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Toy building block with electrical contacting portions

  • US 4,552,541 A
  • Filed: 02/09/1984
  • Issued: 11/12/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/14/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A toy building block having on one face thereof at least one row of mechanical coupling pins and opposite thereto mechanical counter-coupling sockets, at least a plurality of said coupling pins in said row having electrically conducting and electrically insulating regions angularly spaced from each other, said electrically conducting region of each of said pins in said row being disposed at the same angular orientation, and at least one contact member within said block and forming a portion of said socket, said contact member being electrically connected to said electrically conducting regions of a plurality of coupling pins in said row and having electrically conducting surfaces extending in a direction parallel to the longitudinal direction of said row of coupling pins.

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