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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2024
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Shigekazu Aoki, Matsumoto-Shi, JP;
Shoichi Uchiyama, Shimosuwa-Machi, JP;
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An illuminator includes a light source that emits light; a collimator that parallelizes the light emitted from the light source; a first lens array that receives the light parallelized by the collimator and includes multiple first lenslets; a second lens array that receives light emitted from the first lens array and includes multiple second lenslets; and a light condenser that focuses light emitted from the second lens array at an illuminated region. The light emitted from each of at least two of the first lenslets is incident on one of the second lenslets. A focal plane of the multiple second lenslets is located in an optical path along which the light travels and located upstream from an imaginary plane containing multiple contact points where the first lenslets adjacent to each other in the first lens array are in contact with each other.