Luminous base
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cup mats fail to attract attention in dark environments and can be difficult to locate in nightlife settings, lacking a design that effectively highlights the presence of a cup or beverage bottle.
Innovation Solution
A luminous base with a light guide structure, light emitting module, and power supply module that emits light from the bottom of a cup or beverage bottle, providing a surface-emitting design to highlight the object and prevent light leakage, while also featuring a diffuser and prism for enhanced light output and a translucent plate to prevent water from flowing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If a conventional cup mat is used, then it provides a simple cup placement function, but it fails to attract attention in dark environments and cannot highlight the presence of a cup or beverage bottle
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into a single integrated base: the base body houses both the light guide structure and light emitting module, merging cup placement and light emission functions. This allows the base to provide illumination while maintaining a compact, unified structure that doesn't excessively increase complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The light guide structure acts as an intermediary between the light emitting module and the external environment. It receives light from the LED module and guides/transmits it through the base body to illuminate the cup or beverage bottle from below, enabling light emission while keeping the light source contained within the base.
2Illumination intensity
If a light emitting module is added to the base, then it can highlight the cup in dark environments, but it increases the device complexity and assembly difficulty
Solution Approach 1:
The base is divided into distinct functional modules: the base body, the light guide structure, and the light emitting module. Each module can be manufactured separately and then assembled, which simplifies the manufacturing process and allows for specialized production of each component while maintaining overall functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The base body serves multiple functions: it provides the structural foundation for cup placement, houses the light guide and light emitting modules, and acts as part of the light transmission path. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components, simplifying both manufacturing and assembly.
3Illumination intensity
If the light guide structure is installed in the base body, then it can guide light effectively, but it may cause light leakage and reduce manufacturing precision
Solution Approach 1:
The light guide structure utilizes the specific optical properties of the base body material in the region where light transmission occurs. By designing the base body with appropriate material properties and structural features in the light path region, the system achieves effective light guidance while controlling light leakage through localized optical quality rather than requiring precision throughout the entire structure.
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 luminous base effectively highlights the cup or beverage bottle in dark environments, attracting attention and preventing water from flowing, while ensuring secure positioning of the light guide structure and reducing assembly complexity and costs.
Implementation Method 1
a light guide structure, installed at the base body, and configured to be corresponsive to the light outlet
Implementation Method 2
a light emitting module, installed in the base body, and provided for projecting light towards the light guide structure
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AI summary
A luminous base includes a base body (1, 1a), a light guide structure (2, 2a), a light emitting module (6, 6a) and a power supply module (7, 76). The base body (1, 1a) has a cover (11, 15) with a light outlet (113, 155); the light guide structure (2, 2a) is installed at the base body (1, 1a) and configured to be corresponsive to the light outlet (113, 155); the light emitting module (6,6a) is installed in the base body (1, 1a) for projecting light towards the light guide structure (2, 2a); the power supply module is electrically connected to the light emitting module (6,6a). Therefore, light can be illuminated upwardly from the bottom of a cup (900a) and/or a beverage bottle (900b) in a surface emitting manner, and the existence of the cup (900a) and/or the beverage bottle (900b) can be highlighted to provide a glare effect in a dark environment, and the light can be illuminated uniformly upward from the bottom of the cup (900a) and/or the beverage bottle (900b) to provide a light staining effect.