Faceted Plate Diamond Size Enhancer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing jewelry settings for precious stones, particularly diamonds, fail to effectively enhance the perceived size while maintaining the brilliance and sparkle characteristic of conventional brilliant cut diamonds, and often require significant modifications to existing designs.
Innovation Solution
A size-enhancing disc or plate bezel with faceted surfaces that reflect light to create a larger visual effect, featuring a central opening for the pavilion of the diamond, and a design that blends seamlessly with the stone, supported by prongs that engage the diamond's girdle without contact, with a rhodium-coated surface for enhanced brilliance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of moving object
If a metallic bezel surrounds the diamond to enhance its perceived size, then the diamond appears larger to casual observers, but the metallic surface cannot replicate the brilliance and sparkle patterns of a conventional brilliant cut diamond
Solution Approach 1:
The bezel is segmented into multiple raised facets that individually reflect light, collectively creating a pattern that mimics the brilliance of a brilliant cut diamond. Each facet acts as a separate light-reflecting element, and their combined effect reproduces the characteristic sparkle.
Solution Approach 2:
The facets are designed to reflect light in specific patterns that create visual illusions of brilliance and sparkle. The geometric arrangement and angular orientation of facets manipulate light reflection to produce optical effects similar to diamond refraction.
2Illumination intensity
If the bezel is made with raised facets to reflect light, then light reflection is improved, but the complexity of manufacturing the faceted structure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The faceted bezel design serves multiple functions simultaneously: it structurally supports the diamond through the raised facets, creates light reflection patterns for visual enhancement, and maintains a conventional appearance that blends with traditional diamond settings. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components.
3Area of moving object
If a faceted plate is added to enhance diamond size perception, then the visual enlargement effect is achieved, but the complexity of the setting structure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The faceted plate is merged with the existing setting structure, combining the size-enhancement function with the support function. The plate is integrated into the setting body and works in conjunction with the prongs to hold the diamond, creating a unified structure that achieves multiple objectives without requiring entirely separate components.
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 effectively increases the perceived size of the diamond by 20-35% in diameter, doubling its carat value, while maintaining the sparkle and brilliance associated with diamonds, and can be easily integrated into existing settings without altering their conventional appearance.
Implementation Method 1
the faceted plate being configured to reflect light that emanates from the pavilion of the precious stone outwardly and upwardly
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AI summary
A size enhancing jewelry setting for a precious stone includes a setting body with a holding portion that is configured to engage and hold the precious stone affixed to the setting body. A faceted plate is supported by the setting body. The faceted plate has a central opening for the passage of a pavilion region of the precious stone therethrough, an upward facing reflecting surface that partially extends below a girdle of the precious stone and which faces a portion of the pavilion region of the precious stone in spaced relationship thereto, and a portion that protrudes peripherally beyond the girdle of the precious stone. The faceted plate is being configured to reflect light that emanates from the pavilion of the precious stone outwardly and upwardly, the reflected light surrounding and extending beyond the precious stone to produce a visual effect of the precious stone being larger in a peripheral dimension thereof than it actually is.