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US 10,768,414 B2Granted
Lens device for compensating aberration in the optical system and the adjustment method thereof
AssigneeNational Applied Research Laboratories
InventorsCheng-Fang Ho, Wei-Jie Peng, Wei-Yao Hsu
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a lens device suitable for the large-diameter lenses (with diameter ≥100 mm) of a vertical setup, and its adjustment method. The aberration caused by the self-gravity of lenses and the deformation generated by the clamping stress of the fixing device is compensated.
Claims19
An adjustment method for lenses in a lens assembly, wherein the lens assembly includes a plurality of lenses having a total number of lenses being at least 3, the adjustment method comprising:
- arranging the plurality of lenses along an optical axis, wherein a light moves forward along a first direction of the optical axis;
- dividing at least a portion of the plurality of lenses into 2n groups, wherein n is a positive integer, the 2n groups are divided into a 1st group to a 2n-th group including n odd-numbered groups and n even-numbered groups, a j-th group of the 2n groups has m(j) lenses, j is a positive integer being no larger than 2n, m(j) is a positive integer being at least 2, the lenses in each of the 2n groups include a 1(j)st lens, . . . , an (i−1)(j)-th lens, an i(j)-th lens, . . . , and an m(j)-th lens, i is a positive integer being no larger than m(j), the odd-numbered groups from the 1st group to the (2n−1)-th group correspond sequentially to the even-numbered groups from the 2nd group to the 2n-th group, and the lenses in the odd-numbered groups correspond sequentially to the lenses in the corresponding even-numbered groups;
- configuring a plurality of retention devices for the plurality of lenses, wherein each of the plurality of retention devices has a corresponding lens in the plurality of lenses, each of the plurality of retention devices retains the corresponding lens through k support elements, k is a positive integer being no less than 2, the k support elements are evenly distributed around an edge of the corresponding lens, each of the k support elements has a retention position, and the retention positions of the k support elements for both the i(2n−1)-th lens of the (2n−1)-th group and the i(2n)-th lens of the 2n-th group are the same;
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- rotating each of the retention positions of the k support elements for the i(2n−1)-th lens, wherein an h-th support element of the k support elements for the i(2n−1)-th lens is rotated by a rotation angle α with respect to the retention position of a first support element of the k support elements for the (i−1)(2n−1)-th lens,
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- where h is an integer from 1 to k, so that when observed from the optical axis, the retention positions of the k support elements for the (i−1)(2n−1)-th lens are different from the retention positions of the k support elements for the i(2n−1)-th lens, and the retention positions of the k support elements for the (i−1)(2n)-th lens are different from the retention positions of the k support elements for the i(2n)-th lens.
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A lens assembly device, comprising:
- a plurality of lenses having a total number of lenses being at least 3, wherein the plurality of lenses are arranged along an optical axis, a light moves forward along a first direction of the optical axis, and
- at least a portion of the plurality of lenses are divided into 2n groups including n odd-numbered groups and n even-numbered groups, n is a positive integer, a j-th group of the 2n groups has m(j) lenses, j is a positive integer being no larger than 2n, m(j), is at least 2, the lenses in each of the 2n groups include a 1(j)st lens, . . . , an (i−1)(j)-th lens, an i(j)-th lens, . . . , and an m(j)-th lens, i is a positive integer being no larger than m(j), the odd-numbered groups from the 1st group to the (2n−1)-th group correspond sequentially to the even-numbered groups from the 2nd group to the 2n-th group, and the lenses in the odd-numbered groups correspond sequentially to the lenses in the corresponding even-numbered groups;
- a plurality of retention devices, wherein each of the plurality of retention devices retains an edge of a lens of the odd-numbered groups and the even-numbered groups through a plurality of support elements, the i(2n−1)-th lens has k support elements, each of the plurality of support elements has a retention position, and the retention positions of the plurality of support elements for both the i(2n−1)-th lens of the (2n−1)-th group and the i(2n)-th lens of the 2n-th group are the same;
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- a rotating unit coupled to the plurality of retention devices and configured to rotate the retention position of an h-th support element of the k support elements for the i(2n−1)-th lens by a rotation angle α(h) with respect to the retention position of a first support element of the k support elements for the (i−1)(2n−1)-th lens, wherein
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- where h is an integer from 1 to k, so that when observed from the optical axis, the retention position of the h-th support element of the k support elements for the i(2n−1)-th lens is the same as the retention position of the h-th support element of the k support elements for the i(2n)-th lens, and the retention position of the h−th support element for the (i−1)(2n)-th lens is different from both the retention positions of the h−th and the (h−1)-th support elements for the i(2n)-th lens.
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A lens assembly device, comprising:
- a plurality of lenses arranged sequentially along an optical axis;
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- a plurality of retention devices for respectively retaining the plurality of lenses, wherein:
- each of the plurality of retention devices includes a plurality of support elements for retaining an edge of the respective lens under a relatively lowest stress;
- the plurality of support elements for a first lens in the plurality of lenses have a first retention position combination;
- the plurality of support elements for a second lens in the plurality of lenses have a second retention position combination;
- there is a rotation angle α between the first retention position combination and the second retention position combination;
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- both the first lens and the second lens belong to a first group in the plurality of lenses, and the rotation angle α is calculated from
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- wherein there are m lenses in the first group, there are k support elements for each of the first and the second lenses, and l is an integer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.