Modular Coupler System for Light Fixture Housing Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional light fixture coupling interfaces lack flexibility to adapt to emerging trends in interior design, limiting design options for customers.
Innovation Solution
A coupler system with interoperable male and female portions, featuring a channel pathway and locking latch mechanism, allowing for adjustable and secure assembly of light fixture housing sections, enabling greater design flexibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional coupling interfaces are used in light fixtures, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the design flexibility and adaptability are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling interface is divided into separate modular components: a coupler unit with male portion, a coupler unit with female portion, and a locking latch. This segmentation allows each component to be manufactured independently and assembled together, providing design flexibility while maintaining manufacturing simplicity. The modular structure enables various configurations and adaptability in light fixture assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The locking latch is designed to be movable relative to the coupler units, transitioning between engaged and disengaged positions. This dynamic element provides adjustability and flexibility in the coupling mechanism, allowing the interface to adapt to different assembly requirements while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
2Reliability
If a locking latch mechanism is added to secure couplers, then the assembly reliability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The locking latch is designed to be self-latching once engaged, automatically securing the male and female portions without requiring additional actuators or complex control mechanisms. The latch utilizes the relative movement between coupler units to automatically engage and disengage, providing reliable assembly security while minimizing the increase in device complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a junction device for joining adjacent housing sections of a light fixture housing assembly, having a junction body structure formed from at least one junction body segment. A plurality of coupling units, each with at least one first boundary including at least one male portion or at least one female portion. The male and/or female portions are configured to enable each corresponding portion a first of the coupling units to receive the male portion of a second of the coupling units. Each of at least two of the coupling units including a first segment formed with the at least one junction body segment at respective first boundaries with the corresponding male or female portions extending therefrom. Each of the male and female portions is configured to be associated with a first locking structure to lock the female and male portions together to form the assembled light fixture housing.