Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Light source unit, illuminator, and projector
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Application No.: US15648803Application Date: 2017-07-13
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Publication No.: US10585343B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: Wataru Yasumatsu , Akira Egawa
- Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP2016-146421 20160726
- Main IPC: G03B21/20
- IPC: G03B21/20 ; H04N9/31 ; F21V5/00 ; F21V13/06 ; G02B19/00 ; F21Y115/30 ; G03B33/12

Abstract:
A light source unit includes one or more light source rows that include a first light source row including light emitting devices. The light emitting devices of the first light source rows are arranged at non-uniform intervals. An illuminator includes a light source unit for emitting a bundle of light beams, a first fly-eye lens including lenslets, a second fly-eye lens, and a condenser lens. The light source unit includes one or more light source rows each including light emitting devices. The principal rays of first light beams outputted from a first light source row out of the one or more light source rows enter different lenslets out of the lenslets. A positional relationship between a principal ray of each of the first light beams and the optical axis of the lenslet which the principal ray enters is aperiodic over the first light source row.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180031959A1 LIGHT SOURCE UNIT, ILLUMINATOR, AND PROJECTOR Public/Granted day:2018-02-01
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