JP4973913B2 - Electrical equipment with exhaust temperature reduction device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an electrical apparatus such as a projector provided with an exhaust temperature reduction device.

  Today, various electric devices are equipped with an exhaust device such as a fan in order to reduce the temperature in the casing. As such an electric device, for example, there is a data projector or the like as an image projection device that projects a screen or video image of a personal computer, an image based on image data stored in a memory card, or the like onto a screen.

  This projector has a built-in small high-intensity light source such as a metal highland lamp or an ultra-high pressure mercury lamp. The light from the light source is converted into red, green, and blue light sequentially using a red filter, green filter, and blue filter. The lens is focused on a liquid crystal display element or a micromirror display element called DMD, and a color image is displayed on the screen according to the amount of light transmitted or reflected by the display element toward the projection port of the projector apparatus.

  In this micromirror display element, a minute mirror cell is swung by a control signal, the direction of reflected light is controlled, and the light incident on the display element by the illumination side optical system is directed toward the projection lens which is the projection side optical system. The reflected on-state light and the off-state light reflected in the direction of the light absorbing plate are used, and the color image is projected onto the screen by controlling the time during which the red light, green light, and blue light are turned on.

  In such a projector, a metal highland lamp, an ultrahigh pressure mercury lamp, or the like, which is a light source, has a high temperature and needs to be cooled. Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-312002 (Patent Document 1) proposes a technique for cooling the temperature of a light source by circulating air in an optical unit of a projector using a heat conducting member and a cooling fan. However, when air is circulated inside the optical unit in this way, there is a problem that the internal temperature rises if the lamp is lit for a long time.

  In addition, many technologies for cooling the light source by taking in external air have been proposed, but the light source is heated to several hundred to nearly 1000 degrees, and in order to mix the high-temperature exhaust hot air that has cooled these light sources and the outside air. In many cases, a distance from the heat source is required, and it is necessary to increase the thickness of the casing or to increase the size of the casing. In addition, the high-temperature exhaust hot air also has problems such as heating the exhaust port and its surroundings and giving fluctuations to the projection image in front of the projection lens.

For this reason, in order to reduce the exhaust temperature exhausted from electrical equipment such as projectors, a heat conduction member such as a heat sink is arranged inside the exhaust port of the electrical equipment casing, and exhaust heat from high-temperature exhaust and low-temperature exhaust is exhausted. There has also been proposed a system that lowers the exhaust temperature by uniformizing the temperature.
JP 2001-312002 A

  Even when the heat conducting member is provided inside the exhaust port as described above, in order to effectively exchange heat between the high temperature exhaust hot air to be brought into contact with the heat conducting member and the heat conducting member, the exhaust flow path is adjusted and rectified. In many cases, there is a problem in that it is not possible to effectively cool an electric device having a built-in heat source in reducing the size of the electric device.

  The present invention solves such problems and uses an exhaust temperature reduction device capable of heat exchange in accordance with the state of exhaust hot air, thereby effectively cooling the device incorporating the heat source and reducing the size of the device. It aims at making it easy and manufacturing.

  An electrical apparatus of the present invention includes a first heat source, at least one second heat source that generates less heat than the first heat source, and a cooling fan (110) that cools the first heat source and the second heat source. The cooling fan (110) has an exhaust temperature reduction device (114) for reducing the temperature of the high-temperature air generated by cooling the first heat source, and the exhaust fan temperature reduction device (114) is provided via the exhaust temperature reduction device (114). The exhaust temperature reduction device (114) is provided with a plurality of fins (116) in the rod-like heat conduction member (115), and the gap between the fins (116) is provided. It can be adjusted.

Between the fins (116) of the exhaust temperature reducing device (114), one or a plurality of spacers (117) which are removable by passing through the central opening through the heat conducting member (115) are arranged. and if it is, it threaded旋溝(118) is formed on the surface of the heat conducting member (115), along the spiral groove (118) position adjustment of the fin (116) by rotating the fins (116) There is a case that is done.

  Further, the fins (116) are arranged with the arrangement interval with respect to the heat conducting member (115) gradually and gradually increased, and the fins (116) are densely located near the high temperature part and separated from the high temperature part. It is arranged sparsely at the position.

  The electrical equipment includes a light source device (63) as a first heat source, a control unit (38) and a display element (51) as a second heat source, a light source side optical system (61), In some cases, a projector (10) is provided with a projection-side optical system (62) or the like for projecting a projection image in the housing, and the housing has an exhaust hole for exhausting the exhaust through the exhaust temperature reducing device (114) to the outside. is there.

  In some cases, a light source chamber (120) for accommodating the light source device (63) and the exhaust temperature reducing device (114) may be provided. Furthermore, the cooling fan (110) is provided outside the light source chamber (120), and the air discharge port (113) of the cooling fan (110) may be connected to the wall of the light source chamber.

  The light source chamber (120) has a sealed structure with respect to the inside of the casing at a place other than the air discharge port (113) of the cooling fan (110).

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide an electrical device that can effectively reduce the temperature of exhaust gas discharged to the outside by using an exhaust temperature reduction device that effectively performs heat exchange according to the state of exhaust hot air. it can.

  An electrical apparatus of the best mode for carrying out the present invention includes a first heat source, a second heat source that generates less heat than the first heat source, a first heat source, and a second heat source in a housing. A cooling fan for cooling, and an exhaust temperature reducing device 114 for reducing the temperature of the high-temperature air generated by the cooling fan cooling the first heat source. The exhaust temperature reduction device 114 is provided with a plurality of fins 116 in the rod-like heat conduction member 115, and the heat conduction member 115 is provided between the fins 116 of the exhaust temperature reduction device 114. One or a plurality of detachable spacers 117 are arranged so that the interval between the fins 116 can be adjusted.

And the fin 116 is arrange | positioned so that the arrangement | positioning space | interval with respect to the said heat conductive member may be extended gradually gradually, and this fin 116 is near the 1st heat source, and the high temperature part vicinity to which a high temperature exhaust heat wind is blown Then, densely and sparsely arranged at positions away from the high temperature part.

  Furthermore, the electrical apparatus of the best mode projects a light source device 63 that is a first heat source, a control unit 38 and a display element 51 that are second heat sources, a light source side optical system 61, and a projection image. The projector 10 is provided with a projection-side optical system 62 and the like in the casing, and the projector 10 has an exhaust hole 17 through which the exhaust through the exhaust temperature reducing device 114 is exhausted to the outside.

  The projector 10 has a light source chamber 120 for housing a light source device 63 and an exhaust temperature reducing device 114, a cooling fan 110 is provided outside the light source chamber 120, and an air discharge port 113 of the cooling fan 110 is The light source chamber 120 is connected to the wall. In addition, the light source chamber 120 has a sealed structure with respect to the inside of the casing at a place other than the air discharge port 113 of the cooling fan.

  According to the best mode, it is possible to provide an electric device capable of reducing the temperature of exhaust gas discharged to the outside.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. The electrical apparatus of the present embodiment has a light source as a first heat source in the housing, an electric circuit and an element such as a power supply circuit that is a second heat source that generates less heat than the first heat source, and the like. An exhaust temperature reducing device that has a cooling fan that cools the first heat source and the second heat source, and that reduces the temperature of the high-temperature air generated by the cooling fan cooling the first heat source; The exhaust temperature reducing device is provided with a plurality of fins in a rod-like heat conducting member, and the interval between the fins can be adjusted.
The electric device is a data projector. Hereinafter, a projector as an electric device incorporating an exhaust temperature reducing device will be described.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the projector according to the present embodiment has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, and has a lens cover 19 that covers the projection port on the side of the front plate 12 that is a main body case. The exhaust hole 17 is provided with a louver 20 for preventing the light in the casing from leaking to the outside and preventing the exhaust hot air from flowing in front of the projection port.

  Although not shown in FIG. 1, a key / indicator portion is provided on the top plate 11 which is a main body case. The key / indicator portion includes a power switch key and power on / off. Are provided, such as a power indicator for informing the lamp, a lamp switch key for lighting the lamp of the light source device, a lamp indicator for displaying the lighting of the lamp, an overheat indicator for notifying when the light source device or the like is overheated.

  Further, on the back of the main body case (not shown), a control signal from a power supply adapter plug or a remote controller, and an input / output connector part provided with a USB terminal, a D-SUB terminal for inputting image signals, an S terminal, an RCA terminal, etc. on the back plate Is provided with an Ir receiving unit or the like.

  A plurality of air intake holes 18 are provided in the right side plate, which is a side plate of the main body case (not shown in FIG. 1), and the left side plate 15, which is the side plate shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the control circuit of the projector 10 includes a control unit 38, an input / output interface 22, an image conversion unit 23, a display encoder 24, a display drive unit 26, etc. The image signals of various standards input from the unit 21 are converted so as to be unified into image signals of a predetermined format suitable for display by the image conversion unit 23 via the input / output interface 22 and the system bus (SB). Are sent to the display encoder 24.

  The display encoder 24 develops and stores the transmitted image signal in the video RAM, generates a video signal from the stored contents of the video RAM, and outputs the video signal to the display drive unit 26.

  A display drive unit 26 to which a video signal is input from the display encoder 24 drives a display element 51, which is a spatial light modulation element (SOM), at an appropriate frame rate corresponding to the image signal sent. Yes, the light from the light source device 63 is incident on the display element 51 through the light source side optical system to form an optical image with the reflected light of the display element 51, and through the projection system lens group serving as the projection side optical system An image is projected and displayed on a screen (not shown), and the movable lens group 97 of the projection system lens group is driven by a lens motor 45 for zoom adjustment and focus adjustment.

  In addition, the image compression / decompression unit 31 performs a recording process for sequentially writing a luminance signal and a color difference signal of an image signal to a memory card 32 that is a removable recording medium by performing data compression by processing such as ADTC and Huffman coding. In the mode, the image data recorded on the memory card 32 is read, and individual image data constituting a series of moving images is expanded in units of one frame and sent to the display encoder 24 via the image conversion unit 23. A moving image or the like can be displayed based on the stored image data.

  The control unit 38 controls the operation of each circuit in the projector 10, and includes a ROM that stores operation programs such as a CPU and various settings fixedly, and a RAM that is used as a work memory. ing.

  Further, the operation signal of the key / indicator unit 37 composed of the main key and the indicator provided on the upper surface plate 11 of the main body case is directly sent to the control unit 38, and the key operation signal from the remote controller is received by Ir. The code signal received by the unit 35 and demodulated by the Ir processing unit 36 is sent to the control unit 38.

  An audio processing unit 47 is connected to the control unit 38 via a system bus (SB). The audio processing unit 47 includes a sound source circuit such as a PCM sound source, and converts the audio data into analog data in the projection mode and the playback mode. The speaker 48 can be driven to emit loud sounds.

  The control unit 38 controls the power supply control circuit 41. When the lamp switch key is operated, the power supply control circuit 41 turns on the lamp of the light source device 63, and the cooling fan drive control circuit 43 Is to detect the temperature by a temperature sensor provided in the light source device 63 or the like and to control the rotation speed of the cooling fan.

  These ROM, RAM, IC and circuit elements are attached to a control circuit board as a main control board. The power system power control circuit 41 is incorporated in the lamp power circuit block, and the control system main control board and The control circuit board and the power system lamp power circuit block are separately formed.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the internal structure of the projector 10 is such that a lamp power circuit block 101 incorporating a power control circuit 41 is disposed in the vicinity of the right side plate 14, and a sirocco fan is provided at the approximate center of the bottom plate. A blower of the type is disposed as a cooling fan 110, a light source chamber 120 is disposed in the vicinity of the air outlet 113 of the blower, a projection side optical system 62 is disposed along the left side plate 15, and the blower and the projection side optical system 62 are A light source side optical system 61 is disposed on the back side of the light source chamber 120.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the light source chamber 120 is partitioned from the interior of the projector by a first partition 121, which is a wall, a second partition 122, a third partition 123, and a fourth partition 124. A front plate 12 is provided on the upper side, and the upper part is covered with a house cover 125 as shown in FIG.

  The light source chamber 120 includes a light source device 63, a first reflecting mirror 72, a color wheel 71, a wheel motor 73, a part of the light guide rod 75, and an exhaust temperature reducing device 114, and a blower. The air discharge port 113 is connected between the first partition wall 121 and the second partition wall 122, which are wall bodies, so that all the exhaust of the blower is discharged into the light source chamber 120.

  The first partition 121 is a partition for creating a space between the front plate 12 and circuits such as the lamp power supply circuit block 101 and the like, and is inclined diagonally rightward from the blower air outlet 113 toward the front plate 12. The front panel 12 extends from this end to the right side 14 and to the vicinity of the right side 14, and finally from the end to the front panel 12 in parallel to the right side 14. It is a generally saddle shape connected. The shape of the first partition 121 is to disperse the hot exhaust gas from the light source chamber 120 over the entire front plate 12.

  The second partition 122 is a partition for guiding a part of the exhaust air from the blower air discharge port 113 to the color wheel 71 and the wheel motor 73, and is directed from the blower air discharge port 113 toward the rear plate 15. In this case, it is inclined diagonally to the left. Although not shown, the second partition wall 122 is formed with a vent hole or a slit so that the exhaust air from the air outlet 113 of the blower serving as the cooling fan 110 directly hits the color wheel 71.

Further, the third partition wall 123 is a partition wall for separating the light source side optical system 61 and the light source device 63 from the end of the second partition wall 122 to the vicinity of the projection side optical system 62 through the light guide rod 75. It is extended.
The fourth partition 124 is a wall for separating the projection-side optical system 62 and the light source device 63, and extends from the end of the third partition 123 in parallel with the left side surface 15 and is connected to the front plate 12. is doing.

  In addition, the 1st partition 121, the 2nd partition 122, the 3rd partition 123, the 4th partition 124, and the house cover 125 use the board | plate material which has heat insulation. Thereby, the heat in the light source chamber 120 can be prevented from leaking to the outside.

  Further, the exhaust temperature reducing device 114 is a heat conductive member. In this embodiment, the heat conductive member has a capillary structure on the inner wall and a metal pipe having a vacuum inside is sealed with a working fluid such as pure water or perfluorocarbon. A heat pipe 115 and a plurality of fins 116 are used, and are arranged in the vicinity of the front plate 12 in parallel with the front plate 12.

  This exhaust temperature reduction device 114 has a plurality of fins 116 that are plate-like bodies arranged in parallel, and a long rod-like heat conduction member 115 passes through the approximate center of the fins 116 to connect the plurality of fins 116. Shape. That is, the heat conducting member 114 is in a plate shape and is in common contact with the plate surface of the plurality of fins 116.

  By attaching the fin 116 to the heat conducting member 115 in this way, the heat absorbed by the fin 116 can be released to the heat conducting member 115, and the exhaust temperature reducing device 114 can be kept at a uniform temperature as a whole. The heat conducting member 115 and the fin 116 are separately formed and a heat pipe is used as the heat conducting member 115, but the present invention is not limited to this.

  Further, in the exhaust temperature reduction device 114 of the present embodiment, a difference is provided in fluid resistance between a high temperature portion that is located near the light source and through which the high-temperature exhaust hot air flows, and its vicinity and a position away from the high temperature portion. Specifically, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, in the vicinity of the light source device 63 that is at a high temperature, the fins 116 are arranged closely to keep the air outflow low, and conversely as the distance from the light source device 63 is increased, the fins are gradually increased. By increasing the arrangement interval of 116, the outflow of air is gradually increased.

  By adopting such a configuration, in a high-temperature portion where the arrangement interval is close, it becomes difficult to exhaust the air to the outside, so that the wind speed of the exhaust becomes slow, and thereby the fins 116 can sufficiently absorb heat, and the heat conducting member The endothermic efficiency of 115 is increased. On the other hand, since the wind speed of exhaust becomes high at a position away from the high temperature part where the arrangement interval is wide, it becomes easy to exhaust outside.

  For this reason, the heat contained in the exhaust of the high temperature part is absorbed by the heat conduction member, dissipated to the exhaust air at a position away from the high temperature part, and the heat is distributed and uniformed throughout the exhaust air, so that Since it is possible to prevent a large amount of high-temperature exhaust from being discharged, and the spacing between the fins 116 is gradually increased as the distance from the light source device 63 increases, the vicinity of the light source device 63 moves away from the light source device 63. The air flows, and the exhaust temperature reducing device 114 can be efficiently used to keep the exhaust temperature low.

  In addition, between the fins 116 of the exhaust temperature reducing device 114, one or a plurality of spacers 117 having the same width that are detachably attached to the heat conducting member 115 are disposed. The spacer 117 is a donut-shaped thin plate, and is detachable by allowing the heat conducting member 115 to pass through a central opening.

  Then, when the arrangement interval of the fins 116 is made dense, the number of spacers 117 between the fins 116 is reduced, and conversely, when the arrangement interval is made sparse, the number of spacers 117 between the fins 116 is increased, that is, In FIG. 6, a single spacer 117 is used between the fins 116 located in the vicinity of the light source device 63 so that the arrangement interval of the fins 116 is increased, and the number of the spacers 117 is gradually increased as the distance from the light source device 63 increases. The arrangement interval of 116 is gradually widened.

By using the spacer 117 in this way, the width between the fins 116 can be easily adjusted, and the same exhaust temperature reducing device 114 can correspond to the light source chambers 120 of various shapes.
That is, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 6, although the light source device 63 is installed at the end of the light source chamber 120, when the light source device 63 is arranged at the center, the center of the light source chamber 120 located in the vicinity of the light source device 63 is used. Adjustments such that the arrangement intervals of the adjacent fins 116 are made close and the arrangement intervals of the fins 116 are widened at both ends of the light source chamber 120 can be easily performed.

  The optical system of the projector 10 includes, as shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, a light source device 63 in which an ultrahigh pressure mercury lamp is provided as a discharge lamp 64 inside a reflector 65 whose front surface is covered with an explosion-proof glass 68. A light source side optical system 61 that irradiates a DMD (digital micromirror device) that uses light emitted from the light source device 63 as a display element 51, a display element 51, and light that is reflected by the display element 51 to form an image. Is constituted by a lens group of the projection-side optical system 62 that emits the light to the screen.

  The light source side optical system 61 includes a first reflection mirror 72 that reflects light emitted from the light source device 63 to the color wheel 71, and color filters for red light, green light, and blue light in the surroundings, and a wheel motor. The color wheel 71 rotated by 73, the light guide rod 75 that uses the light transmitted through the filter of the color wheel 71 as a light beam having a uniform intensity distribution, and the direction of the light emitted from the light guide rod 75 is changed by 90 degrees. A light source side lens group 83 formed by a second reflection mirror 74 and a plurality of lenses for condensing the light reflected by the second reflection mirror 74 on the display element 51, and the light transmitted through the light source side lens group 83 as a display element 51 is formed by an irradiation mirror 85 that irradiates 51 at a predetermined angle.

  In the present embodiment, the second reflecting mirror 74 is used. However, since it is only necessary to be able to change the direction of light from the light guide rod 75, the same effect can be obtained by using a combination of the light guide rod 75 and the prism. Obtainable.

  Furthermore, in this embodiment, a part of the light guide rod 75 and the color wheel 71 are arranged in the light source chamber 120, but the color wheel 71 and the light guide rod 75 are arranged outside the light source chamber 120. Thus, the light source chamber 120 may be formed.

  As the projection-side optical system 62, as shown in FIG. 5, the fixed lens group 93 built in the fixed barrel 91 and the movable lens group 97 built in the movable barrel 95 are variable focus type having a zoom function. The lens is a lens, and the movable lens group 97 is moved by a lens motor to enable zoom adjustment and focus adjustment.

  Further, the back plate 13 is provided with an intake hole 18 in the rear portion of the display element 51, and an air flow path is formed by the back plate 13 and the display element mounting plate 55, and the intake hole 18 provided in the back plate 13 and Outside air sucked from an intake hole 18 provided behind the left side plate 15 is caused to flow along the back plate 13 in the blower direction.

  A display element heat radiating plate 53 is disposed behind the display element mounting plate 55, and the control circuit board 103 serves as two control boards between the two control circuit boards 103 or two control circuits. The air flowing along the control circuit board 103 above or below the board 103 is sucked into the blower inlet 111.

  Therefore, when this blower is rotated, the blower used as the cooling fan 110 sucks air around the blower, and sucks air around the blower inside the projector 10, so that a large number of intake holes 18 provided in the main body case of the projector 10 The outside air is sucked into the projector 10.

  Then, a part of the outside air sucked from the rear intake hole 18 in the left side plate 15 and the intake hole 18 provided in the rear plate 13, the rear plate 13 and the display element mounting plate 55 so as to cool the display element heat radiating plate 53. The air flows through the air flow path between the control circuit board 103 and the upper and lower surfaces of the control circuit board 103 and the space between the control circuit boards 103 and is sucked into the air inlet 111 of the blower.

  Further, other outside air sucked from the suction hole 18 of the left side plate 15 passes through the projection side optical system 62, the light source side lens group 83 of the light source side optical system, the second reflection mirror 74, the exposed portion of the light guide rod 75, and the like. It is cooled and sucked into the blower inlet 111.

Then, the outside air sucked into the projector 10 from the intake hole 18 of the right side plate 14 reaches the control circuit board 103 so as to partially pass around the lamp power circuit block 101 and flows along the control circuit board 103. In this way, the air is sucked into the air inlet 111 of the blower. The remaining sucked outside air flows along the first partition wall 121 and is sucked into the suction port 111 of the blower.
In this manner, various second heat sources that generate less heat than the light source device 63 can be cooled.

  Further, a part of the exhaust flow of the blower blown into the light source chamber 120 flows along the color wheel 71 from the vent hole of the second partition wall 122, and most of the flow flows around the light source device 63 and FIGS. As shown in FIG. 4, a part of the air flowing around the light source device 63 flows from the opening provided in the reflector 65 so as to pass through the interior of the reflector 65, and cools the light source device 63 and the color wheel 71.

  The hot air in the light source chamber 120 after cooling the light source device 63 and the color wheel 71 is guided to the first partition wall 121 and flows into the exhaust temperature reducing device 114 including the heat conducting member 115 and the fins 116. Here, the high-temperature air immediately after cooling the light source device 63 and the air that has been radiated to the surroundings and cooled while leaving the light source device 63 after cooling the light source device 63, or flow avoiding the light source device 63 The relatively low temperature air hits both ends of the exhaust temperature reducing device 114 composed of the heat pipe 115 and the cooling fin 116, respectively, so that the temperature of the entire exhausted air is reduced and uniformed, and the exhaust holes of the front plate 12 are exhausted. Released to the outside from 17. At this time, since there is the fourth partition wall 124, high-temperature air does not flow into the projection-side optical system 62.

  In this way, the high-temperature air after cooling the light source device 63 is the air that has passed through the reflector 65, the air that has passed through the immediate vicinity of the light source device 63 so as to hit the light source device 63, or a position away from the light source device 63. The temperature difference is caused by the air that has passed through the exhaust air, and the temperature of the entire air exhausted by the heat pipe 115 and the fin 116 as the exhaust temperature reducing device 114 is made uniform, so that the light source device 63 is formed before the exhaust hole 17 is formed. Even if it is arranged near the face plate 12, it is possible to prevent the locally hot air from being discharged outside the projector 10.

  In addition, the louver 20 provided in the exhaust hole 17 of the front plate 12 can be prevented from becoming high temperature, and the fins 116 are straightly formed on the heat conducting member 115 so that air from the light source device 63 can be prevented. Therefore, the light source chamber 63 can be efficiently exhausted and the light source device 63 can be efficiently cooled.

  Further, the light source chamber 120 is opened to the front with a width close to the entire width of the front plate 12 excluding the projection opening, covered with the front plate 12, and exhausted to the outside of the projector 10 through the exhaust holes 17 provided in the front plate 12. Therefore, even if air is exhausted vigorously from the blower, it can be slowly exhausted from the exhaust hole 17 provided in a wide range, and the light source device 63 is cooled uniformly with a large amount of cooling air, and the temperature is uniformized as a whole. The lowered exhaust air can be gently discharged from the front of the projector 10. The cooling fan 110 is not limited to a sirocco fan type blower.

  Furthermore, it is located in the vicinity of the light source device 63, reduces the amount of exhaust exhausted from the exhaust hole 17 of the high temperature portion through which high temperature air flows, and is located at a location away from the light source device 63 and at a location away from the high temperature portion. By increasing the amount of exhaust discharged from the exhaust hole 17, the exhaust temperature reduction device 114 can be efficiently used to equalize the overall temperature of the exhaust temperature reduction device 114, thereby enabling high temperature exhaust and low temperature exhaust to be performed. It is possible to discharge the exhaust gas that has been mixed to a low temperature to the outside.

  Since the arrangement interval of the fins 116 can be freely adjusted by using the spacer 117, it is possible to correspond to various arrangement locations of the light source devices 63 using the same exhaust temperature reducing device 114, and between the fins 116. Therefore, the exhaust temperature reduction device 114 can be easily adjusted.

  Furthermore, since the exhaust temperature reduction device 114 can be easily adjusted, there is little need to consider the location of the equipment that becomes hot, such as the light source device 63, in the process of designing and manufacturing a projector that is downsized. Is possible.

  Next, another embodiment will be described which is another structural example of the exhaust temperature reducing device 114 in which the arrangement interval of the fins 116 can be easily adjusted. In this embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, a spiral groove 118 is formed on the surface of the heat conducting member 115 of the exhaust temperature reducing device 114.

By providing the spiral groove 118 in the heat conducting member 115 in this manner, the arrangement interval of the fins 116 can be freely adjusted by rotating the fins 116 along the spiral groove 118, and the fins 116 are arranged densely. In addition, wide arrangement between the fins 116 can be easily adjusted only by rotating the fins 116 along the screw grooves 118.
And by setting it as such a structure, it can respond to various situations using the same exhaust temperature reduction device 114 similarly to the previous Example.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to the above Example, A change and improvement are freely possible in the range which does not deviate from the summary of invention. In the present embodiment, the projector is described specifically. However, the present invention is not limited to the projector, and can naturally be used as an exhaust temperature reducing device for a rear projection TV, a personal computer, or the like.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an appearance of a projector according to an embodiment of the invention. FIG. 3 is a control block diagram of the projector according to the embodiment of the invention. 1 is a perspective view of a projector according to an embodiment of the present invention with a top plate removed. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the projector according to the embodiment of the present invention with the top plate and the house cover removed. FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an air flow of the projector according to the embodiment of the invention. The figure which shows the light source chamber of the projector which concerns on the Example of this invention. The elements on larger scale of the exhaust temperature reduction apparatus which concerns on the Example of this invention. The figure which shows the other example of the light source chamber of the projector which concerns on the Example of this invention. The elements on larger scale of the other example of the exhaust temperature reduction apparatus which concerns on the Example of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

10 Projector 11 Top plate
12 Front plate 15 Left plate
17 Exhaust hole 18 Intake hole
19 Lens cover 20 Louver
21 I / O connector 22 I / O interface
23 Image converter 24 Display encoder
26 Display drive unit 31 Image compression / decompression unit
32 Memory card 35 Ir receiver
36 Ir processing section 37 Key / indicator section
38 Control unit 41 Power control circuit
43 Cooling fan drive control circuit 45 Lens motor
47 Audio processor 48 Speaker
51 Display element 53 Display element heat sink
55 Display element mounting plate 61 Light source side optical system
62 Projection-side optical system 63 Light source device
70 Mirror fixture 71 Color wheel
73 Wheel motor 74 Second reflection mirror
75 Light guide rod 83 Light source side lens group
85 Irradiation mirror 91 Fixed barrel
93 Fixed lens group 95 Movable lens barrel
97 Movable lens group 103 Control circuit board
101 Lamp power circuit block 110 Cooling fan
111 Air inlet 113 Air outlet
114 Exhaust temperature reduction device 115 Heat conduction member
116 Fin 117 Spacer
118 Spiral groove 120 Light source room
121 1st bulkhead 122 2nd bulkhead
123 3rd partition 124 4th partition
125 house cover

Claims (8)

A first heat source;
At least one second heat source that generates less heat than the first heat source;
A cooling fan for cooling the first heat source and the second heat source;
An exhaust temperature reducing device for reducing the temperature of the high-temperature air generated by the cooling fan cooling the first heat source, and a housing,
It has an exhaust hole for exhausting the exhaust through the exhaust temperature reducing device to the outside,
The exhaust temperature reduction device includes a plurality of fins in a rod-like heat conduction member, and allows the interval between the fins to be adjusted .
One or more spacers that are detachable by passing through a central opening in the heat conducting member are disposed between the fins of the exhaust temperature reducing device .   A first heat source;
  At least one second heat source that generates less heat than the first heat source;
  A cooling fan for cooling the first heat source and the second heat source;
  An exhaust temperature reducing device for reducing the temperature of the high-temperature air generated by the cooling fan cooling the first heat source, and a housing,
  It has an exhaust hole for exhausting the exhaust through the exhaust temperature reducing device to the outside,
  The exhaust temperature reduction device includes a plurality of fins in a rod-like heat conduction member, and allows the interval between the fins to be adjusted.
  A spiral groove is formed on the surface of the heat conducting member,
  An electrical apparatus, wherein the position of the fin is adjusted by rotating the fin along the spiral groove. The fins, electrical equipment according to claim 1 or claim 2, characterized in that it is arranged to arrangement interval continuously widened gradually with respect to the heat conducting member. The fin of the exhaust air temperature reducing unit is closely in the vicinity Atsushi Ko portion, the electrical device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that it is arranged sparsely in a position away from the high temperature portion . A light source device as a first heat source;
A control unit and a display element as a second heat source;
A light source side optical system;
A projection side optical system for projecting a projection image in the housing;
Electrical device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that an exhaust hole for discharging exhaust gas through the exhaust air temperature reducing unit to the outside is a projector including a housing. The electric apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the electric apparatus is a projector having a light source chamber for housing the light source device and the exhaust temperature reducing device. The electric device according to claim 6 , wherein the cooling fan is provided outside the light source chamber, and an air discharge port of the cooling fan is connected to a wall body of the light source chamber. The electric device according to claim 7 , wherein the light source chamber has a sealed structure with respect to the inside of the housing at a place other than the air discharge port of the cooling fan.

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