Light-Emitting Seat with Light Guide Layer for Soft Illumination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current light-emitting seats with side strip lights often produce harsh direct light, leading to poor visual comfort and a lack of high-end aesthetics, and require labor-intensive installation, reducing production efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A light-emitting seat design featuring a strip light module with a light guide material layer that refracts light to create soft illumination, integrated with a flexible bandage system and a power supply assembly, allowing for flexible placement and energy-efficient operation, and a skin layer made of light-transmitting materials for enhanced visual appeal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If direct light emission through side strip lights is used, then the structure is simple and production is easy, but the visual comfort is poor and the appearance is not high-end
Solution Approach 1:
A light guide material layer is introduced as an intermediary between the strip light and the external environment. This layer refracts the direct light from the strip light to form soft light, improving visual comfort while maintaining the simplicity of the strip light structure. The light guide material layer acts as a mediator that transforms harsh direct light into gentle diffuse light without complicating the overall manufacturing process.
Solution Approach 2:
The light guide material layer changes the optical properties of the light by refracting it, transforming the appearance from harsh direct light to soft diffuse light. This optical transformation improves the visual aesthetic and comfort while maintaining the simple strip light structure underneath, resolving the contradiction between manufacturing simplicity and visual quality.
2Reliability
If side strip lights are installed on finished chairs, then the light emission effect is achieved, but the installation consumes a lot of manpower and production efficiency is low
Solution Approach 1:
The strip light module is merged with the bandage structure during the manufacturing process. The bandages are disposed on the seat frame and the strip light module is integrated onto these bandages before the chair is finalized. This combining approach allows the light-emitting components to be installed as part of the overall assembly process rather than as a separate post-manufacturing step, significantly improving production efficiency while ensuring reliable light emission.
Solution Approach 2:
The strip light module is pre-installed on the bandages during the chair manufacturing process rather than being added to finished chairs. This preliminary action integrates the light-emitting components into the production workflow, reducing the need for separate installation steps and improving overall production efficiency while ensuring proper positioning and reliable light emission效果.
3Quantity of substance
If the light guide material layer covers only the strip light area, then the material cost is reduced, but the soft light effect is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The light guide material layer is strategically applied to specific areas where soft light effect is most needed, such as covering the strip light and extending to key visual areas. This localized application ensures that the soft light effect is achieved in critical regions while minimizing overall material usage, balancing material cost with visual quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The light guide material layer extends vertically along the bandages and horizontally across the seat surface, creating a multi-dimensional light distribution. By covering areas beyond just the immediate strip light location, the soft light effect is enhanced and diffused across larger surfaces, achieving better visual impact with reasonable material usage through strategic spatial distribution.
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 provides improved visual comfort and high-end aesthetics with soft light emission, increased design freedom, and enhanced user experience through flexible light placement and energy-efficient operation, while reducing installation complexity and improving production efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
light is refracted by the light guide material layer to form soft light
Data Source
AI summary
A light-emitting seat includes a seat body, a strip light module, a skin layer, and a power supply assembly. The seat body includes a chair frame and a plurality of bandages disposed on the chair frame. The strip light module includes a strip light and a light guide material layer covering the strip light, and the strip light module is disposed on the bandages. The skin layer covers the seat body (1) and the strip light module, and at least an area of the skin layer covering the strip light module is made of light-transmitting material. The power supply assembly is electrically connected to the strip light to supply energy. In the invention, the strip light is covered by the light guide material layer, so the light is refracted in the light guide material layer.