Patent ID: 6945655

Claim:
A convection-cooled projector comprises, a housing having a base, upstanding sidewalls extending from said base and a top, a liquid crystal display panel within said housing in spaced relation to said base, a plurality of thermal isolation walls within said housing between said liquid crystal display panel and said base, a plurality of aligned independent cooling compartments defined by said thermal isolation walls a projector light source within said housing for illuminating an image formed on said liquid crystal panel, said projector light source positioned between said base and said cooling compartments, a lens in one of said cooling compartments defining a projection surface, a plurality of ventilation openings in opposing walls incorporated within each of said independent cooling compartments and housing, light baffles within each of said cooling compartments and said housing independent thereof, said baffles define spaced overlapping elements extending from respective surfaces of effacing isolation walls and said liquid crystal panel support and said lens effacing surfaces, said light baffles in vertical alignment with each other in adjacent cooling compartments and said housing in spaced relation to respective ventilation openings.