Patent Grant
11796809
This application claims the priority benefit of Chinese Patent Application Serial Number 202210268436.3, filed on Mar. 18, 2022, the full disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of displaying, particularly to a display module and a manufacturing method thereof.
Display modules in conventional virtual reality devices now generally adopt the Pancake folded optical path solution for ultra-short focus distance.
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display module and manufacturing method tended to solve the problem of weakened light energy in the regular light path and thereby low light energy utilization rate due to multiple reflections, scattering, and transmission in the folded-type light path of conventional display module.
In the first aspect, the present disclosure provides a display module, comprising a display screen component, an optical lens component, and a convex lens component in sequence from a display side to a viewing side. The optical lens component and the convex lens component are optically coaxial. The display screen component comprises a display screen, a first absorption polarizer, and a first quarter wave plate in sequence from the display side to the viewing side. The convex lens component comprises a convex lens, a second absorption polarizer, and an optical integrated element, which are laminated in sequence from the viewing side to the display side. The optical integrated element comprises a second quarter wave plate and, on one side surface of the optical integrated element, a coated reflective polarizing film or a nano-imprinted metal grating. The reflective polarizing film or the metal grating is attached to the second absorption polarizer. Wherein an absorption axis of the first absorption polarizer is parallel to an absorption axis of the second absorption polarizer. A fast axis of the second quarter wave plate and a grating extension direction of the metal grating form an angle of 45 degrees. The fast axis of the second quarter wave plate and a transmission axis of the reflective polarizing film form an angle of 45 degrees. The absorption axis of the first absorption polarizer and a fast axis of the first quarter wave plate form an angle of 45 degrees. The absorption axis of the second absorption polarizer and the fast axis of the second quarter wave plate form an angle of 45 degrees.
In the second aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing display module, comprising the steps of: coating a reflective polarizing film or nano-imprinting a metal grating on one side of the second quarter wave plate to form an optical integrated element, wherein a fast axis of the second quarter wave plate and a grating extension direction of the metal grating form an angle of 45 degrees, a fast axis of the second quarter wave plate and the transmission axis of the reflective polarizing film form an angle of 45 degrees; attaching a second absorption polarizer to one side surface of the convex lens, and attaching the reflective polarizing film or the metal grating to the second absorption polarizer to form a convex lens component, wherein an absorption axis of the second absorption polarizer and the fast axis of the second quarter wave plate form an angle of 45 degrees; assembling an optical lens component in the bracket; laminating a display screen, a first absorption polarizer, and a first quarter wave plate in sequence to form a display screen component, wherein an absorption axis of the first absorption polarizer and a fast axis of the first quarter wave plate form an angle of 45 degrees; assembling the bracket equipped with the optical lens component to the display screen component by an active alignment machine according to the principle of coincidence of a normal line in a physical center of an effective area of the display screen and an optical axis of the optical lens component; and forming a display module by assembling the convex lens component in the bracket through the active alignment machine as the optical lens component and the convex lens component are optically coaxial and the absorption axis of the first absorption polarizer and the absorption axis of the second absorption polarizer are parallel, wherein one side of the convex lens without being attached to the second absorption polarizer faces the viewing side.
In the embodiment of the present application, through the optical integrated element (the optical integrated element comprises the second quarter wave plate and, on one side surface of the optical integrated element, the coated reflective polarizing film or the nano-imprinted metal grating) having the functions of phase delay and reflective polarization, the number of times of reflection, scattering and transmission of light emitted by the display screen in the folded-type light path can be reduced to improve the utilization rate of light energy and reduce the thickness of the display module.
It should be understood, however, that this summary may not contain all aspects and embodiments of the present disclosure, that this summary is not meant to be limiting or restrictive in any manner, and that the disclosure as disclosed herein will be understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to encompass obvious improvements and modifications thereto.
The features of the exemplary embodiments believed to be novel and the elements and/or the steps characteristic of the exemplary embodiments are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The Figures are for illustration purposes only and are not drawn to scale. The exemplary embodiments, both as to organization and method of operation, may best be understood by reference to the detailed description which follows taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
The present disclosure will now be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which exemplary embodiments of the disclosure are shown. This present disclosure may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this present disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the present disclosure to those skilled in the art.
Certain terms are used throughout the description and following claims to refer to particular components. As one skilled in the art will appreciate, manufacturers may refer to a component by different names. This document does not intend to distinguish between components that differ in name but function. In the following description and in the claims, the terms “include/including” and “comprise/comprising” are used in an open-ended fashion, and thus should be interpreted as “including but not limited to”. “Substantial/substantially” means, within an acceptable error range, the person skilled in the art may solve the technical problem in a certain error range to achieve the basic technical effect.
The following description is of the best-contemplated mode of carrying out the disclosure. This description is made for the purpose of illustration of the general principles of the disclosure and should not be taken in a limiting sense. The scope of the disclosure is best determined by reference to the appended claims.
Moreover, the terms “include”, “contain”, and any variation thereof are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion. Therefore, a process, method, object, or device that includes a series of elements not only includes these elements, but also includes other elements not specified expressly, or may include inherent elements of the process, method, object, or device. If no more limitations are made, an element limited by “include a/an . . . ” does not exclude other same elements existing in the process, the method, the article, or the device which includes the element.
In this embodiment, the optical lens component 220 may comprise a low-transmission and high-reflection lens 222 and a low-reflection concave lens 224 in sequence from the display side to the viewing side, where the reflectivity of the low-transmission and high-reflection lens 222 may be 65%±10%, and the transmittance may be 35%±10%. The low-transmission and high-reflection lens 222 can be a high-refractive-index optical resin lens, and the material of which can be selected from optical resin with a density of 1.1 g/cm3 to reduce the weight and thickness. The low-reflection concave lens 224 can be an aspheric and high-refractive-index optical resin lens, that having a refractive index greater than or equal to 1.9, and the material can be selected from optical resin with low density (for example 1.1 g/cm3) to reduce the weight. In another embodiment, the optical lens component 220 may include a semi-transmission-reflective lens, the light transmittance, and reflectivity of which are respectively 50%.
In this embodiment, the convex lens component 230 comprises a convex lens 232, a second absorption polarizer 234, and an optical integrated element 236, which are laminated in sequence from the viewing side to the display side. The optical integrated element 236 comprises a second quarter wave plate 50 and a reflective polarizing film 52 coated on one side surface of the optical integrated element 236. The reflective polarizing film 52 is attached to the second absorption polarizer 234. An absorption axis of the first absorption polarizer 214 is parallel to an absorption axis of the second absorption polarizer 234. The fast axis of the second quarter wave plate 50 and a transmission axis of the reflective polarizing film 52 form an angle of 45 degrees. The absorption axis of the second absorption polarizer 234 and the fast axis of the second quarter wave plate 50 form an angle of 45 degrees. Wherein, the material of the second quarter wave plate 50 may be, but not limited to, polycarbonate (PC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), triacetate cellulose (TAC), polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), or cyclic olefin polymer (COP), and the temperature resistance requirement of which may be, but not limited to, dry baking at a temperature of 105 degrees Celsius for 1000 hours. The reference value of the phase delay accuracy of the second quarter wave plate 50 in the visible light band from 400 nm to 700 nm may be, but not limited to, ±15%. The material of the reflective polarizing film 52 may include but not limited to metals such as zirconium, titanium, and their oxides.
In this embodiment, the folded-type optical path in the display module 200 may be: light emitted by the display screen 212 becomes P light after passing through the first absorption polarizer 214; the P light is modulated into left-handed circularly polarized light after passing through the first quarter wave plate 216; a part of the left-handed circularly polarized light passes through the low-transmission and high-reflection lens 222 and the low-reflection concave lens 224, then is converted to S light by the second quarter wave plate 50. The S light is reflected back to the second quarter wave plate 50 by the reflective polarizing film 52 to be modulated into right-handed circularly polarized light; a part of the right-handed circularly polarized light passes through the low-reflection concave lens 224 and is then reflected by the low-transmission and high-reflection lens 222 and passes through the low-reflection concave lens 224 again, then is converted into P light by the second quarter wave plate 50; the P light passes through the reflective polarizing film 52, the second absorption polarizer 234, and the convex lens 232, and finally enters human eye to form an enlarged virtual image. Wherein, an optically transparent adhesive is applied between the display screen 212 and the first absorption polarizer 214, between the first absorption polarizer 214 and the first quarter wave plate 216, between the convex lens 232 and the second absorption polarizer 234, and between the reflective polarizing film 52 and the second absorption polarizer 234. The light emitted from the display screen 212 only undergoes three times of reflections, scattering, and transmission from the first incident into the convex lens component 230 to the second absorption polarizer 234, so the utilization rate of light energy can be improved.
In another embodiment, one side surface of the second quarter wave plate 50 is not coated with a reflective polarizing film 52, but with a nano-imprinted metal grating, which is attached to the second absorption polarizer 234. The fast axis of the second quarter wave plate 50 and the extension direction of the metal grating form an angle of 45 degrees. The material of the metal grating may include, but not limited to, metals such as aluminum, silver, or titanium, and alloy materials thereof. So, the reflective polarizing film 52 can be replaced by the metal grating.
Thus, in the display module 200: definition can be improved through high quality display screen 212; scattered light reflected by interfaces can be reduced with linear polarizers having high polarization efficiency; the polarization state of the folded-type optical path can be precisely controlled by the first quarter wave plate 216 having high delay accuracy; the transmitted scattered light in the display module 200 can be reduced by the low-transmission and high-reflection lens; the definition of the four corners and distortion on the display can be improved by the low-transmission and high-reflection lens 222, the low-reflection concave lens 224, and the convex lens 232; the number of times of reflection, scattering and transmission of the light emitted from the display screen 212 in the folded-type optical path can be reduced by the optical integrated element 236 (the optical integrated element 236 comprises the second quarter wave plate 50 and, on one side surface of the optical integrated element 236, the coated reflective polarizing film 52 or the nano-imprinted metal grating) having phase delay and reflective polarization functions (reducing the reflective polarizer 136, anti-reflection film 139, and the transparent adhesive used for lamination in the display module 100 of prior art), to improve the utilization rate of light energy and reduce the thickness of the display module 200.
In one embodiment, the transmittance of the reflective polarizing film 52 or the metal grating to the P light may be greater than or equal to 85±15%, the reflectivity of the reflective polarizing film 52 or the metal grating to the S light may be greater than or equal to 85±15%, and the transmittance of the reflective polarizing film 52 or the metal grating to the S light may be less than or equal to 2%. Thus, unnecessary light loss can be reduced, normal image brightness can be maximized, and scattered light such as direct transmission can be improved.
In one embodiment, the thickness of the reflective polarizing film 52 or the metal grating may be greater than or equal to 300 nm and less than or equal to 1 μm.
In one embodiment, the thickness of the second quarter wave plate 50 may be greater than or equal to 50 μm and less than or equal to 200 μm. Preferably, the thickness of the second quarter wave plate 50 may be 60 μm, 100 μm, or 180 μm.
In one embodiment, one side of the second quarter wave plate 50 opposite to the reflective polarizing film 52 or the metal grating can be coated with an ultra-low reflection film layer, pasted with an ultra-low reflection film, or pasted with a lens coated with the ultra-low reflection film. So, the optical integrated element 236 can have low reflectivity.
In one embodiment, the reflectivity of the ultra-low reflection film layer or the ultra-low reflection film to visible light may be less than or equal to 0.5%.
In one embodiment, the thickness of the ultra-low reflection film layer or the ultra-low reflection film may be less than or equal to 1 μm. Preferably, the thickness of the ultra-low reflection film layer or the ultra-low reflection film may be less than or equal to 500 nm.
In one embodiment, the ultra-low reflection film layer or the ultra-low reflection film may comprise one or more layers of film material, where film material may include, but not limited to, titanium oxide and silicon dioxide, and the number of layers of film material can be, but not limited to 6 or 8 layers. When the ultra-low reflection film layer or the ultra-low reflection film comprises a multi-layer film material, it can be formed by alternately stacking titanium oxide and silicon dioxide.
Refer to table 1 and table 2 below, table 1 shows the measured data of the display module 100, and table 2 presents the measured data of replacing the convex lens component 130 of the display module 100 with the convex lens component 230 of present disclosure. The optical integrated element 236 comprises the second quarter wave plate 50, the reflective polarizing film 52 or the metal grating, and the ultra-low reflection film layer or the ultra-low reflection film or the lens coated with the ultra-low reflection film. It can be seen from table 1 and table 2 that, except for the very little difference in the reflectivity of the anti-reflection film, since the convex lens component 230 is able to minimize unwanted reflections within the material (the reflective polarizer 136, the anti-reflection film 139, and the transparent adhesive for lamination of the display module 100 in prior art), the convex lens component 130 of the display module 100 is replaced with the convex lens component 230 of the present disclosure, and the measured transmittance and the reflectance of the convex lens component 230 respectively to the P light and the S light are slightly increased.
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In summary, through the optical integrated element having the functions of phase delay and reflective polarization, the number of times of reflection, scattering and transmission of light emitted by the display screen in the folded-type light path can be reduced to improve the utilization rate of light energy and reduce the thickness of the display module.
In the display module: definition can be improved through high quality display screen; scattered light reflected by interfaces can be reduced with linear polarizers having high polarization efficiency; the polarization state of the folded-type optical path can be precisely controlled by the first quarter wave plate having high delay accuracy; the transmitted scattered light in the display module can be reduced by the low-transmission and high-reflection lens; the definition of the four corners and distortion on the display can be improved by the low-transmission and high-reflection lens, the low-reflection concave lens, and the convex lens; a simple inclined plane rotation configuration can be used to adjust the relative position of the low-transmission and high-reflection lens and the low-reflection concave lens to adjust the diopter for eyesight of different users. The manufacturing method of the display module can ensure the optical consistency of the display module and effectively reduce dizziness through the automatic alignment and automatic component of the active alignment machine. In the manufacturing method of the display module, with a specific machine, the absorption axis direction of the second absorption polarizer, the fast axis direction of the second quarter wave plate, the absorption axis direction of the first absorption polarizer, and the fast axis direction of the first quarter wave plate can be firstly measured, followed by the rest of the assembling to precisely control the polarization state and reduce scattered images caused by the polarization state anomaly.
It is to be understood that the term “comprises”, “comprising”, or any other variants thereof, is intended to encompass a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or device of a series of elements not only comprise those elements but further comprises other elements that are not explicitly listed, or elements that are inherent to such a process, method, article, or device. An element defined by the phrase “comprising a . . . ” does not exclude the presence of the same element in the process, method, article, or device that comprises the element.
Although the present disclosure has been explained in relation to its preferred embodiment, it does not intend to limit the present disclosure. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art having regard to this present disclosure that other modifications of the exemplary embodiments beyond those embodiments specifically described here may be made without departing from the spirit of the disclosure. Accordingly, such modifications are considered within the scope of the disclosure as limited solely by the appended claims.
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