Projector Sunshade Cover With Transparent Logo Projection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing promotional sunshades with transparent UV-treated materials face issues with printing methods that obstruct sunlight and interfere with user views, reducing their effectiveness.
Innovation Solution
A projector sunshade design featuring a UV-treated sheet with a transparent logo area and a surrounding area of lower transparency, allowing sunlight to pass through and projecting the logo onto surfaces, using digital, flexographic, or silk screen printing techniques on flexible or non-flexible plastic sheets, or textiles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If printing is applied to transparent UV-treated sunshade materials, then advertising visibility is improved, but sunlight obstruction and user view interference occur
Solution Approach 1:
The sunshade cover employs different transparency levels in different regions: the logo area uses substantially transparent material for maximum light transmission and advertising visibility, while the surrounding area uses material with lower transparency to frame the logo and reduce overall sunlight obstruction. This local differentiation resolves the contradiction by optimizing each zone for its specific function.
Solution Approach 2:
The sunshade cover is divided into distinct functional zones: a central transparent logo area and a surrounding translucent frame area. This segmentation allows the logo region to maximize sunlight transmission for advertising effectiveness while the surrounding area provides structural framing and reduces overall light obstruction, solving the contradiction between visibility and illumination.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If opaque materials are used for sunshade covers, then UV protection is improved, but advertising creativity and light transmission are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The sunshade cover uses transparent UV-treated material specifically in the logo area where advertising visibility is critical, while the surrounding area uses translucent material for framing. This local quality differentiation enables effective advertising creativity while maintaining overall UV protection functionality, resolving the contradiction between protection and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The sunshade cover combines transparent UV-treated plastic material for the logo area with translucent framing material. This composite approach allows the structure to provide both UV protection through the transparent material and advertising creativity through the high-visibility transparent logo area, while the translucent frame provides structural support and aesthetic framing.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances advertising exposure by multiplying the display area and maintaining user comfort by allowing sunlight to pass through, while effectively displaying the logo both on the sunshade and projected onto surfaces.
Implementation Method 1
a UV-treated sheet, a first area on the UV-treated sheet including a shape of the logo, the first area being substantially transparent to light from an illumination source
Implementation Method 2
the first area being substantially transparent to light from an illumination source
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein is a projector sunshade for projecting an image of a logo onto a surface. The projector sunshade includes a UV-treated sheet, a first area on the UV-treated sheet including a shape of the logo, the first area being substantially transparent to light from an illumination source; and a second area surrounding the first area and including a lower transparency to the light relative to the first area.