Light source device and projector using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9726966-B2
Application number	US-201314648823-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 24, 2013
Priority date	Dec 26, 2012
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

A light source device including: a light source section which generates any one of blue light, red light, and green light; a phosphor which generates a fluorescence including the two colors other than the color of the light emitted from the light source section; a color-changing section which changes one of the two colors of the fluorescence emitted from the phosphor to another color regularly and irradiates it to the image-forming element; and a light path-switching section which switches a light path in which a fluorescence excited by the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the color-changing section and a light path in which the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the image-forming element regularly.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A light source device which irradiates a blue light, a red light, a yellow light, and a green light on an image-forming element in a projector which forms a color image on a screen by the image-forming element, comprising:
a light source section which generates the blue light;
a phosphor which includes a fluorescence area which generates the yellow light through an irradiation of the blue light emitted from the light source section, and includes a fluorescence area which generates the green tight through an irradiation of the blue light emitted from the light source section; and
a color-changing section which changes the yellow light to the red light and irradiates the blue light, the red light, the green light, and the yellow light to the image-forming element.

2. The light source device according to claim 1 , wherein the color-changing section is disposed in a light path in which the blue light emitted from the light source section passes towards the image-forming element.

3. The light source device according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphor drives regularly.

4. A projector comprising the light source device according to claim 1 .

5. The light source device according to claim 1 , wherein the color-changing section includes an area that transmits the red light and that blocks transmission of the blue light and the green light.

6. A light source device of a projector which irradiates blue light, red light, and green light in turn on an image-forming element and forms a color image on a screen by the image-forming element, comprising:
a light source section which generates any one of the blue light, the red light, and the green light;
a phosphor which generates fluorescence including the two colors other than the color of the light emitted from the light source section through irradiation of the color light emitted from the light source section;
a color-changing section which changes one of the two colors of the fluorescence emitted from the phosphor to another fluorescence color regularly and irradiates it to the image-forming element; and
a light path-switching section which is disposed in a light path of the color light emitted from the light source section, and switches a light path of the color light emitted from the light source section between a light path in which a fluorescence excited by the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the color-changing section and a light path in which the color light emitted from the light source section passes towards the image-forming element regularly, wherein
the color-changing section irradiates the two-color fluorescence to the image-forming element.

7. The light source device according to claim 6 , wherein a fluorescence area having the two colors other than the color of the light emitted from the light source section and a fluorescence area generating a fluorescence having one of the two colors through an excitation of the color light emitted from the light source section are formed on the phosphor.

Assignees

• Maeda Ikuo
• Fujita Kazuhiro
• Murai Toshiharu
• Takahashi Tatsuya
• Nishimori Takehiro
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Maeda Ikuo
• Fujita Kazuhiro
• Murai Toshiharu
• Takahashi Tatsuya
• Nishimori Takehiro

Classifications

• F21K9/64

  using wavelength conversion means distinct or spaced from the light-generating element, e.g. a remote phosphor layer · CPC title

• G03B33/08

  Sequential recording or projection (G03B33/02, G03B33/04, G03B33/06 take precedence) · CPC title

• H04N9/3161

  using laser light sources (using laser beams scanning the display screen H04N9/3129) · CPC title

• H04N9/3158

  for controlling the spectrum · CPC title

• G02B27/102

  for generating a colour image from monochromatic image signal sources · CPC title