White-Color Lighting Elements With Base Color Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Selecting properly colored lighting elements, especially white-color elements, is challenging due to their visually indistinguishable transparent lenses, complicating the assembly and maintenance of multi-element lighting displays.
Innovation Solution
A lighting element with a white-color indicator, comprising a base, an illumination element, and a lens, where the white-color indicator is affixed to the lighting element to clearly indicate the color of the white-color light emitted, facilitating easy identification and assembly of lighting displays.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If white-color lighting elements with transparent lenses are used, then the lighting display achieves uniform appearance and proper light transmission, but the elements become visually indistinguishable making selection and assembly difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color coding to the base of the lighting element to indicate the color of light emitted by the illumination element. Different colors on the base correspond to different light colors (e.g., warm white, cool white, daylight), allowing workers to easily identify and select the correct elements during assembly without compromising the transparent lens design.
2Manufacturing precision
If multiple similarly colored lighting elements are used in a lighting display, then the display achieves proper color matching, but it becomes difficult to identify and select the properly colored elements from the suite
Solution Approach 1:
The base of each lighting element is assigned a specific color that corresponds to the color of light emitted by its illumination element. This color-coding system enables rapid visual identification and selection of properly colored elements during assembly, eliminating time-consuming trial-and-error selection processes while ensuring color matching accuracy.
3Illumination intensity
If transparent lenses are used on white-color lighting elements, then the lenses properly transmit the white-color light, but the elements become virtually indistinguishable from one another
Solution Approach 1:
While maintaining transparent lenses for proper light transmission, the patent introduces color-coded bases that provide visual differentiation between elements. The base color serves as an identifier for the light color emitted, allowing workers to easily distinguish between different white-color variants (warm white, cool white, daylight) without obscuring the lens transparency.
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 white-color indicator simplifies the selection of correctly colored lighting elements, expediting the assembly of complex lighting displays and preventing operational degradation by ensuring proper power configuration and water ingress prevention.
Implementation Method 1
Light Emitting Diodes (LED) are being used in many, if not most, lighting displays
Implementation Method 2
The illumination element is configured to provide white-color light in response to the base receiving electrical power from the socket
Implementation Method 3
The lens is configured to transmit the white-color light of the illumination element therethrough
Data Source
AI summary
Apparatus and associated methods relate to providing clear indication of a color of a white-color light of a lighting element. To do so, a white-color indicator is affixed to the lighting element, which has a base, an illumination element, and a lens extending from the base and with the base surrounds the illumination element. The base of the lighting element is configured to physically and electrically connect with a socket of a lighting display. The illumination element is configured to provide white-color light in response to the base receiving electrical power from the socket. The lens is configured to transmit the white-color light of the illumination element therethrough. The white-color indicator is of a color that indicates the color of the white-color light of the illumination element, thereby providing clear indication of the color of the white-color light of the lighting element.