Sealing Profile With Integrated Translucent Lighting Section
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional sealing profiles for closable openings lack integrated lighting or signaling functions, requiring separate devices and not providing ambient lighting or emergency indication.
Innovation Solution
A sealing profile with an at least partially transparent or translucent section and an integrated illuminant, allowing light to pass through and providing both sealing and illumination/signaling capabilities, potentially incorporating heat emission for de-icing or disinfection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a separate lighting device is used to provide illumination or signaling functions, then the lighting function is achieved, but the device complexity increases and the seal structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the lighting device with the sealing profile into a single integrated component. The light source is positioned within the sealing profile structure, and the translucent/transparent section serves as both part of the seal and the light guide, eliminating the need for separate lighting devices and reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The sealing profile is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: it provides sealing through its elastic material, structural support through its geometry, and illumination/signaling through its translucent sections and integrated light sources. This multi-functionality reduces the number of separate components needed.
2Reliability
If the sealing profile is made opaque to ensure durability and weather resistance, then the sealing performance is improved, but the lighting function cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The sealing profile employs different material properties in different sections: the main body uses opaque or less translucent material for durability and weather resistance, while specific sections use translucent or transparent material to allow light transmission. This localized differentiation of material properties enables both sealing performance and lighting function to coexist.
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
Combines sealing functionality with integrated lighting and signaling, eliminating the need for separate devices, offering ambient lighting, emergency indication, and heat applications for de-icing or disinfection.
Implementation Method 1
The seal is typically made of an elastic material and fills a sealing recess provided between the two interfaces of the areas, its elasticity creating a force-fit connection between the interfaces
Implementation Method 2
a light source, which is at least partially surrounded by the sealing section and arranged such that light emitted from it passes outwards through the at least partially transparent or partially translucent section on the visible side
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AI summary
The invention relates to a profiled sealing section comprising a visible side, a seal section which has an elastic material and is at least partly provided on the visible side, an at least partially transparent or partially translucent section which is at least partly provided on the visible side, and a lighting means which is at least partly surrounded by the seal section and is arranged such that light emitted therefrom passes outwards through the at least partially transparent or partially translucent section on the visible side. The invention additionally relates to a closable opening comprising a seal which has such a profiled sealing section.