Modular Vehicle Lamp Pattern Control for Customizable Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional vehicle lamps are limited by a single design for each vehicle model, lacking flexibility and driver choice, and do not easily adapt to changing trends.
Innovation Solution
A modular block lamp system comprising optics, a plate, and a controller that allows users to select and control lamp patterns, ensuring compliance with regulations by matching user-selected designs with preset patterns.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional vehicle lamps use a single design for each vehicle model, then manufacturing and installation are simplified, but design flexibility and driver choice are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The lamp system is divided into modular optics that can be independently selected and arranged. Each optic represents a discrete design element that can be individually positioned on the plate, allowing customization without redesigning the entire lamp system.
Solution Approach 2:
A universal plate design with standardized mounting positions accommodates multiple optic configurations. The same plate and controller infrastructure supports various lamp patterns, enabling one hardware platform to deliver multiple design outcomes.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple lamp designs are offered for the same vehicle model, then driver choice and trend adaptability improve, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of manufacturing complete different lamp assemblies, the system segments the lamp into reusable plate infrastructure and interchangeable optics. This allows manufacturers to produce standardized plates once and combine them with different optic arrangements to create multiple designs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses coordinate-based pattern definition that can be digitally replicated and adjusted. Lamp patterns are defined by coordinate data that can be copied, modified, and reconfigured without physical tooling changes, enabling easy creation of design variants.
3Ease of operation
If the lamp system allows custom pattern selection, then user satisfaction increases, but verification of regulatory compliance becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The controller automatically verifies the mounted optic pattern against the selected design pattern using coordinate comparison. This closed-loop verification ensures that user customization matches the intended design and maintains regulatory compliance without requiring manual inspection.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-defines compliant lamp patterns with their corresponding coordinate data before user selection. By establishing the correct pattern coordinates in advance, the system ensures regulatory compliance is built into the design from the outset, and verification simply involves checking against these pre-established standards.
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
Enables customizable lamp designs while maintaining regulatory compliance, offering cost-effective and diverse lighting options for vehicles.
Implementation Method 1
controlling at least one of a color and an output timing of an LED included in the optic
Data Source
AI summary
A modular block lamp for vehicles, a method therefor, and a system therefor are provided. The modular block lamp includes an optic including a pixel of the modular block lamp, a plate to which the optic is mounted, and a controller to control the optic and the plate, receive a lamp pattern design selected by a user, determine whether the optic is mounted, compare a pattern of the mounted optic with a preset lamp pattern design, and control at least one of a color and an output timing of an LED included in the optic in response to a result of the comparison.