Vehicle-Bed Telescoping Lighting Tower for Clearance and Aiming
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile temporary lighting solutions are bulky, costly, and require advance arrangements, leading to delays and insufficient lighting in work sites and emergency situations.
Innovation Solution
A telescoping lighting tower system mounted in a vehicle's bed, featuring adjustable towers with rotating and tilting light assemblies, allowing for quick deployment and retraction to provide improved lighting without major modifications to the vehicle.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If bulky trailers or skids are used to move and support temporary lighting, then the lighting can be provided at work sites, but the system becomes costly and requires advance arrangements leading to delays
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the lighting tower system directly with the vehicle by mounting the telescoping tower on the vehicle bed, eliminating the need for separate trailers or skids. This integration allows the lighting system to be transported and deployed as a single unit, reducing deployment time and eliminating the need for advance arrangements with third-party providers.
Solution Approach 2:
The vehicle serves multiple functions: it provides transportation for the lighting system and simultaneously serves as the support structure for the tower. The vehicle bed acts as both a transport platform and a mounting base, eliminating the need for dedicated lighting equipment and reducing overall system cost and complexity.
2Illumination intensity
If the lighting tower is extended to provide adequate illumination, then the lighting coverage is improved, but the vehicle clearance is reduced during transport
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a telescoping tower mechanism that allows the structure to dynamically change its height. The tower can be extended to a greater height when deployed at the work site to provide adequate lighting coverage, and retracted to a shorter height when transported on the vehicle to maintain proper clearance. This dynamic adjustment resolves the contradiction between lighting coverage and transport clearance.
Solution Approach 2:
The tower is divided into multiple telescoping sections that can be independently extended or retracted. This segmentation allows the lighting tower to achieve the necessary extended height for illumination while maintaining a compact form factor during vehicle transport, as the sections nest within each other when retracted.
Data Source
AI summary
A lighting tower system is provided. The lighting tower system includes a tower positioned in an upright orientation within a bed of a vehicle. The tower includes a base tube section and an upper tube section. The base and upper tube sections include a common longitudinal axis and are arranged to slide relative to one another in a telescoping relationship to move each tower between a retracted position and a fully extended position. The lighting tower system includes a light assembly coupled to and extending from the upper tube section of the tower. The light assembly is configured to rotate with respect to the common longitudinal axis and to tilt with respect to an axis perpendicular to the common longitudinal axis. The lighting tower system includes a mounting configuration configured to attach and detach the tower to the bed of the vehicle in the upright orientation.