Vehicle Lamp With Individually Driven Light Source Arrays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle lamps lack the ability to dynamically adjust light colors and luminous flux based on external environments, which can impact safety and aesthetics, and often require multiple light sources to achieve optimal performance, increasing size and complexity.
Innovation Solution
A lamp design featuring multiple light source arrays on substrates with varying configurations, including different spacings, orientations, and electrical connections, allowing for individual control of light sources to provide adaptable light colors and luminous flux, and enabling efficient packaging with reduced size.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If multiple light sources are used to achieve optimal light output and color, then illumination quality is improved, but device size and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the lighting system into multiple independently controllable light source arrays (first light source array, second light source array, third light source array) with different light emission characteristics. Each array can be selectively activated to provide different light colors and luminous flux levels, enabling optimal illumination quality without requiring all light sources to operate simultaneously, thus managing device complexity through modular segmentation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a multi-functional lighting system where the same physical light source arrays can serve multiple functions: providing different light colors (white, yellow, red), adjusting luminous flux levels, and adapting to various external environments. This universality allows the system to achieve optimal light output for different scenarios without requiring separate dedicated light sources for each function, thereby reducing overall device complexity.
2Volume of moving object
If light source arrays are densely packed to reduce lamp size, then compactness is improved, but heat dissipation and electrical isolation become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a nested substrate structure where a second substrate is disposed on a first substrate, and light sources are arranged in multiple arrays across these nested layers. This nesting approach enables compact packaging of multiple light source arrays within a reduced lamp volume while maintaining adequate spacing and electrical isolation between arrays through the substrate architecture, thus achieving both compactness and reliability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If light sources are individually controlled to adjust luminous flux, then adaptability is improved, but control complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic control of luminous flux by enabling independent activation and intensity adjustment of different light source arrays based on external environmental conditions. The system can dynamically switch between different combinations of light sources (e.g., activating only the first light source array for low-luminous-flux conditions, or combining multiple arrays for high-luminous-flux requirements), providing adaptability while managing control complexity through environment-based decision logic.
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 enables vehicles to adjust light output and color dynamically, enhancing safety and aesthetics while minimizing the number of light sources required, resulting in a more compact and efficient lighting system.
Implementation Method 1
In recent years, a light emitting diode (LED) has been used as the light source of the lamp
Implementation Method 2
The LED is a device to convert an electric signal into infrared rays or light using characteristics of a compound semiconductor
Data Source
AI summary
An intelligent type lamp and a vehicle lamp apparatus are disclosed. The lamp includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed on the first substrate, and a plurality of light sources disposed on the second substrate, wherein the light sources are grouped into at least one light source array, in each of which the light sources are disposed in a line, and the at least one light source array includes neighboring first and second light source arrays electrically isolated and individually driven. The light sources of the first light source array may be electrically isolated and individually driven, and the light sources of the second light source array may be electrically isolated and individually driven. Alternatively, the light sources of the first light source array may be electrically isolated and individually driven, and the light sources of the second light source array may be electrically connected and simultaneously driven.