Lamp Bracket Wire Clip Structure for Tangle-Free Motor Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Photographic lighting equipment faces issues with electric wires tangling and causing motor damage due to adjustments, disrupting normal operation and potentially damaging motors.

Innovation Solution

A lamp bracket wire clip structure with a storage groove and hinged wire clip featuring a wire hole, allowing wires to be guided through and rotated into a storage position, preventing tangling and ensuring smooth operation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If lights are mounted on lamp brackets with motors to adjust position, then lighting control capability is improved, but wire tangling occurs which can damage motors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelighting control capabilityVSAvoidmotor operation reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The wire management system is segmented into distinct functional components: a wire storage groove separated from the motor assembly, a wire clip mechanism independent of the motor, and a wire guide path. This segmentation isolates the wire management functions from the motor operation, preventing wire tangling from affecting motor reliability while maintaining full lighting control capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If wires are allowed to move freely during light position adjustment, then ease of installation is improved, but wire tangling occurs causing harmful effects

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinstallation easeVSAvoidwire tangling and reaction force
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

A wire clip mechanism acts as an intermediary between the wire and the moving light assembly. The wire clip, hinged to the carrier body, provides a controlled attachment point that allows the wire to move with the light during adjustment while preventing uncontrolled tangling. This intermediary component mediates the movement, eliminating harmful reaction forces while maintaining installation ease.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The wire is threaded through the wire clip and positioned in advance during installation, creating a pre-configured wire path. The wire storage groove is also prepared beforehand to receive and organize the wire. This preliminary arrangement ensures that during subsequent light position adjustments, the wire follows a predetermined path rather than tangling randomly, eliminating harmful effects while keeping the system easy to operate.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250320992A1Lamp bracket wire clip structure and lamp bracket
Publication Date: 2025.10.16 TILTA INC
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AI summary

The present disclosure pertains to the field of lamp brackets, specifically a lamp bracket wire clip structure and lamp bracket. The lamp bracket wire clip structure includes a carrier equipped with a storage groove, and a wire clip featuring a wire hole designed for the passage of electric wires. The wire clip, hinged within the storage groove, can be stored within or rotated out of the storage groove. The wire clip facilitates the passage of electric wires through the wire hole of the wire clip, enabling connection to corresponding electrical equipment. The wire clip guides the wires and effectively prevents tangling, thereby avoiding any potential disruption to the normal operation of other structures. When there is no need for wires to pass through, the clip can be rotated and neatly tucked away into the storage groove.