Cellular shade with divider webs
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cellular shades lack design options for varying illumination along the front face, limiting aesthetic choices for consumers, and do not provide a unique appearance that can cater to different lighting preferences.
Innovation Solution
The cellular shade design incorporates divider webs within each shade cell to divide the cells into multiple structures, allowing for varying light transmission properties and creating alternating light transmission bands along the height of the shade, which can be tailored to provide unique illumination effects and aesthetic appeal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional cellular shades are used with uniform cell structures, then manufacturing is simple and uniform illumination is achieved, but design options for varying illumination are limited and aesthetic appeal is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The shade cell is segmented into multiple compartments using divider webs that extend from the front face to the rear face, dividing each cell into first and second compartments. This segmentation creates different light transmission paths and illumination patterns while maintaining the overall cellular structure's insulating function.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the cell are given different qualities by introducing divider webs at specific locations and orientations. The divider webs create local variations in light transmission characteristics, allowing some areas to transmit more light than others, thus achieving varying illumination patterns across the front face.
2Illumination intensity
If uniform light transmission is provided across the front face, then illumination consistency is maintained, but aesthetic appeal and design variety are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The cell interior is segmented into multiple compartments using divider webs, creating distinct light transmission zones. This segmentation allows different portions of the front face to exhibit different illumination intensities based on the compartment configuration, material properties, and light path lengths.
Solution Approach 2:
The divider webs extend in the depth dimension (from front face to rear face), creating three-dimensional light transmission paths. This dimensional approach allows control over illumination patterns by varying the divider web positioning, orientation, and material properties along the depth of the cell.
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AI summary
An extendable and retractable cellular shade may include a plurality of vertically aligned shade cells and one or more divider webs extending within each shade cells to as to divide the shade cell into two or more cell structures. By adjusting one or more design parameters associated with the cellular shade, the configuration of the shade cells, such as the size and/or shape of the cell structures, and/or the illumination or lighting effects associated with the cellular shade may be specifically tailored to provide a desired aesthetic look or feel for the shade.