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US 12,360,376 · App. 18/198,820 · Granted Jul 15, 2025

Optical lens assembly and head-mounted electronic device

Inventors: Ping-Yi Chen (Taichung, TW); Fei-Hsin Tsai (Taichung, TW); Cong Ge (Guangdong Province, CN)
G02B27/0172G02B5/3083G02B9/06G02B13/0035
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Patent No.
US 12,360,376
App. No.
18/198,820
Granted
Jul 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical lens assembly includes, in order from a visual side to an image source side: an optical element including, in order from the visual side to the image source side: an absorptive polarizer, a reflective polarizer and a phase retarder; a first lens with refractive power, and an image source-side surface of the first lens being convex in a paraxial region thereof; and a second lens with refractive power, and a visual-side surface of the second lens being concave in a paraxial region thereof and provided with a partial-reflective-partial-transmissive element. The optical element is disposed on a visual-side surface of the first lens. The optical lens assembly may become lightweight and have good image quality when satisfying a specific condition.

Claims (23)

1. An optical lens assembly comprising, in order from a visual side to an image source side:

an optical element comprising, in order from the visual side to the image source side: an absorptive polarizer, a reflective polarizer and a phase retarder;

a first lens with refractive power, and an image source-side surface of the first lens being convex in a paraxial region thereof; and

a second lens with refractive power, and a visual-side surface of the second lens being concave in a paraxial region thereof and provided with a partial-reflective-partial-transmissive element;

wherein the optical lens assembly has a total of two lenses with refractive power, the optical element is disposed on a visual-side surface of the first lens, the optical element is disposed on a visual-side surface of the first lens, a focal length of the optical lens assembly is f, a maximum image source height of the optical lens assembly is IMH, a distance from a visual-side surface of the absorptive polarizer to an image source plane along an optical axis is TL, a radius of curvature of the image source-side surface of the first lens is R2, a thickness of the first lens along the optical axis is CT1, and the following conditional formulas are satisfied: 10.40 mm≤f*|MH/TL≤32.44 mm; and −11.00≤R2/CT1≤−3.03.

2. The optical lens assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the focal length of the optical lens assembly is f, the maximum image source height of the optical lens assembly is IMH, and the following conditional formula is satisfied: 0.68≤IMH/f≤0.86.

3. The optical lens assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the focal length of the optical lens assembly is f, a focal length of the first lens is f1, and the following conditional formula is satisfied: 0.18≤f/f1≤0.32.

4. The optical lens assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a maximum effective radius of the image source-side surface of the first lens is CA2, an absolute value of a displacement in parallel to the optical axis from an intersection between the image source-side surface of the first lens and the optical axis to a maximum effective radius position on the image source-side surface of the first lens is TDP2, and the following conditional formula is satisfied: 3.97≤CA2/TDP2≤6.32.

5. The optical lens assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a radius of curvature of the visual-side surface of the second lens is R3, a radius of curvature of an image source-side surface of the second lens is R4, and the following conditional formula is satisfied: −2.23≤R3/R4≤5.21.

6. The optical lens assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the first lens along the optical axis is CT1, a thickness of the second lens along the optical axis is CT2, and the following conditional formula is satisfied: 0.42≤CT1/CT2≤3.74.

7. The optical lens assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the radius of curvature of the image source-side surface of the first lens is R2, a radius of curvature of an image source-side surface of the second lens is R4, and the following conditional formula is satisfied: −0.78≤R2/R4≤3.58.

8. The optical lens assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a focal length of the second lens is f2, a radius of curvature of the visual-side surface of the second lens is R3, and the following conditional formula is satisfied: −2.36≤R3/f2≤1.80.

9. The optical lens assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a distance from an image source-side surface of the second lens to the image source plane along the optical axis is BFL, a thickness of the second lens along the optical axis is CT2, and the following conditional formula is satisfied: 0.08≤BFL/CT2≤6.46.

10. The optical lens assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a distance from the first lens to the second lens along the optical axis is T12, a distance from an image source-side surface of the second lens to the image source plane along the optical axis is BFL, and the following conditional formula is satisfied: 0.02≤T12/BFL≤7.11.

11. The optical lens assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a maximum effective radius of the image source-side surface of the first lens is CA2, the thickness of the first lens along the optical axis is CT1, and the following conditional formula is satisfied: 1.61≤CA2/CT1≤4.55.

12. The optical lens assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a maximum effective radius of an image source-side surface of the second lens is CA4, a thickness of the second lens along the optical axis is CT2, and the following conditional formula is satisfied: 1.31≤CA4/CT2≤12.44.

13. A head-mounted electronic device, comprising:

a housing;

the optical lens assembly according to claim 1

an image source disposed on the image source plane of the optical lens assembly in the housing; and

a controller disposed in the housing and electrically connected to the image source.

14. The optical lens assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a maximum effective radius of an image source-side surface of the second lens is CA4, an absolute value of a displacement in parallel to the optical axis from an intersection between the image source-side surface of the second lens and the optical axis to a maximum effective radius position on the image source-side surface of the second lens is TDP4, and the following conditional formula is satisfied: 3.37≤CA4/TDP4≤25.86.

15. An optical lens assembly comprising, in order from a visual side to an image source side: an optical element comprising, in order from the visual side to the image source side: an absorptive polarizer, a reflective polarizer and a phase retarder; a first lens with refractive power, and an image source-side surface of the first lens being convex in a paraxial region thereof; and a second lens with refractive power, and a visual-side surface of the second lens being concave in a paraxial region thereof and provided with a partial-reflective-partial-transmissive element; wherein the optical lens assembly has a total of two lenses with refractive power, the optical element is disposed on a visual-side surface of the first lens, a focal length of the optical lens assembly is f, a maximum image source height of the optical lens assembly is IMH, a distance from a visual-side surface of the absorptive polarizer to the image source plane along an optical axis is TL, and the following conditional formula is satisfied: 10.40 mm≤f*IMH/TL≤32.44 mm.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 17, 2023
From: CHEN, PING-YI; TSAI, FEI-HSIN; GE, CONG
To: NEWMAX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 063678/0631 →
Priority Claims (1)
TW 112106851 · Feb 24, 2023 · national
Continuity (1)
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