Fluorescent Diamond Arrangement for UV Identification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Natural diamonds with strong fluorescence are undervalued in the market due to their rarity, making it difficult to distinguish them from non-fluorescent diamonds, leading to irregular mixes in ornamental devices.

Innovation Solution

An ornamental device featuring diamonds with blue fluorescence stronger than strong blue, ensuring consistent blue radiation under ultraviolet light, allowing for reliable differentiation from mixed groups of diamonds.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If natural diamonds with strong fluorescence are used in ornamental devices, then the diamonds have a distinctive blue radiation under ultraviolet light, but the diamonds are undervalued in the market and difficult to distinguish from non-fluorescent diamonds

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedistinctiveness of diamondsVSAvoidmarket value and identification
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent utilizes the fluorescent property of diamonds to produce blue radiation under ultraviolet light, creating a distinctive color change that enables reliable identification and differentiation from non-fluorescent diamonds, thereby resolving the identification and valuation problem

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the evaluation parameter from traditional visible light appearance to ultraviolet fluorescence response, allowing diamonds with strong fluorescence to be distinguished and valued based on their blue radiation intensity under UV light rather than their appearance under normal lighting conditions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Quantity of substance

If a group of natural diamonds is arranged in an ornamental device, then the diamonds show irregular fluorescence patterns, but this creates black spots and inconsistent blue radiation under ultraviolet light

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenumber of diamondsVSAvoiduniformity of blue radiation
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies homogeneity by selecting and arranging diamonds that all possess strong blue fluorescence, ensuring uniform blue radiation across the entire ornamental device under ultraviolet light, thereby eliminating the black spots and inconsistency caused by mixing fluorescent and non-fluorescent diamonds

Inventive Principle:
Principle #33Homogeneity

3Reliability

If diamonds with strong blue fluorescence are selected for the ornamental device, then the blue radiation under ultraviolet light is identical to the specific physical arrangement, but this requires careful selection and arrangement of diamonds

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidentification accuracyVSAvoidselection and arrangement process
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-selecting diamonds with strong blue fluorescence properties before arranging them in the ornamental device, ensuring that the identification function is reliably achieved without requiring complex real-time verification during assembly or use

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

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 consistent blue radiation under UV light enables distinct identification of the ornamental device, potentially serving as a membership proof, and increases demand and value for diamonds with strong fluorescence.

Implementation Method 1

Some natural diamonds have a fluorescence under ultraviolet radiation (synthetic or artificial diamonds do not have a fluorescence). The diamonds shine blue based on a blue fluorescence under black light or other ultraviolet radiation.

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFluorescence: Fluorescence

Data Source

PatentUS11839273B2Jewelry device with fluorescent diamonds
Publication Date: 2023.12.12 TANAKA YOSHIKO
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AI summary

An ornamental device includes: diamonds disposed on a single support element in a specific physical arrangement, all the diamonds in the specific physical arrangement having a blue fluorescent equal to or stronger than strong blue, wherein all the diamonds in the specific physical arrangement shining clear under a visible light, and shining blue under ultraviolet radiation keeping the specific physical arrangement distinguished from a group of diamonds in the specific physical arrangement, the group of diamonds comprising a mixture of a diamond or diamonds having a blue fluorescence equal to or stronger than strong blue and a diamonds or diamonds not having a blue fluorescent equal to or stronger than strong blue.