Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an illumination device, and so on capable of reducing luminance unevenness of illumination light.SOLUTION: The illumination device includes a light source part including a laser light source, and an equalizing optical member including a plurality of unit lenses which are two-dimensionally arrayed to pass light emitted from the light source part side. A light passage surface of the equalizing optical member is divided into a plurality of divided regions and shape parameters of the unit lens are mutually different in each of the plurality of divided regions. Parameters in respective divided regions are set so that top parts and bottom parts in light quantity distribution formed by emission light emitted from the unit lenses are mutually annihilated by overlap of light quantity distributions obtained in each of the plurality of divided regions.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide, e.g., an illuminating unit that allows reduction in loss of the quantity of light.SOLUTION: An illuminating unit includes: a light source section including a laser light source; a first uniformizing optical member on which light from the light source section is incident; and a second uniformizing optical member on which light from the first uniformizing optical member is incident. The second uniformizing optical member individually includes: a plurality of first unit cells arranged on a light incidence surface of the second uniformizing optical member; and a plurality of second unit cells arranged on a light emission surface of the second uniformizing optical member. The first unit cells each have an anisotropic shape with a major-axis direction as a first direction and a minor-axis direction as a second direction, and the second unit cells each have a shape protruding along both the first direction and the second direction.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure a sufficient light reception amount to a light receiving element, and to downsize a light reception area in the light receiving element. SOLUTION: This measuring device is provided with: a laser light source 2 for emitting laser light; an optical element 3 for approximately collimating laser light emitted from the laser light source 2; a light projection mirror 4 rotatable in a prescribed angle range, for reflecting the laser light toward a measuring object 100, and scanning the measuring object by the laser light; a condenser lens 11 for condensing the laser light reflected by the measuring object; the light receiving element 7 for receiving the laser light condensed by the condenser lens; and a processing part for calculating distance information on the measuring object by processing a received light signal generated based on the laser light received by the light receiving element. The condenser lens 11 is constituted of a plurality of lenses 23, 23, etc., arranged in parallel in the dividing direction of a field angle, by condensing the laser light in a range of each field angle divided in one direction orthogonal to the optical axis of the entering laser light, and introducing it into the light receiving element. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve safety with securement of a necessary amount of laser light. SOLUTION: A distance measuring device includes: a laser light source 2 emitting laser light; an optical element 3 substantially collimating the laser light emitted from the laser light source; a light projection mirror 4b, rotatable within a given angle range, which reflects the laser light substantially collimated by the optical element toward an object 100 to be measured to scan the object by the laser light; a light receiving mirror reflecting the laser light reflected and diffused by the object; a light receiving element receiving the laser light reflected by the light receiving mirror; a light collection optical system collecting the laser light reflected by the light receiving mirror to guide it to the light receiving element; and a control part calculating distance information on the object by processing light receiving signals created based on the laser light received by the light receiving element. A mask member 9 masking the laser light in a peripheral zone within an optical path is also arranged on the optical path between the laser light source and the object to be measured. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure a sufficient amount of received light in a light-receiving element, and to attain a compact light-receiving area in the light-receiving element. SOLUTION: A distance-measuring apparatus includes: a laser light source 2 for emitting a laser beam; an optical element 3 for making the laser beam emitted from the laser light source into a substantially parallel light; a mirror 4b for light projection for scanning an object to be measured 100 with a laser beam, by reflecting the laser beam which is rotatable within a prescribed angle range and made into a substantially parallel light by the optical element, toward the object to be measured; a condenser lens 5 for condensing a laser beam reflected and diffused by the object to be measured; a light-receiving element 7 having a light-receiving surface 7a for receiving a laser beam condensed by the condenser lens; an aperture diaphragm 6 having an opening part 6a for reducing the diameter of a laser beam and arranged between the condenser lens and the light-receiving element; and a control part for computing distance information on the object to be measured by processing received-light signals generated on the basis of a laser beam received by the light-receiving element. The light-receiving element is arranged in the vicinity of the aperture diaphragm. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide compatibility among three types of optical disks with wavelengths to be used being different from each other, respectively, by using a single objective lens to be used in common, without making a configuration complicated. SOLUTION: An optical pickup includes: a first emitting unit to emit an optical beam of a first wavelength; a second emitting unit to emit an optical beam of a second wavelength; a third emitting unit to emit an optical beam of a third wavelength; an objective lens 34 to condense optical beams emitted from the first to third emitting units onto the signal recording face of an optical disk; and a diffraction unit 50 provided on one face of an optical element 50 positioned on the optical path of the optical beams of the first to third wavelengths; wherein the diffraction unit 50 includes nearly circular first diffraction region 51 provided on the innermost perimeter, a ring zone shaped second diffraction region 52 provided on the outer side of the first diffraction region, and a ring zone shaped third diffraction region 53 provided on the outer side of the second diffraction region, and the first to third diffraction regions 51, 52, 53 form first to third diffraction structure being ring shaped, having a predetermined depth and being different from one another. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT