Removable Peripheral Bar With Programmable Lighting for Aircraft Seats
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional display systems in transportation vehicles lack customizable accent lighting and modular peripheral accessories, with integrated interfaces that are difficult to customize and require significant redesign for feature modifications.
Innovation Solution
A modular peripheral bar assembly with customizable accent lighting and separate interfaces that can be easily connected and disconnected from the main chassis, allowing for user-configurable features and minimal redesign efforts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If interfaces are fully integrated and structurally embedded in the display system, then structural stability is improved, but adaptability deteriorates because customization becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The peripheral bar assembly is segmented from the main display system chassis, allowing it to be a separate, removable module. This segmentation enables the display system to maintain structural stability through the integrated chassis while providing adaptability through the detachable peripheral bar that can be customized or removed as needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The peripheral bar assembly is designed with dynamic connectivity - it can be connected to or disconnected from the main chassis. This dynamic design allows the system to transition between a stable integrated state and a flexible customized state, resolving the contradiction between structural stability and adaptability.
2Ease of operation
If accent lighting is added to the display system, then user experience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The accent lighting functionality is segmented into the removable peripheral bar assembly rather than being integrated into the main display system. This allows the lighting feature to be added without permanently increasing the complexity of the core display system, as the lighting components are contained within the detachable peripheral bar.
3Adaptability or versatility
If modular peripheral bar assembly is used, then adaptability is improved for easy customization, but device complexity increases due to additional components
Solution Approach 1:
The peripheral bar assembly is designed as a universal module that can serve multiple functions - it contains accent lighting, various interface connections, and can be configured for different customization needs. This multi-functionality reduces the need for multiple separate components, thereby improving adaptability without proportionally increasing device complexity.
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
Enables cost-effective customization and upgrade of display systems without major re-design, facilitating quick feature changes and hardware replacements, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of light emitting diodes, each light source having an anode, a cathode and a body region between the anode and the cathode
Implementation Method 2
transmitting light through the diffuser and the slot to provide accent lighting through the slot of the front bar housing
Data Source
AI summary
Innovative peripheral bar assembly for a transportation vehicle is provided. One method includes transmitting, by a processor of a seat device of an aircraft coupled to a peripheral bar assembly having a plurality of programmable light sources, one or more commands to the peripheral bar assembly to operate one or more of the light sources; and operating, by the peripheral bar assembly, the one or more light sources, in response to the one or more commands to indicate non-verbal communication associated with the aircraft.