Ceiling Light Fixture With Airflow Ring for Integrated Room Heating
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional light fixtures with heating capabilities are often obtrusive and difficult to maintain, failing to provide a harmonious aesthetic in formal home settings while effectively warming a room.
Innovation Solution
A light fixture design featuring an upper housing with an air channel, airflow ring, light diffuser, light source, and a heat source with a fan to create a heated airstream, allowing for efficient heating and lighting while maintaining a sleek appearance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If conventional light fixtures incorporate heaters to warm the room, then heating capability is provided, but the fixtures become obtrusive and difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines lighting and heating functions into a single integrated fixture unit. The light fixture housing incorporates heating elements and airflow channels within the same structure, allowing both functions to be performed by one device rather than separate units, thus improving ease of operation while maintaining aesthetic appeal.
Solution Approach 2:
The light fixture is designed to perform multiple functions: providing illumination through light sources and providing heating through integrated heating elements with airflow channels. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate heater devices, making the fixture unobtrusive while maintaining both lighting and heating capabilities.
2Temperature
If light fixtures are designed with heating elements and airflow channels, then heating capability is achieved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The heating function is segmented into distinct components: heating elements positioned within the housing and separate airflow channels that guide air movement. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function efficiently while maintaining a modular structure that manages complexity through functional separation.
Solution Approach 2:
The airflow channels are integrated within the existing light fixture housing structure, nesting the heating system within the lighting fixture. The channels utilize the housing walls and internal spaces, embedding the heating functionality within the existing form factor rather than adding external complexity.
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 unobtrusive heating and lighting capabilities, efficiently warming a room through directed airflow, enhancing comfort without compromising aesthetics.
Implementation Method 1
The heat source also including a fan for creating an airstream. With this construction, the actuation of the fan draws air into the light fixture through the air intake holes
Implementation Method 2
a heat source coupled to the housing to heat air passing through the housing air channel. the heat source heats the airstream created by the fan
Data Source
AI summary
A light fixture (10) is provided having an upper housing (11), a light diffusor (12), a light source (13), and a heating source (14). The housing includes a mounting plate (17) adapted to be mounted to the ceiling of a structure in conventional fashion. The upper housing includes an upper wall, two oppositely disposed side walls (18), a bottom wall (19) spanning the side walls, and an annular airflow ring (21). The bottom wall has a central opening (23) therein. The airflow ring has a plurality of air exhaust holes (24) and a plurality of air intake holes (25). The mounting plate, bottom wall, and two side walls form an air channel (28) in fluid communication with the exhaust holes of the airflow ring. The heat source includes a pair of heating elements (38) mounted within the airflow channel and a motorized fan (39).