Patent ID: 9519204
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: G03B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A light source apparatus comprising: a light source which emits exciting light; a dichroic mirror which reflects said exciting light; a condenser lens which converges the reflected exciting light; a metal member to receive said converged exciting light to generate phosphor light; and an optical device to guide the converged exciting light converged by said condenser lens to said metal member, and to transmit the phosphor light from said metal member to said condenser lens, wherein: said generated phosphor light passes through said condenser lens, thereby becoming mostly parallel phosphor light by said condenser lens, said dichroic mirror has a characteristic to reflect said exciting light and to transmit said mostly parallel phosphor light, said exciting light enters the dichroic mirror as mostly parallel light, said exciting light is transmitted to said metal member through said optical device by lens action of said condenser lens, said metal member has a concave portion in a portion where said transmitted exciting light is received, and phosphor to generate said phosphor light from said transmitted exciting light is coated in said concave portion, said optical device is arranged at a portion where said phosphor light generated in said concave portion is emitted and has a taper shape which is narrowed toward the said metal member, the phosphor light from the metal member being reflected a plurality of times within the taper shaped optical device to form diffused phosphor light, the progressively diffused phosphor light is introduced to said condenser lens, and a width of light flux of the phosphor light which exits from said condenser lens and passes through said dichroic mirror is wider than a width of the light flux of the exciting light which is reflected by said dichroic mirror and enters said condenser lens.