Lighting Component Connection System for Flexible Grouping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing lighting technologies for event illumination lack flexibility in grouping and reconfiguring lighting components to create large-area lighting patterns or stroboscopic effects, requiring multiple fixtures and limited adaptability for mobile applications.
Innovation Solution
A connection system for lighting components that allows direct interconnection without additional fixtures, featuring complementary connecting mechanisms and guiding positioning elements for easy alignment and secure attachment, enabling flexible grouping and reconfiguration of lighting components into uniform clusters for various lighting effects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If lighting components are installed separately on individual fixtures, then each component can be independently controlled and positioned, but the system lacks flexibility for creating large-area lighting patterns and requires multiple fixtures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple lighting components into a single integrated unit through a connection system that allows direct interconnection between components. This merging eliminates the need for separate fixtures for each lighting component, enabling flexible grouping while reducing overall system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The connection system provides universal interfaces that allow different types of lighting components to be interconnected in various configurations. The standardized connection mechanism enables the same system to create different lighting patterns and arrangements without requiring specialized fixtures for each configuration
2Area of stationary object
If lighting components are grouped together to form units, then large-area lighting patterns can be created, but the components become harder to reconfigure and modify
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting system is divided into modular components that can be independently connected and disconnected through the connection system. This segmentation allows the system to be easily reconfigured by simply connecting or disconnecting individual components rather than dismantling entire fixture structures
Solution Approach 2:
The connection system is designed to be dynamically adjustable, allowing the lighting components to be reconfigured between different groupings and arrangements. The connection mechanism can be quickly engaged and disengaged, enabling the system to adapt from static grouped configurations to dynamic reconfigurable states
3Ease of manufacture
If a connection system is provided on each lighting component, then direct interconnection without fixtures is enabled, but the components must be adapted in shape and dimensions
Solution Approach 1:
The connection system employs asymmetric connecting elements on different components to ensure proper orientation and alignment during assembly. This asymmetric design guides the components into the correct configuration while maintaining standardized interface dimensions, allowing direct connection without requiring all components to be identical in shape
Data Source
AI summary
A set (100) of lighting components includes a first lighting component (10) having a first connecting surface (40) of the first lighting component and a second lighting component (11) having a first connecting surface (42) of the second lighting component. A first connecting element (54) of a connecting mechanism is provided on the first connecting surface (40) of the first lighting component, and a second connecting element (52) of a connecting mechanism is provided on the first connecting surface (42) of the second lighting component. The second connecting element is complementary to the first connecting element, so that the first lighting component (10) can be detachably connected to the second lighting component (11).