Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Masayuki Fukui

Chohei Ono

Koji Hirata

Masahiko Yatsu

Naoyuki Ogura

Kazuomi Kaneko

Kei Adachi

Masanori Tsumura

Nobuki Matsui

Shinro Inui

Hideharu Saito

Hiroyuki Nakamura

Motoyuki Suzuki

Satoshi Ouchi

Tohru Sasaki

Takeshi Shimano

Yoshiho Seo

Hidehiro Ikeda

Naoki Mori

Yoshiro Konishi

Megumi Kurachi

Tomoki Kobori

Toshimasa Kamisada

Kohei Miyoshi

Takeshi Katayama

Tatsuya Ishikawa

Junichi Yokoyama

A optical system including a projection lens systemfor emitting light image to be enlarging-projected is accommodated inside a frameconfigured with a lower caseand an upper casea reflecting mirrorwhich enlarging-projects the image light emitted from the optical system toward a screen S or a top surface of a table T as a display plane is openably attached to a portion of the upper case of the frame, the device can be installed by a bottom surface of the lower case or one side surface thereof, a stand legis accommodated integrally with the case and extractably in the one side surface of the lower case, and the stand leg has a form (an inclination angle, a ratchet mechanism, a locking mechanism, and the like) satisfying an installation condition for vertically erected arrangement in the extracted state.

Projection-type image display device

Provided is a light source device where the number of optical components is reduced without lowering an efficiency for light utilization. The light source device includes an excitation light source which generates blue laser light as excitation light, a phosphor wheel including a phosphor which is excited by the excitation light from the excitation light source to generate yellow fluorescent light, and a mirror which guides the excitation light from the excitation light source to the phosphor wheel and transmits the fluorescent light from the phosphor wheel, wherein the mirror includes a first region which reflects the excitation light and transmits the fluorescent light and a second region which transmits the fluorescent light and diffused excitation light which is diffused and reflected in the phosphor. The yellow fluorescent light and the diffused excitation light passing through the mirror are mixed to generate white light.

Light source device and projection type image display device

A vehicle lamp includes a phosphor which receives laser light (excitation light) emitted from a semiconductor light-emitting element to emit visible light, a reflector which reflects the visible light (illumination light) emitted from the phosphor forward, and an absorbing member which absorbs excitation light regularly reflected by a surface of the phosphor. A metal plate on which the phosphor is disposed to be inclined to cause the excitation light regularly reflected by the surface of the phosphor to be incident on the absorbing member. An upper end portion of the reflector is disposed at a position lower than a vertical position of the phosphor to prevent the regularly reflected excitation light from being incident on the upper end portion.

Vehicle lamp having a laser emitting element

A projection image display apparatus which performs an operation for attaching and detaching a projection lens by one action with a simple mechanism is provided. The projection image display apparatus includes an optical engine which irradiates a display element with light emitted from a light source to form an image, a projection lens which enlarges and projects the image emitted from the optical engine, a lens shift mechanism for adjusting a position of an image to be projected onto a screen, a lens attachment unit for attaching the projection lens to the lens shift mechanism, and a first plate for attaching the projection lens to the lens attachment unit to achieve a locked state, and the attachment of the projection lens to the lens attachment unit and the achievement of the locked state are performed by only rotation of the first plate in a first direction. Also, detachment of the projection lens and release of the locked state are performed by only rotation of the first plate in a second direction opposite to the first direction.

Projection image display apparatus for attaching and detaching a projection lens

A light source device includes an excitation light source that generates excitation light, a phosphor wheel including a phosphor segment that generates fluorescent light by excitation of the excitation light, and a mirror that guides the excitation light from the excitation light source to the phosphor wheel and emits the fluorescent light from the phosphor wheel as illumination light. The phosphor wheel further includes an anisotropic diffusion and reflection unit that diffuses and reflects incident excitation light such that an optical path for the incident excitation light and an optical path for the diffused excitation light after incidence of the excitation light are not overlapped. The mirror includes a first region that reflects the excitation light and transmits the fluorescent light and a second region that transmits the fluorescent light and the diffused excitation light which the anisotropic diffusion and reflection unit has diffused and reflected.

Light source device

A laser projector includes a laser light source to emit laser light modulated in accordance with image information, a scanner to drive the laser light along two axes in horizontal and vertical directions and make scanning two-dimensionally with the laser light, a scanning mirror drive part to produce a drive signal of the scanner, a light source data conversion part to change arrangement in a horizontal direction of data applied to the laser light source and a timing generation part to synchronize the scanning mirror drive part with the light source data conversion part, and a start direction of laser scanning in the horizontal direction is changed every frame of the image information.

Laser projector

In a projection image displaying device which projects imaging light emitted from a projection lens by being reflected by a projection mirror, an air inlet for sucking external air is provided at the position of a sealing mechanism of the projection mirror. Air blown off through openings provided around the projection lens is sucked into a case through this air inlet. When a cooling operation of cooling components within the case is to be performed by sealing the projection mirror, a sucking operation through the air inlet is stopped. This prevents dust in the external air from adhering to a reflective surface of the projection mirror regardless of the installation state of the projection image displaying device.

Projection image displaying device with openings around its projection lens and mirror

Provided is a projection video display device with which a sliding load is minimized while maintaining an adjustment precision in a lens shift mechanism. A lens shift mechanism () which moves a projection lens in a direction which is orthogonal to the optical axis of projected light has a configuration in which mobile bases (), which retain the projection lens, slide using a shaft (), which is attached on a fixed member () side, as a guide member. A further aspect of the configuration is that a correction screw is inserted from the rear face side of the fixed member () to make contact with the shaft (), and optical axis tilt and misalignment of the projection lens are corrected by adjusting the degree of insertion of the correction screw.

Projection video display device

An object of the invention is to reduce the size and weight of a video projector by shortening the length of the arm of a mirror rotator and reducing the size of a mirror. A video projector comprises a plurality of projection lenses through which image light rays from a liquid crystal panel are extracted in a magnified manner; a reflective mirror for reflecting the extracted image light rays onto a screen; and a mirror rotator for rotating the reflective mirror so that the extracted image light rays can be reflected in particular directions. Among the projection lenses, some of the projection lenses located farther away from the liquid crystal penal are partially cut such that areas through which the image light rays do not pass are cut off to create a lens cut-off space. The mirror rotator is placed in the lens cut-off space.

Video projector which obliquely projects images onto screen

A projecting apparatus cooling structure is provided in which a discharge lamp can be always kept at an appropriate temperature whether the projecting apparatus is horizontally installed on a flat surface for forward projection or for downward projection or suspended from the ceiling for forward projection or for upward projection, so that the reliability and safety of the discharge lamp is improved and so that the life of the discharge lamp can be extended. The projecting apparatus projects an image for display using a discharge lamp as a light source. The projecting apparatus includes an air inlet for taking in a cooling medium for cooling the projecting apparatus, an air outlet for exhausting the cooling medium for cooling the projecting apparatus, a plurality of fans which each let the cooling medium flow in a predetermined direction, and a control section which detects a position in which the projecting apparatus is installed, and controls the plurality of fans according to the position detected by the position sensor.

Cooling structure of projecting apparatus

Lens for projector

Mirror for projector

A magneto-optic disk apparatus for use with a magneto-optic disk in which a recording surface made of a magneto-optic information recording medium is formed on a transparent substrate having a birefringence. The magneto-optic disk apparatus includes an optical head for performing a recording and a reproduction by a laser beam for the recording surface, and a unit for eliminating a fluctuation component occurring in a reproduction magneto-optic signal, the fluctuation component eliminating unit being arranged in a convergent light up to an analyzer in a detection optical system.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Masayuki Fukui