Modular Light Board with Detachable Sections
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional light fixtures with LED boards lack flexibility in length adjustment and even light distribution, often requiring multiple boards for specific fixtures and resulting in dark zones or shadows.
Innovation Solution
A modular light board design featuring detachable sections with perforations and a programmable driver, allowing for incremental length adjustment and even light distribution by coupling and decoupling light strips and connecting portions, ensuring consistent power output.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional light fixtures use fixed-length LED boards, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the adaptability to different fixture lengths is poor and dark zones appear
Solution Approach 1:
The light board is divided into multiple detachable sections with standardized connecting portions. Each section can be independently coupled or decoupled to achieve different total lengths, allowing the light board to adapt to various fixture dimensions without requiring multiple complete board designs.
Solution Approach 2:
The light board transitions from a fixed-length structure to a dynamically adjustable structure. The detachable connections enable the board to be reconfigured in the field, allowing users to adjust the length by coupling or decoupling sections based on the specific fixture requirements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple fixed-length boards are used to cover different fixture lengths, then the adaptability improves, but the device complexity and number of components increases
Solution Approach 1:
Each light board section is designed with universal connecting portions that can interface with any other section. This multi-functionality allows a single type of section to serve multiple purposes by being coupled in different quantities and configurations, eliminating the need for multiple specialized board types.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the light board length is adjusted by adding or removing sections, then the adaptability to fixture lengths improves, but ensuring even light distribution becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
Each light board section is designed with locally optimized LED placement and connecting portion characteristics. The connecting portions are positioned and sized to ensure that each section contributes evenly to the overall light distribution, regardless of the total number of sections coupled together.
Solution Approach 2:
The design incorporates standardized parameters for LED spacing, connecting portion dimensions, and electrical connection points. By maintaining consistent parameters across all sections, the system ensures predictable and even light distribution whether one section or multiple sections are used.
4Ease of operation
If detachable connections are used to allow length adjustment, then the ease of operation and customization improves, but the reliability of electrical and mechanical connections may worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The connecting portions are pre-designed and pre-positioned during manufacturing with precise alignment features and contact points. This preliminary action ensures that when sections are coupled in the field, the electrical and mechanical connections are reliably established without requiring complex alignment procedures.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables customizable light board lengths to match various fixtures, reducing dark zones and shadows while maintaining efficient and evenly distributed light output.
Implementation Method 1
The first portion includes at least one light emitting element... The second portion includes at least one light emitting element... the at least one light emitting element of the first portion and the at least one light emitting element of the second portion are configured to provide an evenly distributed light output
Data Source
AI summary
A light board for a light fixture includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes at least one light emitting element, and the second portion includes at least one light emitting element. A first state is defined by the second portion being coupled to the first portion and a second state is defined by the second portion being detached from the first portion. In the first state, the light emitting elements of the first portion and the second portion are configured to provide an evenly distributed light output along at least the combined length of the first portion and the second portion. In the second state, the at least one light emitting element of the first portion is configured to provide an evenly distributed light output along at least the length of the first portion.