OPTICAL LENS, OPTICAL LENS GROUP, VEHICLE LAMP SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE
20230213162 · 2023-07-06
Inventors
- Jie Zhang (Shanghai, CN)
- Shikun DONG (Shanghai, CN)
- Fan MENG (Shanghai, CN)
- Jiayuan CHEN (Shanghai, CN)
Cpc classification
F21S41/265
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21S41/27
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21S41/32
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21S41/321
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21S41/255
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21W2102/135
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
International classification
Abstract
An optical lens, including a light incident portion and a light emergent portion, wherein a first single-directional alignment surface (1) is formed on the light incident portion; a second single-directional alignment surface (2) is formed on the light emergent portion; the alignment direction of the first single-directional alignment surface (1) is perpendicular to the alignment direction of the second single-directional alignment surface (2); and the first single-directional alignment surface (1) and the second single-directional alignment surface (2) jointly form a focal point or a focusing area of the optical lens. In addition, an optical lens group, a vehicle lamp system and a vehicle are further provided. The optical lens can meet the requirement for anisotropy of the illumination light shape of the vehicle lamp, and can form an asymmetrical light shape.
Claims
1. An optical lens, comprising a light incident portion and a light emergent portion, wherein the light incident portion is provided with a first single-directional alignment surface, and the light emergent portion is provided with a second single-directional alignment surface, an alignment direction of the first single-directional alignment surface and an alignment direction of the second single-directional alignment surface are perpendicular to each other, and the first single-directional alignment surface and the second single-directional alignment surface jointly form a focal point or a focus area of the optical lens.
2. The optical lens according to claim 1, wherein each of the first single-directional alignment surface and the second single-directional alignment surface is a curved surface formed by stretching of an collimating curve along a normal direction of a plane where the collimating curve is located.
3. The optical lens according to claim 2, wherein each of the first single-directional alignment surface and the second single-directional alignment surface is a cylindrical surface or a quasi-cylindrical surface.
4. The optical lens according to claim 3, wherein each of the first single-directional alignment surface and the second single-directional alignment surface is a circular-cylindrical surface.
5. The optical lens according to claim 1, wherein each of the first single-directional alignment surface and the second single-directional alignment surface is a stepped Fresnel cylindrical surface.
6. The optical lens according to claim 1, wherein one of the first single-directional alignment surface and the second single-directional alignment surface is a cylindrical surface, and the other is a stepped Fresnel cylindrical surface.
7. The optical lens according to claim 1, wherein one of the alignment direction of the first single-directional alignment surface (1) and the alignment direction of the second single-directional alignment surface is a vertical direction, and the other is a horizontal direction.
8. The optical lens according to claim 1, wherein the first single-directional alignment surface and the second single-directional alignment surface cooperate with each other to make focal lengths on two sides of the optical lens different, so that an asymmetric light shape can be formed.
9. An optical lens group, comprising a first single-directional collimating lens group and a second single-directional collimating lens group, wherein the first single-directional collimating lens group and the second single-directional collimating lens group jointly form a focal point or a focus area of the optical lens group, and an alignment direction of the first single-directional collimating lens group and an alignment direction of the second single-directional collimating lens group are perpendicular to each other.
10. The optical lens group according to claim 9, wherein each of the first single-directional collimating lens group and the second single-directional collimating lens group is composed of at least one single-directional collimating lens.
11. The optical lens group according to claim 10, wherein one of an incident surface and an emergent surface of the single-directional collimating lens is a single-directional collimating curved surface, or both of them are single-direction collimating curved surfaces with a same collimating direction.
12. The optical lens group according to claim 9, wherein the first single-directional collimating lens group and the second single-directional collimating lens group are connected by a side wall.
13. A vehicle lamp system, comprising the optical lens according to claim 1 or the optical lens group according to claim 9.
14. The vehicle lamp system according to claim 13, further comprising a light source, wherein the light source is arranged at the focal point or the focus area of the optical lens or the optical lens group; or, it further comprises a light source and a primary optical element, wherein the primary optical element is arranged to be able to converge light emitted by the light source to the focal point or the focus area of the optical lens or the optical lens group and make it introduced into the optical lens or the optical lens group.
15. (canceled)
16. The optical lens according to claim 2, wherein one of the alignment direction of the first single-directional alignment surface and the alignment direction of the second single-directional alignment surface is a vertical direction, and the other is a horizontal direction.
17. The optical lens according to claim 3, wherein one of the alignment direction of the first single-directional alignment surface and the alignment direction of the second single-directional alignment surface is a vertical direction, and the other is a horizontal direction.
18. The optical lens according to claim 4, wherein one of the alignment direction of the first single-directional alignment surface and the alignment direction of the second single-directional alignment surface is a vertical direction, and the other is a horizontal direction.
19. The optical lens according to claim 5, wherein one of the alignment direction of the first single-directional alignment surface and the alignment direction of the second single-directional alignment surface is a vertical direction, and the other is a horizontal direction.
20. The optical lens according to claim 6, wherein one of the alignment direction of the first single-directional alignment surface and the alignment direction of the second single-directional alignment surface is a vertical direction, and the other is a horizontal direction.
21. The optical lens according to claim 2, wherein the first single-directional alignment surface and the second single-directional alignment surface cooperate with each other to make focal lengths on two sides of the optical lens different, so that an asymmetric light shape can be formed.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
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DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE NUMERALS
[0056] 1 first single-directional alignment surface 2 second single-directional alignment surface
[0057] 3 light source 4 primary optical element
[0058] 5 existing hyperboloid collimating lens 6 first single-directional collimating lens group
[0059] 7 second single-directional collimating lens group.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS
[0060] The embodiments of the present application will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. It should be understood that the embodiments described herein are only used to illustrate and explain the present application, but not to limit the present application.
[0061] In addition, the terms, “first” and “second”, are only used for the purpose of description, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying importance of relativity or indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined by “first” and “second” may expressly or implicitly includes one or more of the stated features.
[0062] In the description of the present application, it should be noted that, unless expressly specified and limited otherwise, the terms “providing” and “arranging” should be understood in a broad sense, for example, it may be a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral connection; it may be a direct connection or an indirect connection through an intermediate medium, and it also may be the internal communication of two elements or the interaction relationship between the two elements. For those skilled in the art, the specific meanings of the above terms in the present application can be understood according to specific situations.
[0063] It should be understood that, in order to facilitate the description of the present application and simplify the description, the terms, “horizontal” and “vertical”, are orientation terms related to the installation direction of the optical lens on the vehicle. Generally speaking, the light emergent direction of the optical lens is roughly the same as the light emergent direction of the vehicle. The terms are based on the orientation or position relationship shown in the drawings, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referred device or element must be at a particular orientation or be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, therefore should not be construed as limiting the invention. Also, the orientation terms of the present application should be understood in conjunction with the actual installation state.
[0064] As shown in
[0065] In actual use, generally, the alignment directions of the first single-directional alignment surface 1 and the second single-directional alignment surface 2 of the optical lens are approximately the same as the vertical and horizontal directions of the vehicle, that is, the alignment direction of the first single-directional alignment surface 1 is limited to the horizontal direction or the vertical direction, and correspondingly, the alignment direction of the second single-directional alignment surface 2 is limited to the vertical direction or the horizontal direction. In order to simplify the description, the optical lens of the present application will be described mainly with an example in which the alignment direction of the first single-directional alignment surface 1 is limited to the horizontal direction and the alignment direction of the second single-directional alignment surface 2 is limited to the vertical direction.
[0066] In the above basic technical solution, the first single-directional alignment surface 1 has the optical characteristics of single-directional collimation of the light emitted by the light source 3. The “alignment direction” can be understood as follows. In a horizontal section, referring to
[0067] Specifically, as shown in
[0068] Further, the curved surface formed by the first single-directional alignment surface 1 and the curved surface formed by the second single-directional alignment surface 2 can be cylindrical surfaces. The cylindrical surface can be understood as such an optical curved surface that, taking the first single-directional alignment surface 1 as an example, it produces a converging effect in the horizontal section and can have a certain collimation effect on the light; and it produces, in the vertical section, no refraction or at most only a very weak refraction effect on the light (the cutting curve in the vertical direction is almost a straight line). Wherein, the cutting curve in the horizontal direction does not have to be arc-shaped. Further, the curved surface formed by the first single-directional alignment surface 1 and the curved surface formed by the second single-directional alignment surface 2 may be cylindrical-like surfaces. The cylindrical-like surface refers to a curved surface that is close to a cylindrical surface in shape, and also has a technical effect similar to the above-mentioned cylindrical surface. Preferably, the cutting curve of the cylindrical surface formed by the first single-directional alignment surface 1 in the horizontal direction can be arc-shaped, and similarly, it is also applies to the cylindrical surface structure formed by the second single-directional alignment surface 2.
[0069] Moreover, the asymmetry of the asymmetric light shape formed by the above technical solution is caused by the difference in focal lengths on both sides of the optical lens. In other words, it is related to the ratio of: the magnification of the first single-directional alignment surface 1 to the light shape to the magnification of the second single-directional alignment surface 2 to the light shape, while the ratio of the magnification is determined by the spacing between the first single-directional alignment surface 1 and the second single-directional alignment surface 2. The larger the spacing is, the greater the ratio is, and the more obvious the asymmetry is. When the optical lens in
[0070] In addition, as shown in
[0071] Further, the stepped Fresnel cylindrical surface is formed by a series of cylindrical surface structures being arranged horizontally or vertically.
[0072] The stepped Fresnel cylindrical surface structure and the above cylindrical structure can both collimate the light. The stepped Fresnel cylindrical surface formed by the first single-directional alignment surface 1 and the stepped Fresnel cylindrical surface formed by the second single-directional alignment surface 2 are arranged as perpendicular to each other, and can also form asymmetric light shapes.
[0073] In the above, two technical solutions in which the first single-directional alignment surface 1 and the second single-directional alignment surface 2 adopt a cylindrical surface or a stepped Fresnel cylindrical surface are descripted respectively. It can be understood that the first single-directional alignment surface 1 and the second single-directional alignment surface 2 can be performed a simple deformation, such as, the first single-directional alignment surface 1 is a cylindrical surface and the second single-directional alignment surface 2 is a stepped Fresnel cylindrical surface, or the first single-directional alignment surface 1 is a stepped Fresnel cylindrical surface and the second single-directional alignment surface 2 is a cylindrical surface, as long as the alignment directions of the two are perpendicular to each other.
[0074] It should be noted that the optical lens of the present application is described above, with the example in which the alignment direction of the first single-directional alignment surface 1 is in the horizontal direction and the alignment direction of the second single-directional alignment surface 2 is in the vertical direction. However, the above embodiments are also applicable to the case where the alignment direction of the first single-directional alignment surface 1 is in the vertical direction and the alignment direction of the second single-directional alignment surface 2 is in the horizontal direction. For example, in the embodiment of
[0075] The structure of the optical lens is designed above. The asymmetric light shape is formed by providing in the light incident portion and the light emergent portion of the optical lens the first single-directional alignment surface 1 and the second single-directional alignment surface 2 with the alignment directions perpendicular to each other. Of course, the optical lens of the present application can also be designed in the form of the structure of an optical lens group. Further, as shown in
[0076] To adapt the optical lens of the present application to a general vehicle lamp system, as shown in
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[0078] In addition, as the optical lens of the present application can form a rectangular light shape, when arranging a vehicle lamp system in a vehicle lamp, taking two vehicle lamp systems as an example, one vehicle lamp system is arranged in a conventional manner, that is, forming a rectangular light shape along the horizontal direction; and the other vehicle lamp system is arranged obliquely, so that the light shape formed by the emitting by the corresponding optical lens is a rectangular light shape with a certain inclination. The two parts of the rectangular light shape are overlapped to form a light shape with cut-off lines of light and dark that meets the requirements. In the above embodiment, the optical lens can also be replaced by the optical lens group of the present invention, and the same function can also be achieved.
[0079] Since the vehicle of the present application adopts the above-mentioned optical lens or optical lens group, as for the corresponding lamp design, the vehicle lamp can be of a flat and wide shape, so that the front part of the vehicle can tend to a streamlined design, which is convenient to reduce the noise caused by the oncoming wind; and moreover, it has a better lighting effect.
[0080] The preferred embodiments of the present application have been described above in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the present application is not limited thereto. Within the scope of the technical concept of the present application, various simple modifications can be made to the technical solutions of the present application, including the combination of various specific technical features in any suitable manner. In order to avoid unnecessary repetition, various possible combinations will not be described in the present application. However, these simple modifications and combinations should also be regarded as the contents disclosed in the present application, and all belong to the protection scope of the present application.