Optical projection device for an icon display element
AssigneeTRW Automotive Electronics & Components GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsUlrich Backes, Harald Kohnlein
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Abstract
A simple optical projection device with a high luminous efficacy has a point light source, a projection screen, a mask that is arranged in the light path upstream of the projection screen and is light-transmissive in some areas, and a light focusing optical lens arranged between the point light source and the mask. The optical lens is selected such that the prolongations of the emerging beams of the optical lens on the side thereof facing the point light source intersect in a virtual perspective center which is more remote from the lens than the point light source.
Claims11
An optical projection device for a vehicle interior comprising:
- a plurality of point light sources,
- a projection screen,
- a mask that is arranged in the light path upstream of the projection screen and is light-transmissive in some areas, and
- a plurality of light focusing optical lenses, each with an associated point light source and arranged between the associated point light source and the mask, wherein the prolongations of the emerging beams of each optical lens on the side thereof facing the associated point light source intersect in a virtual perspective center which is more remote from the lens than the associated point light source,
- wherein the plurality of optical lenses are arranged so as to be oppositely tilted with respect to the planes of the projection screen and the mask,
- wherein the projection beams from each point light source do not intersect the projection beams from each other point light source between the optical lenses and the mask and are divergent between the optical lenses and the mask.
An optical projection device for a vehicle interior comprising:
- an icon display element in the vehicle interior having a front cover;
- at least one point light source for producing light beams directed towards the front cover;
- a mask positioned between the point light source and the front cover and having light-transmissive portions through which the light beams pass;
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- a light focusing optical lens positioned between each point light source and the mask for receiving the light beams, the light beams emerging from each lens along a light path towards the mask, prolongations of each light path in a direction extending away from the mask intersecting at a virtual perspective center that is spaced further from the lens than the point light source.
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