Building block

• US 7,063,587 B1
• Filed: 02/04/2005
• Issued: 06/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Youth Toy Enterprise Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Youth Toy Enterprise Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lin, Fu-Chi
• Primary Examiner(s): Legesse, Nini F.
• Application Number:
  US11/051,931
• Time in Patent Office: 501 Days
• Field of Search: 446/117, 446/120, 446/121, 446/122, 446/123, 446/124, 446/125, 446/126, 446/127, 446/128, 273/153.S, 273/155, 273/157.R, 273/160
• US Class Current: 446/124
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/086 with primary projections fitting by friction in complementary spaces between secondary projections, e.g. sidewalls

Abstract

A building block includes two perpendicularly connected square frames, and a hypotenuse frame extended between outer edges of the two square frames. Each of the square and hypotenuse frames has an outer frame portion and an inner cross-shaped rib portion having a thickness twice as large as that of the outer frame portion. The cross-shaped rib portion divides a space enclosed in each frame into four equal divisions, which are four cavities on one of the two square frames; two diagonally opposite round connecting posts and two diagonally opposite cavities on the other square frame; and two diagonally opposite connecting protrusions and two diagonally opposite rectangular cavities on the hypotenuse frame, so that a plurality of the building blocks could be assembled together in different manners to form changeful shapes via engagement of the cavities with corresponding connecting posts or protrusions.

Claims

1. A building block, comprising a first and a second square frame perpendicularly connected to each other at inner edges thereof, and a hypotenuse frame extended between outer edges of said first and said second frame;

said first and second square frames and said hypotenuse frame respectively having an outer frame portion and a cross-shaped rib portion located within said outer frame portion;

said cross-shaped rib portion on each of said square and hypotenuse frames dividing a space enclosed in said frame into four equal divisions; and

said four equal divisions being four cavities on said first square frame, being two diagonally opposite connecting protrusions and two cavities diagonally located at two sides of said two connecting protrusions on said second square frame; and

being two diagonally opposite connecting protrusions and two rectangular cavities diagonally located at two sides of said two connecting protrusions on said hypotenuse frame.

2. The building block as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cross-shaped rib portions on said square and said hypotenuse frames have a thickness twice as large as that of said outer frame portion of said square and said hypotenuse frames.

3. The building block as claimed in claim 1, wherein said connecting protrusions are in the shapes selected from the group consisting of round posts, cross-shaped protrusions, and regular polygonal posts.

4. The building block as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a cavity provided on a right triangle at each lateral side of said perpendicularly connected first and second square frames of said building block.