Patent ID: 8038302

Claim:
A projector comprising: an image projecting device that modulates luminous flux emitted from a light source according to image information and projects the same in an enlarged scale; and an exterior casing that includes an air intake port for introducing outside air into the interior thereof and accommodates the image projecting device in the interior thereof; and a cooling device that cools the interior of the exterior casing by the outside air introduced via the air intake port, wherein the cooling device includes a first sirocco fan and a second sirocco fan that discharge air taken along axes of rotation of the fans to the direction along tangent of rotation, and an air intake port-side duct that guides the outside air introduced via the air intake port toward the first sirocco fan and the second sirocco fan, and wherein: the cooling device is disposed at a position opposite side from the direction of projection of the image projecting device with respect to the image projecting device, the first sirocco fan and the second sirocco fan are disposed with axes of rotation thereof oriented so as to intersect with each other, the axis of rotation of the first sirocco fan is substantially orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the second sirocco fan, the first sirocco fan is disposed so as to discharge taken air toward the image projecting device, the second sirocco fan is disposed so as to discharge taken air in the direction substantially orthogonal to the direction of projection, the air intake port-side duct includes a hollow member which has a substantially parallelepiped shape and introduces the outside air into the interior thereof, the hollow member is formed with a first deriving port and a second deriving port that derive the outside air introduced in the interior thereof to the first sirocco fan and the second sirocco fan respectively on a first side wall and a second side wall of the hollow member which intersect with each other, and the air intake port-side duct is provided with a partitioning wall in the interior thereof so as to define flow channels respectively for the first sirocco fan and the second sirocco fan.