Blinking Wine Bottle Stopper With Light Guide Unit
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wine bottle stoppers lack eye-catching decorations and fail to enhance the product value due to their poor visual design and inability to be reused after opening.
Innovation Solution
A blinking wine bottle stopper with a light-emitting unit, power supply, and light guide assembly that provides a brilliant and eye-catching visual effect when mounted on a wine bottle, comprising a base with a receiving chamber, light-emitting diodes, a battery power supply, and a light guide unit with staggered patterns to create a shining effect.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a conventional cork stopper is used to tightly close the bottle opening, then the bottle can be sealed for long term storage, but the stopper is easily damaged when opened and cannot be reused, and lacks eye-catching decorations
Solution Approach 1:
The stopper is divided into multiple functional components: a base body for sealing, a light-emitting unit for visual effect, a power supply unit for energy, and a light guide unit for light distribution. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while working together as an integrated system that provides both reliable sealing and eye-catching decoration.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges the functional sealing stopper with decorative lighting elements into a single integrated product. The light-emitting unit, power supply, and light guide are combined with the stopper structure, creating a multi-functional device that simultaneously provides sealing reliability and visual appeal.
2Reliability
If a conventional cork stopper is used, then the bottle can be sealed, but the stopper cannot be reused after opening and provides poor visual design
Solution Approach 1:
The stopper incorporates a rechargeable power supply unit that can be recharged multiple times, and a light-emitting unit that can be controlled to turn on and off. This dynamic design allows the stopper to be reused repeatedly - both for its sealing function and its decorative lighting function - transforming it from a single-use item to a reusable, adaptable accessory.
3Ease of manufacture
If a stopper with light-emitting elements is added to enhance visual appeal, then the product value and collectibility increase, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The light guide unit serves multiple functions: it distributes light from the light-emitting elements, provides structural support for mounting the components, and contributes to the overall aesthetic design. By making the light guide unit multi-functional, the invention reduces the need for additional separate components, thereby managing device complexity while achieving enhanced visual appeal.
4Illumination intensity
If a light guide unit with staggered patterns is used to create a shining effect, then the illumination intensity and visual effect are improved, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The light guide unit incorporates staggered patterns that are intentionally asymmetric in their arrangement. This asymmetric design creates the desired shining and eye-catching effect while the patterns are designed to be relatively simple in form, reducing the complexity of manufacturing precision requirements compared to more complex symmetric or irregular patterns.
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 enhances the visual appeal and value of the wine bottle, making it less likely to be discarded and increasing its collectibility by providing a unique and attractive appearance.
Implementation Method 1
the light-emitting unit comprising a substrate and at least two light-emitting elements mounted to the substrate
Implementation Method 2
the light guide unit comprising a light guide assembly and at least a light incident section, the light incident section being received in the opening of the base to contact the light-emitting unit
Data Source
AI summary
A blinking wine bottle stopper includes a base, a power supply unit, and a light guide unit. The base has a receiving chamber having an opening The receiving chamber receives therein a light-emitting unit and the power supply unit. The light guide unit is fixed in the opening of the base to correspond to the light-emitting unit so that light emitting from the light-emitting unit is allowed to travel into and spread in the light guide unit.