Illuminator Heat Dissipation Member with Penetrating Channels
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Solution Overview
Problem
High-power lamps face reduced service life due to ineffective heat dissipation, leading to increased weight and cost with complex heat dissipation structures that require additional safety chains, making them cumbersome and expensive.
Innovation Solution
An illuminator device with a heat dissipation member made of metallic materials like aluminum, featuring a toroidal columnar design with channels penetrating through the housing and heat dissipation member to facilitate convection, reducing weight and complexity while enhancing heat dissipation efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If a complex heat dissipation structure is provided between lamp housing and encloser, then heat dissipation effectiveness is improved, but device complexity and weight increase
Solution Approach 1:
The heat dissipation structure is segmented into multiple independent channels penetrating through the housing and heat dissipation member, allowing heat to be dissipated through multiple pathways simultaneously. This segmentation improves heat dissipation effectiveness while keeping each individual channel simple in structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The channels serve multiple functions: they act as heat dissipation pathways, structural support elements, and design features that eliminate the need for additional safety chains. By making the channels multi-functional, the patent reduces overall device complexity while maintaining effective heat dissipation.
2Temperature
If a complex heat dissipation structure is provided, then heat dissipation effectiveness is improved, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the heat dissipation function with the structural housing design by integrating channels directly into the housing and heat dissipation member. This consolidation eliminates the need for separate safety chains and additional components, reducing manufacturing complexity and cost while maintaining effective heat dissipation.
Solution Approach 2:
The channels are designed to serve multiple purposes including heat dissipation, structural support, and safety functions previously requiring separate components. This multi-functionality reduces the total number of parts needed, lowering manufacturing costs and simplifying production processes.
3Temperature
If traditional heat dissipation design is used, then heat dissipation is provided, but service life of light source module is reduced due to high temperature
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by concentrating heat dissipation channels at critical locations where heat generation occurs, such as near the light source module and heat dissipation member. This targeted approach efficiently removes heat from the most critical areas, maintaining lower operating temperatures and extending service life without requiring uniform heat dissipation throughout the entire housing.
4Temperature
If complex heat dissipation structure with safety chains is used, then heat dissipation is improved, but ease of replacement is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and eliminates the safety chains from the design by integrating their functional requirements into the channel structure itself. The channels are designed to provide both heat dissipation and structural safety functions, removing the need for separate safety chain components and simplifying the replacement process for the light source module.
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 prolongs the service life of the light source module by rapid and efficient heat dissipation, eliminates the need for safety chains, and simplifies replacement, reducing production costs and assembly complexity.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of channels communicating inside of the illuminator device with outside of the illuminator device are provided in the illuminator device, and the plurality of channels penetrate through the housing and the heat dissipation member
Implementation Method 2
a heat dissipation member provided at an end of the housing, a light source module configured to include an end in thermal contact with the heat dissipation member
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure discloses an illuminator device including a housing, a heat dissipation member at an end of the housing, a light source module configured to include an end in thermal contact with the heat dissipation member, an optical member at another end of the light source module, and a driving power supply module; the light source module and the housing are respectively provided at two ends of the heat dissipation member; by the additional heat dissipation member in the illuminator device and a plurality of channels communicating inside with outside of the illuminator device and penetrating through the housing and the heat dissipation member, the heat emitted by the light source module in the illuminator device can be effectively and rapidly dissipated through the channels.