Projector light source having three cooling airflow delivery ports

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9063400-B2
Application number	US-201213526622-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 19, 2012
Priority date	Jul 4, 2011
Publication date	Jun 23, 2015
Grant date	Jun 23, 2015

Abstract

A light source device includes a reflector that reflects light received from an arc tube toward an illumination receiving area, and a housing that houses the reflector to form a space through which cooling air for cooling the arc tube flows. The housing has three delivery ports disposed side by side as ports from each of which the cooling air is delivered into the space. A first delivery port included in the three delivery ports is located such that the center of the first delivery port is disposed substantially at a position aligned with the optical axis of the arc tube. Second and third delivery ports included in the three delivery ports are disposed in the vicinity of one and the other sides of the first delivery port, respectively, with respect to the optical axis.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A light source device comprising:
an arc tube that has a light emission portion for emitting light;
a reflector that reflects the light toward an illumination receiving area with the arc tube fixed to the reflector; and
a housing that houses the reflector to form a space through which cooling air for cooling the arc tube flows,
wherein
the housing has three delivery ports disposed side by side as ports from each of which the cooling air is delivered toward the direction of the light emission portion,
a first delivery port included in the three delivery ports is located such that the center of the first delivery port is disposed substantially at a position aligned with the optical axis of the arc tube as viewed in the vertical direction,
the housing has three channels through which the cooling air flows to each of the three delivery ports,
second and third channels included in the three channels are disposed in the vicinity of one and the other sides of a first channel, respectively, with respect to the optical axis as viewed in the vertical direction, and
each of the second and third channels is inclined obliquely toward the direction of the first channel when the three channels are viewed in the vertical direction such that, prior to the cooling air reaching the light emission portion, the cooling air delivered from the first delivery port collides with the cooling airs delivered from the second and third delivery ports within the space between the first delivery port and the light emission portion.

2. The light source device according to claim 1 , wherein the second and third channels at which the cooling air is respectively branched into parts flowing through second and third delivery ports are inclined to the first delivery port when the three delivery ports are viewed in the vertical direction.

3. The light source device according to claim 1 , wherein the second and third channels are inclined toward the optical axis of the arc tube as viewed in the vertical direction.

4. The light source device according to claim 2 , wherein second and third delivery ports are inclined toward the optical axis of the arc tube as viewed in the vertical direction.

5. The light source device according to claim 2 , wherein the second and third delivery ports are disposed substantially symmetric with respect to the first delivery port when the three delivery ports are viewed in the vertical direction.

6. The light source device according to claim 1 , wherein the three channels are provided such that the position where the cooling airs collide with each other is shifted toward the first delivery port from the middle between the first delivery port and the light emission portion.

7. The light source device according to claim 1 , wherein the housing has another set of three channels in addition to the set of the three channels provided on the housing, the two sets of the three channels being disposed substantially symmetric with respect to the horizontal plane passing through the optical axis.

8. A projector comprising:
the light source device according to claim 1 ; and
a light modulation device which modulates light emitted from the light source device according to image information.

9. The projector according to claim 8 , wherein the second and third channels at which the cooling air is respectively branched into parts flowing through second and third delivery ports are inclined to the first delivery port when the three delivery ports are viewed in the vertical direction.

10. The projector according to claim 8 , wherein the second and third channels are inclined toward the optical axis of the arc tube as viewed in the vertical direction.

11. The projector according to claim 9 , wherein second and third delivery ports are inclined toward the optical axis of the arc tube as viewed in the vertical direction.

12. The projector according to claim 9 , wherein the second and third delivery ports are disposed substantially symmetric with respect to the first delivery port when the three delivery ports are viewed in the vertical direction.

13. The projector according to claim 8 , wherein the three channels are provided such that the position where the cooling airs collide with each other is shifted toward the first delivery port from the middle between the first delivery port and the light emission portion.

14. The projector according to claim 8 , wherein the housing has another set of three channels in addition to the set of the three channels provided on the housing, the two sets of the three channels being disposed substantially symmetric with respect to the horizontal plane passing through the optical axis.

15. The light source device according to claim 1 , wherein the second and third channels are each inclined with respect to the first channel at substantially the same angle.

Assignees

• Tanaka Katsunori
• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Tanaka Katsunori

Classifications

• H01J61/523

  Heating or cooling particular parts of the lamp · CPC title

• G03B21/145

  Housing details, e.g. position adjustments thereof · CPC title

• G03B21/2026

  Gas discharge type light sources, e.g. arcs · 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

• G03B21/16 Primary

  Cooling; Preventing overheating · CPC title