Toy bowling pin with sounding and lighting effect

• US 7,014,565 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2003
• Issued: 03/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mao Jong Chang
• Original Assignee: Mao Jong Chang
• Inventors: Chang, Mao Jong
• Primary Examiner(s): Pierce, William M.
• Application Number:
  US10/704,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20050101399A1
• Time in Patent Office: 860 Days
• Field of Search: 473/118, 473/119, 473/124, 362/362, 362/363, 362/375, 362/253, 446/485, 446/397, 273/460, 273/461
• US Class Current: 473/118
• CPC Class Codes: A63D 9/00 Pins
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/22 Optical, colour, or shadow toys puzzles with optical elements A63F9/0613; kaleidoscopes G02B27/08
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 5/00 Musical or noise- producing devices for additional toy effects other than acoustical musical tops A63H1/28; sound-producing dolls A63H3/28; musical toy vehicles A63H17/268; acoustical vehicle-signalling devices A63H17/32; whistling toy locomotive arrangements A63H19/14; music, sound or noise production in general G10

Abstract

A toy bowling pin includes a body made of semi-transparent material and has a hole longitudinally defined in the body. A cylinder is mounted in the bottom of the body and received in the hole in the body. An electric device partially received in the cylinder. The electric device includes a lighting element and a loudspeaker mounted thereon for providing lighting effect and sounding effect to the toy bowling pin.

Claims

1. A toy bowling pin with sounding and lighting effect, comprising:

a body made of semi-transparent material and having a hole longitudinally defined in the body, the hole having an open end formed on a bottom of the body;

a cylinder mounted in the body and securely received in the open end of the hole, the cylinder having a lower closed bottom corresponding to that of the body; and

an electrical device received in the cylinder and the hole in the body, the electrical device including;

a circuit board having a diameter slightly greater than that of the cylinder so that the circuit board closes the cylinder when the electric device is mounted to the cylinder;

a bracket longitudinally mounted to a first side of the circuit board, the bracket being received in the cylinder when the electric device is mounted to the cylinder;

a power supplier mounted within the bracket and used as a power source for the electric device;

a loudspeaker and a lighting element respectively electrically mounted on a second side of the circuit board for providing sounding and lighting effects; and

a switch electrically mounted on the circuit board for controlling the lighting element and the loudspeaker.

2. The toy bowling pin as claimed in claim 1, wherein a threaded section is formed on an inner periphery of the open end of the hole in the body and a recess is defined in the bottom of the body, the recess centrally communicating with the hole in the body, the cylinder having a protrusion laterally extending from the lower closed bottom thereof and received in the recess in the body when the cylinder is mounted to the body, a threaded portion formed on an outer periphery of the cylinder near the protrusion and screwed onto the threaded section of the hole to prevent the cylinder from detaching from the body.

3. The toy bowling pin as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bracket is a conductor and the power supplier is multiple piled mercury cells.

4. The toy bowling pin as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lighting element is a LED.

5. The toy bowling pin as claimed in claim 2, wherein the bracket is a conductor and the power supplier is multiple piled mercury cells.

6. The toy bowling pin as claimed in claim 2, wherein the lighting element is a LED.

7. The toy bowling pin as claimed in claim 3, wherein the lighting element is a LED.

8. The toy bowling pin as claimed in claim 3, wherein the bracket is partially sleeved with insulating tube to prevent the bracket from contacting with the periphery of the multiple piled mercury cells.

9. The toy bowling pin as claimed in claim 5, wherein the bracket is partially sleeved with insulating tube to prevent the bracket from contacting with the periphery of the multiple piled mercury cells.

10. The toy bowling pin as claimed in claim 7, wherein the bracket is partially sleeved with insulating tube to prevent the bracket from contacting with the periphery of the multiple piled mercury cells.