface and a magnification-side imaging surface,

the second optical system is an optical element having a first transmission surface, a reflecting surface, and a second transmission surface in order from the demagnification side toward the magnification side,

the first transmission surface and the reflecting surface are located at one side with respect to an optical axis,

the second transmission surface is located at the other side with respect to the optical axis,

the reflecting surface has a concavely curved surface shape,

the second transmission surface has a convexly curved surface shape protruding toward the magnification side,

the optical element has a first member and a second member different in refractive index from the first member, and

a bonding surface between the first member and the second member has a curved surface shape.

2. The projection optical system according to claim 1 , wherein

the intermediate image is located between the first transmission surface and the reflecting surface in the optical element.

3. The projection optical system according to claim 1 , wherein

three axes perpendicular to each other are defined as an X axis, a Y axis, and a Z axis, a direction in which the optical axis extends is defined as a Z-axis direction, one side of the Y axis is defined as an upper side, the other side of the Y axis is defined as a lower side, and a plane perpendicular to the X axis and including the Y axis and the Z axis is defined as a Y-Z plane,

an imaginary line connecting an upper intersection point and a lower intersection point to each other is tilted with respect to an imaginary vertical line perpendicular to the optical axis in the Y-Z plane, the upper intersection point being an intersection where an upper peripheral ray of an upper end light beam passing through an upper end in the Y-axis direction in an effective range of the second transmission surface and an upper peripheral ray of a lower end light beam passing through a lower end in the Y-axis direction in the effective range on the Y-Z plane, and the lower intersection point being an intersection where a lower peripheral ray of the upper end light beam and a lower peripheral ray of the lower end light beam on the Y-Z plane.

4. The projection optical system according to claim 1 , wherein

the second member is higher in heat resistance than the first member, and

a flux diameter of a ray entering the optical element becomes smallest in the second member.

5. The projection optical system according to claim 1 , wherein

the intermediate image is located in the second member.

6. The projection optical system according to claim 1 , wherein

the first transmission surface, the reflecting surface, and the second transmission surface are provided to the first member.

7. The projection optical system according to claim 1 , wherein

a material of the first member is resin.

8. The projection optical system according to claim 1 , wherein

a material of the second member is glass.

9. The projection optical system according to claim 1 , wherein

the optical element has an aperture.

10. The projection optical system according to claim 1 , wherein

at least one of the first transmission surface, the reflecting surface, and the second transmission surface is an aspherical surface.

11. A projection-type image display device comprising:

the projection optical system according to claim 1 ; and