Balance plate intelligent game apparatus

• US 7,367,565 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2006
• Issued: 05/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kiddie's Paradise, Inc.
• Original Assignee: I-Cheng Chiu
• Inventors: Chiu, I-Cheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Chiu; Raleigh W.
• Application Number:
  US11/361,097
• Publication Number:
  US 20070197315A1
• Time in Patent Office: 803 Days
• Field of Search: 273/440, 273/449, 273/108, 273/109, 273/110, 273/112, 273/113, 273/118.R, 472/25, 472/26, 472/135
• US Class Current: 273/449
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/12 specially adapted for children
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 26/003 for improving balance or equilibrium balance beams A63B4/00; apparatus for rope dancing A63B7/08; balancing drums, balancing boards or the like A63B22/16
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 67/002 Games using balls, not otherwise provided for

Abstract

A balance plate intelligent game apparatus, structured to include a lower tier balance plate having a circular arc-shaped bottom portion and a transparent upper tier ball disk combined with a transparent top cover. A ball is disposed interior of the game apparatus so that when a young child treads on the balance plate with both feet and swings his body left and right, the ball is caused to roll into a helical groove of the upper tier ball disk from a helical groove of the lower tier balance plate, the ball then falls into a hole located center of the helical groove of the ball disk and drops into the helical groove of the lower tier balance plate, thereby enabling the ball to continuously roll between the upper and lower tiers.

Claims

1. A balance plate intelligent game apparatus comprising:

a balance plate, an interior of a disk portion of one end of the balance plate is provided with a helical groove, a tread portion of another end of the balance plate enables both feet to tread thereon, and a falling ball area is formed at a center of the groove;

a ball disk installed on the balance plate, a helical groove is formed in the ball disk, and a hole is defined at a center of the groove that interconnects with the falling ball area located center of the groove of the balance plate, an indentation is formed in an outer side of the groove that interconnects with the groove of the balance plate;

moreover, a ball is positioned so as to roll within the grooves of the balance plate and the ball disk;

the aforementioned ball is able to fall into the falling ball area located center of the groove of the lower tier balance plate, and left and right swinging of the body enables the ball to roll into the indentation of the upper tier ball disk from the groove of the lower tier balance plate, thereby enabling the ball to reenter and again roll within the groove of the upper tier ball disk.

2. The balance plate intelligent game apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a transparent top cover covers an upper portion of the ball disk, which prevents the ball falling out from the ball disk.

3. The balance plate intelligent game apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a bottom portion of the balance plate is a circular arc-shaped structure.

4. The balance plate intelligent game apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the ball disk is a transparent structure.