LED Light Panel Color Temperature Adjustment via Segmented Circuits

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional LED light panels have fixed color temperatures, making it difficult for lighting manufacturers to adapt to changing market requirements, leading to inventory pressures and risks.

Innovation Solution

An LED lamp panel capable of adjusting color temperature, equipped with a control chip that computes and generates instructions to adjust the conduction time ratio of LEDs, allowing users to input target color temperature information and adjust the panel's color output.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the LED light panel uses fixed color temperature LEDs, then the manufacturing and operation are simple, but the adaptability to market requirements deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to market requirementsVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The LED light panel is divided into multiple groups of LEDs with different color temperatures (first group with first color temperature, second group with second color temperature). Each group can be independently controlled through separate control circuits, allowing the system to segment the color temperature output and mix different proportions to achieve variable color temperatures, thereby improving adaptability without requiring complete redesign of the entire panel.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamic color temperature adjustment by enabling the LED light panel to change color temperature based on different working conditions or user needs. The control circuit dynamically adjusts the conduction state of different LED groups, allowing the color temperature to transition from fixed to variable, thus resolving the contradiction between simplicity and adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If the LED light panel has fixed color temperature, then the device structure is simple, but the ability to respond to changing market requirements deteriorates, causing inventory pressure

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflexibility to market changesVSAvoidease of manufacture
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent makes a single LED light panel universal by enabling it to produce multiple color temperatures. By incorporating both first and second color temperature LED groups with independent control, one panel can serve multiple market requirements (different color temperature preferences), replacing the need for multiple separate fixed-color-temperature panels, thus improving flexibility while maintaining manufacturing simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the color temperature parameter of the LED light panel from fixed to variable. By controlling the proportion of different color temperature LEDs that are conducted, the system can adjust the overall color temperature output to match different market demands, allowing manufacturers to respond flexibly to changing requirements without creating inventory pressure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If all LEDs are conducted or disconnected at the same time, then the control system is simple, but the ability to adjust color temperature deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of controlVSAvoidcolor temperature adjustment capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The control system is segmented into multiple independent control circuits, each responsible for controlling a specific group of LEDs with a particular color temperature. This allows different segments (LED groups) to be controlled independently, enabling color temperature adjustment while maintaining relatively simple control logic for each segment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges multiple LED groups with different color temperatures into a single integrated light panel that can be controlled together or separately. By combining the first and second LED groups in one panel with coordinated control, the system achieves color temperature adjustment capability while maintaining ease of operation through unified control interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10721800B1LED light panel capable of adjusting color temperature
Publication Date: 2020.07.21 GENERAL LUMINAIRE SHANGHAI LTD
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AI summary

An LED lamp panel capable of adjusting color temperature includes a first LED lighting circuit, a second LED lighting circuit and a conduction control circuit. The first LED lighting circuit has first color temperature information, the second LED lighting circuit has second color temperature information, and both first and second LED lighting circuits are electrically connected to conduction a control circuit. The LED lamp panel is capable of adjusting the color temperature of the LED lamp panel according to the color temperature information of the manufactured LED light panel, so as to adjust the color temperature of a lamp product. This invention is applicable for changes of market requirements flexibly to reduce the lighting manufacturers' pressure and risk of inventory. Consumers can adjust the color temperature of the lamp by themselves to fit different living or working environments.