Abstract: A projection display device that modulates light on the basis of image information to form an optical image, and that projects the formed optical image, includes: light source devices 10R, 10G and 10B; optical modulation device 50 that modulates lights emitted from light source devices 10R, 10G and 10B; and common metal plate 70 on which light source devices 10R, 10G and 10B and optical modulation device 50 are mounted, light source devices 10R, 10G and 10B and optical modulation device 50 being thermally connected via metal plate 70.

Abstract: An image projection device includes a replaceable air filter placed near an opening of a housing, a switcher for switching step by step a working area of the air filter, an air-speed meter for detecting a pollution level of the air filter, and a controller for controlling the switcher. When the air-speed meter detects that the pollution level of the air filter reaches a given threshold, the controller prompts the switcher to switch the working area of the air filter, and then detects a pollution level of the air filter after the switchover for determining whether or not the working area before the switchover needs to be switched.

Abstract: In a projection image displaying device which projects imaging light emitted from a projection lens 2 by being reflected by a projection mirror 3, an air inlet 4d for sucking external air is provided at the position of a sealing mechanism 3a of the projection mirror 3. Air blown off through openings 2a, 2b provided around the projection lens 2 is sucked into a case through this air inlet 4d. When a cooling operation of cooling components within the case is to be performed by sealing the projection mirror 3, a sucking operation through the air inlet 4d 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.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for providing asymmetrical cooling for projectors. The projector can include two light assemblies, with each light assembly including a light source. The light assemblies are arranged horizontally adjacent to each other having both light assemblies facing in a direction of projected light from the light sources. On an outer side opposite the side adjacent to the other light assembly, each light assembly is accompanied by a pair of fans. One fan provides air to a top of the light assembly, and the other fan provides air to a bottom of the light assembly. More cooling air is provided to a top of the light assembly to cool a part of the light source that is hotter than the bottom part of the light source due to natural convection. The fan speeds can be varied based on a temperature measurement (e.g., using calibration tables) and/or based on other inputs.

Abstract: A light source device includes: an arc tube having a bulb portion and a sealing portion; a reflector which fixes the arc tube; and a holding portion which holds the reflector, wherein the holding portion includes an inlet port, a partition provided between the inlet port and the arc tube, a pair of passages to which diverges in the partition and can circulate the cooling air to the arc tube, a first opening provided in the partition, and a shutter which is provided on that side of the partition where the inlet port is located, rotates about a rotation axis, and blocks a lower passage of the pair of passages, and on that side of the shutter where the rotation axis is located, a second opening is provided so as to overlap the first opening as seen from the inlet port.

Abstract: A liquid crystal projector includes a light modulating device, a cooling device, a dehumidification device, and a housing. The light modulating device forms an optical image by modulating light flux emitted from a light source based on image information. The cooling device cools air to be supplied to the light modulating device. The dehumidification device dehumidifies and dries air to be supplied to the corresponding cooling device. The housing includes a cooling medium flow path for circulating air among the light modulating device, the cooling device, and the dehumidification device. The cooling device includes a thermoelectric conversion material interposed between a pair of heat transmission plates arranged to face each other.

Abstract: A projector which includes a first exhaust fan discharging exhaust air from a light source lamp to exterior and a second exhaust fan discharging exhaust air from parts other than the light source lamp are arranged to be adjacent to each other. An end of the exhaust fan facing the other exhaust fan is moved to the inner side and the one exhaust fan is inclined to discharge air in an exhaust direction toward a direction along which air is discharged from the other exhaust fan. There is provided a cooling fan that blows air to an interior air blow outlet communicating with the interior of the light source lamp and exterior air blow outlets communicating with an outer surface to cool the light source lamp. The exterior air blow outlets are deviated from the center of the outer surface of the light source lamp.

Abstract: A projector includes: an illumination system which has a light source, and a light control unit opened and closed to shield a part of light emitted from the light source; a light modulation device illuminated by illumination light received from the illumination system; an air supply device which supplies air to the light control unit and the light modulation device; and an air supply control unit which decreases an air supply amount to the light modulation device when increasing an air supply amount to the light control unit in accordance with a relatively closed condition of the light control unit.

Abstract: A light-source cooling device is provided that, without adopting a complex configuration, is capable of reducing the temperature difference between the top portion and bottom portion of a light source despite change of the installation orientation. The light-source cooling device of the present invention for cooling a light source (11) is provided with: two ventilation ducts (4and 5) for guiding cooling airflows (13a and 13b) to strike against the light source (11) from opposite directions, and two fans (2and 3) for impelling the cooling airflows (13a and 13b) to two airflow guide units (4and 5).

Abstract: An image projection apparatus includes cooling fans 10, 12, and 16 provided inside a chassis 17 and configured to take in cooling air from a cooling inlet port 17a formed in the chassis, an air filter 22 that covers the cooling inlet port, an exhaust port 19a formed in the chassis and configured to exhaust the cooling air from an inside to an outside of the chassis, and a cleaning fan 25 provided inside the chassis and configured to take in cleaning air from a cleaning inlet port 17b formed in the chassis separately from the exhaust port. The image projection apparatus exhausts the cleaning air discharged from the cleaning fan, from the inside to the outside of the chassis via the cooling inlet port and the air filter.

Abstract: The invention discloses a projector including a casing, an optical module, a light source module, a blowing fan, and an axial fan. The casing has a first air-outlet, a second air-outlet, and an air-inlet. The blowing fan and the axial fan are disposed corresponding to two sides of a light axis of the light source module respectively. When the blowing fan operates, an initial airflow into the casing from the air-inlet flows through the optical module and then a predetermined airflow generated by the blowing fan on a first air-outlet surface of the blowing fan cools the light source module. An angle is formed between the axial fan and one side of the casing. The axial fan directly sends the air around the light source module out of the casing through the first air-outlet and/or the second air-outlet.

Abstract: An electric apparatus includes a centrifugal fan that includes an impeller in a casing, and is configured to draw air when the impeller rotates in the casing, and to have a blowoff channel of the air from the impeller in the casing, which spreads in a rotating direction of the impeller, and a first cooled part and a second cooled part that has a necessary cooling air capacity larger than that of the first cooled part, the first cooled part and the second cooled part being cooled by the air drawn by the centrifugal fan, wherein a drawing surface of the centrifugal fan has a first drawing area and a second drawing area that has a drawing speed higher than that of the first drawing area when the impeller rotates.

Abstract: A projection display device includes a light source, a reflector, and a fixing portion. The device further includes a first air supply portion and a second air supply portion; a first air drawing portion which separates the cooling air from the first air supply portion into streams of the cooling air to guide one of the streams into an interior of the reflector in a first direction and to guide the other of the streams to the fixing portion in a second direction; and a second air drawing portion which separates the cooling air from the second air supply portion into streams of the cooling air to guide one of the streams into the interior of the reflector in a third direction and to guide the other of the streams to the fixing portion in a fourth direction.

Abstract: A lamp source module includes a holder having an air inlet and an air outlet, a gas discharge lamp having a lamp reflector assembled onto the holder and a burner disposed in the lamp reflector, a light cover assembled on the holder and surrounding the lamp reflector, a blower duct communicating with the air inlet and extending along the exterior of the lamp reflector to the bottom of the lamp reflector, and an airflow generator communicating with the blower duct and capable of providing a cooling airflow. The air inlet is capable of causing the cooling airflow to enter the blower duct. The blower duct is capable of directing the cooling airflow to the bottom of the lamp reflector to make the cooling airflow pass through a sandwiched space surrounded by the lamp reflector and the light cover and then discharge from the air outlet.

Abstract: A projector apparatus includes a housing having an air inlet and an air outlet, a light source device provided in the housing, an image projection unit provided in the housing and configured to emit an image projection light beam so as to project an image onto a screen, and a cooling device configured to cool the light source device and the image projecting unit. The cooling device includes a cooling passage extending from the air inlet to the air outlet, and a fan configured to suck in outside air from the air inlet and to exhaust the outside air passing through the cooling passage, out of the housing from the air outlet. The air filter section includes a cylindrical filter body, a filter support member configured to support the filter body, and a rotating unit configured to rotate the filter support member.

Abstract: An image projection apparatus is disclosed which is capable of reducing noise when airflows from plural flow paths are taken in into a fan and exhausted therefrom. The apparatus comprises a first flow path through which a first airflow for cooling a light source passes, a second flow path through which a second airflow for cooling constituent parts other than the light source passes, a fan which exhausts air introduced from the first and second flow paths to the outside of the apparatus, a third flow path which introduces a third airflow to an exhaust area between the light source and the fan in the first flow path, and a light-shielding member which is provided in the exhaust area and shields the light from the light source.

Abstract: A projector includes: spatial light modulation devices; and a cooling duct configured to flow a cooling air for sequentially cooling the spatial light modulation devices, the cooling duct has a first flow path formed by portions including the light entrance surface of at least one of the spatial light modulation devices for the respective color lights, a second flow path formed by portions including the light exit surface of the corresponding spatial light modulation device, and a junction area where the cooling air flowing through the first flow path and the cooling air flowing through the second flow path join each other, and the junction area is disposed at a downstream position of the cooling air with respect to the spatial light modulation device provided for a predetermined color light whose light amount is the maximum in the respective color lights that enter the light entrance surface.

Abstract: A video projector includes a first discharge port from which a cooling current is sent out of a duct to an optical component. A cooling fan generates the cooling current which flows through the duct. The first discharge port includes first and second wall surfaces opposed to each other in an optical axis direction in which the light is transmitted through the optical component, third and fourth wall surfaces opposed to each other in a lateral direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, a discharge port inlet into which the cooling current from the cooling fan is drawn, and a discharge port outlet from which the cooling current is sent toward the optical component. A gap between the first and second wall surfaces and a gap between the third and fourth wall surfaces become narrower from the discharge port inlet to the discharge port outlet.

Abstract: A projector includes a light source device; an exhaust fan configured to take air in the vicinity of the light source device in and discharge the same; a power supply device configured to supply electric power to components of the projector; an outer casing configured to accommodate the light source device and the power supply device in the interior thereof and provided with an exhaust port formed thereon; and a first duct configured to guide the air discharged from the exhaust fan to the exhaust port, and the power supply device includes a second duct configured to guide the air in the interior of the power supply device toward the first duct, and an air incoming port configured to take the air discharged from the second duct into the first duct is formed with the first duct.

Abstract: Emissive quantum photonic imagers comprised of a spatial array of digitally addressable multicolor pixels. Each pixel is a vertical stack of multiple semiconductor laser diodes, each of which can generate laser light of a different color. Within each multicolor pixel, the light generated from the stack of diodes is emitted perpendicular to the plane of the imager device via a plurality of vertical waveguides that are coupled to the optical confinement regions of each of the multiple laser diodes comprising the imager device. Each of the laser diodes comprising a single pixel is individually addressable, enabling each pixel to simultaneously emit any combination of the colors associated with the laser diodes at any required on/off duty cycle for each color. Each individual multicolor pixel can simultaneously emit the required colors and brightness values by controlling the on/off duty cycles of their respective laser diodes.

Abstract: A mounting structure for a temperature sensor, which detects the temperature of a wall surface. The mounting structure includes a groove formed in the wall surface and having an inlet from which the temperature sensor is inserted. The temperature sensor includes a main body, which has a temperature detection surface that detects the temperature of the wall surface, and a lead wire connected to the main body. A support supports the main body. A wire bender bends the lead wire of the temperature sensor extending out of the inlet to press the temperature detection surface of the temperature sensor against the wall surface with an elastic force of the lead wire that is produced when the lead wire is bent. A stopper restricts movement of the main body of the temperature sensor.

Abstract: A projector includes a light source, a pump which supplies a compressed gas to cool the light source, and an ejector member having a hole, in which, a tube connects the pump to the ejector member, the compressed gas is discharged from the hole, and a diameter of the hole is in a range from 0.2 mm to 0.4 mm.

Abstract: LED modules (1R, 1G, 1B) for respectively emitting red, green and blue colors of light, illumination optical systems (2R, 2G, 2B) for guiding light from the LED modules, and a liquid crystal panel (7) for modulating the light from the LED modules guided by the illumination optical systems on the basis of an image signal are placed. The LED modules are provided with respective cooling units connected to the backside thereof through spreaders (11R, 11G, 11B) as thermal conductive members. Only the cooling device for the red LED module (1R) is formed by using a red Peltier device (12) as a thermoelectric element capable of controlling heating and absorbing heat. Efficient temperature control by appropriately using a Peltier device for cooling the plurality of solid light sources that emit colors of light different from each other becomes possible.

Abstract: A heat dissipation assembly for a projection apparatus is provided. The projection apparatus includes a light source, optical elements and a heat dissipation assembly. The heat dissipation assembly includes a case, a heat dissipation element, a fan and a temperature controlling unit. The optical elements transmit a light beam generated by the light source, and thereby generate heat. The heat dissipation assembly is adapted for heat dissipation correspondingly. In the heat dissipation assembly, the case protects the optical elements from being polluted by the dust during heat dissipation. The temperature controlling unit senses the surrounding temperature to control the fan for cooling the heat dissipation element, and the durability of the optical elements are thereby enhanced.

Abstract: A projection-type image displaying apparatus takes in outside air through an air inlet formed in a housing unit to cool at least one of an optical modulator and an optical element that are accommodated in the housing unit, the optical modulator forming an optical image and the optical element being disposed between the optical modulator and a light source. The projection-type image displaying apparatus includes a cooling fan, a first dustproof filter disposed at the air inlet of the housing unit, a second dustproof filter disposed in a flow path that guides the outside air toward the optical modulator or the optical element after the outside air passes through the first dustproof filter and the cooling fan, and a holder for holding the optical modulator or the optical element, the holder having an outside-air introducing portion, wherein the second dustproof filter is attachable to the outside-air introducing portion.

Abstract: A projection display device includes: a light source device which has a plurality of light source parts, and combines light from the light source parts and outputs the same; a light modulating part which modulates light output from the light source device; a main body cabinet in which the light source device and the light modulating part are disposed; a plurality of opening parts which are provided in the main body cabinet and through which the light source parts are individually put into or taken out; a plurality of covers which cover the corresponding opening parts; and a light source control part. When any of the covers is opened during operation, the light source control part controls the light source parts except for the light source part corresponding to the opened cover, in such a manner as to reduce intensity of light emitted from the other light source parts.

Abstract: A cooling device and a projection device comprising the same are provided. The projection device comprises a lamp and a cooling device. The lamp has a first side and a second side opposite the first side, and one of the two sides is the upper side of the lamp. The cooling device comprises a first blower and a second blower. The first blower is adapted to generate a first airflow towards the first side, while the second blower is adapted to generate a second airflow towards the second side.

Abstract: A video projector includes an air inlet that draws in ambient air. An air filter device includes an air filter attached to the air inlet and performs a cleaning operation to remove dust from the air filter in accordance with a cleaning operation sequence. An intake fan draws in the ambient air through the air filter as cooling air for cooling a light valve. A lamp cooling fan sends interior air to a light source lamp as cooling air for cooling the light source lamp. A discharge fan discharges the interior air that has cooled the light source lamp or the light valve. The cleaning operation sequence is configured to perform the cleaning operation during a cooling operation period in which the intake fan is stopped after a projection operation ends while the lamp cooling fan and the discharge fan are operating to cool the light source lamp.

Abstract: A projection display apparatus comprising: a housing member that accommodates an illumination optical unit; a projection optical unit; and a cooling unit, wherein the housing member includes a layout space in a virtually columnar shape having a bottom that is a circumscribed circle of the projection optical unit in a cross sectional view vertical to the projection optical unit; the layout space includes a first layout space in a substantially conical shape and a second layout space excluding the first layout space; the projection optical unit is provided in the first layout space; and at least a part of the illumination optical unit and the cooling unit is provided in the second layout space; and the illumination optical unit and the cooling unit are disposed in a symmetrical positional relationship with respect to the projection optical unit.

Abstract: A silent cooling apparatus for effectively reducing the operating temperature of an electronic device includes a plurality of components which include surfaces opposite to each other with a spacing therebetween and have a heat generating spot on at least any of the surfaces opposite to each other, in a small and low-cost configuration. The apparatus for cooling a heat generating spot of an electronic device includes a cooling apparatus for forcedly air-cooling a heat generating spot of an electronic device which includes a plurality of components which are disposed side by side to have the same in-plane direction, and include heat generating spots within their surfaces. The cooling apparatus includes a first air cooling unit for feeding an air stream to the heat generating spot in an orientation of the in-plane direction, and a second air cooling unit for feeding an air stream to the heat generating spot in the in-plane direction in a different orientation from the air stream by the first air cooling unit.

Abstract: This invention provide a projector apparatus enabled to lower its exhaust air temperature by adding only minor modifications to the existing structure, without altering its basic structure. The liquid crystal projector apparatus of the invention has a casing (1) for accommodating therein a light source (4), an optical system adapted to construct imaging light in response to a beam of light received from the light source, a power supply (9), and a cooling unit (6) mounted on the side wall of the casing (1) to cool the components in the casing. Provided on the inner wall of the casing is an air inspiration mechanism (16, 17, 18, 126) in association with the exhaust unit (6), whereby the exhaust unit (6) can inspire ambient air through the air inspiration mechanism to lower the temperature of the air to be expired from the exhaust unit.

Abstract: A video projector including a light source used to display an image, an optical component that differs from the light source, a power supply unit that supplies power, and a centrifugal fan including a rotation shaft and a blade that rotates about the rotation shaft. The centrifugal fan is a double intake fan that draws in gas from first and second axial directions, which are parallel to the rotation shaft, by rotating the blade and sends the gas outward in a radial direction from the rotation shaft. The centrifugal fan sends gas that has cooled the optical component and the power supply unit to the light source.

Abstract: A projection type display device including: a plurality of light sources; a display device; a light-combining unit for combining output light beams from the plurality of light sources; a condensing unit for propagating an output light beam from the light-combining unit to the display device; a projecting unit for projecting an image with the use of an output light beam from the display device; and a cooling unit having a ventilating fan and disposed on each of the plurality of light sources. The projection type display device further includes a flow direction adjusting unit for switching blow-off positions where air from the fan is discharged and a control unit for controlling switching of the blow-off positions operated by the flow direction adjusting unit.

Abstract: A cooling device which prevents ambient persons from being exposed to an unpleasant feeling as much as possible by properly controlling an exhausting direction of the air which is used for cooling and exhausted from a chassis and an image projection apparatus having the cooling device are obtained. The cooing device cools first and second members to be cooled provided in the chassis, has first and second exhaust fans for guiding winds which have cooled the respective first and second members to an outside of the chassis, and is characterized in that the first and second exhaust fans are arranged so as to face the same surface of the chassis and the winds exhausted from the first and second exhaust fans are mixed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image projecting apparatus having a cooling device, which cools heat generated from a plurality of light sources respectively emitting light of different colors and heat generated from a display device simultaneously, while effectively dispersing the heat. The image projecting apparatus includes a projecting system which projects light; a display device disposed in series with the projecting system; an optical system disposed in parallel with the projecting system, and including a plurality of light sources which transmit the light to the display device and generate heat when the light is transmitted to the display device; a heat dissipation device disposed at an outer edge of the optical system which dissipates the heat generated from the plurality of light sources; and a cooling fan disposed opposite to the display device, which inhales air and discharges the air to the heat dissipation device.

Abstract: The present invention includes: LCDs (47, 48, 49) corresponding to red, green, and blue, respectively; an air duct for red, an air duct for green, and an air duct for blue provided to blow cooling air to the LCDs (47, 48, 49), respectively; air filters (43, 50) provided in each of the air duct for red, the air duct for green, and the air duct for blue; and air filters (41, 42) provided in at least one air duct of the air duct for green and the air duct for blue and having filter mesh size smaller than that of the air filters (43, 50).

Abstract: A portable electronic device with micro-projecting module includes a shell body, a micro-projecting module, a heat-conducting plate and a supporting stand. The shell body has a front lateral plate and a bottom lateral plate adjoining the front lateral plate. The front lateral plate has a front through hole, while the bottom lateral plate has a bottom through hole. The micro-projecting module is arranged in the shell body and has a lens exposing to an outside of the shell body from the front through hole. The heat-conducting plate is arranged in the shell body and is positioned between the micro-projecting module and the bottom through hole. In the meantime, the heat-conducting plate has a heat-absorbing face contacting the micro-projecting module and a heat-dissipating face abutted against the bottom through hole.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A projector includes an optical arrangement and a cooling arrangement. The optical arrangement includes a light source, a filtering component, a light modulation component and a projection lens. The filtering component filters the light emitted by the light source. The light modulation component modulates the light filtered by the filtering component to form an image. The projection lens projects the image formed by the light modulation component. The cooling arrangement is arranged relative to the optical arrangement to cool the optical arrangement. The cooling arrangement includes a blower, an air duct and a heat sink. The blower blows cooling air. The air duct guides the cooling air from the blower to the filtering component along an cooling air path. The heat sink is disposed in the cooling air path within the air duct and fixedly attached to the light modulation component to thermally contact with the light modulation component.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a heat dissipation system and an operating system. The heat dissipation system includes a housing, a first heat dissipation module received in the housing, heat pipes extending from the first heat dissipation module through the housing. The operating system includes a dust-proof housing, a heat source and a heat dissipation device. The heat source is received in the dust-proof housing and generates heat. The cooling module is adhered to an outer surface of the dust-proof housing to be cooled and attaches the heat pipes to the first heat dissipation module. The outer surface of the dust-proof housing is adjacent to the housing. The heat pipes transfer heat from the operating system into the first heat dissipation module.

Abstract: An illuminant module includes a lamp including a lampwick, a reflector and a guide cap, a lamp holder, a blower, and an axial fan. At least one portion of the lampwick is disposed in the reflector. The guide cap having a guide wall, a first air outlet, and a first air inlet is connected to the reflector and covers an opening of the reflector. The lamp holder has a space where the lamp is disposed, a second air inlet corresponding to the first one, a third air inlet adjacent to the second one, a fourth air inlet adjacent to the third one, a second air outlet corresponding to the first one, and a third air outlet adjacent to the second one. The blower outside the space is disposed at the second air inlet. The axial fan outside the space is disposed adjacent to the third and fourth air inlets.

Abstract: A projector includes an exterior casing that includes an air intake port for introducing outside air into the interior thereof; and a cooling device that cools the interior of the exterior casing by the outside air introduced via the air intake port, in which the cooling device includes a first sirocco fan and a second sirocco fan that discharge air taken along axes of rotation of the fans to the direction along tangent of rotation, and an air intake port-side duct that guides the outside air introduced via the air intake port toward the first sirocco fan and the second sirocco fan, and in which the first sirocco fan and the second sirocco fan are disposed with axes of rotation thereof oriented so as to intersect with each other.

Abstract: A projector includes: a cooling device which supplies cooling air to a cooling target, wherein the cooling device includes a plurality of cooling fans each of which discharges cooling air, and a plurality of ducts each one end of which is connected with the corresponding one of the plural cooling fans to introduce the cooling air toward the cooling target in directions different from each other, and the plural ducts communicate with each other at the other end and have an outlet port through which the cooling air flows out.

Abstract: A projector includes: an illumination system which has a light source, and a light control unit opened and closed to shield a part of light emitted from the light source; a light modulation device illuminated by illumination light received from the illumination system; an air supply device which supplies air to the light control unit and the light modulation device; and an air supply control unit which decreases an air supply amount to the light modulation device when increasing an air supply amount to the light control unit in accordance with a relatively closed condition of the light control unit.

Abstract: A radiation structure of a mobile communication terminal having a projector which rapidly dissipates heat generated from the projector and other elements built into the terminal. The mobile communication terminal includes a projector implementing an image-projection function, and a projector cover, which is composed of a heat conductive material such that at least one inner surface thereof is brought into close contact with the projector so as to dissipate heat generated from the projector to the outside of the terminal.

Abstract: An illumination system adapted for a projection apparatus is provided. The illumination system comprises a cooling air guiding apparatus, a lamp, and a cooling fan. The cooling air guiding apparatus comprises an air intake device and an adjustment device, while the adjustment device comprises an air-flow adjustment element and an air-flow guiding element. The cooling fan generates a cooling air, which flows from the exterior through the air intake device into the air-flow adjustment element. The air-flow guiding element guides the cooling air in the air-flow adjustment element out of an air-flow adjustment hole towards a specific direction. Since the adjustment device may move relatively to the air intake device, the air-flow adjustment hole is adapted to move from the first position substantially aligned with the opening to the second position constituting a substantial displacement with respect to the opening. The cooling air can cool the lamp no matter what angle the projection apparatus is disposed.

Abstract: A projector comprises: a cooling fan for sucking ambient air through a filter; switching means for switching the operational mode of the cooling fan between a lowland mode and a highland mode; and control means adapted to obtain current fan voltage to determine the normal rpm value for that current fan voltage in reference to a highland voltage-rpm characteristic when the switching means is in the highland mode, obtain current fan rpm, and enables alarming means to issue a filter clogging alarm in the event that the current fan rpm is larger than the normal rpm value plus a predetermined value. Thus, filter clogging can be detected with precision in highlands.

Abstract: A projector includes: a housing; an optical element accommodated in the housing; and an air supply unit configured to generate a flow of cooling air for cooling a cooling target element including the optical element, a dustproof area into which the cooling air can be introduced from the outside of the housing via a dustproof filter is formed inside the housing, the optical element is accommodated in the dustproof area of the housing, and the air supply unit includes a first air supply unit configured to introduce the cooling air from the outside of the housing to the dustproof area via the dustproof filter, and a second air supply unit accommodated in the dustproof area and configured to supply the cooling air introduced to the dustproof area by the first air supply unit toward the optical element.

Abstract: An image projection apparatus includes cooling fans 10, 12, and 16 provided inside a chassis 17 and configured to take in cooling air from a cooling inlet port 17a formed in the chassis, an air filter 22 that covers the cooling inlet port, an exhaust port 19a formed in the chassis and configured to exhaust the cooling air from an inside to an outside of the chassis, and a cleaning fan 25 provided inside the chassis and configured to take in cleaning air from a cleaning inlet port 17b formed in the chassis separately from the exhaust port. The image projection apparatus exhausts the cleaning air discharged from the cleaning fan, from the inside to the outside of the chassis via the cooling inlet port and the air filter.

Abstract: A projector for separating white light into three primary colors, forming images with liquid crystal light valves, mixing these images, and projecting an enlarged picture of the mixed images with a projection lens. The projector includes an optical unit having a light source, a plurality of dichroic mirrors for separating the white light into blue, green, and red beams, respective liquid crystal light valves forming images of the blue, green, and red colors. The optical unit has a chassis with a rigid center portion at which one of the liquid crystal light valves is mounted, the other two light valves being mounted symmetrically with respect thereto. An adjustment mechanism is provided for matching pixels of the second and third color valves with those of the first color valve. The red color liquid crystal light valve is disposed midway between the blue and green color liquid crystal light valves and a cooling fan is disposed below the red color liquid crystal light valve.