Bicycle Frame Tube Lighting for Protected Information Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional bicycle lighting systems lack advanced functionalities and are vulnerable to external damage, with external displays being prone to risks during use.
Innovation Solution
A bicycle with a tube assembly incorporating a light generation subsystem, light control, and light guiding subsystem, where the light sources are integrated within the tube elements, providing a robust and attention-catching lighting effect, including graphical and text representations, and allowing for feedback and information display through a matrix or dot-matrix display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If external displays are used on the bicycle, then information display functionality is provided, but the system becomes vulnerable to external damage and risks during use
Solution Approach 1:
The light generation subsystem is nested within the tube elements of the bicycle frame. The light sources are positioned inside the tube elements and guide light through openings in the tube walls, creating a nested structure where the display system is protected within the frame tubes, similar to nested dolls where smaller objects are placed inside larger ones for protection and integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The display system is segmented into multiple independently controllable light sources arranged in arrays or grids within different tube elements. Each tube element with its light sources and openings functions as an independent segment, allowing the display to be divided into multiple sections that can be controlled separately while maintaining overall system reliability.
2Reliability
If conventional lighting systems are used, then basic safety lighting is provided, but advanced functionalities and attention value are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The light generation subsystem serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides basic safety lighting through the light guiding subsystem, displays graphical and text information through controlled light patterns, offers feedback to the user, and creates attention-catching visual effects. This multi-functional design allows a single system to replace multiple separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The light sources are independently controllable and can dynamically change their illumination patterns, intensity, and configuration to provide different functions. The system can switch between basic safety lighting modes and advanced display modes, adjusting the behavior of light sources in real-time based on operational requirements.
3Reliability
If light sources are integrated within tube elements, then robustness and protection from external influences are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The light generation subsystem is merged with the bicycle frame structure by integrating light sources within the tube elements. The tube elements serve dual purposes as both structural components and protective housings for the light sources, while the openings in the tube walls serve as both structural features and light transmission pathways, reducing the need for separate protective components.
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 solution provides a robust and attention-catching lighting effect that minimizes vulnerability to external damage, enabling advanced functionalities like graphical and text displays, feedback, and information transfer, while maintaining reliability and practicality.
Implementation Method 1
a light guiding subsystem for guiding of light over a part of the path between the at least one light source and the surroundings of the bicycle
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a bicycle with light system. The bicycle includes a tube assembly including a frame with mutually fixed tube elements with a tube wall and movable tube elements, such as a steering pin and a handlebar, a light generation subsystem including at least one independently controllable light source for generation of light, a light control for controlling the light generation subsystem for providing at least one light effect, and a light guiding subsystem for guiding light over a part of the path between the at least one light source and the surroundings of the bicycle. The at least one light source is arranged in at least one of the at least one tube element. The bicycle includes the at least one opening in at least one tube element for passing the light through the tube wall. The light guiding subsystem provides a guiding from the inside of the respective at least one tube element to the outside of the at least one tube element of the frame.