Intelligent Lamp Annular Antenna External Placement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing intelligent lamps with filaments require an injection molded part to house the antenna, increasing manufacturing costs and reducing production efficiency due to the need for precise antenna placement and mounting.

Innovation Solution

An intelligent lamp design featuring an annular antenna arranged externally on the bulb shell, electrically connected to a control board through a connection terminal, eliminating the need for an injection molded part and reducing assembly precision requirements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If an injection molded part is added to house the antenna, then the antenna can be reliably mounted, but the manufacturing cost increases and production efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveantenna mounting reliabilityVSAvoidproduction efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the antenna from the traditional injection molded housing and mounts it directly on the PCB board. This eliminates the need for separate injection molded parts and complex assembly steps, thereby improving production efficiency while maintaining reliable antenna mounting through direct soldering connections.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Reliability

If an injection molded part is added to house the antenna, then the antenna can be reliably mounted, but the manufacturing cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveantenna mounting reliabilityVSAvoidmanufacturing cost
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the antenna mounting function directly into the PCB board structure. The antenna is soldered directly to the PCB, combining the mounting and electrical connection functions into a single integrated solution, which eliminates the need for additional injection molded parts and reduces manufacturing cost.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Reliability

If precise antenna positioning is required in injection molded parts, then antenna performance is optimized, but assembly precision requirements increase production complexity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveantenna performanceVSAvoidassembly precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical mounting system (injection molded parts with precise positioning features) with an electrical connection system (soldering). The antenna is electrically connected to the PCB through solder joints, which provides both mechanical support and electrical connectivity, thereby reducing assembly precision requirements while maintaining antenna performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

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

This design saves manufacturing costs and improves production efficiency by allowing direct antenna placement and reliable electrical connection without the need for precise antenna positioning, enhancing the lamp's remote control functionality.

Implementation Method 1

the annular antenna is arranged on an exterior of the shell at an opening of the bulb shell and is electrically connected to the assembled control board through the connection terminal

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectromagnetic wave reception: Electromagnetic Induction

Implementation Method 2

the connection terminal is a metal elastic member; one end of the metal elastic member is soldered on the first sub-substrate, and the other end of the metal elastic member is connected in contact with the annular antenna

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectrical conduction: Conduction (electrical)

Data Source

PatentEP3734139B1Intelligent lamp
Publication Date: 2021.10.20 XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO LTD
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AI summary

The present application is applied for the field of lighting, and provides an intelligent lamp, which includes a bulb shell, a lamp holder shell, a filament assembly, an annular antenna, a connection terminal and an assembled control board; wherein the filament assembly and the assembled control board are arranged inside a cavity formed by bonding the bulb shell with the lamp holder shell, the annular antenna is arranged on an exterior of the shell at an opening of the bulb shell and is electrically connected to the assembled control board through the connection terminal, and the filament assembly is electrically connected to the assembled control board. The design of the annular antenna provided by the present application saves the manufacture cost of the intelligent lamp and improves the production efficiency.