Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lens array and image projection device
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Application No.: US15555473Application Date: 2015-03-04
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Publication No.: US10761323B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Katsuhiro Koike , Takayuki Nomoto
- Applicant: Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Niigata
- Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Niigata
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/056311 WO 20150304
- International Announcement: WO2016/139769 WO 20160909
- Main IPC: G02B27/01
- IPC: G02B27/01 ; G03B21/625 ; G02B3/00 ; G02B27/00 ; G03B21/14 ; G03B21/00 ; G03B21/20

Abstract:
There is provided a lens array and an lens array capable of suitably preventing irregular brightness without reducing resolution. A microlens array 20 of a screen 2 includes upper-level microlenses 21H and lower-level microlenses 21L which are formed on the incidence surface of the screen 2, which have the same effective diameter, and which have a structure that generates an optical path length difference Δ in transmission light. By disposing the upper-level microlenses 21H and the lower-level microlenses 21L at an interval based on the effective diameter, the basic periodic structure of a lens period PL is formed. Further, the upper-level microlenses 21H and the lower-level microlenses 21L form a basic block comprising a combination of the lenses having a structure that generates the optical path length difference. A concave-and-convex period PC based on the basic block is an integer multiple of the lens period PL.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180031830A1 LENS ARRAY AND IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-02-01
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