Moveable electronic toy

• US 8,092,272 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2009
• Issued: 01/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yang, Wen-Yan
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, KIEN T
• Application Number:
  US12/541,132
• Publication Number:
  US 20100062681A1
• Time in Patent Office: 880 Days
• Field of Search: 446/431, 446/437, 446441-444, 446/457, 446465-471, 446/484, 280/47.38, 280/827, 280/1.13
• US Class Current: 446/465
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 11/10 Figure toys with single- or multiple-axle undercarriages, by which the figures perform a realistic running motion when the toy is moving over the floor
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 17/262 Chassis; Wheel mountings; Wheels; Axles; Suspensions; Fitting body portions to chassis

Abstract

A moveable electronic toy includes a base, a base cover, two wheels and two wheel covers. The base cover is fixedly mounted on the base. The two wheels are rotatably connected to the base and exposed from the base cover. The two wheel covers is detachably coupled to the base cover and is configured for covering the wheels.

Claims

1. A moveable electronic toy, comprising:

a base;

a base cover fixedly mounted on the base;

two wheels rotatably connected to the base and exposed from the base cover, wherein two cutouts for receiving the two wheels are defined in the base;

two wheel covers detachably coupled to the base cover and configured for covering the wheels, preventing the wheels from being exposed from the base cover; and

two motor plates positioned perpendicularly on an inner surface of the base and a rotor extending through each of the motor plates, each of the motor plates adjacent to each of the cutouts, the wheel non-rotatably coupled to the rotor.

2. The moveable electronic toy of claim 1, wherein the base comprises two fixing portions formed on the inner surface of the base, and an engaging hole is defined in each of the fixing portions;

the wheel cover comprises two elastic engaging portions corresponding to the two fixing portions, the engaging portion is received in the engaging hole and is engaged with the fixing portion.

3. The moveable electronic toy of claim 2, wherein the engaging hole is defined with a direction parallel to an axial direction of the rotor.

4. The moveable electronic toy of claim 2, wherein the two fixing portions are positioned at locations at two opposite sides of the cutout.

5. The moveable electronic toy of claim 1, wherein the base cover comprises two side plates corresponding to the two cutouts, each of the side plates between the motor plate and the wheel, an opening defined in the side plate corresponding to the rotor, the rotor extending through the opening.

6. The moveable electronic toy of claim 5, wherein an elastic arched outer flange extends perpendicularly from the side plate, an engaging slot defined in a top portion of the outer flange, two guiding slots defined in the side plate with a direction parallel to the axial direction of the rotor, the two guiding slots at a side of the outer flange are away from the base.

7. The moveable electronic toy of claim 1, wherein each of the wheels comprises a bearing is positioned in the center of each of the wheels and an axle hole is defined in the bearing, the rotor is non-rotatably received in the axle hole.

8. The moveable electronic toy of claim 1, wherein an operation flange is formed at a bottom end of the wheel cover away from the base cover.

9. The moveable electronic toy of claim 6, wherein a receiving cavity is defined in an inner surface of the wheel cover for receiving the wheel.

10. The moveable electronic toy of claim 9, wherein a half-ring-shaped inner flange extends from the inner surface of the wheel cover toward the base cover, the receiving cavity bounded by the inner flange, two guiding protrusions formed at a distal end of the inner flange corresponding to the two guiding slots.

11. The moveable electronic toy of claim 10, wherein an elastic engaging bar is formed on the inner flange with a location in the receiving cavity, the engaging bar engaged in the engaging slot to position the wheel cover on the base cover.