Detachable Cover String Light Housing for Easy Wide-Angle Illumination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional string lights are difficult to assemble and have limited directional illumination, restricting their use to walls or ceilings.
Innovation Solution
A string light assembly design featuring detachable cover units with engaging portions and limit holes that allow easy mounting of light housings onto a light strip, enabling wide-angle illumination and artistic atmosphere.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If conventional string lights use separate cover seats and light housings that need to be connected and adhered or screwed together, then the illumination function is achieved, but the assembly process becomes complex and inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the cover seat and light housing into a single integrated light housing structure. The light housing directly covers the illuminating portion of the light strip without requiring separate cover seats, eliminating the need for connection, adhesion, or screwing operations. This integration simplifies the assembly process to merely mounting the light housing on the light strip.
2Adaptability or versatility
If string lights use fixed directional illumination design, then the structure is simple, but the usage is limited to walls or ceilings only
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs adjustable illumination structures within the light housing that can be rotated or repositioned to change the illumination direction. This dynamic adjustment capability allows the light housing to adapt to different mounting surfaces and orientations, enabling versatile usage on walls, ceilings, or other surfaces while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
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AI summary
A string light assembly comprises a light strip and multiple light housings. The light strip has multiple illuminating portions and a strip portion. The light housings are arranged at sites of the illuminating portions respectively. Each one of the light housings has two cover units and two limit holes. The cover units detachably engage with each other. Each one of the cover units has a base surface, an installing recess, and an engaging portion. The installing recess is recessed from the base surface, and the installing recesses of the two cover units together form a chamber, and a corresponding one of the illuminating portions is located in the chamber. The engaging portions of the two cover units are engageable with each other. The strip portion is disposed through the two limit holes. The user may easily mount the light housings to the light strip by simply buckling the two cover units.