Combined Lamp Fan Segmented Frame and Foldable Brackets

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current combined lamp fans are oversized due to integrated lighting and air supply functions, leading to increased storage and transportation costs due to larger packaging sizes.

Innovation Solution

A combined lamp fan design featuring a main body frame composed of split frames, a detachable fan component with rotating blades, and foldable lamp brackets, allowing for disassembly and compact packaging by separating and folding components.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the fan product is integrated with the lighting function of a lamp, then the lighting and blowing functions are combined, but the packaging size becomes oversized occupying a lot of space in storage and transportation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecombined lighting and blowing functionsVSAvoidpackaging size
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The main body frame is divided into multiple split frames that can be detached from each other. The fan component is separated into a rotating piece and multiple fan blades that can be detached. This segmentation allows the components to be disassembled and packaged in a compact manner, reducing the packaging volume while maintaining the integrated lighting and blowing functions when assembled.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The lamp brackets are designed with foldable structures that can be dynamically adjusted between extended and folded positions. This dynamic design allows the lamp brackets to be folded into a compact configuration during packaging, significantly reducing the overall packaging size while maintaining full functionality when in the extended position.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Volume of moving object

If the packaging size is reduced through disassembly and folding, then storage and transportation costs are lowered, but the device complexity increases due to multiple detachable connections

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepackaging sizeVSAvoiddetachable connections structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Volume of moving objectVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple connection functions are merged into integrated connecting structures. The connecting pieces incorporate both connection and limitation functions in a single component design. For example, the connecting pieces have protrusions that fit into corresponding grooves on adjacent split frames, combining the connection action with the limitation action in one structural element, thereby reducing the number of separate components needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The connecting structures are designed with localized features tailored to specific connection points. Each connecting piece has protrusions and grooves positioned at specific locations on the split frames to achieve both connection and limitation functions. This localized design approach allows for simple, targeted connection mechanisms rather than complex universal joints, reducing overall device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Volume of moving object

If the fan blades are detachably connected to the rotating piece, then the packaging compactness is improved, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase for the connection interfaces

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepackaging compactnessVSAvoidconnection interface precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Volume of moving objectVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The fan component is segmented into a rotating piece and multiple fan blades with detachable connections. This segmentation allows for standardized connection interfaces that can be manufactured with controlled precision, and the modular design permits assembly and disassembly without requiring extremely tight tolerances across the entire assembly, thereby reducing the overall manufacturing precision requirements while maintaining packaging compactness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The connection design incorporates multi-dimensional features including protrusions that fit into grooves, mounting holes for locking pieces, and limiting grooves with protrusion limiting structures. This multi-dimensional connection approach provides multiple degrees of freedom and constraint points, allowing for easier assembly and reduced sensitivity to manufacturing precision in any single dimension, thereby lowering the overall precision requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS12173889B1Combined lamp fan
Publication Date: 2024.12.24 ZHU XUEBEI
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AI summary

Provided is a combined lamp fan. A main body frame includes a plurality of split frames, the plurality of split frames are arranged in a circumferential array around a preset center, and any two adjacent split frames are detachably connected; a fan component is detachably connected to the main body frame, the fan component includes a rotating piece and a plurality of fan blades, the plurality of fan blades are arranged uniformly around a rotating axis, and each of the fan blades is detachably connected to the rotating piece; and a plurality of lamp brackets are respectively arranged in the main body frame, and a lampholder on each of the lamp brackets is electrically connected to a bulb.