Modular LED Lamp with Sliding Electrical Buses
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing desk lamps with LED light sources face challenges in easy assembly, disassembly, and shipping due to complex wiring and rigid designs, making them difficult to manufacture, adjust, and maintain, especially for consumers who need to relocate.
Innovation Solution
The design incorporates sliding contacts and a track system within the adjustment arm, allowing for easy detachment and reattachment of the lamp head and arm, enabling adjustable positioning and simplifying the assembly and disassembly process, while also allowing for various configurations and easy shipping.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If traditional wiring and rigid designs are used in LED desk lamps, then structural stability is improved, but ease of assembly and disassembly deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The lamp is divided into separable modules including a base module, an adjustment arm module, and a lamp head module. Each module can be independently assembled and disassembled through magnetic coupling and mechanical interfaces, eliminating the need for complex wiring connections during assembly/disassembly while maintaining structural stability when connected.
Solution Approach 2:
Magnetic couplings serve as intermediary elements between modules, providing both mechanical connection and electrical contact simultaneously. This eliminates the need for separate wiring harnesses and connection terminals, simplifying the assembly process while ensuring stable electrical and mechanical bonds during operation.
2Reliability
If complex wiring systems are used to connect LED packages and support mechanisms, then electrical reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines mechanical connection and electrical connection into a single integrated interface. The adjustment arm and lamp head incorporate both structural support and electrical contact functions in one unified component, eliminating separate wiring systems and reducing overall device complexity while maintaining electrical reliability through direct metal-to-metal contact.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjustment arm serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides mechanical support for the lamp head, enables positional adjustment, and conducts electrical power to the LED package. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for dedicated wiring harnesses and connection terminals, reducing component count and simplifying the overall system.
3Manufacturing precision
If rigid fixed designs are used for lamp assemblies, then manufacturing precision is improved, but adaptability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The adjustment arm incorporates articulated joints and sliding mechanisms that allow dynamic repositioning of the lamp head to various angles and positions. Despite this mobility, precise manufacturing tolerances are maintained in the joint interfaces and positioning features, enabling both adaptability in positioning and manufacturing precision in the connection points.
Solution Approach 2:
The lamp is segmented into modular components with standardized interfaces. This segmentation allows each module to be manufactured with high precision independently, then assembled with consistent alignment through precision-machined mounting surfaces and locating features, maintaining manufacturing precision while enabling configurational adaptability.
4Productivity
If integrated non-removable designs are used in LED lamps, then productivity is improved, but ease of manufacture and maintenance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The lamp is designed with separable modules that can be independently manufactured and assembled. The base module, adjustment arm module, and lamp head module can be produced separately through standardized processes, then quickly assembled using magnetic and mechanical interfaces, improving both manufacturing efficiency and ease of assembly while maintaining high productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
An adjustable lamp includes a base, a riser configured to be attached to the base, and an adjustment arm including a lamp head. The adjustment arm is configured to be removably engaged to the riser. The adjustment arm is slidably moveable relative to the riser along a longitudinal length of the adjustment arm such that the distance between the lamp head and the riser can be increased or decreased. The adjustment arm includes a plurality of electrical buses configured for electrical-mechanical engagement with the riser when the adjustment arm is attached to the riser, and the LED lamp head is configured for electrical communication with the plurality of electrical buses.