Strip Light Socket Segmentation for Safe Multi-End Powering
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Solution Overview
Problem
High-voltage strip lights require safety regulations that prevent both ends from being male or female for safe operation, but this restricts the ability to connect them in asymmetric configurations, limiting installation convenience and lighting efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A strip light design with a male socket at one end and a female socket at the other, featuring a partitioned socket to ensure safety distance and prevent accidental contact, allowing for both-end power feeding while maintaining asymmetrical light distribution capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If both ends of the strip light are designed to be powered for installation convenience, then installation flexibility is improved, but safety risk increases due to potential electric shock from exposed pins
Solution Approach 1:
The socket structure is segmented into multiple independent pin holes, each surrounded by an insulating wall. This segmentation isolates each conductive pin within its own insulated compartment, allowing the socket to maintain multiple powered ends for installation flexibility while preventing electric shock by separating the conductive elements from potential contact.
Solution Approach 2:
An insulating wall structure is introduced as an intermediary element between the conductive pins and the external environment. This insulating barrier mediates the contradiction by allowing electrical connectivity at multiple ends while blocking the harmful effect of electric shock, thus enabling safe multi-end powering.
2Illumination intensity
If asymmetric light distribution is used to improve lighting efficiency, then light output performance is improved, but installation convenience deteriorates because the strip light cannot be turned around
Solution Approach 1:
The strip light is designed with universal multi-functionality by providing both male and female sockets at both ends. This allows the asymmetric light distribution strip to be installed in multiple orientations (left-to-right or right-to-left) by simply changing which end connects to the power source, maintaining optimal light output performance while achieving installation flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The traditional approach of having asymmetric lights fixed in one orientation is inverted by providing symmetric socket configurations at both ends. This inversion allows the asymmetric light-emitting portion to be reoriented during installation by connecting power at different ends, thus achieving both optimal lighting performance and installation convenience.
3Reliability
If safety distance is increased to meet safety regulations, then safety compliance is improved, but device complexity increases due to additional partition structures
Solution Approach 1:
The insulating walls that create safety distances are merged with the structural framework of the socket housing. By integrating the safety-distance-providing partitions into the existing structural elements rather than adding separate components, the design achieves safety compliance while minimizing increases in device complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A strip light has a lamp holder, a light source module, an optical assembly, and two end cover assemblies. The first end cover assembly has an outer cover fixedly connected with the end of the strip-shaped lamp holder and a male socket electrically connected with the light source module, the second end cover assembly has an outer cover fixedly connected with the end of the strip-shaped lamp holder and a female socket electrically connected with the light source module, and the male socket is provided with at least two contact pins. The outer cover is provided with a jack for accommodating the contact pin, a separation part for separating the contact pin is arranged in the jack, the tail end of the contact pin is positioned on the inner side of the tail end of the separation part, and a safe distance is formed between the two tail ends.