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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2019
Applicant:

Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;

Inventors:

Hiroshi Ando, Kariya, JP;

Kazuhisa Onda, Kariya, JP;

Assignee:

DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/42 (2006.01); G02B 5/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/0103 (2013.01); G02B 5/1842 (2013.01); G02B 5/1861 (2013.01); G02B 5/1866 (2013.01); G02B 27/4205 (2013.01); G02B 27/4261 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0107 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0145 (2013.01);
Abstract

A diffractive optical element exerts a diffractive action on a display light that is emitted from a display unit. A folding mirror is provided on the opposite side of the diffractive optical element from the display unit to reflect the display light. The diffractive optical element includes a transmissive action part and a diffractive and reflective action part. The transmissive action part exerts a transmissive action to transmit therethrough the display light, which is incident from the display unit and is in a first polarization state, toward the folding mirror. The diffractive and reflective action part exerts a diffractive and reflective action to diffract and reflect the display light, which is reflected by the folding mirror and is in a second polarization state opposite to the first polarization state, toward the projection portion on an optical path.


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