Furnishing Light with Projecting Element and Lens
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional furnishing lights lack variety in design, failing to enhance the visual atmosphere and thus struggle to attract consumers and increase purchasing intent.
Innovation Solution
A furnishing light design featuring a base with a control circuit and LED illuminators, a cylinder-shaped projecting element with transparent and opaque areas, and a lens that projects light through the transparent area onto a casing, creating a decorative light and shadow effect.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a simple structure is used for furnishing light, then manufacturing cost is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but visual effect and decorating function become monotonous
Solution Approach 1:
The furnishing light is divided into multiple functional modules: a base unit containing control circuitry and illuminators, a projecting element with transparent and opaque areas, a lens system, and a casing. This segmentation allows each component to be manufactured separately with optimized processes while maintaining overall simplicity, resolving the contradiction between ease of manufacture and decorating function.
Solution Approach 2:
The projecting element and lens are nested within the hollow casing, with the projecting element encircling the illuminator. This nested structure consolidates multiple functional components into a compact integrated unit that is easy to manufacture as a single assembly while providing complex visual effects through the interaction of nested elements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If additional components are added to enhance visual effect, then decorating function is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The base unit serves multiple functions: it houses the control circuitry, supports the projecting element, and provides the illuminator mounting. The projecting element simultaneously creates both the projected contour pattern and the refracted light effects. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components, maintaining simplicity while enhancing decorating function.
Solution Approach 2:
The lens acts as an intermediary element between the illuminator and the external environment. It mediates the light transmission and refraction processes, enabling complex visual effects to be achieved through a single optical component rather than multiple complex mechanical parts, thus reducing overall device complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a hollow transparent casing is used to encapsulate components, then visual effect is enhanced through light refraction, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The casing is designed with a specific downward opening orientation and encapsulates only the necessary components (projecting element and lens) while leaving the base exposed for electrical connections. This localized encapsulation approach focuses manufacturing precision requirements only on the critical optical path areas while maintaining ease of assembly for other portions.
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
Enhances the visual and decorative effect by projecting dynamic light patterns and contours, thereby increasing product competitiveness and consumer appeal.
Implementation Method 1
a light produced by the illuminator will transmits through the transparent area of the projecting element so as to project a contour of the transparent area onto the casing
Implementation Method 2
a portion of the light transmits and refracts through the lens so as to project the contour of the projecting area out of the casing
Data Source
AI summary
A furnishing light mainly includes a base, inside which provided with an illuminator, a projecting element with a transparent area encircling the illuminator, a lens positioned above the projecting element and a casing with a projecting area for encapsulating both the projecting element and lens. Thereby a light from the illuminator projects a contour of the transparent area to the casing meanwhile refracts through the lens to distribute over the projecting area.