US Patent Issued to PANASONIC PROJECTOR & DISPLAY on Sept. 8 for "Phosphor wheel unit and projection display apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,367, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to PANASONIC PROJECTOR & DISPLAY Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Phosphor wheel unit and projection display apparatus" was invented by Kiyoko Tsuji (Osaka, Japan), Masato Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroyuki Masuda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phosphor wheel unit includes a phosphor wheel that converts incident light into fluorescent light and emits the fluorescent light, a first heat exchanger having a plurality of fin members that is arranged and an airflow inlet surface through which an airflow generated by rotation of the phosphor wheel partially or entirely flows in, and a regulating m...