LED Module Quick Coupling for Fast Lighting Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional lighting systems require laborious and time-consuming operations for replacing LED modules and power supply units, hindering maintenance, repair, and modification, and do not facilitate sustainable product upgrades.
Innovation Solution
A lighting device with a quick coupling mechanism using coupling levers and an elastic plate to securely fasten the LED module to the power supply unit, allowing easy removal and installation without tools, ensuring proper centering and blocking translation freedom.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional fixed structures are used to attach LED modules to power supply units, then structural stability is ensured, but replacement and maintenance operations become laborious and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling device is divided into two independent parts: a support plate attached to the LED module and a coupling lever system attached to the power supply unit. This segmentation allows the LED module to be easily detached and replaced without affecting the power supply unit, enabling quick maintenance while maintaining stable operation during use
Solution Approach 2:
The coupling lever incorporates an elastic plate that provides dynamic coupling - maintaining firm attachment during normal operation through elastic force, but allowing quick release when the lever is actuated. This dynamic mechanism enables the transition from stable fixed connection to easy separation, resolving the contradiction between stability and ease of replacement
2Ease of operation
If simple attachment methods are used, then ease of replacement is improved, but reliability and safety guarantees are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling lever features a curved engagement path with the support plate, creating a self-centering mechanism. The curved geometry ensures proper alignment and centered positioning of the LED module during attachment, while the elastic deformation of the curved lever provides reliable mechanical engagement and electrical contact
Solution Approach 2:
The elastic plate acts as an intermediary element between the rigid support plate and the rigid coupling lever. It mediates the connection by providing compliant contact that ensures reliable electrical and mechanical coupling while accommodating manufacturing tolerances and assembly variations, thereby maintaining connection reliability
3Ease of operation
If additional components are added to enable quick release, then ease of replacement is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling lever integrates multiple functions into a single component: it provides mechanical attachment, electrical connection, centering guidance, and release actuation. By merging these functions into one piece rather than using separate components for each function, the design achieves quick-release capability without proportionally increasing overall device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The coupling lever is designed as a multi-functional element that simultaneously performs attachment, alignment, electrical contact, and release operations. This universal component approach allows quick replacement functionality to be achieved with minimal additional parts, as the single lever handles multiple operational requirements
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 quick and safe replacement of LED modules and power supply units, enhancing maintenance efficiency and compliance with sustainability regulations by minimizing component replacement time and effort.
Implementation Method 1
a pair of coupling levers (72) associated with the support plate (71) with the interposition of an elastic plate (73)
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AI summary
A lighting device comprising at least one LED module associated with a power supply unit by means of a quick coupling device. The quick coupling device facilitates maintenance, repair, inspection and modification of the lighting system.