Light source device and projector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10989996-B2
Application number	US-201816765329-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 9, 2018
Priority date	Nov 20, 2017
Publication date	Apr 27, 2021
Grant date	Apr 27, 2021

Abstract

A light source device that radiates excitation light or emitted light by the excitation light, includes: an excitation light source that radiates the excitation light; a fluorescent wheel that includes a phosphor, which emits light in a predetermined wavelength range on reception of the excitation light, in a circumferential direction; a driving device that rotates the fluorescent wheel; and a shielding member that is arranged around the excitation light source and the fluorescent wheel and shields the excitation light and the emitted light, wherein an opening through which outside air is introduced is provided at a part of the shielding member.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A light source device that radiates excitation light or emitted light by the excitation light, comprising:
an excitation light source that radiates the excitation light;
a fluorescent wheel that includes a phosphor, which emits light in a predetermined wavelength range on reception of the excitation light, in a circumferential direction;
a driving device that rotates the fluorescent wheel; and
a shielding member that is arranged around the excitation light source and the fluorescent wheel and shields the excitation light and the emitted light, wherein
an opening through which outside air is introduced is provided at a part of the shielding member, and
a space between the opening and the fluorescent wheel is not shielded.

2. The light source device according to claim 1 , wherein
at least two cooling pipes are provided at openings through which outside air is introduced and which are provided at parts of the shielding member, and
air intake and air exhaust are performed by the cooling pipes.

3. The light source device according to claim 2 , wherein at least one of the cooling pipes is arranged so that an excitation light irradiation position of the fluorescent wheel is on an extension line of a central axis of the cooling pipe, which is at a vicinity of the opening.

4. The light source device according to claim 2 , wherein each of the cooling pipes is bent or curved so that there is no linear optical path connecting one end and another end of the cooling pipe and passing through an inside of the cooling pipe.

5. The light source device according to claim 2 , wherein an electronic cooler is provided on at least one of the cooling pipes, which performs air intake.

6. The light source device according to claim 1 , wherein the fluorescent wheel includes a plurality of segment regions arranged in the circumferential direction, and, when identical excitation light is received, different light is able to be taken out from each of the segment regions.

7. A projector comprising:
the light source device according to claim 1 ;
a light guide optical system that guides light radiated from the light source device;
a display element that performs display by using the light guided by the light guide optical system;
a projection optical system that projects the display outside; and
a control unit that controls the light source device, the display element, and each of the optical systems.

8. A projector comprising:
the light source device according to claim 6 ;
a light guide optical system that guides light radiated from the light source device;
a display element that performs display by using the light guided by the light guide optical system;
a projection optical system that projects the display outside;
a control unit that controls the light source device, the display element, and each of the optical systems;
a sensor that acquires a rotation position of the fluorescent wheel; and
an output control unit that controls an output of the excitation light source, wherein
the output control unit controls the output of the excitation light source in accordance with a color and gray scale of brightness of a projection image to be output and positional information of the fluorescent wheel, which is acquired by the sensor.

9. A light source device that radiates excitation light or emitted light by the excitation light, comprising:
an excitation light source that radiates the excitation light;
a fluorescent wheel that includes a phosphor, which emits light in a predetermined wavelength range on reception of the excitation light, in a circumferential direction;
a driving device that rotates the fluorescent wheel;
a shielding member which is arranged around the excitation light source and the fluorescent wheel, at a part of which openings are provided, and which shields the excitation light and the emitted light;
a cooling pipe connected to the openings of the shielding member so as to circulate gas in an inside of the shielding member; and
an electronic cooler in contact with a part of an outside of the cooling pipe, wherein
a space between the openings and the fluorescent wheel is not shielded.

Assignees

• Sharp Kk

Inventors

• Yui Hideomi
• Aomori Shigeru
• Matsukiyo Hidetsugu

Classifications

• F21V9/40

  with provision for controlling spectral properties, e.g. colour, or intensity · CPC title

• G03B21/204 Primary

  using secondary light emission, e.g. luminescence or fluorescence (using different colours G03B33/00; if related to video signals H04N9/3197) · CPC title

• F21V7/00

  Reflectors for light sources (characterised by cooling arrangements F21V29/505) · CPC title

• F21V29/54

  using thermoelectric means, e.g. Peltier elements · CPC title

• H04N9/3144

  Cooling systems (cooling of liquid crystal cells in general G02F1/133382; cooling of projectors not peculiar to the presence of an electronic spatial light modulator G03B21/16) · CPC title