Expandable Grating Decorative Light for Landscaping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional decorative lights are limited to single functions and fail to meet evolving user needs, lacking versatility and convenience in deployment and storage.
Innovation Solution
An expandable and collapsible decorative light with a grating structure composed of pivotally connected elongated members and integrated LED lighting, allowing for easy expansion, use, and storage, along with a gripping mechanism for handling, and the ability to define spatial layouts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional decorative lights are used, then decorative lighting function is provided, but versatility and spatial definition capability are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The decorative light is designed to perform multiple functions: it provides decorative lighting through LED strings, defines spatial layouts through its expandable grating structure that can be arranged in various configurations, and offers easy portability through its collapsible design. This multi-functionality directly addresses the versatility deficiency of conventional single-purpose decorative lights.
Solution Approach 2:
The decorative light employs a dynamic grating structure with pivotally connected elongated members that can transition between expanded and collapsed states. This dynamic capability allows the structure to adapt to different spatial requirements during use and compact for storage, resolving the contradiction between versatility and structural complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If expandable design is incorporated, then spatial layout definition capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The decorative light is divided into multiple first and second elongated members that are pivotally connected to form a grating structure. This segmentation allows the structure to be expanded into various spatial configurations for layout definition while maintaining relatively simple individual component designs, thus achieving spatial versatility without excessive overall complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The grating structure is designed to collapse into a compact form when not in use, with elongated members nesting together to minimize volume. This nesting capability allows the structure to achieve complex spatial configurations during use while maintaining simple storage requirements, resolving the contradiction between spatial definition capability and structural complexity.
3Ease of operation
If collapsible design is used, then storage convenience is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The collapsible design employs pivot shaft members that enable the elongated members to rotate and collapse together. While the manufacturing of pivot mechanisms adds some complexity, it enables the structure to collapse into a compact form for easy storage and transport, significantly improving storage convenience compared to rigid decorative light structures.
Solution Approach 2:
By dividing the decorative light into multiple separable elongated members connected by pivots, the collapsible design achieves compact storage configuration. The segmented structure allows each component to be manufactured independently using standard fabrication processes, which can offset the increased assembly complexity through modular manufacturing approaches.
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 provides a versatile decorative light that can be easily deployed and stored, offering both aesthetic and functional benefits by allowing for customizable lighting and spatial definition, enhancing user convenience and application flexibility.
Implementation Method 1
The first elongated members and the second elongated members are pivotally connected by a plurality of pivot shaft members and can therefore be moved pivotally and slantingly with respect to each other
Implementation Method 2
Each light string is provided with a plurality of light-emitting diode (LED) lamp beads that are arranged at intervals
Data Source
AI summary
A decorative light applicable for landscaping includes an expandable and collapsible main body and a lighting portion. The main body includes a plurality of first elongated members and a plurality of second elongated members that are pivotally connected to and overlap the first elongated members. The main body is expandable and collapsible between its two opposite lateral sides through pivotal movement of the first and the second elongated members. The lighting portion includes a power supply unit and a plurality of light strings. The light strings are electrically connected to the power supply unit and extend into the first and the second elongated members respectively. Each light string is provided with a plurality of light-emitting diode (LED) lamp beads that are arranged at intervals.