Modular Luminaire with Interchangeable Accessories
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional luminaires become aesthetically stale over time, lacking the ability for consumers to customize their appearance.
Innovation Solution
A modular light fixture design featuring a rectangular base with cuboid housings for parallel LED boards and interchangeable U-shaped accessories, allowing for removable attachment and various design configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional luminaire design is used, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the aesthetic appearance becomes stale over time and cannot be customized
Solution Approach 1:
The luminaire is divided into separate modular components: a base unit and interchangeable accessory pieces. The base contains the light source and electrical components, while accessories provide aesthetic functions. This segmentation allows users to swap accessories to change appearance without replacing the entire fixture, resolving the contradiction between customizability and structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The base unit is designed as a universal platform that can accommodate multiple different accessory types through standardized mounting interfaces. A single base can work with various accessories (bulbs, shades, decorative elements), providing multi-functionality and extensive customizability without requiring multiple specialized fixtures, thus maintaining simplicity while enabling versatility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the entire luminaire is replaced to change appearance, then the aesthetic look can be updated, but this results in waste of functional components and increases cost
Solution Approach 1:
The aesthetic components (accessories) are extracted as separate removable elements from the functional base unit. Users can remove and replace only the accessory portion to change appearance, leaving the functional base (containing light source, wiring, and power components) intact. This eliminates waste of functional components while enabling aesthetic variability.
Solution Approach 2:
The design enables selective discarding of only the aesthetic accessory portion when changing looks, while recovering and reusing the functional base unit. The base is designed to be permanently installed and reused across multiple accessory configurations, minimizing material waste and reducing the need for complete fixture replacement.
3Adaptability or versatility
If modular components are introduced for customization, then aesthetic flexibility improves, but the device complexity and number of parts increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting interface integrates multiple functions into a single standardized connection mechanism that combines electrical connectivity, mechanical attachment, and alignment features. This merging reduces the number of separate components and interfaces needed, allowing customization capability while controlling device complexity through functional integration.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a light fixture comprising: a) a base; b) two housings for housing at least one light source each, the light source housing placed on the base, each housing configured for removable attachment to an accessory; c) an accessory for removably attaching to the housing; wherein the fixture is configured to be used with interchangeable accessories. Provided is light fixture comprising: a) a rectangular base; b) two housings for housing at least one light source each, the light source housings placed on the base; c) four LED boards as the light source, wherein each of the housings have two LED boards, all of the four LED boards placed in parallel configuration; each housing having an LED board facing a first end and a second end of the rectangular base in a parallel configuration to the end of the rectangular base, each of the housings configured for removable attachment of an accessory; and d) an accessory for removably attaching to the two housings.