Modular Track Lighting Connectors for Custom LED Layouts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing track lighting systems lack modularity and flexibility to create customizable lighting configurations and features, limiting their ability to adapt to various spatial orientations and user preferences.
Innovation Solution
The development of LED luminaire modules with track connectors that allow for modular connection, enabling customizable track lighting patterns and features, including S-shaped, reverse-S-shaped, Z-shaped, or reverse-Z-shaped configurations, and the use of orientation and activity sensors to control lighting properties based on module orientation and activity detection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional track lighting systems are used, then the system structure is simple, but the system lacks modularity and flexibility for customizable lighting configurations
Solution Approach 1:
The track lighting system is divided into separate modular components: track segments with connectors and luminaires that can be independently assembled. Each track segment contains integrated connectors that enable modular assembly, allowing users to create customized lighting configurations by combining different segments and luminaires without requiring complex integrated designs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If modular LED luminaire modules are added to enable customizable configurations, then adaptability improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The track connector integrates multiple functions into a single component: mechanical coupling between track segments, electrical connection for power transmission, and structural support for mounted luminaires. This consolidation reduces the number of separate parts and simplifies the overall module structure while maintaining full modularity and customization capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The track connector is designed as a universal component that performs multiple functions simultaneously: it provides mechanical connection, electrical connectivity, and structural support. This multi-functional design allows the same component to serve different purposes throughout the system, reducing complexity by eliminating the need for separate specialized components for each function.
3Adaptability or versatility
If sensors and controllers are integrated for dynamic lighting control, then lighting functionality improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting system incorporates sensors that automatically detect environmental conditions and user presence, enabling the lighting to self-adjust without requiring complex external control systems. The system monitors its own operational state and environmental parameters, making autonomous decisions about lighting adjustments, which simplifies the control architecture while maintaining advanced functionality.
Data Source
AI summary
A LED luminaire module is provided, including a track connector, a plurality of LED light sources, and a light exit window. The track connector electrically and mechanically couples the LED luminaire module to a track and is arranged at a center region of the LED luminaire module. The plurality of LED light sources generates LED light. The light exit window exits the LED light generated by the plurality of LEDs from the LED luminaire module as module light. The light exit window is and may be S-shaped, reverse-S-shaped, Z-shaped, or reverse-Z-shaped. The LED luminaire may further include a module connector arranged at an end of the LED luminaire module and mechanically and/or electrically couples the LED luminaire module to a second LED module or a bridge LED luminaire module.