Track Light Power Pickup Structure for Repeatable Installation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing track lights with ultra-thin and ultra-narrow designs face issues with copper sheets having poor resilience, leading to unreliable power connection and resource waste due to difficulty in repeated installation.
Innovation Solution
A track light design featuring an elastic structure with a mounting post and elastic portion accommodated in a through hole, allowing the power obtain structure to detachably connect with the substrate, ensuring reliable power transmission through a power transmission strip, and enabling repeated installation without deformation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If the size of the track lamp is reduced to satisfy ultra-thin and ultra-narrow track requirements, then the lamp size is improved, but the spring structure cannot be placed in the lamp
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the spring structure from inside the lamp body and relocates it to the power obtain structure that interfaces with the track. This allows the lamp body to maintain its ultra-thin and ultra-narrow dimensions while the spring mechanism remains accessible in the power connection component, resolving the spatial constraint contradiction.
Solution Approach 2:
The power obtain structure serves as an intermediary component that houses the spring mechanism and connects both the lamp and track. This mediator allows the spring to be positioned outside the lamp body while still performing its function of maintaining electrical contact, enabling small lamp size without sacrificing the spring structure.
2Device complexity
If plastic deformation of the copper sheet itself is used to obtain power, then the spring structure is eliminated, but the resilience is insufficient and repeated installation is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the spring mechanism from the lamp body and relocates it to the power obtain structure that interfaces with the track. This allows the spring to maintain its resilient properties and support repeated installation while the lamp body itself remains simple and compact.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces a dynamic spring mechanism into the power obtain structure that can compress and rebound to maintain reliable electrical contact during repeated installation and removal cycles. This dynamic element compensates for the limitations of static plastic deformation of copper sheets.
3Reliability
If the copper sheet is installed once and deforms, then the initial power connection is achieved, but the bump moves downward and subsequent installation becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The spring mechanism provides continuous dynamic resilience that allows the power obtain structure to rebound after each installation cycle. This enables the bump to return to its original position, facilitating repeated installation and removal without permanent deformation, thus extending the service life of the track light.
4Reliability
If plastic elastic sheet is arranged integrally formed with the substrate, then the copper sheet resilience is improved, but existing track lights cannot be improved and resources are wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The invention segments the resilient element (spring) from the substrate and places it in the detachable power obtain structure. This modular approach allows the spring mechanism to be independently installed or replaced in existing track lights without redesigning the entire lamp, enabling retrofitting and reducing resource waste.
Solution Approach 2:
The detachable power obtain structure containing the spring can be removed and replaced in existing track lights. This allows recovery and reuse of the spring mechanism in older models, improving resilience without discarding the entire lamp and reducing overall resource waste.
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 allows for repeated installation and use of track lights, extending their service life and reducing resource waste by maintaining effective power connection through an elastic structure that avoids deformation.
Implementation Method 1
the elastic portion is provided between the abutment portion and the substrate to generate elastic deformation in response to that the abutment portion and the power transmission strip are pressed against each other, so that the abutment portion and the power transmission strip remain abutted with each other
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AI summary
The present application relates to the technical field of lighting, and provides a track light. The track light comprises a track and a lamp in electrical contact with the track. The lamp comprises a substrate, elastic structures detachably connected to the substrate, and power taking structures inserted and fixed on the substrate; through holes are formed in the substrate; each elastic structure comprises mounting columns and an elastic portion; the mounting columns are accommodated in the through holes and attached to the inner side walls of the through holes; power transmission strips are provided in the track; each power taking structure comprises an abutting portion in electrical contact with each power transmission strip; the elastic portion is arranged between the abutting portion and the substrate so as to generate elastic deformation when the abutting portion and the power transmission strip press each other, so that the abutting portion abuts against the power transmission strip. According to the track light of the present application, the through holes are formed in the substrate, and the mounting columns are accommodated in the through holes and are tightly attached to the side walls of the through holes, so that the elastic structures are detachably connected to the substrate, thereby prolonging the service life of the track light, and avoiding the waste of resources.