JP2007179971A - Light source equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light source capable of adjusting excellently the optical axis of a light-emitting element and also securing heat radiation. <P>SOLUTION: The light source comprises LEDs 16 ( red LED 16A, green LED 16B, blue LED 16C), a light-emitting element installation member 23 to install the above LED, and a heat radiation member 24 to radiate the heat from the LED, and irradiates the light emitted from the LED. The light source has a heat conduction sheet 25 which is interposed between the light-emitting element installation member and the heat radiation member and is constructed of a material capable of elastic deformation and with good heat conduction and a plurality of optical axis adjusting screws 26 which joint the light-emitting element installation member, the heat conduction sheet, and the heat radiation member. According to leading of the screws by rotating the optical axis adjusting screws 26, the heat conduction sheet 25 is elastically deformed and the LED 16 is displaced against the heat radiation member 24, thereby adjusting the optical axis P of the light emitted by the LED. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a light source device that is used in a projector (particularly a liquid crystal projector), an illumination device, and the like and has an LED (light emitting diode) or an LD (semiconductor laser).

  As shown in FIG. 6, light from a plurality of LEDs 51 having LED light emitting elements (not shown) is collected by a collimator lens 52, sequentially reflected by a concave mirror 53 and a reflecting mirror 54, and then incident on an optical fiber 55. Patent Document 1 discloses a light source device 50 that is incident on an end face 56 and guides light forward of the optical fiber 55. The light source device 50 is mounted on an illuminating device that illuminates a desired site using light guided by the optical fiber 55 from the light source device 50.

In the light source device 50 as described above, there are a plurality of adjustments of the optical axis of the LED 51 in order to allow the light from the LED 51 to enter the incident end face 56 which is a narrow area portion of the optical fiber 55, that is, the adjustment of the optical axis of the light emitted from the LED 51. The light emitter holding member 57 provided with the LEDs 51 is inclined with respect to an axis 58 orthogonal to the incident end face 56 of the optical fiber 55.
JP 2002-365488 A

  However, it is known that the optical axis 59 of the light emitted from the LED 51 is significantly deviated with respect to the mechanical axis of the LED 51 due to misalignment or inclination of the light emitting element when bonding the LED light emitting element (not shown) to the lead frame. It has been. For this reason, the optical axis 59 of the light emitted from each LED 51 cannot be satisfactorily adjusted only by simultaneously tilting the light emitter holding member 57 provided with the plurality of LEDs 51 as described above.

  Further, when the emission intensity of the LED 51 increases, the amount of heat generated by the LED 51 increases, and a cooling mechanism is required. This cooling mechanism is typically implemented by diffusing heat to the device housing 60. However, when the luminous body holding member 57 is inclined and disposed as described above, a space is generated between the luminous body holding member 57 and the housing 60, and the heat propagation efficiency to the housing 60 is improved. The heat dissipation may be impaired.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a light source device that can adjust the optical axis of a light emitter well and ensure heat dissipation.

  The invention according to claim 1 includes a light emitter, a light emitter attachment member for attaching the light emitter, and a heat radiating member for dissipating heat from the light emitter, and the light emitted from the light emitter. A light source device for irradiating the light emitting device by interposing a heat conducting member made of a material having good thermal conductivity, which is elastically deformable between the light emitter mounting member and the heat radiating member. A body mounting member and the heat radiating member are coupled with a plurality of optical axis adjusting screws, and the interposed heat conducting member is elastically deformed according to the lead of the screw by rotating the optical axis adjusting screw. The light emitter is displaced with respect to the heat radiating member, and the optical axis of the light emitter is configured to be adjustable.

  The invention according to claim 2 is the invention according to claim 1, wherein the heat conducting member is a heat conductive sheet in a gel state.

  A third aspect of the invention is characterized in that the heat dissipating member according to the first or second aspect is disposed in a surface contact state with a housing of a product including the light source device.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the invention according to any one of the first to third aspects, at least one of the plurality of optical axis adjusting screws is arranged on an orthogonal straight line in the plane of the heat radiating member. 3 or more in total are installed.

  The invention according to claim 5 is the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the light emitter is a red light emitter that emits red, a green light emitter that emits green, and a blue light that emits blue. In each light emitter, a light emitter attachment member for attaching each light emitter is coupled to a heat dissipation member using a plurality of optical axis adjusting screws via a heat conducting member, and these heat dissipation members are connected to each other. And is configured to synthesize and irradiate light from each light emitter.

  The invention according to claim 6 is the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the luminous body emits any one of emission colors including visible light, invisible light, and white light. It is what is characterized by.

  The invention according to claim 7 is the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the light emitter is an LED having an LED light emitting element or a semiconductor laser having a laser light emitting element. It is what.

  According to the invention described in claim 1, 2, 4, 6, or 7, the light emitter mounting member for mounting the light emitter, the heat dissipating member for radiating the heat from the light emitter, and the light emitter mounting member and the heat dissipating member. A heat conducting member that is interposed between and elastically deformable and made of a material having good thermal conductivity, and an optical axis adjusting screw that couples the light emitter mounting member and the heat radiating member. The heat conducting member is elastically deformed according to the lead of the screw by rotating the adjusting screw, the light emitter is displaced with respect to the heat radiating member, and the optical axis of the light emitter is configured to be adjustable. The optical axis of each light emitter can be adjusted well. At the same time, the heat of the light emitter can be transferred to the heat radiating member via the elastically deformed heat conducting member, so that the heat dissipation of the light source device can be ensured.

  Moreover, since the optical axis of the light emitter can be adjusted by operating the optical axis adjustment screw from the outer surface side of the heat dissipation member, the optical axis of the light emitter of the light source device can be adjusted with the light source device attached to the product, As a result, the optical axis adjustment work can be simplified.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, since the heat dissipating member is disposed in surface contact with the housing of the product including the light source device, the heat of the luminous body is transmitted through the heat dissipating member. Therefore, the heat dissipation of the light source device can be further enhanced.

  According to the invention described in claim 5, in each light emitter, the structure in which the light emitter attachment member is coupled to the heat dissipation member using the optical axis adjusting screw via the heat conducting member is compactly configured. Even when a plurality of light emitters are used, a small light source device can be realized.

The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing the configuration of a single-plate liquid crystal projector provided with a light source device according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a plan view showing the light source device of FIG.

  The liquid crystal projector 10 shown in FIG. 1 is a single plate type, and projects an image displayed on one liquid crystal panel 11 onto a screen 12. That is, the light emitted from the light source device 13 is collected by the condenser lens 14 and is incident on the translucent liquid crystal panel 11. The liquid crystal panel 11 has image information corresponding to an input signal and converts incident light into video light. This image light is incident on the projection lens 15 to be enlarged and projected onto the screen 12. Since such a single-plate liquid crystal projector 10 requires only one optical system, there is an advantage that the liquid crystal projector 10 can be reduced in size.

  By the way, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the light source device 13 irradiates light emitted from an LED 16 as a light emitter, which includes an LED (light emitting diode) light emitting element (not shown). The LEDs 16 are a red LED 16A that emits red light, a green LED 16B that emits green light, and a blue LED 16C that emits blue light. The red LED 16A, the green LED 16B, and the blue LED 16C are components constituting the light emitting units 17A, 17B, and 17C, respectively, as will be described later.

  Red light, green light, and blue light respectively emitted from the red LED 16A, green LED 16B, and blue LED 16C are collected by a collimator lens 28, which will be described later, and incident on the dichroic filter 18 to be combined into white light. The white light is collected by the collimating lens 19 and is incident on the indexer 20 (in this embodiment, a light pipe or a light tunnel). The white light incident on the integrator 20 is totally reflected in the integrator 20 to improve in-plane uniformity, and is emitted (irradiated) from the emission end face 21B of the integrator 20.

  2 and 3, the reference symbol P1 is the optical axis center of the red light emitted from the red LED 16A, the reference symbol P2 is the optical axis center of the green light emitted from the green LED 16B, and the reference symbol P3 is This is the optical axis center of blue light emitted from the blue LED 16C. Reference numeral P4 denotes the optical axis center of white light synthesized by the dichroic filter 18.

  As shown in FIG. 4, each of the light emitting units 17A, 17B, and 17C has a light emitter mounting member 23 that attaches the LED 16 (red LED 16A, green LED 16B, and blue LED 16C) via the reflecting mirror member 22, and heat from the LED 16. The heat radiating member 24 for radiating heat, the heat conductive sheet 25 as a heat conductive member interposed between the light emitter mounting member 23 and the heat radiating member 24, the light emitter mounting member 23, the heat conductive sheet 25 and the heat radiating member 24 are combined. And a plurality of optical axis adjusting screws 26.

  The luminous body mounting member 23 is made of an aluminum alloy and is formed in a box shape having an opening at the top, and the LEDs 16 (red LED 16A, green LED 16B, blue LED 16C) are fixed to the bottom surface portion 27 via the reflector member 22. The In addition, a collimator lens 28 is disposed above the light emitter mounting member 23 so as to cover the opening. The LEDs 16 (red LED 16A, green LED 16B, and blue LED 16C) are supplied with power directly to a lead frame (not shown) to emit light, and most of the emitted light is directed to the collimating lens 28. The light emitted from the LED 16 to the side opposite to the collimating lens 28 and the light emitted to the side surface are reflected by the reflecting mirror 29 of the reflecting mirror member 22 and become light directed toward the collimating lens 28.

  The heat radiating members 24 of the light emitting units 17A, 17B, and 17C are configured as walls 31A, 31B, and 31C of the heat radiating unit 30, as shown in FIG. The heat dissipating unit 30 is one in which the walls 31A, 31B, 31C are erected integrally from the edge of the bottom surface 32, and is made of an aluminum alloy. Accordingly, the walls 31 </ b> A, 31 </ b> B, and 31 </ b> C are connected to each other by the bottom surface 32 of the heat dissipation unit 30. The heat radiation unit 30 has a bottom surface 32 fixed to a casing (casing) 34 of the liquid crystal projector 10 using screws 33. In this fixed state, the bottom surface 32 and the walls 31 </ b> A and 31 </ b> B of the heat dissipation unit 30 are held in surface contact with the housing 34. A heat sink (not shown) may be attached to the wall 31C.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the heat conductive sheet 25 is interposed between the bottom surface portion 27 of the light emitter mounting member 23 and the heat radiating member 24 (walls 31 </ b> A, 31 </ b> B, 31 </ b> C). The thermal conductive sheet 25 is made of a gel-like material that has good thermal conductivity and is elastically deformable and rich in flexibility. As such a material, for example, butyl rubber or silicon rubber is preferable. Therefore, the heat emitted from the LED 16 (red LED 16A, green LED 16B, blue LED 16C) is transmitted well to the heat radiating member 24 (walls 31A, 31B, 31C) through the light emitter mounting member 23 and the heat conductive sheet 25. The heat conductive sheet 25 is configured to be elastically deformable as will be described later.

Here, as an example of the heat conductive sheet 25 having good heat conductivity, there is a sheet-like heat conductive gel “λGEL” (model number COH-1002, COH-2003, COH-4000) manufactured by Geltech Co., Ltd. The thermal conductivity of these sheet-like thermal conductive gels “λGEL” is 1.8 W / m · K for model COH-1002, 3.5 W / m · K for model COH-2003, The model number COH-4000 is 6.5 W / m · K, and all indicate good thermal conductivity.
In addition, the aluminum alloy constituting the light emitter mounting member 23 and the heat dissipation member 24 is a generic name of alloys containing pure aluminum, and appropriately selecting and adding copper, manganese, silicon, magnesium, zinc, etc. to the pure aluminum. is there.

  The optical axis adjusting screw 26 penetrates the heat conducting sheet 25 from the heat radiating member 24 (walls 31A, 31B, 31C) and is screwed to the bottom surface portion 27 of the light emitter mounting member 23, and the LED 16 (red) The light emitter attachment member 23 for attaching the LED 16A, the green LED 16B, and the blue LED 16C) is coupled to the heat dissipation member 24 (walls 31A, 31B, and 31C) via the heat conductive sheet 25. As shown in FIG. 5, the optical axis adjusting screw 26 has at least one on each of the X axis and Y axis orthogonal to each other within the surface of the heat radiating member 24 (walls 31A, 31B, 31C). More than books are arranged. In the present embodiment, a total of three optical axis adjusting screws 26 are arranged, two on the X axis and one on the Y axis.

  By arranging the optical axis adjustment screw 26 in this way, the LEDs 16 (red LED 16A, green LED 16B, blue LED 16C) attached to the light emitter attachment member 23 by the respective operations of the optical axis adjustment screw 26. The angle of the heat radiating member 24 (walls 31A, 31B, 31C) is changed and displaced. Thereby, the optical axis of the LED 16, that is, the optical axis P of the light emitted from the LED 16 (including the optical axis centers P1, P2, and P3) can be adjusted in a three-dimensional direction including the vertical direction and the horizontal direction. At the time of adjusting the optical axis P, the heat conductive sheet 25 is elastically deformed between the bottom surface portion 27 of the light emitter mounting member 23 and the heat radiating member 24 (walls 31A, 31B, 31C). Well implemented.

  That is, each optical axis adjusting screw 26 moves in the axial direction in accordance with the lead of the screw by the rotation of a plurality of (for example, three) optical axis adjusting screws 26. Thereby, the heat conductive sheet 25 between the light emitter mounting member 23 and the heat radiating member 24 coupled by the optical axis adjusting screws 26 is elastically deformed. As a result, the LED 16 attached to the light emitter attachment member 23 is displaced with respect to the heat dissipation member 24, and the optical axis of the LED 16 is adjusted. Here, the code | symbol M in FIGS. 2-4 shows the adjustment range of the optical axis P of the light which LED16 emits.

  The operation of the optical axis adjusting screw 26 is performed from the outer surface side of the heat radiating member 24 (walls 31A, 31B, 31C), and in order to facilitate this operation, the housing 34 in contact with the walls 31A, 31B is operated. A notch 35 (FIG. 4) is formed at a position corresponding to the optical axis adjusting screw 26. Thereby, even when the light source device 13 is attached to the housing 34 of the liquid crystal projector 10, the LEDs (the red LED 16A, the green LED 16B, and the blue LED 16C) of the light emitting units 17A, 17B, and 17C in the light source device 13 shown in FIG. The optical axis of the light emitted from can be adjusted.

  In this way, the red light, green light, and blue light emitted from each of the red LED 16A, green LED 16B, and blue LED 16C in the light emitting units 17A, 17B, and 17C are individually adjusted to adjust the optical axes P of the red light, green light, and blue light. White light, which is a combination of light and blue light, is preferably incident on the incident end face 21 </ b> A that is a narrow area portion of the integrator 20.

  As described above, the integrator 20 improves the in-plane uniformity of the light emitted from the emission end face 21B by totally reflecting the incident light a plurality of times inside. Has a characteristic that the smaller the area of the incident end face 21A of the integrator 20 is, or the longer the length of the integrator 20, the better. In order to achieve the demand for miniaturization of the liquid crystal projector 20 and thus the light source device 30, it is necessary to reduce the area of the incident end face 21A and improve the in-plane uniformity. For this reason, the incident end face 21A of the integrator 20 has a narrow area, and the optical axis P of the light emitted from each of the red LED 16A, the green LED 16B, and the blue LED 16C is adjusted in order to allow the white light to enter the incident end face 21A. Thus, the light source device 13 is miniaturized and the in-plane uniformity of light irradiated (emitted) from the light source device 13 is improved.

With the configuration as described above, the following effects (1) to (4) are achieved according to the above embodiment.
(1) Each of the light emitting units 17A, 17B, and 17C includes a light emitter mounting member 23 for attaching the LED 16 (red LED 16A, green LED 16B, and blue LED 16C), and a heat radiating member 24 that radiates heat from the LED 16 (wall of the heat radiating unit 30). 31A, 31B, 31C), a heat conductive sheet 25 that is interposed between the light emitter mounting member 23 and the heat radiating member 24, is elastically deformable, and is made of a material having good thermal conductivity, and a light emitter mounting An optical axis adjusting screw 26 that couples the member 23, the heat conductive sheet 25, and the heat dissipation member 24 is provided. Then, the heat conduction sheet 25 is elastically deformed according to the lead of the screw by rotating the optical axis adjusting screw 26, the LED 16 is displaced with respect to the heat radiating member 24, and the light of the light emitted by the LED 16 is emitted. The axis P is configured to be adjustable. From this, the optical axis P of the light which each LED16 (red LED16A, green LED16B, blue LED16C) emits can be adjusted favorably.
At the same time, the heat generated by the LEDs 16 can be favorably propagated to the heat radiating member 24 via the elastically deformed heat conductive sheet 25, so that the heat dissipation of the light source device 13 can be ensured. Further, if the heat conduction sheet 25 is within the range of elastic deformation, the heat conduction sheet 25 is restored in the process of loosening the optical axis adjustment screw 26. Therefore, the heat radiation member 24 and the housing 34 are kept in close contact with each other, and the heat radiation property of the light source device 13 can be sufficiently secured.

  (2) Light emitted from the LED 16 (red LED 16A, green LED 16B, blue LED 16C) by operating the optical axis adjusting screw 26 from the outer surface side of the heat radiating member 24 (walls 31A, 31B, 31C of the heat radiating unit 30). The axis P can be adjusted. Therefore, even when the light source device 13 is attached to the casing 34 of the liquid crystal projector 10, the optical axis P of the light emitted from the LED 16 of the light source device 13 can be adjusted, and the optical axis adjustment work can be facilitated.

  (3) Since the heat dissipating member 24 (the walls 31A, 31B, 31C of the heat dissipating unit 30) is disposed in surface contact with the casing 34 of the liquid crystal projector 10 including the light source device 13, the LED 16 (red LED 16A, Since the heat of the green LED 16B and the blue LED 16C) can also be radiated from the casing 34 of the liquid crystal projector 10 via the heat radiating member 24, the heat radiation property of the light source device 13 can be further enhanced.

  (4) In the LED 16 (the red LED 16A, the green LED 16B, and the blue LED 16C), the light emitter mounting member 23 uses the optical axis adjusting screw 26 via the heat conductive sheet 25 to dissipate the heat radiating member 24 (the wall 31A of the heat radiating unit 30) 31B, 31C) are compactly configured. From this, even if it uses several LED (red LED16A, green LED16B, blue LED16C), the small light source device 13 is realizable.

  As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated based on the said embodiment, this invention is not limited to this. For example, instead of directly mounting the heat radiating unit 30 of the light source device 13 to the housing 34 of the liquid crystal projector 10, the heat radiating unit 30 of the light source device 13 in which the light emitting units 17A, 17B, and 17C are arranged is disposed via a heat radiating gel sheet. Alternatively, the heat sink may be press-fitted into the housing 34 of the liquid crystal projector 10.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the light-emitting body attachment member 23 and the heat radiating member 24 described what was comprised with the aluminum alloy, it is not limited to an aluminum alloy, It can hold | maintain at the temperature which a light source operates stably. As described above, any material may be used as long as the material is selected to achieve the purpose of radiating the heat generated by the light source device 13 using the heat radiating member 24.

  In the above embodiment, the red LED 16A of the light emitting unit 17A emits red light, the green LED 16B of the light emitting unit 17B emits green light, and the blue LED 16C of the light emitting unit 17C emits blue light. The light source device 13 may include one or a plurality of light emitting units each including an LED that emits light.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the emission color (visible light) of each LED is red, green, and blue has been described. However, yellow, magenta, and cyan may be used. Further, the LED may emit any one of invisible light such as ultraviolet light and infrared light, or all emission colors including white light.

  Further, in the above embodiment, a single plate type liquid crystal projector is described as an example, but the present invention is a single plate DLP method, a single plate LCOS method, a multi-plate liquid crystal method, a multi-plate DLP method, and a multi-plate LCOS method. It can be applied to each liquid crystal projector, and can also be applied to general illumination.

  In the above embodiment, the case where the light emitter is an LED has been described. However, the present invention can also be applied to a semiconductor laser including a laser light emitting element.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the single plate type liquid crystal projector provided with the light source device which concerns on this invention. It is a top view which shows the light source device of FIG. FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along arrow III in FIG. 2. It is sectional drawing which shows the light emission unit of FIG. FIG. 5 is a view taken in the direction of arrow V in FIG. 4. It is a schematic sectional drawing which shows the conventional light source device.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Liquid crystal projector 11 Liquid crystal panel 13 Light source device 16 LED (light-emitting body)
16A Red LED (light emitter)
16B Green LED (light emitter)
16C Blue LED (light emitter)
17A, 17B, 17C Light emitting unit 21A Incident end face 20 Integrator 23 Light emitter mounting member 24 Heat radiation member 25 Heat conduction sheet (heat conduction member)
26 Optical axis adjustment screw 30 Heat radiation unit 31A, 31B, 31C Wall 32 Bottom surface 34 Housing P Optical axis M Adjustment range

Claims (7)

A light source device configured to include a light emitter, a light emitter attachment member that attaches the light emitter, and a heat dissipation member that dissipates heat from the light emitter, and irradiates light emitted from the light emitter,
Between the light emitter mounting member and the heat radiating member, a heat conducting member made of a material having good thermal conductivity is provided, and the light emitter mounting member and the heat radiating member are interposed. Combine with multiple optical axis adjustment screws,
The interposed heat conducting member is elastically deformed according to the lead of the screw by rotating the optical axis adjusting screw, the light emitter is displaced with respect to the heat radiating member, and the optical axis of the light emitter A light source device configured to be adjustable.   The light source device according to claim 1, wherein the heat conductive member is a gel heat conductive sheet.   3. The light source device according to claim 1, wherein the heat radiating member is disposed in a surface contact state with a housing of a product including the light source device.   4. The plurality of optical axis adjusting screws, wherein at least one of each of the plurality of optical axis adjusting screws is installed on a perpendicular line in the plane of the heat radiating member, a total of three or more. Light source device. The light emitters are a red light emitter that emits red light, a green light emitter that emits green light, and a blue light emitter that emits blue light.
In each luminous body, the luminous body mounting member for mounting the respective luminous body is coupled to the heat radiating member using a plurality of optical axis adjusting screws via the heat conducting member, and these heat radiating members are connected to each other to be integrated. The light source device according to claim 1, wherein the light source device is configured to synthesize and irradiate light from each light emitter.   5. The light source device according to claim 1, wherein the light emitting body emits any one of light emission colors including visible light, invisible light, and white light.   7. The light source device according to claim 1, wherein the light emitter is an LED including an LED light emitting element or a semiconductor laser including a laser light emitting element.

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