Heat receiver having an annular flow path and manufacturing method of the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11016373-B2
Application number	US-201716471026-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 7, 2017
Priority date	Dec 22, 2016
Publication date	May 25, 2021
Grant date	May 25, 2021

Abstract

A heat receiver is configured to cool down a liquid crystal panel in a rectangular shape used for a liquid crystal projector that causes light to be transmitted through the liquid crystal panel and thereby displays a projected image. The heat receiver includes a window portion in a rectangular shape formed to come into contact with an outer periphery of the liquid crystal panel; a flat annular flow path formed on an outer circumferential side of the window portion to surround the window portion and configured to have a narrowed portion in a region along one side of the window portion; and two supply discharge flow paths formed in a neighborhood of two corners of the window portion arranged across the narrowed portion to supply and discharge a heat exchange medium.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A heat receiver configured to cool down a liquid crystal panel in a rectangular shape used for a liquid crystal projector that causes light to be transmitted through the liquid crystal panel and thereby displays a projected image, the heat receiver comprising:
a window portion in a rectangular shape configured to make visible a display surface of the liquid crystal panel;
a flat annular flow path formed on an outer circumferential side of the window portion to surround the window portion and configured to have a single narrowed portion in a region along one side of the window portion; and
two supply discharge flow paths formed in a neighborhood of a first corner and a second corner of the window portion to supply and discharge a heat exchange medium, the two supply discharge flow paths including a first supply flow path being disposed at the first corner of the window portion, and a second discharge flow path being disposed at the second corner of the window portion,
the first corner and the second corner being adjacent corners located on the one side of the window portion, and
the single narrowed portion being
disposed between the first supply flow path and the second discharge flow path and between the first and second corners on the one side of the window portion, and
narrower than all other portions of the flat annular flow path, and

the flat annular flow path having a rectangular cross-section at all of the other portions of the flat annular flow path.

2. The heat receiver according to claim 1 ,
the heat receiver being configured by joining a first member that forms one of two flat surfaces of the annular flow path opposed to each other with a second member that forms the other of the two flat surfaces, wherein
the first member has an inner circumferential portion that stands upright in a direction perpendicular to the liquid crystal panel to form an inner circumferential side of the window portion, and
the second member has an outer circumferential portion that is joined with an outer circumferential side of the inner circumferential portion of the first member.

3. The heat receiver according to claim 2 , further comprising:
two tubular members that have inner diameters larger than a thickness of the annular flow path and that are stepped from outer circumferential sides of the respective tubular members to have thin-walled mounting end portions and form the two supply discharge flow paths, wherein
the two tubular members are assembled with the first member and the second member such that the respective mounting end portions of the two tubular members are placed between the first member and the second member.

4. The heat receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the flat annular flow path abuts the window portion.

5. The heat receiver according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a protrusion disposed between the first supply flow path and the second discharge flow path on the one side, the protrusion protruding toward the window portion to form the single narrowed portion of the flat annular flow path.

6. A manufacturing method of a heat receiver, wherein the heat receiver is configured to cool down a liquid crystal panel in a rectangular shape used for a liquid crystal projector that causes light to be transmitted through the liquid crystal panel and thereby displays a projected image, and the heat receiver comprises a window portion in a rectangular shape configured to make visible a display surface of the liquid crystal panel; a flat annular flow path formed on an outer circumferential side of the window portion to surround the window portion and configured to have a single narrowed portion in a region along one side of the window portion; and two supply discharge flow paths formed in a neighborhood of a first corner and a second corner of the window portion to supply and discharge a heat exchange medium, the two supply discharge flow paths including a first supply flow path being disposed at the first corner of the window portion, and a second discharge flow path being disposed at the second corner of the window portion,
the first corner and the second corner being adjacent corners located on the one side of the window portion, and
the single narrowed portion being
disposed between the first supply flow path and the second discharge flow path and between the first and second corners on the one side of the window portion, and
narrower than all other portions of the flat annular flow path, and

the flat annular flow path having a rectangular cross-section at all of the other portions of the flat annular flow path,
the manufacturing method of the heat receiver comprising:
a process of forming a first member such that one of two flat surfaces of the annular flow path opposed to each other is formed from a metal thin plate and that a brazing filler material adheres to at least a joining part on at least a surface of the first member which forms inside of the annular flow path;
a process of forming a second member such that the other of the two flat surfaces is formed from a thin plate identical with the thin plate of the first member and that the brazing filler material adheres to at least a joining part on at least a surface of the second member which forms inside of the annular flow path; and
a brazing process of heating and brazing the first member and the second member in an assembled state after (i) the first member has been formed with the brazing filler material adhered to at least the joining part of the first member, and (ii) the second member has been formed with the brazing filler material adhered to at least the joining part of the second member, such as to form the annular flow path.

7. The manufacturing method of the heat receiver according to claim 6 ,
wherein the process of forming the first member comprises a process of forming the first member to have an inner circumferential portion that stands upright in a direction perpendicular to the liquid crystal panel to form an inner circumferential side of the window portion, and
the process of forming the second member comprises a process of forming the second member to have an outer circumferential portion that is joined with an outer circumferential side of the inner circumferential portion of the first member.

8. The manufacturing method of the heat receiver according to claim 7 , further comprising:
a process of forming two tubular members that have inner diameters larger than a thickness of the annular flow path and that are stepped from outer circumferential sides of the respective tubular members to have thin-walled mounting end portions and form the two supply discharge flow paths, wherein
the brazing process is performed in an assembled state of the two tubular members with the first member and the second member such that the respective mounting end portions of the two tubular members are placed between the first member and the second member.

9. The manufacturing method of the heat receiver according to claim 6 , further comprising:
a process of forming two tubular members that have inner diameters larger than a thickness of the annular flow path and that are stepped from outer circumferential sides of the respective tubular members to have thin-walled mounting end portions and form the two supply discharge flow paths, wherein
the brazing process is performed in an assembled state of the two tubular members with the first member and the second member such that the respective mounting end portions of the two tubular members are placed between the first member and the second member.

10. The manufacturing method to claim 6 , wherein the flat annular flow path abuts the window portion.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Wake Tsunehito
• Onishi Hitoshi
• Nakajima Jiro

Classifications

• G03B21/16 Primary

  Cooling; Preventing overheating · CPC title

• G02F1/133385

  with cooling means, e.g. fans · CPC title

• H05K7/20981

  Liquid coolant without phase change · CPC title

• G03B21/006

  using LCD's · CPC title

• F25D9/00

  Devices not associated with refrigerating machinery and not covered by groups F25D1/00 - F25D7/00; Combinations of devices covered by two or more of the groups F25D1/00 - F25D7/00 · CPC title