Bendable Decorative Lamp Using Segmented LED Modules
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing LED lamps lack bendability, poseability, scalability, and protective features, leading to structural limitations, exposure of LEDs, and inefficient packaging for transportation.
Innovation Solution
A bendable and poseable decorative lamp design featuring segmental light-emitting bodies with an elastically bendable transparent tube and a flexible spring steel band, providing protection and allowing for independent operation and easy assembly/disassembly, with caps and pin members for secure fixation and connection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If LEDs are arranged in linear or planar configurations in existing LED lamps, then the lighting coverage is sufficient, but the lamps lack bendability and poseability
Solution Approach 1:
The lamp is divided into multiple segmental light-emitting bodies that can be independently bent and posed. Each segment contains LEDs, conductive filaments, and light-permeable resin, allowing flexible configuration while maintaining structural integrity. This segmentation enables the lamp to adapt to various shapes and positions without compromising lighting function.
Solution Approach 2:
The lamp employs flexible conductive filaments and light-permeable resin materials that allow bending and posing. The conductive filaments maintain electrical connectivity while being flexible enough to be shaped, and the light-permeable resin protects LEDs while allowing light transmission, enabling both bendability and functional integrity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If existing LED lamps are designed with fixed number of LEDs, then manufacturing is simplified, but scalability is limited and adaptability to practical use scenarios is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The lamp uses segmental light-emitting bodies that can be connected in series or parallel configurations. Each segment contains a specific number of LEDs and can be independently manufactured, then assembled into various total configurations based on practical needs. This modular segmentation enables scalability without complicating individual segment manufacturing.
Solution Approach 2:
The lamp design provides universal connectivity interfaces and standardized segment structures that can be arranged in multiple configurations (series, parallel, combinations) to suit different practical use scenarios. The same basic segment can serve multiple functions in different lighting applications, enhancing scalability and adaptability.
3Reliability
If LEDs are exposed to the exterior without protection, then the structure is simplified, but service life is reduced and tidiness is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The lamp uses light-permeable resin as a protective encapsulation for LEDs. This resin layer protects the LEDs from external damage, moisture, and contamination while maintaining light transmission. The flexible nature of the resin allows it to conform to bent shapes, providing protection without compromising the bendability or lighting function.
Solution Approach 2:
The light-permeable resin acts as an intermediary protective layer between the external environment and the LEDs. It filters out harmful factors while allowing light to pass through, effectively protecting the LEDs without interfering with their primary function. This intermediary layer extends service life while maintaining lighting performance.
4Productivity
If conventional LED lamps use non-compact packaging, then ease of assembly is maintained, but air-freight and express-delivery efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The lamp segments are designed to nest within each other when not in use, with smaller segments fitting inside larger ones or segments coiling compactly. This nesting capability dramatically reduces the packaging volume for air-freight and express-delivery, improving transportation efficiency while maintaining the simplicity of assembly through standardized connection interfaces.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The design enhances durability, adaptability, and decorative effects while maintaining a compact profile, facilitating easy maintenance and scalable lighting configurations, and improving packaging efficiency for transportation.
Implementation Method 1
an elastically bendable transparent tube
Implementation Method 2
a spring steel band that is integrally formed
Implementation Method 3
the transparent tube radially inward wraps the strip light and the spring steel band
Implementation Method 4
The light-emitting sources are each encapsuled by light-permeable resin
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a bendable decorative lamp, at least comprising: a plurality of segmental light-emitting bodies that are independent of each other, wherein each said segmental light-emitting body has an elastically bendable transparent tube, a flexible strip light having a plurality of light-emitting cells, and a spring steel band that is integrally formed, and the transparent tube radially wraps therein the strip light and the spring steel band that are arranged in parallel to each other, wherein the segmental light-emitting bodies are mechanically separated from each other and electrically connected to each other.