Ring Lamp Support With Universal Joint for Fast Multi-Angle Shooting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing shooting devices require multiple adjusting mechanisms for multi-dimensional angle adjustments, leading to increased production costs, assembly complexity, and time-consuming adjustments, which negatively impact user experience.

Innovation Solution

A shooting device with a support bracket, universal adjusting piece, and first light emitting piece, featuring a shapeable coiled pipe or ball head and rotating collet, allows for quick angle adjustments, including pitch, flip, and mode changes, while simplifying the structure and reducing production costs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple adjusting mechanisms are used to enable multi-dimensional angle adjustments, then the shooting terminal can achieve landscape mode, portrait mode, and various pitch angle adjustments, but the device complexity and assembly workload increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemulti-dimensional angle adjustment capabilityVSAvoidnumber of adjusting mechanisms
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple adjusting mechanisms (bracket rotation for horizontal angle, flip mechanism for pitch angle, and clamping device for landscape/portrait mode switching) into an integrated universal adjusting piece that connects the support bracket and fixing piece as a single unified structure, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining multi-dimensional adjustment capability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The universal adjusting piece serves multiple functions simultaneously: it enables horizontal angle adjustment via bracket rotation, pitch angle adjustment via flipping motion, and landscape/portrait mode switching via clamping device rotation, replacing the need for separate specialized mechanisms for each function

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple adjusting mechanisms are used to enable multi-dimensional angle adjustments, then the shooting terminal can be positioned at various angles, but the assembly workload and production cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemulti-dimensional angle adjustment capabilityVSAvoidassembly workload
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple separate adjusting mechanisms into a single universal adjusting piece that integrates the bracket, flip mechanism, and clamping device, thereby reducing the number of assembly steps and lowering production costs while maintaining full multi-dimensional adjustment functionality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple adjusting mechanisms are used to enable multi-dimensional angle adjustments, then the shooting terminal can switch between modes, but the adjustment time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemode switching capabilityVSAvoidadjustment time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The universal adjusting piece incorporates dynamic, movable connections that allow smooth transitions between different adjustment modes (horizontal rotation, vertical flipping, clamping rotation) without requiring separate adjustment sequences, thereby reducing the time needed to switch between landscape/portrait modes and various pitch angles

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS12449722B2Ring lamp support for shooting terminal
Publication Date: 2025.10.21 MARVEL TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD
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AI summary

A shooting device includes a support bracket, a universal adjusting piece, a first light emitting piece, and a fixing piece. The universal adjusting piece is a shapeable coiled pipe, or, the universal adjusting piece includes a ball head and a rotating collet, and the ball head is rotatably disposed in the rotating collet. The fixing piece fixes a shooting terminal, the universal adjusting piece is disposed between the fixing piece and the support frame, and the first light emitting piece is disposed on a peripheral side of the fixing piece, so that the first light emitting piece synchronously moves with the shooting terminal, and the shooting terminal realizes pitch angle adjustment, left and right flip adjustment, and switch between a landscape mode and a portrait mode with respect to the support bracket, which enables the shooting terminal to quickly adjust the shooting angle in different dimensions.