Cloud Speaker Lamp Synchronizing Light and Sound

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional audio devices and stringed instruments face challenges in achieving balanced sound reproduction and visual appeal, with existing speaker designs often prioritizing fidelity over aesthetic and functional integration of light and sound.

Innovation Solution

The cloud speaker lamp combines a translucent enclosure with a transducer and LED light source, using acoustic resonating chamber principles and light intensity control to produce a unique sound and visual experience, optimizing enclosure design for resonant frequency control and aesthetic appeal.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional speaker designs prioritize sound fidelity, then audio reproduction quality is improved, but aesthetic appeal and visual entertainment are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesound reproduction fidelityVSAvoidvisual entertainment capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines audio and visual functions into a single integrated device. The speaker enclosure incorporates LED lights that synchronize with music playback, transforming the speaker from a purely auditory device into a multimedia entertainment system that delivers both high-fidelity sound and visual spectacle simultaneously

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The speaker device performs multiple functions: audio reproduction, visual illumination, and synchronized light-show entertainment. The system can operate in different modes including music playback with synchronized lighting effects and ambient lighting modes, making it adaptable to various entertainment scenarios

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Measurement precision

If stringed instruments use complex enclosure construction for tonal quality, then sound warmth and personality are improved, but manufacturing complexity and cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetonal character qualityVSAvoidenclosure construction complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent optimizes the enclosure parameters including shell thickness, material density, and internal cavity dimensions to achieve desired resonant frequencies and tonal characteristics. By carefully controlling these physical parameters, the device achieves warm, personality-rich sound without requiring elaborate手工 construction techniques

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The enclosure features strategically placed resonant chambers and varying wall thicknesses in specific regions to enhance certain frequency ranges. This localized optimization of structural properties allows the device to achieve superior tonal quality in critical areas while maintaining simpler construction in other regions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Ease of manufacture

If audio devices use simple rectangular enclosures, then manufacturing ease is improved, but acoustic resonance and sound quality are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenclosure fabrication simplicityVSAvoidacoustic resonance quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs curved and rounded enclosure geometries instead of simple rectangular shapes. The cloud-like or organic curved design creates more favorable acoustic resonance patterns and standing wave distributions within the enclosure, enhancing sound quality while the curves can be efficiently produced through modern molding techniques

Inventive Principle:
Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

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 device achieves a distinctive, pleasing tonal character in sound reproduction while providing both audio and visual entertainment, enhancing the audio experience with controlled light and sound synchronization.

Implementation Method 1

The cloud speaker lamp achieves mechanical motion via an enclosure, coupled to a transducer

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectromagnetic transduction: Electromagnetic Induction

Implementation Method 2

The enclosure plays an important role in the resulting sound, since its construction directly determines the efficiency of conversion from the electrical impulse to a mechanical input via the transducer and then to a sound pressure at each frequency in the audio band

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAcoustic resonance: Resonance

Implementation Method 3

The light source may produce a range of white or near white light output as well as multi colored light output. The light source can be an LED array

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight-emitting diode effect: Light Emitting Diode

Data Source

PatentUS10281135B1Cloud speaker lamp device for producing light and sound
Publication Date: 2019.05.07 SARACENI REMO
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AI summary

A mountable cloud speaker lamp system produces both audio and visual output for the purpose of enjoyment and relaxation. The cloud speaker lamp system includes a cloud shaped enclosure with a cloud shaped front shell and a flat back shell; an electro acoustic transducer for sound generation mounted on the enclosure back shell; a light source mounted on the enclosure back shell for projecting light onto the cloud shaped enclosure front shell; an input interface mounted on the enclosure back shell containing an audio input and command receiver for receiving sound and light commands from an external source, an audio amplifier to amplify the input audio and generate bands of sound corresponding to light intensity, and an illumination driver to drive the light source; and a power source. The system is configured so that a single enclosure design encompasses the cloud appearance, and provides a sound and light radiating surface.