WO2008100154A1 - Flexible lens assembly with variable focal length - Google Patents
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- G03B—APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
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- G03B—APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
- G03B13/00—Viewfinders; Focusing aids for cameras; Means for focusing for cameras; Autofocus systems for cameras
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- the present invention is related to an optical lens assembly with tunable focal length capabilities, and especially to an assembly of an adjustable lens assembly comprising a lens body of a compressible gel or elastomer material or similar material located in a cavity bounded by a support wall surrounding the cavity, and transparent covers located adjacent to each side on the lens body, respectively, attached to the sidewalls on each respective side, wherein piezoelectric actuators disposed on at least one of the transparent covers is providing a change in shape of the lens body by bending one or both covers, respectively when activated, thereby changing focal length of the lens assembly, according to the attached independent claim 1, and variants of embodiments according to the dependent claims.
- JP 02178602 disclose a lens with an adjustable focal length comprising a transparent fluid 4 bounded by two transparent surfaces Id, 2 and an elastic sealing material 3. The curvature of one of the transparent surfaces (Id) is adjusted by applying voltages onto a transparent piezo electric film Ic disposed onto the transparent surface.
- JP 01140118 disclose a lens with an adjustable focal length comprising two transparent surfaces 1,3 with a fluid 2 in between bounded by a wall 10.
- the fluid 2 can be a gel or polymer.
- One of the transparent surfaces is a transparent piezo electric polymer, wherein the curvature of this surface is controlled by applied voltages onto the two electrodes 4, 5.
- the Norwegian patent application No. 20065237 disclose a lens assembly comprising a floating glass cover on top of a gel or elastomer disposed on a transparent support. Piezoelectric actuators on top of the floating glass cover located in the periphery of the floating glass cover provides bending of the floating glass cover when activated that results in a change of the surface curvature of the gel or elastomer.
- the range of focal length adjustments is limited due to the limited range of bending of the floating glass cover. If the actuating force is to high, the edge of the floating glass cover may cut the gel or elastomer located directly under the edge of the floating glass cover thereby damaging the lens body, and hence the range of focal length adjustments are limited by this possibility of damaging the lens body.
- a lens assembly constituted by a cavity filled with a transparent gel or elastomer forming a lens body, wherein the cavity is bounded by a side wall stretching entirely around the cavity, wherein a first transparent cover is attached on top of the sidewall whereas a second transparent cover is attached to the bottom side of the sidewall, respectively, fulfil the requirements according to the present invention.
- Piezo electric attenuators can be located on one or both transparent covers on each side of the lens body. When activated, the piezo electric actuators bends the glass covers they are attached to. However, since the glass covers are attached to the side wall, the bending of a glass cover will not move the edge of the glass cover since it is attached to the side wall. The bending will be achieved in an area on the glass cover adjacent to the edge of the glass cover providing an S shaped curvature in this area, which then changes the curvature of the lens body, and thereby the focal length of the lens assembly.
- both glass covers may bend even when piezo electric actuators are only disposed on one of the transparent covers.
- the bending force on the gel or elastomer is transferred to the other transparent cover through the gel or elastomer if the thickness of the lens body is limited.
- piezo electric actuators are provides on both transparent covers, respectively, the bending of the transparent covers can cooperate to amplify the total shaping of the lens body on both side of the optical axis of the lens body, thereby increasing the range of focal length changes that are possible.
- control electronics controls the cooperative operation of the bending on both sides of the lens body, thereby providing a possibility to counteract the effect of the bending on one transparent cover onto the other transparent cover.
- Such controlling provides fine tuning and controllable adjustments of the focal length of the lens assembly over the total range of focal length adjustments.
- the transparent cover protects the entire surface on each side of the lens body, there is no possibility of damaging the flexible lens body either by the edges on the transparent cover itself or by external impact on the surface of the lens body.
- a flexible lens body is bounded by sidewalls stretching entirely around the lens body wherein a substantial thin first transparent cover is provided with piezo electric elements on a top side of the sidewalls, while a second substantial thicker transparent cover is arranged as a support on a bottom side of the sidewalls, wherein a substantial concave surface is provided on the second surface of the second transparent cover facing towards the lens body.
- the concave shaping of the second transparent cover provides an impact on the first transparent cover when the first transparent cover is bending due to activations of the piezo electric elements.
- the effect of the impact from the second transparent cover onto the first transparent cover during bending is to provide a substantial spherical surface on the first transparent cover, thereby improving the optical properties of the lens assembly.
- thin-film piezo actuators are disposed on at least one of the two transparent covers.
- arranging a plurality of piezo electric actuators on one or both transparent covers on each side of the lens body respectively provides a possibility to control aberration errors, and also a possibility to provide new lens designs with novel features.
- Another aspect of the present invention is to provide an adjustable lens design that can be mass produced using readily available wafer processes.
- Yet another aspect of the present invention is to provide extremely compact adjustable lenses.
- Another aspect of the present invention is to provide a lens element with improved optical focusing quality.
- one of the two transparent covers comprises a prism that through activation of piezo actuators on the transparent covers comprising the prism can change the direction of the light path in and out of the lens assembly, respectively.
- thermal expansion relief openings are provided in sidewalls of the lens assembly.
- Figure Ia depicts an example of embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure Ib depicts the effect of providing a substantial concave shaping of the second transparent cover on the side facing towards the lens body compared with an arrangement comprising a flat second transparent cover.
- Figure Ic illustrates different aspects of embodiments according to the present invention.
- FIGS 2a- 2d illustrate other examples of embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 3 illustrates the relation between width and height of the lens body in an example of embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4a to 4c illustrates other examples of embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 5 illustrates an example of embodiment of the present invention comprising active electronic control circuitry.
- Figure 6 illustrates an example of embodiment of the present invention comprising thermal expansion relief openings in sidewalls of the lens assembly.
- Figure Ia illustrates an example of embodiment of the present invention comprising a lens body 10 made of a flexible material such as gel or elastomer materials bounded by sidewalls 11 and a first transparent cover 13 and a second transparent cover 14.
- the example depicted in figure Ia comprises piezo electric elements 12 located on the first cover 13.
- the sidewall 11 is a continuous sidewall surrounding the whole lens body 10.
- an S shaped curvature is formed on the top of the first transparent cover in a region adjacent to the sidewall 11.
- An example of such an S shaped curvature is depicted in Figure 2d.
- the piezo electric elements 12 are thin-film piezo actuators that are transparent.
- both transparent covers 13 and 14 may comprise piezo electric elements 12. When activated both transparent covers 13 and 14 provides a shaping of the lens body 10 according to the principle described above, thereby extending the range of focal length adjustments.
- the transparent covers 13, 14 maybe thin glass covers.
- the curvature of a transparent cover activated by the piezo electric elements is usually not substantial spherical in shape due to some stiffness of the transparent cover material, such as usually encountered with thin glass covers. This deviation from a substantial spherical shape of the cover when bending it may in some embodiments of the present invention be beneficial for achieving certain optical effects in the lens body 10. However, this feature should be controllable.
- the second transparent cover 14 may also acts as a support for the lens assembly, wherein movements of the second transparent cover 14 must sometimes be limited ore be eliminated due to interference with other objects in the assembly or application of the lens assembly.
- a CCD chip may be located adjacent and even attached to the second transparent cover 14. Therefore, it would be impossible to counteract . imperfect shaping of the first transparent cover 13 by bending the second transparent cover 14, due to lack of space for the counteracting movements or adjustments provided by the second transparent cover 14.
- such deviation from a substantial spherical shaping of the transparent cover 13 may be substantially reduced by introducing a concave surface on the side of the second transparent cover 14 facing towards the lens body 10, as depicted in Figure Ib.
- the interfaces between the lens body 10 and sidewalls 11, and also between the transparent covers 13 and 14 is such that when the lens body 10 is squeezed due to the bending of a transparent cover, the interfaces as such provides a small adhesive effect holding back displacement movements of the flexible lens body in the regions of the lens body close to the interfaces.
- the concave shaping of the second transparent cover 14, as illustrated in figure Ib, exploits these properties of the interfaces to eliminate the deviation from the substantial spherical shape of the first transparent cover 13.
- the concave shaping provides a different displacement property of the lens body 10 when the lens body is shaped by the activation of piezo electric elements.
- Figure Ic illustrates different aspects of this situation and possible solutions to the problems related to the interfaces.
- section i) there is depicted an example of embodiment comprising a flat second transparent cover 14 that is substantially thicker than the first transparent cover 13 which comprises the piezo electric elements 12.
- Some typical values for different dimensions of the lens assembly are also provided just as an example, and not as limiting values.
- section i) there is no voltage applied onto the piezoelectric elements.
- voltages are applied and the first transparent cover 13 is bending. To compensate the imperfect spherical curvature on the first transparent cover as illustrated in section ii), an example of embodiment as depicted in section iii) is possible.
- the first transparent cover 13 may have a thicker middle section 30 in the optical axis of the lens assembly while the second transparent cover may have a thinner middle section 32 in the optical axis.
- the thinner section of the second transparent cover 14 may also permit bending of the second transparent cover when voltages are applied on the piezo electric elements on the first transparent cover. This is illustrated in section rV), wherein the bending of the second transparent cover 14 is indicated by the numeral 32.
- the thicker middle section of the first transparent cover 13 may also be formed as illustrated in section IV) indicated by numeral 31.
- the thickness w3 may be such that a bending of the second transparent cover 14 is substantial zero (illustrated in section Vi), which may be an advantage in some applications of the lens assembly, (stacking of additional lenses, other optical components etc.)
- the concave shaping of the surface of the second transparent cover 14 facing towards the lens body 10 is substantial sufficient to compensate the imperfect bending of the first transparent cover.
- section vii) in figure Ic there is a plot showing how the curvature of the first transparent cover 13 deviates from a substantial spherical curvature when the lens assembly is provided as depicted in section i) compared with the embodiment in section v), when voltages are applied on the piezo electric elements, respectively.
- the deviation from a spherical shape is measured as a relative measure, wherein a relative radius of 1 is a radius of a perfect spherical shape, and this measure is used as the Y axis in the plot in section VII).
- Symmetrically located points to the left and right (negative and positive numbers, respectively) of the optical axis through the lens assembly provides points on the X-axis where the relative radius has been measured.
- the plot designated 21 corresponds to the embodiment depicted in section i), and the plot 20 corresponds to the embodiment in section v). hi this manner it is possible to manufacture lens assemblies according to the present invention with variable focal length capabilities that are compact in size, and that provides substantial spherical shaping of the first transparent cover 13 within the whole range of adjustments.
- Section VIII illustrates an embodiment of the present invention comprising a thicker middle section 34, and a concave surface on the second transparent cover 14.
- Section IX) illustrates the embodiment in VIII) when voltages are applied on the piezo electric elements 12.
- Section X) plots the different deviations from a spherical shape as measured for the embodiments in section I), V) a VIII), respectively.
- Numeral 21 is related to section I), numeral 20 to section V) and numeral 22 to the embodiment in section X).
- Figure 2a illustrates another example of embodiment of the present invention.
- the example of embodiment comprises piezo electric elements 12 on both the first transparent cover 13 and the second transparent cover 14.
- a prism 15 on the second transparent cover 14 located in between the piezo electric elements 12 in the middle of the optical axis of the lens body 10.
- the piezo electric elements 12 may shift the light path through the lens assembly when voltages of opposite polarity are applied on the piezo electric elements 12 , as illustrated for example in figure 4b.
- Figure 2d illustrates the effect of first applying voltages of same positive polarity on the piezo electric elements on the first transparent cover 13 and the second cover 14, respectively.
- the voltages illustrated are just for illustrative purpose. Any combination of voltages may be used that are inside the range of voltages that can be used on the piezo electric elements.
- Figure 2b illustrates a spherical top view
- figure 2c illustrates an embodiment of a cylindrical lens assembly.
- Figure 4a illustrates an example of embodiment of the present invention comprising a glass plate 50 inserted in the middle of the lens body 10. On both sides of the middle glass plate the lens body 10 is made of soft polymer.
- Figure 4b illustrates how the top section of the lens assembly in figure 4a can be used to adjust the focal length while the bottom section can be used to control the light path direction through the prism.
- Figure 3 illustrates that if the height H of the lens body 10 is greater than the width W, then the lens assembly would have substantially the same properties as the embodiment illustrated in Figure 4a.
- Figure 4c illustrates another example providing the same property as the examples of embodiments in figure 3 and 4a.
- the middle section of the lens body 10 comprises a section 51 made of a stiffer polymer than the rest of the lens body 10.
- the lens body can have a different thermal expansion coefficient than the sidewalls and/or transparent covers. Such a mismatch in thermal coefficients may introduce stress in the lens assembly affecting optical parameters of the lens.
- thermal relief openings 70 are arranged in the sidewalls permitting the lens body to expand in size when heated, for example. Channels 71 are provided to relieve any form of pressure build up in the thermal relief openings 70.
- the different voltages applied onto the piezo electric elements provide a bending of the attached transparent cover in the region wherein the piezo electric elements are located.
- the signal level (voltage level), duration of signal, signal shape etc. can be used to achieve different bending patterns of the lens body according to the present invention.
- Such cooperative application of signals can be done on piezo electric elements located on one of the two transparent covers independent of the other transparent cover, or as a cooperative application on both side of the lens assembly.
- Such variation of signal patterns and use can be managed by a controller attached to the piezo electric elements.
- Figure 5 illustrates an example of embodiment comprising an electronic correction/controlling unit 60 in electric communication with the piezo electric elements on both sides of the lens assembly.
- the different signal patterns that is to be applied can be identified on basis of measurements (not shown) of optical parameters in the assembly or at other locations in the optical system the lens assembly is part of, as a feedback signal in the optical system, or as a selected pattern of signals stored in a memory in the electronic correction/controlling electronics, etc.
- the actual generation of applied voltages on the piezo electric elements are related directly to the application of the lens assembly according to the present invention.
- a range finder would signal the electronic correction/controlling electronic how the voltages should bring the focal length in the lens assembly to a correct state, as known to a person skilled in the art.
- a plurality of materials can be used for the lens body, the side walls, the transparent covers etc.
- Table I comprises some suitable examples of materials that can be used for manufacturing a lens body according to the present invention. Corresponding thermal expansion coefficients and refraction indexes are also provided. Depending on the application of the lens assembly, the expected temperature range for the application etc., a suitable combination of materials and embodiments according to the present invention may be selected from the table and be manufactured according to the principles of the present invention. Table I illustrates only examples of materials. According to an aspect of the present invention, any transparent material that can be deposited into a cavity forming a flexible lens body may be used.
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