Variable Hanging Lighting with Flexible Groove and Slings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional light strings have limitations in durability, positioning, and directional control of light sources, leading to inconsistent and less effective lighting due to their serial bulb structure and reliance on cables for fixation, which restricts flexibility and longevity.
Innovation Solution
A flexible light strip with a long groove and slings allows for easy engagement and bending, ensuring stable positioning and directional control, using SMD technology with insulated luminous bodies and connectors for secure attachment, enabling three-dimensional shaping and enhanced durability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional light strings use cables and ropes for fixation, then assembly is simple, but positioning accuracy and directional control of light sources deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a groove structure as an intermediary component between the cable and the light bulb. This groove precisely positions the light bulb along the cable, ensuring consistent spacing and directional control while maintaining the simplicity of cable-based assembly. The groove acts as a mediator that transforms the flexible cable into a structured positioning system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses a flexible groove structure that can bend and conform to the cable shape while maintaining its positioning function. This flexible groove allows the light string to be easily assembled and shaped while ensuring precise positioning of light bulbs, resolving the contradiction between assembly simplicity and positioning accuracy.
2Ease of operation
If conventional light strings use serial bulb structure on cables, then assembly is convenient, but service life and durability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the light string into modular units where each light bulb is independently positioned in its own groove section. This segmentation allows individual bulbs to be replaced without affecting the entire string, improving service life and reliability while maintaining assembly convenience through standardized modular components.
Solution Approach 2:
The groove structure serves as a protective intermediary between the light bulb and the external environment, providing mechanical support and electrical insulation. This intermediary structure enhances the durability of the light bulb connection points, reducing failure rates and extending service life.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional light strings allow natural light separation, then flexibility in shaping is improved, but consistency of lighting effect deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a flexible groove structure that maintains a consistent cross-sectional shape while allowing the entire light string to bend into various configurations. This flexible groove ensures that light bulbs remain evenly spaced and properly oriented regardless of the string's shape, maintaining lighting consistency while preserving shaping flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The groove structure is designed with a consistent curved cross-section that guides light bulbs into proper positioning. This consistent curvature ensures uniform light distribution and directional control throughout the flexible light string, maintaining lighting consistency even when the string is bent into different shapes.
4Adaptability or versatility
If light bulbs are placed without fixed positioning, then adaptability in arrangement is improved, but brightness uniformity and lighting effect deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The groove acts as an intermediary positioning structure that guides light bulbs into consistent spacing and orientation. This intermediary mechanism ensures uniform brightness and lighting effect while still allowing the light string to be arranged in various flexible configurations, resolving the contradiction between arrangement flexibility and brightness uniformity.
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 solution provides a stable and consistent lighting effect by allowing precise control over light direction and positioning, improving durability and assembly convenience, thus overcoming the limitations of conventional light strings.
Implementation Method 1
the luminous bodies are SMD LEDs
Implementation Method 2
a translucent insulator covered on the electric conductor
Data Source
AI summary
A variable hanging lighting, which is mountable on a carrier to form a designed lighting fixture having a three-dimensional shape, includes a flexible light strip, a flexible long channel member and multiple slings. The light strip has multiple luminous bodies arranged in a linear array to form a luminous surface on the light strip that outwardly emits light. The long channel member includes a bottom with multiple locating holes, two side walls, and two convexly fixed flanges that form a notch that accommodates the light strip. The slings each have at least one engaging element connected to a respective locating hole via an engaging connector to hang the long on a carrier so that the bottom of the long channel member is close to the carrier, and the luminous surface emits light in a direction away from the carrier.