Illuminatable Assembly Light Transmission Grid
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solutions fail to effectively integrate a light-emitting panel from a mobile computing device with a sheet to provide illuminated pages, lacking a robust and versatile mechanism for light transmission and indicium illumination.
Innovation Solution
A support system that couples a light-emitting panel to a sheet, allowing for overlaying engagement and featuring a light transmission portion between the sheet's front and back surfaces, along with an optional layer for illuminatable indicium, enabling aligned light transmission and illumination of indicia.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If a light-emitting panel from a mobile computing device is integrated with a sheet to provide illuminated pages, then illumination effectiveness is improved, but the integration mechanism and light transmission structure become complex
Solution Approach 1:
The sheet is divided into multiple layers including a first sheet portion, a second sheet portion, and a light transmission portion. The light transmission portion is further segmented into multiple light transmission elements arranged in a grid pattern, allowing light to pass through specific regions while maintaining structural integrity and enabling modular design.
Solution Approach 2:
A light transmission portion acts as an intermediary element between the light-emitting panel and the sheet's front surface. This intermediary component facilitates light transmission while separating the light source from the illuminated content, enabling effective illumination without direct contact between the panel and sheet layers.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple sheets are movably coupled to provide aligned light transmission portions, then versatility in sheet configuration is improved, but the mechanism for maintaining alignment becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure serves multiple functions: it holds the light-emitting panel, positions the light transmission portion, and enables movable coupling of multiple sheets. The grid arrangement of light transmission elements provides a universal pattern that can be replicated across multiple sheets, ensuring consistent alignment without complex individual adjustment mechanisms for each sheet.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple sheets are nested together with their respective light transmission portions aligned. The sheets can be movably coupled while maintaining their nested relationship, allowing them to be stacked or separated as needed while preserving the alignment of light transmission pathways through the entire assembly.
3Illumination intensity
If a layer with illuminatable indicium is disposed between the support and the sheet, then indicium visibility is improved, but the number of layers and structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The layer disposed between the support and the sheet contains illuminatable indicium at specific locations rather than being uniformly illuminated throughout. This local quality approach ensures that only the necessary indicium elements are illuminated, improving visibility of specific information while reducing unnecessary complexity in the overall layer structure.
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
Enables efficient illumination of pages through aligned light transmission pathways, enhancing the visibility of indicia, and accommodating various sheet configurations and light-emitting panel sizes.
Implementation Method 1
a light transmission portion disposed within the sheet to communicate between sheet front and back surfaces
Data Source
AI summary
An illuminatable assembly, and methods of making and using such an illuminatable assembly, whereby the illuminatable assembly can include at least one page and a support coupled to the page, whereby the support can be configured to support a light-emitting panel provided by a mobile computing device. When in an activated condition, the light-emitting panel can provide light to illuminate at least a portion of the page.