Patent Application
20080158693
This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application serial no. 96100091, filed Jan. 2, 2007. All disclosure of the Taiwan application is incorporated herein by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a lens, and more particularly to a fixed-focus lens.
2. Description of the Related Art
Please refer to FIG. 1, U.S. Pat. No. 6,542,316 discloses a conventional fixed-focus lens 100 used in a projection television. The conventional fixed-focus lens 100 includes a first lens group 110, a second lens group 120, and a third lens group 130 arranged in sequence from an object side to a light valve 50. The first lens group 110 includes six lenses 112, 114, 116, 117, 118, and 119. The second lens group 120 includes a lens 122. The third lens group 130 includes four lenses 132, 134, 136, and 138.
Because the conventional fixed-focus lens 100 includes more lenses, a cost of the conventional fixed-focus lens 100 is higher. Furthermore, the more lenses cause a longer length of the conventional fixed-focus lens 100, so that the projection television using the conventional fixed-focus lens 100 has a thicker thickness. To reduce the thickness of the conventional fixed-focus lens 100 enlarges an optical image aberration, and evenly occurs ghost images and so on to influence image quality.
The present invention is providing a fixed-focus lens, which has advantages of a small cubage and a good image quality.
Other objections and advantages of the present invention are known from technological features disclosed by this disclosure.
To achieve one or part of the objections or other objections, the present invention provides a fixed-focus lens including a first lens group and a second lens group. The two lens groups have positive refractive powers. The first lens group is composed of a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side, and the refractive powers of the first to fifth lenses are negative, negative, negative, positive and positive respectively, and the first lens is an aspheric lens. The second lens group is arranged between the first lens group and the image side, the second lens group is composed of a sixth lens, a seventh lens, a eighth lens having a positive refractive power, a ninth lens and a tenth lens arranged in sequence from the object side to the image side. The sixth lens and the seventh lens construct a first cemented lens, and the ninth lens and the tenth lens construct a second cemented lens. In addition, FL45 is an effective focal length (EFL) from the fourth lens to the fifth lens, FG2 is an EFL of the second lens group, F is an EFL of the fixed-focus lens, H is a maximum image height of the image side, and 5.0<FL45/F<7.5, 3.5<FG2/F<4.8, FG2/H>3.755.
Comparing with the conventional fixed-focus lens, the fixed-focus lens of the present invention includes less number of lenses, so that the fixed-focus lens of the present invention has a lower cost and a smaller cubage. Furthermore, the aberration of the fixed-focus lens of the present invention is effectively eliminated, so that good image quality is obtained.
Other objectives, features and advantages of the present invention will be further understood from the further technological features disclosed by the embodiments of the present invention wherein there are shown and described preferred embodiments of this invention, simply by way of illustration of modes best suited to carry out the invention.
These and other features and advantages of the various embodiments disclosed herein will be better understood with respect to the following description and drawings, in which like numbers refer to like parts throughout.
In the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof, and in which is shown by way of illustration specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. In this regard, directional terminology, such as “top,” “bottom,” “front,” “back,” etc., is used with reference to the orientation of the Figure(s) being described. The components of the present invention can be positioned in a number of different orientations. As such, the directional terminology is used for purposes of illustration and is in no way limiting. On the other hand, the drawings are only schematic and the sizes of components may be exaggerated for clarity. It is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and structural changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology used herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting. The use of “including,” “comprising,” or “having” and variations thereof herein is meant to encompass the items listed thereafter and equivalents thereof as well as additional items. Unless limited otherwise, the terms “connected,” “coupled,” and “mounted” and variations thereof herein are used broadly and encompass direct and indirect connections, couplings, and mountings. Similarly, the terms “facing,” “faces” and variations thereof herein are used broadly and encompass direct and indirect facing, and “adjacent to” and variations thereof herein are used broadly and encompass directly and indirectly “adjacent to”. Therefore, the description of “A” component facing “B” component herein may contain the situations that “A” component facing “B” component directly or one or more additional components is between “A” component and “B” component. Also, the description of “A” component “adjacent to” “B” component herein may contain the situations that “A” component is directly “adjacent to” “B” component or one or more additional components is between “A” component and “B” component. Accordingly, the drawings and descriptions will be regarded as illustrative in nature and not as restrictive. Please refer to
The second lens group 220 is arranged between the first lens group 210 and the image side. The second lens group 220 is composed of a sixth lens 222, a seventh lens 224, a eighth lens 225, a ninth lens 226, and a tenth lens 228 arranged in sequence from the object side to the image side. The refractive powers of the sixth lens 222, the seventh lens 224, the eighth lens 225, the ninth lens 226, and the tenth lens 228 are exemplarily positive, negative, positive, negative, and positive respectively. The sixth lens 222 and the seventh lens 224 construct a first cemented lens 223. The ninth lens 226 and the tenth lens 228 construct a second cemented lens 227. The sixth lens 222 is a meniscus lens with the convex surface (surface S13) facing the image side. The seventh lens 224 is a meniscus lens with the convex surface (surface S14) facing the image side. The eighth lens 225 and the tenth lens 228 are biconvex lenses. The ninth lens 226 is a meniscus lens with the convex surface (surface S17) facing the object side. The sixth lens 222, the seventh lens 224, the eighth lens 225, the ninth lens 226, and the tenth lens 228 are spherical lenses.
The fixed-focus lens 200 satisfies the following conditions: (1)5.0<FL45/F<7.5, (2)3.5<FG2/F<4.8,(3)FG2/H>3.755, wherein FL45 is an effective focal length (EFL) from the fourth lens to the fifth lens, FG2 is an EFL of the second lens group, F is an EFL of the fixed-focus lens, and H is a maximum image height of the image side. In general, an image-processing element 60 is arranged at the image side, and in this embodiment, the image-processing element 60 is exemplarily a light valve. The maximum image height H is an image height of an image imaged on the image-processing element 60 by an actual object. In addition, the fixed-focus lens 200 exemplarily further includes an aperture 230 arranged between the first lens group 210 and the second lens group 220.
The fixed-focus lens 200 uses an aspheric lens (that is, the first lens 212) and nine spherical lenses (that is, the second lens to the tenth lens) to eliminate an image aberration. The aspheric lens facilitates to eliminate a distortion occurred by large field of view (FOV) over 90 degrees. The second lens group 220 eliminates a chromatic aberration and a spherical aberration. Comparing with the conventional fixed-focus lens 100 having eleven lenses (as shown in
To further ensure the image quality, in this embodiment, the fixed-focus lens satisfies the following conditions: (1) 2.0<DG12/FG2<5.0, (2) 1.3<|FL67/FL910|<5.5, (3) 15<Vp−Vn<45, (4) 1.35<|R15/R16|<4.2. The DG12 is a distance from the first lens group 210 to the second lens group 220. The FL67 is an EFL of the first cemented lens 223, and the FL910 is an EFL of the second cemented lens 227. In addition, one of the first cemented lens 223 and the second cemented lens 227 is a positive refractive power, and another one is a negative refractive power. The Vp is an Abbe number of the cemented lens with positive refractive power, and the Vn is an Abbe number of the cemented lens with negative refractive power. The R15 is a radius of curvature of a surface (surface S15) facing the object side of the eighth lens 225, and the R16 is a radius of curvature of a surface (surface S16) facing the image side of the eighth lens 225.
The following content will indicate a first embodiment of the fixed-focus lens 200. Must pay attention is, data of the following table 1 and table 2 do not limit the present invention, after referring the present invention, any one skilled in the art can devise variations of reference numbers that are within the scope and spirit of the invention disclosed herein.
In the table 1, the radius of curvature refers to the radius of curvature of each surface, and the interval refers to the distance between two neighboring surfaces. For example, the interval of surface S1 is the distance between the surface S1 and the surface S2. The values of the thickness, refractive index and Abbe number corresponding to the various lenses in the note field refer to the interval, refractive index and Abbe number in the same row. In addition, in the table 1, the surfaces S1 and S2 are two surfaces of the first lens 212, and the surfaces S3 and S4 are two surfaces of the second lens 214, and the surfaces S5 and S6 are two surfaces of the third lens 215, and the surfaces S7 and S8 are two surfaces of the fourth lens 216, and the surfaces S9 and S10 are two surfaces of the fifth lens 218. The surface S11 is the aperture 230. The surface S12 is a surface of the sixth lens 222 facing the object side, and the surface S13 is a surface connecting the sixth lens 222 and the seventh lens 224, and the surface S14 is a surface of the seventh lens 224 facing the image side. The surfaces S15 and S16 are two surfaces of the eighth lens 225. The surface S17 is a surface of the ninth lens 226 facing the object side, and the surface S18 is a surface connecting the ninth lens 226 and the tenth lens 228, and the surface S19 is a surface of the tenth lens 228 facing the image side. The surfaces S20 and S21 are two surfaces of a polarizer 70. The surfaces S22 and S23 are two surfaces of a contrast coupler 80. The surfaces S24 and S25 are two surfaces of a glass cover 90 used for protecting an image-processing element 60. The interval in the row of the surface S25 is a distance from the surface S25 to the image-processing element 60.
Reference numbers relating to radius of curvatures, intervals, and so on of various lenses are referring to the table 1, and do not describe in detail herein. The surfaces S1 and S2 are aspheric, and satisfy the following formula:
Wherein the Z is a sag in the optical axis direction, and the c is a reciprocal of a radius of an osculating sphere, that is, a reciprocal of a radius of curvature (such as radius of curvature of the surface S1 or S2) near the optical axis. The k is a conic coefficient, and the r is an aspheric height, that is, a height from the center of the lens to an edge of the lens. The A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and so on are aspheric coefficients, and the A1 is equal to 0. The following table 2 shows references of the surfaces S1 and S2.
In this embodiment, the f-number of the fixed-focus lens 200 is 2.417, and the maximum FOV is 91.3°. In addition, F=9.804 mm, FL45=68.618 mm, FG2=39.792 mm, H=10.243 mm, DG12=134.172 mm. FL67=−194.731 mm, FL910=98.507, FL45/F=6.999, DG12/FG2=3.372, |FL67/FL910|=1.977, FG2/F=4.059, FG2/H=3.885, 26.3<Vp−Vn<30.8.
The following content indicates a second embodiment of the fixed-focus lens 200. Please refer to
In the table 3, surfaces S1 to S19 are the same as the table 1. The surfaces S20 and S21 are two opposite surfaces of a total internal reflection (TIR) prism 40, and the surfaces S22 and S23 are two surfaces of the glass cover 90. The interval in the row of the surface S23 is a distance from the surface S23 to the image-processing element 60.
In this embodiment, the f-number of the fixed-focus lens 200 is 2.4, and the maximum FOV is 90.9°. In addition, F=10.905 mm, FL45=64.233 mm, FG2=42.342 mm, H=11.24 mm, DG12=107.538 mm. FL67=−259.217 mm, FL910=105.271, FL45/F=5.89, DG12/FG2=2.54, |FL67/FL910|=2.462, FG2/F=3.883, FG2/H=3.767, 27.6<Vp−Vn<30.8.
The following content indicates a third embodiment of the fixed-focus lens 200. Please refer to
In the table 5, surfaces S1 to S19 are the same as the table 1. The surfaces S20 and S21 are two surfaces of a smooth image element 30, and the surfaces S22 and S23 are two opposite surfaces of a total internal reflection (TIR) prism 40, and the surfaces S24 and S25 are two surfaces of the glass cover 90. The interval in the row of the surface S25 is a distance from the surface S25 to the image-processing element 60.
In this embodiment, the f-number of the fixed-focus lens 200 is 2.4, and the maximum FOV is 90.9°. In addition, F=10.413 mm, FL45=65.653 mm, FG2=41.565 mm, H=10.706 mm, DG12=104.988 mm. FL67=−462.489 mm, FL910=110.426, FL45/F=6.3, DG12/FG2=2.526, |FL67/FL910|=4.188, FG2/F=3.99, FG2/H=3.88, 27.6<Vp−Vn<42.
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In a word, the fixed-focus lens of the present invention at least has the following advantages:
1. Comparing with the conventional fixed-focus lens 100 having eleven lenses, the fixed-focus lenses 200 and 200′ of the present invention have less number of lenses, so that the fixed-focus lens 200 and 200′ reduces a cost and tolerance accumulation, and enhances product yield, and then reduces a manufacturing cost.
2. The aberration of the fixed-focus lens of the present invention is effectively eliminated, so that good image quality is obtained.
3. The fixed-focus lens of the present invention is a L type lens, so that the fixed-focus lens of the present invention has a shorter length, and further, a projection television using the fixed-focus lens 200′ obtains a thinner thickness.
The foregoing description of the preferred embodiment of the invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form or to exemplary embodiments disclosed. Accordingly, the foregoing description should be regarded as illustrative rather than restrictive. Obviously, many modifications and variations will be apparent to practitioners skilled in this art. The embodiments are chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and its best mode practical application, thereby to enable persons skilled in the art to understand the invention for various embodiments and with various modifications as are suited to the particular use or implementation contemplated. It is intended that the scope of the invention be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents in which all terms are meant in their broadest reasonable sense unless otherwise indicated. Therefore, the term “the invention”, “the present invention” or the like is not necessary limited the claim scope to a specific embodiment, and the reference to particularly preferred exemplary embodiments of the invention does not imply a limitation on the invention, and no such limitation is to be inferred. The invention is limited only by the spirit and scope of the appended claims. The abstract of the disclosure is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract, which will allow a searcher to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure of any patent issued from this disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. Any advantages and benefits described may not apply to all embodiments of the invention. It should be appreciated that variations may be made in the embodiments described by persons skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims. Moreover, no element and component in the present disclosure is intended to be dedicated to the public regardless of whether the element or component is explicitly recited in the following claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 96100091 | Jan 2007 | TW | national |
