LED Panel Mounting Platform With Standoffs for Heat and Sealing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing LED lighting panel mounting solutions fail to simplify installation, manage wires and cables effectively, provide adequate heat dissipation, and ensure water-tightness, while also not addressing mechanical interconnection and thermal loading needs.
Innovation Solution
A modular lighting system with a flat platform that includes apertures for mounting LED panels and wiring harnesses, standoffs for heat dissipation, and a diffusion material to reduce shadows, along with gaskets for water-tight seals, allowing for easy installation, efficient wire management, and effective heat dissipation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If LED panels are mounted directly to the mounting surface, then installation is simple, but heat dissipation is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces standoffs that create a third dimension (depth/gap) between the mounting surface and the platform. This gap dimension enables thermal exhaust channels for heat dissipation while the standoffs themselves provide mechanical support, resolving the contradiction between simple mounting and adequate heat dissipation.
Solution Approach 2:
The standoffs act as intermediary elements between the mounting surface and the LED panels. They provide both mechanical support (simple mounting function) and create thermal pathways (heat dissipation function), thus mediating between the conflicting requirements of simplicity and thermal performance.
2Ease of operation
If wiring harnesses are routed through the mounting structure, then wire management is improved, but installation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting structure is designed with universal features that serve multiple functions: standoffs provide both mechanical support and wire routing pathways, the platform serves both as a mounting surface and as a conduit for wiring harnesses. This multi-functionality improves wire management without proportionally increasing installation complexity.
3Temperature
If the mounting structure provides thermal exhaust channels, then heat dissipation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the mechanical support function and the thermal management function into a single integrated mounting structure. The standoffs simultaneously provide structural support and create thermal exhaust channels, while the platform serves as both mounting surface and thermal pathway, reducing overall system complexity despite enhanced thermal management.
4Temperature
If standoffs create a gap for heat dissipation, then thermal management is improved, but structural stability may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting structure implements local quality by providing rigid support at specific points (standoff locations) while maintaining thermal pathways in the gaps between them. This localized rigidity ensures structural stability while the overall gap structure enables heat dissipation, resolving the contradiction between stability and thermal management.
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 enables simplified installation, efficient wire and heat management, and water-tightness, addressing the industry's needs for scalable, planar illumination while maintaining mechanical and thermal integrity.
Implementation Method 1
In the case wherein the platform is made of the flat metallic sheet material, the platform further acts to dissipate heat from the illumination devices and throughout the platform.
Implementation Method 2
heat from the illumination devices is able to travel upwardly behind the rear side of the platform to exit at a top of an illumination device display
Implementation Method 3
Each front standoff is formed so to refract and/or diffract and transmit light through and around the front standoff to reduce shadows of the front standoff
Implementation Method 4
Each front standoff is formed so to refract and/or diffract and transmit light through and around the front standoff
Data Source
AI summary
A lighting system for mounting on a mounting surface includes one or more mounting devices for mounting one or more illumination devices and wiring harnesses. A substantially flat platform includes a front side, a rear side, and three or more peripheral edges. The platform has a plurality of apertures therethrough for mounting the illumination devices thereto with mechanical fasteners. Two or more standoffs are each formed preferably at the peripheral edges of the platform, forming a gap between the mounting surface and the rear side of each illumination device to direct heat upwardly away from the illumination devices. As such, the illumination devices are mounted to the platform with mechanical fasteners, the wiring harnesses are used to connect each illumination device to at least one other illumination device and/or the power source, and the platform is mounted to the mounting surface with mechanical fasteners at each standoff.