LED Radiant Beam Panel for Architectural Partitioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current lighting solutions lack a flexible and integrated approach that combines ambient lighting with architectural partitioning, unable to effectively separate rooms or functions while providing a consistent colored lighting effect across different spaces.
Innovation Solution
The Radiant Beam Panel design utilizes a linear arrangement of LEDs mounted sideways within a structural frame, featuring a translucent panel for diffused lighting and a semi-opaque panel with apertures for direct lighting, allowing for adjustable and flexible installation options, including wall, ceiling, or freestanding configurations, and incorporating light sensors for controlled lighting outputs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional lamps with shades are used for ambient and task lighting, then both diffused and directional lighting are provided, but they cannot be used for architectural partitioning with flexibility
Solution Approach 1:
The Beam Panel integrates multiple lighting functions (ambient lighting, task lighting, and architectural partitioning) into a single device. The panel can be configured to provide diffused ambient light through translucent panels and directional task light through apertures, while also serving as a movable architectural element for room division, replacing the need for separate conventional lamps and partitions
Solution Approach 2:
The Beam Panel is designed as a movable, free-standing unit that can be easily repositioned within a space. This dynamic characteristic allows the partitioning function to adapt to different spatial configurations and lighting needs, unlike fixed conventional lamp installations
2Illumination intensity
If LED backlit panels are used for ambient lighting, then colored light is provided for relaxation and socialization, but they lack directional light for task lighting and architectural partitioning
Solution Approach 1:
The Beam Panel incorporates different panel types (translucent and opaque) with distinct optical properties in specific locations. The translucent panels provide diffused ambient light, while strategically placed apertures deliver concentrated directional light beams for task illumination and architectural definition, creating localized functional zones within a single panel system
3Illumination intensity
If task lighting with reflective surfaces is used, then focused light is provided for work tasks, but they cannot provide ambient lighting or architectural partitioning functions
Solution Approach 1:
The Beam Panel merges the focused directional lighting capability of task lights with the ambient lighting and architectural partitioning functions. The apertures in the panel structure channel light into defined beams for task illumination while the overall panel configuration provides soft ambient light and serves as a spatial divider, combining three separate lighting applications into one integrated solution
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 solution provides a versatile lighting system that creates architectural partitioning with straight-line patterns and ambient lighting effects, enhancing room design while allowing for easy installation and color coordination, achieving both functional and aesthetic goals.
Implementation Method 1
The diffused lighting coming out from diffusing panels provides ambient lighting
Implementation Method 2
An aperture along the sides of diffusing panels allow direct lighting from the LEDs to escape the Beam Panel
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the fields of architectural lighting, backlit displays of fine art, graphic art and photographs, and architectural partitioning by using a Beam Penal which provides both direct lighting and diffused lighting, using a linear array of LEDs as light sources.