OLED Cassette with Slide Channel for Luminaire Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Flat panel light sources, such as OLEDs, are difficult to integrate and replace within lighting systems due to their thin profiles and low brightness, which complicates mechanical and electrical connections, making them challenging for designers to handle effectively.
Innovation Solution
A loadable cassette system that allows for easy mechanical and electrical connection of OLED panels to a luminaire or lighting system, featuring a planar base plate with retention means for the panel and a connector structure for secure attachment, enabling either post-attachment or simultaneous electrical connection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If OLED panels are mounted directly to luminaire structure components and wired in place, then the light source can be securely integrated, but the handling, mechanical attachment, and electrical connection become difficult and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cassette as an intermediary component that receives the OLED panel and provides standardized mechanical and electrical connection interfaces. The cassette acts as a mediator between the OLED panel and the luminaire structure, enabling easy installation and replacement without direct complex wiring and mounting operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is divided into separate functional modules: the OLED panel, the cassette that holds and connects the panel, and the luminaire structure. This segmentation allows the OLED panel to be handled independently within the cassette, simplifying installation and replacement procedures while maintaining secure integration.
2Reliability
If OLED panels are mounted directly to luminaire structure components, then the light source can be securely integrated, but the ability to easily remove and replace the panel is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The cassette serves as an intermediary that provides a standardized interface for both mechanical attachment and electrical connection. This mediator enables the OLED panel to be securely integrated when installed, while also allowing for easy removal and replacement by simply detaching the cassette from the luminaire structure without complex disassembly operations.
Solution Approach 2:
By segmenting the system into OLED panel, cassette, and luminaire structure components, the patent enables independent handling of each module. The panel can be removed and replaced by detaching the cassette as a unit, simplifying repair operations while maintaining secure integration during normal operation.
3Ease of operation
If conventional light sources like incandescent bulbs or fluorescent tubes are used, then easy plugging into lamp sockets is achieved, but the thin profile and diffuse light characteristics of planar light sources cannot be obtained
Solution Approach 1:
The cassette provides a universal interface that combines both mechanical attachment and electrical connection functions in a single component. This multi-functional design enables easy plugging into the luminaire structure while accommodating the specific thin profile and diffuse light characteristics of OLED panels, achieving both ease of operation and the desired light source properties.
4Adaptability or versatility
If OLED panels are integrated directly into luminaire structure, then structural compatibility can be achieved, but aesthetic appearance and low profile integration are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The cassette acts as an intermediary component that provides a standardized interface for structural compatibility with the luminaire while maintaining a low profile design. This mediator enables aesthetic integration by concealing the electrical connections and mechanical attachment points, presenting a clean, minimal appearance that preserves the thin profile characteristics of the OLED panel.
Data Source
AI summary
A cassette includes a substantially planar base plate having a first or bottom side and a second or top side. A slide channel capture ring or other retention structure is provided on the first side of the base plate for releasably retaining a planar light source to this side of the base plate. Another slide pocket, or other slide-in retention structure is provided on the second side of the base plate for coupling the cassette to a connector structure.