LED Floodlight Mounting Bracket and Housing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Industrial lighting fixtures, particularly LED floodlights, face challenges in adaptable mounting, protection of electronic components, and heat dissipation, especially when mounted in varying locations and structures, leading to increased development costs and potential issues.

Innovation Solution

A light fixture support assembly featuring a mounting bracket with a hook and end flange, a fixture attachment member with a slideway, and a housing with interconnected LED heat sinks for water/air-tight protection and efficient heat dissipation, allowing easy installation and protection of internal systems.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If LED drivers are placed in water/air-tight locations, then protection of electronic components is improved, but mounting adaptability and protection of internal systems becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprotection of electronic LED driversVSAvoidmounting adaptability

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The fixture is divided into separate modular components: a mounting assembly with bracket and attachment member, and a fixture housing with LED drivers. This segmentation allows the mounting assembly to be designed for versatility while the fixture housing provides protected enclosures for electronic components, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and protection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The fixture housing is designed to receive and enclose the LED drivers and other internal components within its structure. The mounting assembly nests with the fixture housing, allowing the electronic components to be protected within the housing while the outer mounting assembly provides adaptability for various mounting locations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Temperature

If heat dissipation is addressed, then heat management is improved, but protection of electronic LED drivers and internal systems becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveheat dissipationVSAvoidprotection of electronic LED drivers

Core Design Contradiction:

TemperatureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The fixture is segmented into a heat dissipation path that separates thermal management from electronic component protection. The mounting assembly and fixture housing are designed to allow heat to dissipate from the LED arrays while the housing itself provides protected enclosures for the LED drivers and other sensitive electronics.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different parts of the fixture have different thermal properties. The fixture housing and mounting assembly are designed with specific thermal characteristics that allow heat to dissipate from critical areas while protecting electronic components from excessive heat exposure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Adaptability or versatility

If mounting locations and structures vary, then adaptability is improved, but location and protection of electronic components becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemounting location adaptabilityVSAvoidprotection of electronic components

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

By separating the mounting assembly from the fixture housing, the patent allows the mounting assembly to be designed for various mounting locations and structures, while the fixture housing provides a consistent protected enclosure for electronic components regardless of where the fixture is mounted.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The mounting assembly is designed with universal features that allow it to accommodate various mounting locations and structures. The fixture housing serves multiple functions: protecting electronic components, providing heat dissipation pathways, and working with the universal mounting assembly to create an adaptable system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

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

Facilitates easy and secure mounting of LED floodlights while ensuring protection and effective heat dissipation, addressing the adaptability and heat management challenges in industrial lighting applications.

Implementation Method 1

an LED array and LED heat sink assembly (66) mounted on the housing (64)... the LED heat sink being interlocked with the first border structure

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectThermal conduction: Conduction (thermal)

Data Source

PatentEP2193309B1Light fixture support system

Publication Date: 2012.07.18 WOLFSPEED INC

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AI summary

The inventive ceiling-mounted light-fixture support assembly (10) includes a mounting bracket (12) having upper and lower surfaces (18, "20), a length (26 28) and a width between two width sides (22, 24). The assembly also includes a fixture attachment member (14) having a top with portions defining a top opening (50) which has a width narrower than the width of the mounting bracket. The fixture" attachment member further has a recessed portion (54) defining a slide way (56) which (a) is in lateral communication with the top opening (b) has a width wider than the width of the mounting bracket and (c) is spaced sufficiently lower than the opening-defining portions of the top to receive the two width sides of the mounting bracket In use the fixture attachment member can be positioned.