Telescopic LED Light with Modular Function Extension

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional LED lights are inflexible due to their fixed size, making them unsuitable for various installation environments, and have single-function designs that are costly and difficult to extend, leading to low market competitiveness.

Innovation Solution

An adjustable LED light system featuring a telescopic holder and detachable function extension units, allowing for customizable length and functionality to meet different installation needs and environments, reducing production costs and enhancing market competitiveness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If a conventional LED light uses a fixed size design, then the manufacturing cost is reduced, but the adaptability to different installation environments deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing costVSAvoidadaptability to installation environments
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The LED light is divided into modular components: a fixed body containing the light source and a separate telescopic holder. This segmentation allows the holder to be adjusted independently to fit different installation spaces while the body remains standardized for cost-effective manufacturing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The telescopic holder introduces dynamic adjustability to the otherwise static LED light structure. The holder can be extended or retracted to accommodate varying installation distances and angles, enabling the same fixed-size LED light to adapt to multiple installation environments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Device complexity

If a conventional LED light uses a single-function design, then the device complexity is reduced, but the versatility and market competitiveness deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice complexityVSAvoidfunctionality extension
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The LED light body is designed as a universal platform that can support multiple function extension units. These units can be attached or detached to provide different functionalities (e.g., smart control, color temperature adjustment, motion sensing) without redesigning the entire device, thus maintaining low complexity while achieving high versatility.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The function extension units are designed to nest onto or integrate with the standardized LED light body. This nested structure allows the core LED module to remain simple while accommodating additional functional layers that can be added or removed based on specific application needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Ease of manufacture

If a conventional LED light has fixed functions, then the production cost is reduced, but the ability to meet diverse market demands deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction costVSAvoidmarket demand flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

By segmenting the LED light into a standardized body and separate function extension units, manufacturers can produce the core body in large quantities at low cost, then add different functional units to meet specific market demands without increasing base production costs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system allows functional parameters to be changed by attaching different extension units rather than manufacturing different complete devices. This enables cost-effective customization where the same base unit can be configured with different functions based on market requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10753586B1LED light and smart driving system of LED light
Publication Date: 2020.08.25 SHENZHEN LIANYU PHOTOELECTRIC CO LTD
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AI summary

An LED light includes a body, a holder connected to the body, and a function extension unit detachably connected to the body. The holder includes a telescopic member stretched or contracted to adjust a length of the holder along an axial direction of the LED light. The present disclosure can solve technical problems that a conventional LED light can't be adapted to different installation environments. The function extension unit is configured to set different function modules to communicate with a power supply of the body according to needs of different customers so as to drive the body to change an output state of the power supply, thereby light emitting units of the body can work in different states. The present disclosure can further provide a smart driving system of an LED light to be customized to control a lighting mode of the body.