Modular Recessed Lighting With Breakable Casing Partitions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional recessed mounting lighting systems for walls and floors have preset lengths, leading to discontinuous lighting, inventory management issues, and limited adaptability, as they cannot be easily adjusted to match specific illumination lengths or directional variations, resulting in aesthetic and functional limitations.
Innovation Solution
A modular lighting system comprising interchangeable single and multiple modules with easily breakable partitions in the outer casing, allowing for adjustable length and direction, continuous lighting, and easy reconfiguration, using connectors for electrical continuity and aesthetic modules to fill gaps.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If conventional preset length outer casings are used, then manufacturing is simplified, but the lighting cannot be perfectly adapted to the required length
Solution Approach 1:
The outer casing is divided into multiple separable sections that can be assembled in different configurations. Each section can be independently manufactured and then combined to create custom lengths, allowing the lighting system to adapt to various required lengths while maintaining simplified manufacturing processes for each individual section.
2Reliability
If minimum distance between contiguous products is maintained, then device functionality is ensured, but aesthetic discontinuities appear in the lighting
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple lighting modules are merged into a single integrated outer casing structure. The modules are positioned adjacent to each other with no visible gaps, creating a continuous lighting appearance. The electrical and functional connections are maintained within the integrated structure, ensuring device functionality while eliminating aesthetic discontinuities.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple models of different dimensions are manufactured, then dimensional adaptability is ensured, but inventory and stock management become complex
Solution Approach 1:
A single standardized outer casing design is used that can accommodate various lighting module configurations. The universal casing structure can be adjusted to fit different lengths and dimensional requirements by varying the number and arrangement of modules within the same casing type, eliminating the need to manufacture and manage multiple different casing models while maintaining dimensional adaptability.
4Ease of operation
If fixed outer casing length is used, then installation is simplified, but the position of light spots cannot be easily varied
Solution Approach 1:
The outer casing incorporates adjustable elements that allow the position and configuration of lighting modules to be modified after installation. The casing includes movable or reconfigurable components that enable users to adjust light spot positions and lighting configurations without requiring complete removal and reinstallation of the entire system, maintaining installation simplicity while providing adaptability.
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AI summary
A modular lighting system for recessed mounting, including an outer casing that can be recessed in a wall or floor and one or more modular components that include single modules and multiple modules; a multiple module is dimensionally a multiple of a single module and the outer casing is constituted by a single body that is divided into sectors by means of easily breakable partitions, each sector corresponding dimensionally to the single module. The modular system allows to provide practically continuous lighting, ensuring a lighting technology performance of high value, and offers the possibility to vary the length of the product as a function of the requirements in a substantially linear manner, allowing to adapt perfectly the actually lit length with respect to the required length. Other advantages of the modular system are easy and quick installation, the possibility to change its configuration subsequently, and simplified management of the product in stock.