Flexible Lamp Conductor Cable Structure to Prevent Wire Entangling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Flexible wires in juxtaposition, such as those in Christmas light conductor cables, tend to entangle and are not properly constrained, leading to incomplete enclosure, moisture, and dust invasion, which affects safety and aesthetics.
Innovation Solution
A supporting body with receiving grooves is interposed between the wires, filled between them, and a heat-shrinkage film tube is used to create a closely fitting and smooth enclosure, preventing entangling and moisture/dust ingress.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If flexible wires are arranged in juxtaposition without additional support, then the structure is simple, but the wires easily twist and entangle
Solution Approach 1:
A supporting body is introduced as an intermediary element between the first and second flexible wires. This supporting body includes a first receiving groove for the first wire and a second receiving groove for the second wire, providing a stable framework that prevents the wires from twisting and entangling while maintaining overall structural simplicity.
2Device complexity
If only an enclosure binding layer is used to surround the wires, then the structure is simple, but moisture and dust can invade from spaces between wires
Solution Approach 1:
The enclosure binding layer is nested within the supporting body structure. The supporting body provides an inner framework with receiving grooves that hold the wires in fixed positions, while the enclosure binding layer is disposed within this framework to provide outer protection. This nested arrangement ensures complete sealing against moisture and dust invasion.
3Ease of manufacture
If wires are loosely arranged without constraint, then ease of assembly is improved, but the enclosure surface becomes incomplete and aesthetic appearance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The supporting body is prepared in advance with pre-formed receiving grooves designed to match the wire diameters. This preliminary preparation of the supporting structure allows wires to be easily inserted and positioned without complex assembly operations, while ensuring the wires are precisely constrained to achieve a complete and aesthetically pleasing enclosure surface.
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 prevents wire entangling, ensures a smooth and complete enclosure, and enhances safety by sealing the space between wires, improving both aesthetics and operational safety.
Implementation Method 1
when a heat-shrinking film that makes the enclosure binding layer (25) is heated and thus shrunk to enclose and thus loop around and cluster together the first and second electrical wires (21, 22)
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are a flexible wire support structure and a lamp conductor-cable using the same, which is formed of a first flexible wire and a second flexible wire that are arranged adjacent to and in juxtaposition with each other. An enclosure binding layer encloses an outside of the first and second flexible wires. At least one supporting body is arranged between the adjacent first and second flexible wires. The supporting body has two surfaces that are respectively formed with a first receiving groove and a second receiving groove extending along an axis line of the first and second flexible wires. The first and second receiving grooves receive the adjacent first and second flexible wires to dispose therein so as to have the supporting body filled between the adjacent first and second flexible wires, to realize supporting and constraining of the adjacent flexible wires.