Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100238412 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR USING SAME LIGHT SOURCE UNIT - There are provided a light emitting device which can maintain a light emitting efficiency of a fluorescent material in an optimum condition, a light source unit made up of the light emitting device, and a projector which includes the light source unit. The light source unit is made up of the three light emitting devices which emit lights of different colors. The light emitting devices are each made up of a light source, a rotary member on which a fluorescent material layer is disposed which receives light to emit light of a predetermined color, a drive source for driving the rotary member, a rotational speed control device for variably controlling the rotary member so as to maintain the temperature of the rotary member to a predetermined value based on temperature information, and a temperature measuring device for measuring a temperature of the rotary member. | 09-23-2010 |
20100328632 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PROJECTOR - A light source device includes: a light emitting plate that has a plurality of segment regions including a transmissive portion that transmits light and a reflective portion on which a fluorescent substance layer; a light source that irradiates the fluorescent substance layer of the light emitting plate with the excitation light; a dichroic mirror that is disposed between the light source and the light emitting plate to transmit the excitation light and reflect fluorescent light from fluorescent substances of the fluorescent substance layer; and an optical device that condenses the excitation light transmitted by the transmissive portion of the light emitting plate and the fluorescent light reflected by the dichroic mirror on a single optical path to form a condensed light and radiate the condensed light toward the same direction. | 12-30-2010 |
20110096297 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR - There is provided a light source unit comprising an excitation light shining device for emitting excitation light, a luminescent plate having a luminescent light emitting area on a base material and adapted to emit a luminescent light of a predetermined wavelength band by excitation light from the excitation shining device, two types of light source devices for emitting light of wavelength bands different from that of the light from the luminescent plate, a light guiding optical system for guiding the light from the luminescent plate and the rays from the light sources to a predetermined plane, and a light source control device for controlling the emission from the excitation light shining device and the light sources, wherein a synthetic light or a single-color light are emitted by controlling the emissions from the excitation light shining device and the light sources by the light source control device. | 04-28-2011 |
20110234998 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR - To provide a projector which enables a stable projection for a long period of time, there is provided a projector comprising a light source unit, a display device, a projection-side optical system, a light guiding optical system and a projector control unit, wherein the light source unit comprises an excitation light source unit comprising an excitation light source and a microlens array and a rectangular green luminescent plate which receives light emitted from the excitation light source to emit light in a green wavelength band, and the microlens array is disposed between the excitation light source and the luminescent plate and has a plurality of micro convex lenses which each have a similar shape to the shape of the luminescent material layer are arranged into a matrix, so as to convert light from excitation light source into a plurality of pencils of light to shine them onto the luminescent plate. | 09-29-2011 |
20120249972 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PROJECTOR - Alight source device includes: light sources arranged in a plane; collimator lenses disposed in the vicinities of corresponding each of the light sources, each of the collimator lenses collimating a light beam emitted from the corresponding light source, and a holder that holds the light sources and the collimator lenses. The holder holds the light sources and the collimator lenses so that optical axes of the collimator lenses are respectively shifted parallel to optical axes of the light sources by shift lengths that are set so that light beams emitted from the light sources via the collimator lenses are focused on a certain region of an illumination subject body. The light beams emitted from the light sources are refracted by the collimator lenses and focused on the certain region. | 10-04-2012 |
20120262677 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR - There is provided a light source unit comprising an excitation light shining device for emitting excitation light, a luminescent plate having a luminescent light emitting area on a base material and adapted to emit a luminescent light of a predetermined wavelength band by excitation light from the excitation shining device, two types of light source devices for emitting light of wavelength bands different from that of the light from the luminescent plate, a light guiding optical system for guiding the light from the luminescent plate and the rays from the light sources to a predetermined plane, and a light source control device for controlling the emission from the excitation light shining device and the light sources, wherein a synthetic light or a single-color light are emitted by controlling the emissions from the excitation light shining device and the light sources by the light source control device. | 10-18-2012 |
20130114044 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PROJECTOR - A light source device includes: a light emitting plate that has a plurality of segment regions including a transmissive portion that transmits light and a reflective portion on which a fluorescent substance layer; a light source that irradiates the fluorescent substance layer of the light emitting plate with the excitation light; a dichroic mirror that is disposed between the light source and the light emitting plate to transmit the excitation light and reflect fluorescent light from fluorescent substances of the fluorescent substance layer; and an optical device that condenses the excitation light transmitted by the transmissive portion of the light emitting plate and the fluorescent light reflected by the dichroic mirror on a single optical path to form a condensed light and radiate the condensed light toward the same direction. | 05-09-2013 |
20130242267 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR - A light source unit includes an excitation light source, a plurality of light sources at least one of which emits a light ray in a wavelength band different from that of the excitation light source, a plurality of collimator lenses which make light rays from the light sources into parallel ones, a luminous light emitting device which receives the light ray from the excitation light source to emit a luminous light ray, a microlens array which diffuses the light rays from the light sources to a predetermined range and distributes the luminance thereof uniformly within the predetermined range and a collective lens which collects the light rays from the light sources which are emitted from the microlens array, and the light sources are disposed so that the light rays from the plurality of light sources intersect the light ray from the excitation light source at right angles. | 09-19-2013 |
20140168971 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT ABLE TO EMIT LIGHT WHICH IS LESS INFLUENCED BY INTERFERENCE FRINGES - The invention is characterized in that (1) lens characteristics of a microlens array are made to differ between shining areas on to which laser beams are shone, (2) laser elements are disposed differently so that light distributions thereof are made to differ, or (3) the “collecting degrees” of laser beams by collimator lenses of the laser elements are made to differ from each other or one another, so that interference fringes generated by the laser beams are made less conspicuous. | 06-19-2014 |