LED Light Support Members for Channel Letter Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
The manual placement and alignment of LED lights within channel letters is labor-intensive and often results in alignment issues, making it inefficient and prone to errors.
Innovation Solution
An LED light supporting system within channel letters, featuring support members such as pegs or clips extending from the backboard to maintain and align LED lights accurately, allowing for easy and secure attachment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If LED lights are manually attached to backboards using adhesives or connective devices, then the LED lights can be installed on channel letters, but the process becomes labor-intensive and alignment issues occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates LED light support members directly into the backboard during manufacturing, pre-positioning them in the correct locations and orientations. This preliminary action eliminates the need for manual alignment and attachment during installation, significantly reducing installation time and labor while ensuring precise LED light positioning.
Solution Approach 2:
The support members act as intermediary elements between the backboard and LED lights. These pre-integrated support structures provide a standardized interface that simplifies the attachment process, allowing LED lights to be quickly mounted without requiring manual alignment or complex adhesive applications.
2Manufacturing precision
If LED lights are manually aligned and attached to backboards, then installation can be completed, but alignment precision is compromised and labor intensity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The support members are pre-positioned and integrated into the backboard with precise locations and orientations determined during manufacturing. This preliminary precision work ensures that when LED lights are attached, they automatically achieve correct alignment without requiring complex alignment procedures or highly skilled manual work.
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment system is segmented into standardized support members that are individually positioned and integrated into the backboard. This segmentation allows each support member to be precisely placed during manufacturing, creating multiple reference points that collectively ensure accurate LED light alignment while keeping the overall system simple and modular.
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AI summary
An LED light supporting system for channel letters having a signage cabinet with outer walls which surround and define the shape of the channel letter, a backboard enclosing the rear of the channel letter, and a plurality of LED light support members extending up from the backboard, within the channel letter, for mounting and supporting LED lights on the backboard. The LED light support members are located on the backboard in an arrangement which maintains and supports the plurality of LED lights in a designated alignment to properly align and position the LED lights within the channel letter.