Modular Garden Light Nesting for Packaging Volume Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing garden lights require separate packaging for different sizes, leading to increased shipping volume and cost, as their cylindrical or square structure prevents modular integration of solar lighting modules and bases.
Innovation Solution
A modular garden light design that includes hollow columns of varying sizes, allowing solar lighting modules and bases of different sizes to be stacked and accommodated within each other, enabling the integration and packaging of multiple sizes into a single package.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If garden lights are packaged separately by size, then each light is protected individually, but packaging volume and shipping cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements nesting by placing smaller hollow columns inside larger hollow columns during packaging. The first hollow column (smaller size) is inserted into the second hollow column (larger size), and both are secured within the packaging box. This nested arrangement allows multiple different-sized garden lights to occupy the same packaging space simultaneously, dramatically reducing total packaging volume while maintaining individual protection through the hollow column structures.
2Ease of manufacture
If garden lights use cylindrical or square structures, then manufacturing is simplified, but modular integration of components is prevented
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the garden light into three separate modular components: a hollow column, a solar lighting module, and a base. These segmented components can be manufactured independently using simple cylindrical or square structures, then assembled by consumers through a do-it-yourself installation process. This segmentation enables both ease of manufacture for each component and versatility in integration, as different sized components can be combined in various configurations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If different sized garden lights are produced, then consumer needs are met, but packaging and shipping complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal packaging system where a single packaging box can accommodate multiple different-sized garden lights through the nesting arrangement. The larger hollow columns serve multiple functions: they protect their own internal components, act as containers for smaller hollow columns, and provide structural support within the packaging. This multi-functionality simplifies the packaging and shipping system despite the variety of sizes available to meet different consumer needs.
Data Source
AI summary
A garden light with a modular design for convenient packaging and transportation includes a first light set, and a second light set substantially in the same shape of the first light set and proportionally enlarged, and the two light sets include a hollow column, a solar lighting module and a base, and the hollow column of the second light set can be sheathed on the outer periphery of the hollow column of the first light set, such that two bases and two solar lighting modules can be accommodated in the inner periphery of the hollow column of the first light set to reduce the packaging and transportation costs.