Motion expressible toy

• US 6,454,626 B1
• Filed: 07/25/2001
• Issued: 09/24/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jamina Corporation
• Original Assignee: Jamina Corporation
• Inventors: An, Kyung-Cheol
• Primary Examiner(s): Banks, Derris H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cegielnik, Urszula M
• Application Number:
  US09/911,726
• Publication Number:
  US 20020055320A1
• Time in Patent Office: 426 Days
• Field of Search: 446/268, 446/330, 446/337, 446/338, 446/352, 446/353, 446/395, 446/391, 446/372
• US Class Current: 446/330
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 13/005 with self-moving head or facial features with a choice of features A63H3/365; movable eyes A63H3/40
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/48 Mounting of parts within dolls, e.g. automatic eyes or parts for animation self-moving A63H13/00

Abstract

The present invention is related to a motion expressible toy featuring an animal character, and more particularly to a motion expressible toy which is capable of expressing emotion or intention by taking the various kinds of body gesture characterized by the independent and the combined mechanism of a mouth, a head, arms and a main body as a whole body, and to thereby characterize a real gesture as a really living character such as a gesture of approval, denial or hesitation related to the communication circumstance, to thereby provide familiarity and curiosity to the children.

Claims

1. The motion expressible toy comprising,

a head part (2);

the head part (2) further comprising a mouth driving motor (5) installed obliquely at the upper part of a head casing (4),

a belt (9) linked between a pulley (6) of a driving axis (5a) and a vertical axis (7),

a worm-wheel (11) for the tooth-coupling operation with a worm (10) shaped on the rear part of the vertical axis (7),

a link rod (13) being connected between the worm-wheel (11) and a connection link (17),

a lower member (16) of a mouth (3) being connected to the bottom part of an upper member (15) by the connection link (17) having an elongated hole (17a) therein,

a main body (20);

the main body (20) further comprising a head rotating motor (22) installed in front of a housing bracket (23) including a plurality of the reduction gear (23a),

a connection piece (24) linked with the head casing (4) of the head (2) and a driving axis (25a) by the universal joint (25),

a cover combining portion (24a) rotatable with the connection piece (24) being set to connect a cover (26) enwrapping the outer appearance of the toy (1),

a plurality of the sliding guide hole (27, 28) formed on the upper and lower part of the housing bracket (23) being combined with the corresponding vertical sliding guider (29, 30),

a plurality of sliding guide (29, 30) connected with the sliding piece (31, 32) being installed on the axis of the driving axis (25a),

the upper sliding piece (31) being connected to the horizontal rotating rod (33),

the lower sliding piece (32) being connected to the vertical sliding rod (34) by the ball joint combination,

a plurality of driving motor (35a, 35b) for actuating a horizontal rotating rod (33) and a vertical sliding rod (34) being installed in the housing (36) with a plurality of reduction gear (36a),

a driving motor (41) for actuating a swing arm (45) and a fixing arm (46), being installed in the housing (36) with a plurality of reduction gear (42),

a circular cam (38) attached on the driving axis (37) and the connection lever (39) installed on the sliding guider (29, 30) by the insertion of the connection pin (38a) therein,

a couple of arm (40);

the arm further comprising a circular cam (44) axially installed on a driving axis (43) and a swing arm (45) connected with a fixing arm (46) by the pivotal conjunction therein,

a lower casing (50);

the lower casing (50) further comprising an inner casing (48) including an axial pin (49) formed on the center of a inner casing (48),

a rack gear (51) having an arc shaped and located on the lower part of inner casing (48) being set to couple with a pinion gear (52) being shaped around the end part of the driving axis (54) of the motor (53) therein;

so that the various gesture in connection with the motion of a mouth, a head, arms and a main body as a whole are made to be independently or simultaneously executed.