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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:
Jun. 14, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2012
Applicants:

Robert D. Brown, Lake Oswego, OR (US);

Kurt A. Stahl, Portland, OR (US);

Lincoln J. Burns, Portland, OR (US);

Inventors:

Robert D. Brown, Lake Oswego, OR (US);

Kurt A. Stahl, Portland, OR (US);

Lincoln J. Burns, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 17/08 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01); G02B 5/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/0101 (2013.01); G02B 5/30 (2013.01); G02B 6/0016 (2013.01); G02B 27/0149 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0123 (2013.01);
Abstract

A display can be utilized with an image source. The display includes a collimator and a substrate waveguide. The substrate waveguide sees collimated light from the collimator at an input and provides the collimated light to an output. The collimated light travels from the input to the output within the substrate by total internal reflection. An input diffraction grating is disposed in a first area at the input and an output diffraction grating is disposed in a second area at the output. The second diffraction grating is matched to the first diffraction grating. A combiner alignment detector is not required due to the periscopic effect according to one embodiment.


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