Rotatable Lamp Housing for Dynamic Light Projection Patterns
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional lamps have fixed outer shades with limited pattern variations, restricting their versatility and aesthetic appeal.
Innovation Solution
A lamp design featuring a rotatable housing with patterns that can move relative to light emitting members, allowing the light beams to project movable and rotatable images, enhancing the lamp's aesthetic quality by varying the pattern shapes according to user preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the outer shade is made with a fixed structure, then the manufacturing is simple and cost-effective, but the pattern variation is limited and versatility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the housing rotatable relative to the light emitting members. The housing can rotate around the light emitting members, allowing the patterns on the housing surface to change their orientation and position dynamically. This creates variable light projection patterns without requiring multiple different housing designs, thus improving pattern variation while maintaining relatively simple manufacturing processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the lamp into distinct functional components: the light emitting members mounted on the lamp socket and the housing mounted on the rotation disk. This segmentation allows the housing to be rotated independently relative to the light emitting members, enabling pattern variation through relative motion between the two components without complicating the overall structure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the housing is made rotatable, then the pattern variation and aesthetic quality are enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The rotation disk serves multiple functions: it supports the housing, enables rotation of the housing relative to the light emitting members, and provides a mounting structure for the patterns. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components, thereby enhancing aesthetic quality through rotatable patterns while minimizing the increase in device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The housing is nested on the rotation disk, which itself is mounted on the base. This nested arrangement allows the housing to rotate within the existing structural framework without requiring entirely separate rotation mechanisms, thus achieving pattern variation while keeping the overall structure compact and relatively simple.
3Shape
If the light emitting members are fully hidden in the housing, then the aesthetic appearance is improved, but the light projection capability is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The housing is designed with specific local qualities: it is transparent or translucent in regions where light projection is desired, and opaque in other regions to maintain aesthetic appearance. This allows the housing to hide the light emitting members while still enabling light to pass through specific areas to create projected patterns on surfaces, thus balancing aesthetic appearance with light projection capability.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The design enhances the lamp's aesthetic quality by creating dynamic and customizable light projections, offering greater versatility and visual interest through the rotation of the housing and light emitting members.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of light emitting members 31 mounted on the lamp socket 3 and fully hidden in the housing 4
Implementation Method 2
the light beams of the light emitting members 31 are projected outwardly through the patterns 41 of the housing 4
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AI summary
A lamp includes a base, a lamp socket fixedly mounted on the base, a rotation disk rotatably mounted on the base, a housing fixedly mounted on the rotation disk and having a plurality of patterns, and a plurality of light emitting members mounted on the lamp socket and hidden in the housing. Thus, the housing is rotatable relative to the light emitting members, and the patterns of the housing are rotatable and movable relative to the light emitting members, so that the light beams of the light emitting members are projected outwardly through the patterns of the housing to produce rotatable and movable images by rotation of the housing, thereby enhancing the aesthetic quality of the lamp.