Modular Light Pole Structure With Snap-Slot Function Mounting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current outdoor lighting devices have limited functionality, shape options, and inconvenient installation and maintenance processes, making it difficult to add additional features and ensuring safety and aesthetics.

Innovation Solution

A modular assembled outdoor lighting device with a main pole, auxiliary pole, and module board, featuring a T-shaped mounting groove and spring-loaded fixing member, allowing for quick assembly, disassembly, and integration of various function devices such as wind direction sensors, cameras, and display modules, with a snap slot type structure for easy installation and maintenance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional outdoor lighting devices use fixed installation methods, then structural stability is improved, but adaptability and ease of maintenance deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidadaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The outdoor lighting device is divided into modular components including a main pole, auxiliary pole, module board, and function devices. Each component can be independently installed, removed, or replaced through standardized interfaces, enabling both structural stability during operation and easy adaptability for maintenance or upgrades.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The main pole and auxiliary pole are designed with universal mounting grooves and standardized interfaces that can accommodate multiple types of function devices (lighting, surveillance, communication, etc.). This universal design allows the same structural framework to support various functions while maintaining stability and facilitating easy replacement.

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

2Reliability

If traditional outdoor lighting devices use fixed installation methods, then structural stability is improved, but ease of repair deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidease of repair
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of repair

Solution Approach 1:

The device is segmented into modular components with standardized connection interfaces. The module board can be quickly detached from the main pole, and function devices can be independently accessed and replaced, significantly improving ease of repair while maintaining structural integrity during normal operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Mounting grooves and standardized interfaces are pre-configured in the main pole and auxiliary pole during manufacturing. This preliminary preparation enables rapid assembly and disassembly of function devices without requiring complex installation procedures, facilitating quick repairs and maintenance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If modular components are used for outdoor lighting devices, then ease of operation and adaptability are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of assemblyVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Standardized mounting grooves and interfaces are designed to be universal across all function devices. The same mounting groove configuration and interface standards are used for lighting, surveillance, communication, and other devices, simplifying the modular assembly process despite the variety of functions available.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The module board is designed to be sleeved onto the main pole in a nested configuration, with the auxiliary pole mounted on top of the main pole. This nested modular structure allows components to be easily assembled and disassembled in sequence, reducing operational complexity while maintaining ease of installation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

4Adaptability or versatility

If multiple function devices are integrated into outdoor lighting devices, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple function devices (lighting, surveillance, communication, etc.) are segmented into separate, independently replaceable modules. Each function device is mounted on the module board or auxiliary pole through standardized interfaces, allowing high adaptability and functionality while managing complexity through modular separation rather than integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The main pole and auxiliary pole are designed as universal platforms with standardized mounting grooves that can accommodate various types of function devices. This universal design enables multiple functions to be integrated on the same structural framework without increasing the complexity of the support structure itself.

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

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

Enables quick and convenient installation, maintenance, and expansion of functions, while ensuring a high level of protection against environmental factors, enhancing the integration and aesthetics of smart light poles.

Implementation Method 1

a spring-loaded fixing member

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElastic force: Elasticity

Data Source

PatentUS10982827B2Modular assembled outdoor lighting device and installation method thereof, light pole structure
Publication Date: 2021.04.20 ZHEJIANG JINGRI LIGHTING TECH
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AI summary

Disclosed is a modular assembled outdoor lighting device and an installation method thereof, light pole structure. It includes a base, a main pole, a lamp, a function device fixedly connected to the main pole, and an auxiliary pole fixedly connected to the top of the main pole. At least one concave or convex mounting surface is provided on the outer edge of the auxiliary pole, the lamp is fixedly connected to the mounting surface, the base is fixedly connected to the bottom of the main pole, and at least one outer surface of the main pole is provided with a mounting groove, and a fixing member is embedded in the mounting groove. A module board, as a spliced structure, is sleeved on the outer edge of the main pole. The module board includes at least one daughter board and/or at least one mother board fixedly connected to the fixing member.