Light source device for illumination

• US 20050213344A1
• Filed: 03/29/2005
• Published: 09/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujinon Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujinon Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Inamoto, Masayuki
• Application Number:
  US11/092,559
• Publication Number:
  US 20050213344A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/611
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/2033 LED or laser light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/208 Homogenising, shaping of the illumination light
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/315 Modulator illumination systems general applications of lighting devices F21V; general optical systems G02B; lamp houses for projectors not peculiar to the presence of an electronic spatial light modulator G03B21/20

Abstract

An illumination light source device having a light incident opening to which illumination light from a light emitting diode is incident and a light emission opening from which the illumination light incident from the light incident opening is emitted, and having a hollow light guide for guiding the illumination light to an illumination optical system for image projection, characterized in that the light emitting diode is disposed so that the illumination light is irradiated to the light emission opening and the light emission point of the illumination light is located to be shifted to the light emission opening side with respect to the light incident opening.

Claims

1. An illumination light source device comprising:

a light emitting diode; and

a hollow light guide that guides illumination light to an illumination optical system for image projection, the hollow light guide having

a light incident opening to which the illumination light from the light emitting diode is incident, and

a light emission opening from which the illumination light incident from the light incident opening is emitted,

wherein the light emitting diode is disposed so that the illumination light is irradiated to the light emission opening and a light emission point of the illumination light is located to a light emission opening side with respect to the light incident opening.

2. The illumination light source device according to claim 1, which further comprises a solid light guide.

3. The illumination light source device according to claim 2, wherein the solid light guide is partially disposed in the hollow light guide so that a light incident face of the solid light guide is located at the light emission opening side of the hollow light guide.

4. The illumination light source device according to claim 3, wherein the solid light guide and the hollow light guide are integrated with each other.

5. An illumination light source device comprising:

a light emission diode; and

a solid light guide that guides illumination light to an illumination optical system for image projection, the solid light guide having

a light incident face to which the illumination light from the light emitting diode is incident and

a light emission face from which the illumination light incident from the light incident face is emitted,

wherein the light incident face is concaved in a spherical shape, and the light emitting diode is disposed so that the illumination light is irradiated to the light emission face and a light emission point of the illumination light is located to a light incident face side with respect to a center of a curvature radius of the spherical shape.

6. The illumination light source device according to claim 5, wherein the light emitting diode is located within a light incident area where the light emission point is surrounded by the light incident face.