Weather-Resistant Socket Assembly for Solar String Lights
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solar-powered exterior lighting devices face issues with synchronicity in power-on time, limited location flexibility, and premature wear due to inadequate design resilience against weather conditions.
Innovation Solution
A weather-resistant socket assembly with complementary sinusoidal ridged walls and a ring-shaped channel to prevent axial and rotational movement, combined with a solar string light system featuring a photovoltaic module, electrically conductive string, and LED modules with remote control synchronization, allowing for coordinated lighting and easy component replacement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If individual solar-powered lighting devices are used, then location flexibility is improved, but synchronicity in power-on time deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting system is divided into multiple independent lighting devices, each with its own solar panel and control unit, allowing them to be distributed at different locations while maintaining individual operational autonomy for synchronization
Solution Approach 2:
A control system receives signals from multiple lighting devices and sends feedback commands to synchronize their power-on times, ensuring coordinated operation across distributed locations
2Reliability
If solar string lights are designed to be weather-resistant, then durability against environmental factors is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The socket assembly is enclosed in a housing made of weather-resistant material that forms a protective shell, shielding internal components from environmental factors such as moisture and UV radiation while maintaining a relatively simple structural design
Solution Approach 2:
The housing material combines multiple properties (weather resistance, mechanical strength, and durability) into a single composite structure, reducing the need for additional protective layers and simplifying the overall design
3Reliability
If the socket assembly uses ridged walls to prevent rotation, then reliability is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The ridged walls are designed with asymmetric profiles that naturally prevent rotation of the socket assembly, using the inherent geometric properties of the ridges to ensure proper orientation without requiring high-precision alignment during installation
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 synchronized, weather-resistant, and easily maintainable solar string lighting with customizable color options, ensuring reliable operation and enhanced durability against environmental factors.
Implementation Method 1
a photovoltaic module for generating electrical power
Data Source
AI summary
A weather-resistant socket assembly is adapted to be used with a string light. The weather-resistant socket assembly for a string light, comprises an electrically powered housing having an opening, a chamber extending from the opening, and a ridged wall covering a portion of an internal periphery of the electrically powered housing; and a socket comprising electrical connections adapted to power the socket and a cooperating ridged wall covering a portion of an external periphery of the socket. When the socket is inserted in the chamber of the electrically powered housing, the ridged wall and the cooperating ridged wall come into contact and the contact prevents a rotation of the socket relative to the electrically powered housing. Further described is a solar string light that comprises the weather-resistant socket assembly.