Intelligent Lighting Controller Adaptive Feedback for Lamp Failure

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current lighting systems lack adaptive adjustment functions, leading to inconvenience and increased maintenance costs when one lamp tube malfunctions, as other lamp tubes may also malfunction, requiring replacement or power source changes.

Innovation Solution

An intelligent lighting device controller with a detecting module, main power source module, and intelligent control module that generates feedback signals to adjust electricity signals, ensuring efficient operation and reliability by connecting detecting circuits to lighting devices and amplifying signals to calculate and transmit feedback for adaptive adjustments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a lighting system uses multiple lamp tubes without adaptive adjustment function, then the system can provide sufficient illumination, but when one lamp tube malfunctions, the others may also malfunction requiring replacement or power source changes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem reliabilityVSAvoidmaintenance convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the controller detects the status of each lamp tube through detecting circuits and adjusts the power output accordingly. When a lamp tube malfunctions, the controller receives feedback signals and automatically adjusts the electricity signal to compensate, ensuring other lamp tubes continue to operate normally without requiring manual intervention or power source replacement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The lighting system performs self-diagnosis and self-adjustment through the controller's adaptive adjustment function. The system automatically detects malfunctioning lamp tubes and compensates by adjusting power distribution, eliminating the need for users to manually replace lamp tubes or power sources, thereby improving maintenance convenience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of manufacture

If the lighting system lacks adaptive adjustment function, then the structure remains simple, but maintenance cost significantly increases when lamp tubes malfunction

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem simplicityVSAvoidmaintenance cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSEase of repair

Solution Approach 1:

The controller incorporates detecting circuits that continuously monitor lamp tube status and provide feedback signals. This feedback mechanism enables the system to automatically detect and compensate for lamp tube failures, reducing maintenance costs by preventing complete system failure and eliminating the need for frequent manual replacements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The adaptive adjustment function performs preliminary compensation actions before complete system failure occurs. By continuously monitoring lamp tube status and automatically adjusting power distribution, the system prevents malfunctioning lamp tubes from affecting other operational lamp tubes, thereby reducing the frequency and cost of maintenance interventions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If one lamp tube malfunctions in a lighting system without adaptive adjustment, then the system continues to operate, but other lamp tubes may also malfunction due to excessive electricity signal

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelighting outputVSAvoidoperational stability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The detecting circuits continuously monitor the electricity signal and lamp tube status, providing feedback to the controller. When a lamp tube malfunctions, the controller receives feedback and automatically adjusts the electricity signal to appropriate levels, preventing excessive power from causing other lamp tubes to malfunction and ensuring stable operational continuity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the electricity signal based on real-time lamp tube status detection. The controller modifies power distribution adaptively, increasing or decreasing the signal according to the actual operational state of each lamp tube, thereby maintaining optimal performance and preventing cascading failures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11723135B1Intelligent lighting device controller with adaptive adjustment function and method thereof
Publication Date: 2023.08.08 XIAMEN PVTECH CO LTD
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AI summary

An intelligent lighting device controller includes a detecting module, a main power source module and an intelligent control module. The detecting module has a detecting circuit. The main power source module has a plurality of first electrode connectors and a common second electrode connector. The first electrode connectors are connected to the detecting circuit and connected to the first electrodes of a plurality of lighting devices respectively via the detecting circuit. The common second electrode connector outputs an electricity signal to drive the lighting devices. The intelligent control module is connected to the detecting module and the main power source module. The detecting circuit generates a plurality of detecting signals corresponding to the lighting devices respectively. The intelligent control module generates a feedback signal and transmits the feedback signal to the main power source module. The main power source module adjusts the electricity signal according to the feedback signal.