Automobile toy

• US 20080318491A1
• Filed: 06/24/2008
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TOMY Company Limited
• Original Assignee: TOMY Company Limited
• Inventors: Suimon, Yoshio, Ishibashi, Noriyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,267,739 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 446/456
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 17/004 Stunt-cars, e.g. lifting front wheels, roll-over or invertible cars
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 17/02 convertible into other forms under the action of impact or shock, e.g. arrangements for imitating accidents
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 17/262 Chassis; Wheel mountings; Wheels; Axles; Suspensions; Fitting body portions to chassis

Abstract

Disclosed is an automobile toy, including: a first chassis to support an axle of a front wheel; and a second chassis to support an axle of a rear wheel, wherein the first and second chassis are rotatably connected with each other by a rotating shaft that lies along a width direction of the automobile toy, and a spring for biasing the first and second chassis is arranged between the first and second chassis, so as to bias the front wheel and the rear wheel to an approaching direction to the ground.

Claims

1. An automobile toy, comprising:

a first chassis to support an axle of a front wheel; and

a second chassis to support an axle of a rear wheel,

wherein

the first and second chassis are rotatably connected with each other by a rotating shaft that lies along a width direction of the automobile toy, and

a spring for biasing the first and second chassis is arranged between the first and second chassis, so as to bias the front wheel and the rear wheel to an approaching direction to the ground.

2. The automobile toy according to claim 1, wherein

the spring includes a twist spring.

3. The automobile toy according to claim 2, wherein

the twist spring is mounted on a side surface of the chassis at a connection portion of the first and second chassis.

4. The automobile toy according to claim 2, wherein

the twist spring is arranged only in one part of the automobile toy.

5. The automobile toy according to claim 1, wherein

the first and second chassis are configured to take a flexure state to let the front wheel and the rear wheel abut in under surface side of the chassis, and an extension state to let the front wheel and the rear wheel depart from each other in under surface side of the chassis, and

the spring is arranged between the first and second chassis, so as to keep the first and second chassis in the flexure state in a normal condition by a biasing force of the spring.

6. The automobile toy according to claim 5, wherein

the spring includes a twist spring,

the twist spring is twisted around the rotating shaft, and

one end of the twist spring is in contact with the first chassis while another end of the twist spring is in contact with the second chassis.

7. The automobile toy according to claim 6, wherein

the first and second chassis are connected to with each other at two places, which are separated from each other in width direction of the automobile toy.

8. The automobile toy according to claim 1, further comprising:

a receiving apparatus for receiving radio-signals from a wireless remote controller;

a driving apparatus for rotating the axle of the rear wheel; and

a controller for controlling the driving apparatus.