Modular LED Lighting System with Interconnected Polygonal Panels
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing lighting systems with LEDs lack the ability to emit light with variable color, brightness, and radiation characteristics in a modular and expandable form, limiting their versatility and adjustability in professional lighting applications.
Innovation Solution
A modular lighting system with interconnected LED panels that include a housing frame, module electronic, heat sink, and optical devices, allowing for adjustable light color, brightness, and chrominance through the selection and arrangement of LEDs and their control via a microcontroller, along with decentralized or central control means for autonomous operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a modular design with interconnected LED panels is implemented, then adaptability and versatility are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting system is divided into multiple independent LED panels that can be interconnected through connecting structures. Each panel contains its own housing frame, board, and lighting modules, allowing them to function independently or in combination. This segmentation enables flexible configuration for different applications while maintaining manageable complexity through standardized interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The LED panels are designed with universal connecting structures that can mechanically and electrically couple multiple panels together. The same basic panel design can be used in various configurations (single panel, multiple panels in series/parallel) and applications (portable lighting, surface luminaires, confined spaces), providing multi-functionality without requiring multiple specialized designs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple LEDs emitting different wavelengths are combined in lighting modules, then adaptability and versatility are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple LEDs emitting different wavelengths (colors) are combined within single lighting modules on each panel. The module electronic controls these combined LEDs to produce adjustable light parameters including color temperature and chrominance. This merging allows comprehensive light control capability within each module while the standardized panel design keeps overall system complexity manageable.
3Ease of operation
If decentralized or central control means are integrated, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Control means (decentralized on individual panels or central connecting structures) serve as intermediaries between the user and the multiple LED panels. These control systems manage the complexity of controlling multiple panels with adjustable parameters, providing ease of operation through centralized or distributed control interfaces while the panels themselves maintain standardized, simple designs.
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 a flexible and efficient lighting solution with adjustable parameters, including color temperature and chrominance, that can be easily configured and expanded, providing consistent performance and efficient heat dissipation for high-performance lighting applications.
Implementation Method 1
a heat sink accommodating the LEDs and connected with the module carrier
Implementation Method 2
the LEDs combined to one light source and emitting light of different wavelengths
Implementation Method 3
light-emitting diodes or LEDs offer the possibility of producing flat lampheads homogeneously emitting light over their surface
Implementation Method 4
with a suitable optic for bundling or expanding the light beams emitted by the LEDs
Implementation Method 5
which consists of a reflector and a diffuser plate, in particular a soft optic
Data Source
AI summary
A lighting system with at least one LED panel is provided. Said LED panel including a plurality of similar lighting modules, said lighting modules having controllable light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and a polygonal housing frame. Said polygonal housing frame comprising a board for receiving said lighting modules. Said polygonal housing frame including a plug connector on at least one side of the housing frame for positively mechanically coupling a sliding rail connection. Said plug connector including electrical contact means integrated in said mechanical sliding rail connection.