Modular Lighting Platform With Interconnected Power Bars
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional lighting systems, such as surface-mounted and recessed lights, lack flexibility in positioning and configuration due to fixed positions and limited power requirements, restricting the number, size, and shape of light fixtures.
Innovation Solution
A modular lighting system featuring a planar truss structure with interconnected power bars and hangers that allows for adjustable and extendable configurations, providing both structural support and electrical supply to luminaires, enabling flexible positioning and increased fixture options.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional track lighting is used, then power requirements are met, but the number, size and shape of light fixtures are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting system is divided into modular components including power bars, luminaires, and support structures that can be independently selected and configured. This segmentation allows different fixture types, sizes, and shapes to be combined in various arrangements without requiring complete system redesign, thereby increasing versatility while maintaining manageable complexity through standardized interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The power bars serve multiple functions: they provide electrical power distribution, structural support for mounting luminaires, and modular connection points for extending the lighting system. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components, allowing diverse fixture options to be integrated into a unified system architecture that balances versatility with structural simplicity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If surface mounted or recessed lights are used, then installation is simple, but positions are fixed and configurations are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting system transitions from fixed positions to dynamically adjustable configurations through modular power bars that can be easily connected and disconnected. Luminaires can be repositioned along the power bars and between different power bar locations, enabling flexible positioning while maintaining simple installation through tool-free or minimal-tool connector systems that preserve ease of assembly and reconfiguration.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional lighting systems are used, then power requirements are met, but flexibility in positioning is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system is segmented into discrete power bar modules that can be independently positioned and configured. Each power bar acts as an autonomous unit with integrated power distribution and mounting capabilities, allowing flexible positioning of luminaires without requiring complex wiring modifications. This modular segmentation enables adaptive reconfiguration while keeping individual component complexity low through standardized designs.
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AI summary
A lighting system that may include a platform, a plurality of hangers configured to hang the platform from a supporting structure, and at least one luminaire or light pendant electrically and structurally coupled to the platform for emitting light.The platform may include a plurality of first power bars spaced from one another and extending in a first direction, and a plurality of second power bars spaced from one another and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction. The first and second power bars may be electrically and structurally connected to one another.