Strip Light Cover Profile Sealing and Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing light line systems have limited protection against dust and moisture due to the variability and length of their cover elements, which complicates sealing and increases the risk of leakage, especially in industrial environments.
Innovation Solution
A light line system with a U-shaped support arrangement and a cover formed by an elongated profile part that includes contacting elements connected by a cable, allowing for improved sealing and easy handling, with the profile part designed to be wound up for transportation and featuring clamped connections and sealing elements to prevent moisture ingress.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple individual profile parts are used to cover the support rail elements, then the cover can be adapted to different lengths, but joints are created that represent potential leakage points reducing protection against dust and moisture
Solution Approach 1:
The support rail system is divided into multiple individual support rail elements that can be arranged in different quantities to achieve the desired total length. Each element is covered by its own profile part, allowing modular assembly while maintaining sealing integrity through overlapping joints between adjacent profile parts.
2Reliability
If a very long profile part is used to cover the entire carrier arrangement, then sealing is improved by eliminating joints, but transportation and handling become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The cover is segmented into multiple individual profile parts, each of manageable length for transportation and installation. These profile parts are designed to overlap with adjacent ones, creating a continuous sealed cover along the entire carrier arrangement without requiring a single excessively long piece.
Solution Approach 2:
Adjacent profile parts are designed with overlapping sections where one profile part partially covers or nests over the previous one. This nesting arrangement ensures continuous sealing while allowing each profile part to be a manageable size for handling and installation.
3Strength
If the profile part is made rigid to maintain structural stability, then sealing is improved, but flexibility for winding up and transportation is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The overall cover system is segmented into multiple discrete profile parts of moderate length. Each individual profile part maintains sufficient rigidity for structural stability and sealing, while the segmented nature allows the entire cover to be flexibly assembled, disassembled, and transported in manageable sections.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a cover for a support arrangement of a strip light system, said support system comprising at least two elongate support rail elements which are arranged behind each other in the longitudinal direction. According to the invention, the cover is formed by an elongate shaped part on which several contact elements which are interconnected by means of at least one cable are arranged, and which are described to make contact by means of the light modules of the strip light system.