Emergency Lighting Device Segmented Housing Elastic Interconnect
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing emergency lighting devices for confined spaces, such as recessed luminaires, face challenges with increased space requirements and complex mounting processes due to the need for extensive cabling and gravitational assembly, which complicates handling and installation.
Innovation Solution
A lighting device design featuring separate housings for electronic circuitry and energy storage, connected via an interconnecting means that provides a pivotal and elastic mechanical connection, allowing for easier access to small spaces and reducing the complexity of installation by transmitting compressive forces and maintaining thermal isolation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If separate housings for electronic circuitry and energy storage are used, then thermal isolation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting device is divided into two separate housings: a first housing for electronic circuitry and a second housing for energy storage means. This segmentation physically isolates heat-generating electronic components from temperature-sensitive battery components, preventing thermal interference while maintaining functional integration through the interconnecting means.
Solution Approach 2:
The interconnecting means combines multiple functions into a single component: it provides mechanical connection between housings, electrical connection between circuitry and battery, and thermal isolation. This merging reduces the number of separate structural elements needed, simplifying the overall device despite the separated housing design.
2Reliability
If extensive cabling and gravitational assembly are used, then functional requirements are met, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The interconnecting means integrates mechanical support, electrical connection, and cable management into a single unified component. This eliminates the need for separate cabling efforts and gravitational assembly mechanisms, making the device easier to install while maintaining all necessary functional connections between housings and components.
Solution Approach 2:
The interconnecting means is pre-configured with integrated cable pathways and connection points before installation. This preliminary arrangement of cables and connection elements simplifies the installation process, eliminating the need for complex on-site cabling and assembly operations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple functional units are linked via cables, then adaptability to confined spaces is improved, but handling complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device is segmented into two main housings that can be independently positioned and connected. This segmentation allows the housings to be maneuvered separately into confined spaces and then joined together, improving adaptability to tight installation environments while reducing the handling complexity of a single large integrated unit.
Solution Approach 2:
The interconnecting means provides flexible mechanical and electrical connections that allow the housings to move relative to each other during installation. This dynamic connection capability enables the device to adapt to various confined space configurations while simplifying the installation process compared to rigid fixed-configuration designs.
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 enables easier handling and installation of emergency lighting devices in confined spaces by allowing pivotal movement and elastic deformation, reducing the number of structural elements and manufacturing costs while ensuring effective thermal isolation and adaptability for various lighting modes.
Implementation Method 1
the interconnecting means connects the first housing and the second housing pivotally and elastically
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AI summary
The invention proposes a lighting device, in particular an emergency lighting device. The lighting device includes a first housing (2), a lighting means (12), for example an LED arranged at the first housing (2) and an electronic circuitry accommodated in the first housing (2) for operating the lighting means (12). A second housing (3) of the lighting device accommodates an energy storage means (13) such as a rechargeable battery, wherein the first housing (2) and the second housing (3) are arranged spaced apart. An interconnecting means (4) mechanically connects the first housing (2) and the second housing (3) in an elastic manner and also connects electrically the electronic circuitry and the energy storage means (13). The interconnecting means (4) of the lighting device of a preferred embodiment comprises a cable which is overmoulded to provide compressive strength in an axial direction of the cable.