Modular Lighting Control Console With Expandable Input And Display Modules
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional lighting control consoles are inflexible in adapting to varying scopes of performance and function, requiring different hardware configurations for each specific application, which limits their adaptability and user comfort.
Innovation Solution
A lighting control console that allows for flexible adaptation by connecting external input and display modules, with a configuration file to allocate operating elements to display modules and store position data, enabling a customizable user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If specific hardware is selected and the lighting control console is built up based on the desired scope of performance and function, then the hardware configuration matches the specific application requirements, but the lighting control console becomes inflexible and cannot be adapted to other performance and function classes
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting control console is divided into a base unit and separate expandable modules (input modules and display modules). The base unit contains essential processing capabilities, while additional functionality is added through detachable modules that can be connected or removed based on specific application requirements, allowing flexible adaptation without redesigning the entire system.
Solution Approach 2:
The base unit is designed with universal interfaces and capabilities that can support multiple performance and function classes. By providing a standardized base that can work with various combinations of input and display modules, the system achieves multi-functionality across different application scenarios without requiring completely different hardware configurations for each class.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the lighting control console is equipped with a large number of operating elements and multiple display devices to control extremely complex lighting systems, then the scope of performance and function is greatly enhanced, but the device complexity and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system configuration is made dynamic and adjustable rather than fixed. Users can adaptively connect or disconnect input and display modules based on the specific control requirements, allowing the system to scale from simple to complex configurations as needed, rather than being permanently equipped with maximum capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of providing all possible operating elements and display devices in every configuration, the system offers a base unit with essential functionality and allows users to add only the specific modules needed for their application, avoiding the complexity and cost of excessive features that may not be required.
3Ease of manufacture
If the lighting control console is designed with a fixed hardware configuration for a specific performance class, then the manufacturing and setup process is simplified, but the system cannot be flexibly adapted to different application requirements
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the system into standardized base units and modules, each component can be manufactured independently using optimized processes. The modular design allows for streamlined production of individual components while maintaining the ability to assemble different configurations, thus preserving ease of manufacture while enabling adaptability.
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AI summary
Various embodiments of the invention relate to a lighting control console for controlling a lighting system comprising wherein digital adjusting commands, which can be transferred to the lighting devices of the lighting system via data connections, are generated in the lighting control console, and wherein the lighting control console comprises at least one housing, in which the hardware components are arranged so as to be protected from external influences, and wherein the lighting control console comprises a plurality of operating elements, in particular pushbuttons, slide controls and/or rotary controls, which are arranged at the upper side of the housing and by means of which operating commands can be input, and wherein the lighting control console comprises at least one display device, at which a user interface can be displayed.