Illuminated Power Strip with Multi-Color LED Housing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional power strip devices lack the ability to match their color with other gaming equipment, limiting their aesthetic integration and user experience.
Innovation Solution
A power strip device with a housing featuring opaque and translucent areas, multi-color light emitters, and a control circuit that allows for selective color emission, enabling the device to match other gaming equipment through adjustable lighting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional power strip devices are used, then the basic power distribution function is provided, but the aesthetic integration with gaming equipment is limited due to fixed color appearance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color changes by incorporating multi-color LED light emitters that can emit different colors (red, green, blue, yellow, purple, orange) to match various gaming equipment color schemes. The translucent top wall with patterns allows these colors to be displayed aesthetically, transforming the power strip from a fixed-color device to an adaptable color-matching device that enhances gaming setup integration
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements universality by combining multiple functions into a single device: power distribution function (multiple outlets), lighting function (multi-color LEDs), and aesthetic function (translucent patterned top wall). This multi-functional integration allows the power strip to serve both practical and decorative purposes, adapting to different gaming equipment color schemes while maintaining its core power distribution capability
2Adaptability or versatility
If multi-color light emitters and control circuit are added, then color customization capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies merging by integrating the control circuit, multi-color LED emitters, and power distribution components into a single unified housing structure. The control circuit is embedded within the housing and electrically coupled to the LED emitters, eliminating the need for external control devices and reducing overall system complexity despite adding color customization functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements self-service through the power switch that controls both the power outlets and the light emitters simultaneously. When the power switch is activated, it provides power to both the outlets and the LED emitters, eliminating the need for separate control mechanisms and reducing the complexity of the control system while maintaining full color selection capability
3Illumination intensity
If translucent areas are added to the top wall, then light transmission and aesthetic appeal are improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by incorporating translucent areas with specific patterns (such as circuit board patterns or geometric designs) only in specific regions of the top wall, while other areas remain opaque. This allows light to be transmitted through designated patterns for aesthetic effect while maintaining structural integrity and simplifying manufacturing by using injection molding techniques that can create different material properties in different regions of the same housing piece
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances the aesthetic appeal and user experience by allowing the power strip to match the colors of other gaming devices, providing a customizable and immersive visual experience.
Implementation Method 1
A plurality of light emitters is mounted in the interior space and is in electrical communication with the power switch. The light emitters selectively emit different colors to be emitted through the translucent areas.
Data Source
AI summary
An illuminated power strip assembly includes a housing with a top wall having opaque areas and translucent areas. A plurality of power outlets is mounted in the housing. A power cord extends outwardly from the housing and terminates with a male power plug. A power switch is mounted on the housing and is in electrical communication with the power outlets. A plurality of light emitters is mounted in the interior space and is in electrical communication with the power switch. The light emitters selectively emit different colors to be emitted through the translucent areas. A control circuit is electrically coupled to the light emitters and is actuated to select a color emitted by the light emitters.