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Fresnel lens sheet, light-transmission screen, and projection image display apparatus

US7872801B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 23, 2008
Grant dateJan 18, 2011
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Expiry dateApr 25, 2029

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B5/045
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The Fresnel lens sheet according to the present invention has a plurality of prismatic Fresnel lens elements including a Fresnel facet, a riser facet, and a top facet crossing the facet and the riser facet on an entrance surface. An angle of the top facet of each Fresnel lens element constituting the lens relative to the an exit surface, δ1, is determined so that an exit angle of the light that has entered each of the top facets and exits from the exit surface, β, is greater than 35 degrees.

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