Modular LED Track with Magnetic Clip-On Units
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional LED light sources, such as bulbs and fluorescent tubes, have complex designs that are costly and inefficient, limiting flexibility in brightness, size, and illumination area, and require full replacement for adjustments, leading to high power consumption and cost.
Innovation Solution
The development of an LED light device with a track system allowing removable LED units that can be easily added, removed, or rearranged along the length, featuring magnetic and conductive contacts for power delivery, enabling adjustable brightness, size, and illumination area without the need for extensive redesign, and utilizing a limited number of LEDs to save energy and cost.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If conventional LED bulbs or fluorescent tubes with special design are used to achieve wide view angle and high brightness, then illumination performance is improved, but construction complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the lighting system into modular LED units that can be independently configured along a track. Each LED unit contains multiple LEDs arranged to provide wide viewing angles, while the modular nature allows flexible configuration to achieve high overall brightness without requiring complex integrated designs in each component.
Solution Approach 2:
The track system serves multiple functions: it provides structural support, electrical power delivery through bus bars, and flexible positioning for LED units. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate mounting structures and wiring systems, reducing overall construction complexity while maintaining high illumination performance.
2Illumination intensity
If conventional LED bulbs or fluorescent tubes are used with complicated construction, then wide view angle and high brightness are achieved, but cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the lighting system into standardized LED units and a separate track structure, the patent enables independent manufacturing of each component using simple, cost-effective processes. The modular design allows mass production of identical LED units and tracks, significantly reducing per-unit cost compared to custom-integrated complex designs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses replicated standard LED units along the track rather than custom-designed complex bulbs. Each LED unit is a simplified copy with standardized components, allowing economical mass production while achieving the desired wide viewing angle and high brightness through数量和arrangement rather than individual component complexity.
3Ease of manufacture
If fixed LED configurations are used, then manufacturing is simplified, but adaptability for different brightness and illumination areas is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The track system is designed to be dynamically configurable, allowing LED units to be added, removed, or repositioned along the track length. This dynamic adaptability enables the same simple modular components to be configured for different brightness levels and illumination areas, achieving versatility without compromising manufacturing simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The segmented modular design allows the lighting system to be customized by selecting different numbers and types of LED units for different applications. Each module remains simple to manufacture, but the system as a whole becomes highly adaptable to various brightness and illumination area requirements through flexible configuration.
4Stability of the object's composition
If full replacement of LED units is required for adjustments, then design consistency is maintained, but time and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
By dividing the lighting system into independent replaceable LED units on a permanent track, the patent allows partial replacement of only the specific units that need adjustment or replacement. This eliminates the need to replace entire assemblies, significantly reducing time and cost while maintaining design consistency through standardized modular components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the LED units from a fixed integrated design and places them on a separate track structure, allowing individual units to be removed and replaced independently. This extraction enables maintenance and adjustments without affecting the overall system structure or requiring replacement of non-defective components, reducing time and cost while preserving design consistency.
5Area of stationary object
If LED units illuminate entire track length, then coverage is maximized, but power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the illumination task into separate LED units distributed along the track, allowing selective activation of only the units needed for the current application. This segmentation enables the system to provide sufficient illumination for specific areas (such as head-width or shoulder-width zones) without energizing the entire track length, thereby reducing power consumption while maintaining adequate coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is designed to use only the portion of the track length that is actually needed for illumination rather than activating the entire track. This partial action approach provides sufficient lighting for the required area (e.g., work areas of specific widths) without the excessive power consumption that would result from illuminating the full track length, achieving energy efficiency while maintaining adequate illumination coverage.
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
This solution provides a cost-effective, energy-efficient LED light source that can be customized for various applications, offering adjustable brightness and illumination while minimizing power consumption and reducing the number of LEDs needed, thus encouraging the replacement of traditional lighting with more efficient LED options.
Implementation Method 1
a resilient conductive contact piece for delivering electric power from the bus-strip
Implementation Method 2
conductive contact piece for delivering electric power
Data Source
AI summary
The LED light has Track to install LED-units anywhere along the length. The LED-unit has pair of resilient or pop-out & fall-down movable contactor so can fit-within or add-on LED-units to track and connect with metal bus-strip(s) which has electric current or-and magnetic force to adhesive the pop-out & fall-down contactor on back of the LED-unit. LED light device including LED light source, or mini size LED fluorescent tube, or mini LED light bar, or mini LED Bulb, or mini LED lamp, mini LED Lamp as light source has housing to fit-in or add-on or magnetic adhesive on track to form a finish light device and get power from built-in or outside AC-to-DC transformer, circuit, power source and can control by switch, remote controller, motion/moving detector(s) sensor, all kind of sensor, APP software while incorporate with Wifi or wireless network to make the on-off, color changing, color mix, dimmer adjustment, moving light, all other light show for LED track light has fit-in LED-units by resilient contractors or LED track light has add-on LED-units by pop-out & fall-down movable contactor built on back of LED-unit and adhesive by magnetic force bus-strips.