Bendable Vehicle Warning Light Mounting for Curved Surfaces

Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional warning lights for emergency vehicles are typically fixed using brackets, which require time to mount and may need different brackets for various vehicle body shapes and sizes, leading to inefficiencies.

Innovation Solution

A bendable light device featuring a flexible mounting plate and light kit, allowing easy attachment to a vehicle body surface without gaps, using a design that includes a main body portion, light assemblies with positioning blocks and recesses, and sealing blocks for liquid protection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If conventional warning lights are fixed onto a vehicle body by a bracket, then the light can be securely mounted, but it takes time to mount the light and may require different brackets for different vehicle body shapes and sizes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemounting speedVSAvoidbracket variety

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The mounting plate is designed with a universal structure that can be attached to different vehicle body surfaces regardless of shape or size. The bendable nature and standardized attachment mechanism allow a single mounting plate design to serve multiple mounting scenarios, eliminating the need for different brackets for different vehicles.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The mounting plate is designed to be bendable rather than rigid, allowing it to adapt to different vehicle body contours. This dynamic flexibility enables the same mounting plate to conform to various surface geometries, reducing the need for multiple specialized bracket designs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If conventional warning lights are fixed onto a vehicle body by a bracket, then the light can be securely mounted, but it requires different brackets according to the shape or size of the vehicle body surface

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadaptability to vehicle surfacesVSAvoidbracket variety

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The mounting plate is designed with a universal structure that can be attached to different vehicle body surfaces regardless of shape or size. The bendable nature and standardized attachment mechanism allow a single mounting plate design to serve multiple mounting scenarios, eliminating the need for different brackets for different vehicles.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The mounting plate is designed to be bendable rather than rigid, allowing it to adapt to different vehicle body contours. This dynamic flexibility enables the same mounting plate to conform to various surface geometries, reducing the need for multiple specialized bracket designs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

3Productivity

If a bendable mounting plate is used to attach the light device to the vehicle body surface, then the attachment can be made quickly and without gaps, but the mounting plate must be bendable to conform to the surface

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinstallation efficiencyVSAvoidmounting plate rigidity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The mounting plate is designed to be bendable rather than rigid, allowing it to adapt to different vehicle body contours. This dynamic flexibility enables the same mounting plate to conform to various surface geometries, reducing the need for multiple specialized bracket designs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The mounting plate is designed to be bendable rather than rigid, allowing it to adapt to different vehicle body contours. This dynamic flexibility enables the same mounting plate to conform to various surface geometries, reducing the need for multiple specialized bracket designs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Data Source

PatentUS20250093008A1Bendable light device

Publication Date: 2025.03.20 JULUEN ENTERPRISES

AI summary

A bendable light device for a vehicle is provided and includes a bendable mounting plate and a light kit. The bendable mounting plate includes a main body portion. The light kit includes a first light assembly having a first light base, a first light cover and a first light emitting module between the first light base and the first light cover. A first assembling portion is formed on a side of the first light base and for assembling with the main body portion of the bendable mounting plate. The first light cover is mounted on the first light base. The bendable mounting plate is bent to be attached onto a surface of a vehicle body of the vehicle and fitted with a curve of the surface, such that the bendable light device can be easily attached onto the surface of the vehicle body of the vehicle without any gap therebetween.