US 7,616,270 B2
Electro-optical device, and projector and electronic apparatus including the same
Hidekazu Hirabayashi, Shiojiri (Japan); Tomoaki Miyashita, Shimosuwa-machi (Japan); and Masafumi Sakaguchi, Suwa (Japan)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 20, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/708,310.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-043475 (JP), filed on Feb. 21, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0195222 A1, Aug. 23, 2007
Int. Cl. G02F 1/1333 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 349—59 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electro-optical device comprising:
a liquid crystal device; and
a holder that holds the liquid crystal device, the holder including a window frame having an incident window through which a light beam emitted from a light source is transmitted to the liquid crystal device, the window frame having a low reflectivity portion with a low reflectivity with respect to diagonally incident light of the light beam from the light source, the low reflectivity portion comprising a low-reflectivity layer around a periphery of the window frame.