Modular LED Luminaire with Telescoping and Pivoting Features
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing LED lighting systems face challenges in customization for varying wall lengths, inconsistent lighting at corners, and accommodating varying angles during installation, leading to issues with wall coverage and shadowing effects.
Innovation Solution
The development of a modular LED lighting system with telescoping features, diffuser optics, and pivoting corner sections allows for adjustable installation lengths and angles, ensuring uniform lighting coverage and eliminating shadowing effects by using interchangeable modular light boards with advanced control systems for color temperature tuning and dimming.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed-length LED lighting system is used, then the installation process is simple, but it cannot accommodate walls of varying lengths and creates inconsistent lighting at corners
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting system is divided into multiple modular sections that can be independently adjusted and connected. Each module contains its own lighting elements and can be positioned at different lengths along the wall, allowing the system to adapt to various wall lengths while maintaining consistent lighting coverage without creating gaps or excessive overlap at corners.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed-angle mounting system is used, then the installation structure is simple, but it cannot accommodate varying wall angles and creates shadowing effects
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system incorporates adjustable and movable components that allow the lighting modules to be positioned at different angles relative to the wall surface. This dynamic adjustment capability enables the system to accommodate varying wall angles and orientations while eliminating shadowing effects, despite the increased operational complexity during installation.
3Illumination intensity
If uniform lighting coverage is achieved through overlapping modules, then lighting consistency is improved, but material usage and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs lighting modules with non-uniform emission characteristics, where the intensity and distribution of light are optimized for specific positions within the module. Edge modules are designed to provide enhanced coverage at boundaries and corners, reducing the need for excessive overlap while maintaining uniform overall lighting coverage and minimizing material usage.
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 seamless installation on walls of varying lengths and angles, providing uniform lighting and reducing shadowing, while allowing for customizable light intensity and color temperature adjustments through a sophisticated control interface.
Implementation Method 1
The first master circuit board is coupled to a transformer for converting alternating current to direct current for powering the light emitting diodes
Implementation Method 2
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor diode that emits light when an electrical current is applied in the forward direction of the device
Implementation Method 3
As the current passes through the LED device, the materials that makes up the junction react and light is emitted
Implementation Method 4
diffuser optics, and pivoting corner sections allows for adjustable installation lengths and angles, ensuring uniform lighting coverage and eliminating shadowing effects
Data Source
AI summary
A lighting system is disclosed that includes elongated LED light fixture with one or more master circuit boards configured to power light emitting diodes. The elongated LED light fixtures include modular light boards with arrays of light emitting diodes that interchangeably couple to the matched connectors on the master circuit board. The system further includes elongated LED light fixtures with telescoping end features, fenestrated diffuser optics at ends of the elongated LED fight fixtures and/or pivoting corner features that join sections of the elongated LED light fixtures.