Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of LASER Light Source collimator apparatus, be intended to solve existing collimator apparatus difficulty of processing and reach greatly the problem that machining precision is difficult to guarantee, the collimation effect of laser is further improved.
The present invention is achieved in that a kind of LASER Light Source collimator apparatus, is used for LASER Light Source and collimation lens are installed, and comprises inner sleeve and outer sleeve;
It is first uncovered that one end of described outer sleeve has, and the other end is provided with first flange that extends internally, and described the first flange overlaps with the first uncovered central shaft;
Described inner sleeve has second uncovered near described first a uncovered end, the other end is provided with second flange that extends internally;
The upper surface of described the second flange is connected to the lower surface of described the first flange, and relative the first flange of the second flange forms a ledge structure to projecting inward, is used for installing described collimation lens;
The described second uncovered shrinking within the described outer sleeve makes described the first opening end and the second opening end form another ledge structure, is used for installing described LASER Light Source.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a kind of LASER Light Source collimator apparatus array, being arranged in same plane by a plurality of above-mentioned LASER Light Source collimator apparatuses forms, and the outer sleeve of described a plurality of LASER Light Source collimator apparatuses is structure as a whole.
Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a kind of illuminator, comprise the array of source by a plurality of light source monomer compositions, each described light source monomer includes above-mentioned LASER Light Source collimator apparatus, the second open-mouth at the inner sleeve of described LASER Light Source collimator apparatus is provided with laser instrument, the second flange at described inner sleeve is provided with collimation lens, and described laser instrument overlaps with the central shaft of described collimation lens.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a kind of projector equipment, comprises imaging system reaches provides illumination light for described imaging system illuminator, and described illuminator adopts above-mentioned illuminator.
When LASER Light Source collimator apparatus provided by the invention is used for assembling LASER Light Source and collimation lens, the stiff end of LASER Light Source is connected to the second opening end of inner sleeve, collimation lens then is connected to the upper surface of the second flange of inner sleeve, therefore, the height of inner sleeve defines the spacing of laser instrument and collimation lens; Simultaneously, first coaxial uncovered and the first flange limit is passed through respectively again in LASER Light Source and collimation lens position in the horizontal direction, and then has guaranteed the concentricity of LASER Light Source and collimation lens.Like this, the present invention passes through respectively two independently sleeve realizations with spacing and the concentricity design of LASER Light Source and collimation lens, and inner sleeve and outer sleeve can be made separately and be easy to process.The stage casing of the two ends circular hole of outer sleeve (first uncovered and the first flange) without hindrance every, can time processing obtain, need not change benchmark, precision is higher, and then guarantees that the concentricity of LASER Light Source and collimation lens is higher; The height of inner sleeve can obtain by grinding, and precision is high and easy to control, and then guarantees that the spacing precision of LASER Light Source and collimation lens is higher; And the repeatability of inside and outside sleeve machining precision is better, very suitable batch production.Simultaneously, owing to its machining precision easily guarantees, also so that the effect of laser alignment is better.
Adopt the beam collimation of illuminator output of this LASER Light Source collimator apparatus good, and in the illuminator that adopts a plurality of these collimator apparatuses, can obtain collimating output beam effective and that collimation is very consistent, be very suitable for optical projection system.And then, adopt the projector equipment of this illuminator also to have better drop shadow effect.
Embodiment
In order to make purpose of the present invention, technical scheme and advantage clearer, below in conjunction with drawings and Examples, the present invention is further elaborated.Should be appreciated that specific embodiment described herein only in order to explain the present invention, is not intended to limit the present invention.
Below in conjunction with specific embodiment specific implementation of the present invention is described in detail:
Fig. 1 shows the cut-open view of the LASER Light Source collimator apparatus that the embodiment of the invention provides, Fig. 2 shows the cut-open view after this LASER Light Source collimator apparatus and laser instrument and the collimation lens assembling, Fig. 3,4 shows respectively stereographic map and the semisectional view of outer sleeve, Fig. 5,6 shows respectively stereographic map and the semisectional view of inner sleeve, for convenience of explanation, only show the part relevant with the present embodiment.
This LASER Light Source collimator apparatus is mainly used in assembling LASER Light Source (laser instrument) and collimation lens, to obtain emergent light as the light source monomer of directional light or approximate directional light.Such as Fig. 1,2, this device comprises an inner sleeve 1 and an outer sleeve 2, and the height of inner sleeve 1 is less than the height of outer sleeve 2, and its two ends all shrink in the inside of outer sleeve 2.Such as Fig. 3,4, an end of outer sleeve 2 connects, and has first uncoveredly 21, and the other end is provided with first flange 22 that extends internally, and this first flange 22 overlaps with first uncovered 21 central shaft.Such as Fig. 5,6, inner sleeve 1 has second uncovered 11 near an end of first uncovered 21, and the other end is provided with second flange 12 that extends internally.Wherein, the first flange 22 and the second flange butt about in the of 12, and the second flange 12 relative the first flanges 22 make the first flange 22 and the second flange 12 form a ledge structure to projecting inward certain width.In addition, because the end face of the opening end of inner sleeve 1 and outer sleeve 2 has difference in height, formed equally a ledge structure.
Further with reference to figure 1,2, the using method of this device is as follows: the ledge structure that consists of by the first flange 22 and the second flange 12 is collimation lens 3 fixedly, by the first opening end of inner sleeve 1 and outer sleeve 2 and the ledge structure fixed laser 4 of the second opening end formation.Concrete, laser instrument 4 has a luminophor 41 and a substrate 42 usually, the substrate 42 of laser instrument 4 end face with the opening end of inner sleeve 1 is fitted, the central shaft that guarantees simultaneously laser instrument 4 overlaps with first uncovered 21 central shaft, the medial surface that preferably, can be connected to by the side with substrate 42 outer sleeve 2 is fully realized laser instrument 4 and first uncovered 21 coaxial.
For collimation lens 3, its lower surface is connected to the upper surface that the second flange 12 protrudes from the part of the first flange 22, guarantee that simultaneously the central shaft of collimation lens 3 overlaps with the central shaft of the first flange 22 of outer sleeve 2.The medial surface that preferably, can be connected to by the side with collimation lens 3 the first flange 22 fully realizes that collimation lens 3 and the first flange 22 are coaxial.
After installing according to the method described above laser instrument 4 and collimation lens 3, the substrate 42 of laser instrument 4 fits with the end face of the opening end of inner sleeve 1, the upper surface of the second flange 12 of the lower surface of collimation lens 3 and inner sleeve 1 fits, therefore, the distance between laser instrument 4 and the collimation lens 3 is only determined by the height of inner sleeve 1.On the other hand, laser instrument 4 and outer sleeve 2 first uncovered 21 coaxial, collimation lens 3 is coaxial with the first flange 22 of outer sleeve 2, and first uncovered 21 and the central shaft of the first flange 22 overlap, therefore guaranteed that laser instrument 4 overlaps with the central shaft of collimation lens 3, and then guaranteed the concentricity of laser instrument 4 with collimation lens 3.
In sum, the LASER Light Source collimator apparatus that the present embodiment provides has defined the spacing of laser instrument 4 with collimation lens 3 by inner sleeve 1, defined the concentricity of laser instrument 4 with collimation lens 3 by outer sleeve 2, and inner sleeve 1 and outer sleeve 2 are two separate members, can make separately.When making inner sleeve 1, only need according to the height of default laser instrument 4 with the spacing appropriate design inner sleeve 1 of collimation lens 3, when making outer sleeve 2, only need to guarantee the first flange 22 and first uncovered 21 coaxial, in addition, after need guaranteeing that inner and outer sleeves assembles, the second flange 12 relative the first flanges 22 are to projecting inward certain width.Like this, spacing and the concentricity design of laser instrument 4 and collimation lens 3 can be passed through two independently member realizations, make the collimator apparatus of traditional integrative-structure and be more prone to and make separately inner sleeve 1 and outer sleeve 2, can as traditional collimator apparatus, not be difficult to hold the thickness of concentricity and the intermediate flange of its two ends circular hole.Concrete, the stage casing of the two ends circular hole of outer sleeve (first uncovered and the first flange) without hindrance every, can time processing obtain, need not change benchmark, precision is higher, and then the concentricity of assurance LASER Light Source and collimation lens is higher; The height of inner sleeve can obtain by grinding, and precision is high and easy to control, and then guarantees that the spacing precision of LASER Light Source and collimation lens is higher; And the repeatability of inside and outside sleeve machining precision is better, very suitable batch production.Simultaneously, owing to its machining precision easily guarantees, also so that the effect of laser alignment is better.Therefore, the collimator apparatus that the present embodiment provides is more convenient for processing, and machining precision is high, and yields is high, is fit to batch production, easily guarantees owing to its machining precision simultaneously, also so that the effect of laser alignment is better.
In the present embodiment, the second flange 12 is overlapped with the central shaft of the first flange 22, be convenient on the one hand processing; On the other hand because laser instrument 4 and the first flange 22 are coaxial, with first, second flange is coaxial arrange after so that laser instrument 4, first, second flange three are coaxial, and then make the collimation better effects if of laser.
In the present embodiment, outer sleeve 2 is identical with the shape of inner sleeve 1, and is preferably cylindrical sleeve, and then the first flange 22 and the second flange 12 are preferably annular flange.This cylindrical sleeve and annular flange are applicable to usage comparison widely laser instrument and the collimation lens of circle.Certainly, the shape of inner and outer sleeves and first, second flange mainly designs according to the shape of preassembled laser instrument and collimation lens.
Further with reference to figure 1,5, for the ease of the assembling of inner sleeve 1 and outer sleeve 2, the turning point of the lateral surface of the upper surface of the second flange 12 of inner sleeve 1 and inner sleeve 1 can be designed to the turnover face 13 that tilts.Because the external diameter of inner sleeve 1 and the internal diameter of outer sleeve 2 differ very little, when assembling, need smoothly assembling of strict counterpoint, has a slope owing to this turnover face 13 in the present embodiment, so that inner and outer sleeves when assembling strict counterpoint very, inner sleeve 1 is taken advantage of a situation along this slope be inserted in outer sleeve 2, the convenient installation.
In the present embodiment, because the substrate 42 of laser instrument 4 is with the tight butt of opening end of inner sleeve 1, therefore, the structure of the opening end of inner sleeve 1 preferably adapts with the structure of the substrate 42 of laser instrument 4, closely cooperates to guarantee laser instrument 4 and the opening end of inner sleeve 1.
LASER Light Source collimator apparatus provided by the invention both had been convenient to processing, easily guaranteed again its machining precision, was fit to batch production.This collimator apparatus is specially adapted to the illuminator of projector equipment.Such as Fig. 7, this illuminator generally includes the array of source that is comprised of in same plane a plurality of light source monomers 701, and this light source monomer 701 comprises above-mentioned LASER Light Source collimator apparatus.The second open-mouth at the inner sleeve of each LASER Light Source collimator apparatus is equipped with a laser instrument, then is provided with collimation lens on the second flange of inner sleeve, and laser instrument overlaps with the central shaft of collimation lens.This laser instrument can adopt diode laser.
Further, laser instrument and collimation lens can be assemblied on the LASER Light Source collimator apparatus according to above-mentioned assembling mode, repeat no more herein.
In addition, be understandable that, adopted a plurality of LASER Light Source collimator apparatuses in this illuminator, these a plurality of LASER Light Source collimator apparatuses can be separate monomers, can also connect as one, and such as Fig. 8,9.Namely when making, unified processing comprises the outer sleeve array 801 of a plurality of outer sleeves, and then the same number of inner sleeve of batch making and outer sleeve is assembled together inner sleeve and outer sleeve again, forms complete LASER Light Source collimator apparatus array 1001, such as Figure 10.Therefore, the LASER Light Source collimator apparatus array of this integrative-structure is also in protection scope of the present invention.
Further, comprise that the projector equipment of imaging system and above-mentioned illuminator is also in protection scope of the present invention.
The above only is preferred embodiment of the present invention, not in order to limiting the present invention, all any modifications of doing within the spirit and principles in the present invention, is equal to and replaces and improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention.