Seiko Epson Corporation

Takuro Nagatsu

Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa

Takashi Endo

Takanori Fukuyama

Chigusa Takagi

Kentaro Nakamura

A projector includes a cooling device cooling a liquid crystal panel. The cooling device includes a heat receiving part receiving heat of the liquid crystal panel, a Peltier device having a heat absorbing part that absorbs the heat of the heat receiving part and a heat generating part that generates heat when the absorbing part absorbs heat, a heat sink provided so that heat may be transferred to the heat generating part, and a heat pipe containing a hydraulic fluid inside, in which heat is transferred by convection of the hydraulic fluid. The heat sink has a stacking part superimposed on the Peltier device and a projecting part projecting from the Peltier device as seen from the Peltier device side, and the heat pipe has an interior part located between the Peltier device and the stacking part and an extending part extending along the projecting part.

Projector

A polarizer unit that polarizes light incident thereon and causes the polarized light to exit includes an inorganic polarizer (light-exiting-side polarizer) that polarizes the incident light, a transparent substrate that is disposed in contact with the light-exiting-side polarizer and allows the light having exited out of the light-exiting-side polarizer to pass and exit, and a holding member that presses the light-exiting-side polarizer and the transparent substrate from opposite sides to sandwich and hold the light-exiting-side polarizer and the transparent substrate.

Polarizer unit and projector

A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal device; a first dust-proof plate made of a birefringent material, and disposed on one of a light entrance side and a light exit side of the liquid crystal device; and a second dust-proof plate made of an isotropic refractive material, and is disposed on the other of the light entrance side and the light exit side of the liquid crystal device.

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Kasugai, Japan

Takuro Nagatsu