Textured Inner Cup Structure for Twinkling Light Refraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional illuminated cups lack the ability to produce twinkling light effects due to their smooth inner surfaces and single-layer construction, which restricts the creation of dazzling visual effects when light is emitted.
Innovation Solution
A cup design featuring an inner cup with arched convex strips and a diamond-facet base with concave and convex cones, combined with an outer translucent cup and an integrated light unit, including a circuit board and LED lights, that refracts light into dazzling variations when activated by a pressure switch.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a single-layer cup with smooth inner surface is used, then the cup structure is simple, but it cannot produce twinkling light effects
Solution Approach 1:
The cup is divided into multiple layers with distinct functions: an inner cup with textured surfaces for light refraction, an outer cup for structural support, and a base with lighting components. This segmentation allows each layer to be optimized independently, achieving complex optical effects while maintaining manufacturing feasibility through modular assembly
Solution Approach 2:
The inner cup surface features localized textured patterns (convex strips and concave-convex cones) in specific regions to create twinkling light effects, while other areas maintain simpler geometries. This localized texturing achieves the desired optical effect without requiring the entire cup structure to be complex
2Illumination intensity
If an inner cup with arched convex strips and diamond-facet base is used, then twinkling light effects are created, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The inner cup incorporates curved surfaces including arched convex strips and concave-convex cones instead of flat surfaces. These curved geometries naturally refract light in multiple directions to create twinkling effects, achieving complex optical functionality through elegant geometric forms rather than complicated mechanical structures
Solution Approach 2:
The cup employs composite construction with translucent materials for the inner and outer cups to allow light transmission, combined with textured surface structures. This material selection enables the translucent property necessary for light effects while keeping the base materials simple and manufacturable
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
The design effectively enhances illumination and creates a vivid, lively visual effect by refracting light into twinkling rays, even when filled with liquid, through the interaction of the inner cup's textured surface and the light unit's components.
Implementation Method 1
the combination of the arched convex strips on an inner cup and diamond facet of concave and convex cones cause the light emitted by an illumination unit at the bottom of the cup to produce beams of light refracted at different angles
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AI summary
This invention provides a cup with twinkling light effects, primarily comprising an inner cup, an outer cup, and a light unit, with the lower half of the inner cup having a number of arched convex strips, and the base of which has diamond-facet of concave and convex cones. As a result, when the light unit at the base of the outer cup is activated, the effects of the arched convex strips and diamond facets cause the cup to produce numerous refractions of the light source, creating twinkling rays of light with dazzling variation.