Smart stuffed toy with air flow ventilation system

• US 9,089,782 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2014
• Issued: 07/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lcaip, LLC
• Original Assignee: Lcaip, LLC
• Inventors: Achan, Leonard Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): HARPER, TRAMAR YONG
• Application Number:
  US14/457,685
• Publication Number:
  US 20140357150A1
• Time in Patent Office: 350 Days
• Field of Search: 542/3, 297/188.14, 446/72
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 2200/00 Computerized interactive toys, e.g. dolls
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/001 simulating physiological processes, e.g. heartbeat, breathing or fever with fluid ingestion or emission A63H3/24
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/003 specially adapted for a particular function not connected with dolls as electric lighting devices A63H3/006
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/006 provided with electrical lighting electrical lighting F21
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/02 made of fabrics or stuffed

Abstract

A smart stuffed toy with at least one sensor for determining an atmospheric environment within the immediate proximity of the smart stuffed toy, a control unit and an air flow ventilation device embedded within the smart stuffed toy to provide air circulation and reduce the settlement of carbon dioxide. The air flow ventilation device comprises no blades or safe fan blades. The control unit controls the air flow ventilation device based on the sensor reading. Preferably, the front surface covering the air flow ventilation device is made of material different from the remaining surfaces of the smart stuffed toy.

Claims

1. A smart stuffed toy, comprising:

a head, limbs, and a torso portion;

an air flow ventilation device embedded within the torso portion for providing air circulation through a front torso surface of the torso portion covering the air flow ventilation device and the air flow ventilation device is accessible through the torso portion;

at least one sensor for determining an atmospheric environment within an immediate proximity of the smart stuffed toy;

a control unit for controlling the air flow ventilation device based on a sensor reading received from said at least one sensor; and

wherein the front torso surface covering the ventilation device is made of material different from remaining surfaces of the smart stuffed toy to permit the air to flow from the ventilation device and through the front torso surface.

2. The smart stuffed toy of claim 1, wherein the front torso surface covering the air flow ventilation device is made of air permeable material.

3. The smart stuffed toy of claim 1, wherein the front torso surface is made of plastic, PVC or rubber with slits or holes to permit air to flow through the front torso surface.

4. The smart stuffed toy of claim 1, wherein the ventilation device comprises no blades.

5. The smart stuffed toy of claim 1, wherein the ventilation device comprises safe fan blades.

6. The smart stuffed toy of claim 1, wherein the control unit turns on the air flow ventilation device when the sensor reading exceeds a predetermined threshold.

7. The smart stuffed toy of claim 1, wherein the control unit turns off the air flow ventilation device when the sensor reading is less than a predetermined threshold.

8. The smart stuffed toy of claim 1, wherein the control unit generates an alarm when the sensor reading exceeds a predetermined threshold.

9. The smart stuffed toy of claim 1, wherein the control unit transmits the sensor reading and an alarm alert to a client device associated with a user of the smart stuffed toy over a communications network.

10. The smart stuffed toy of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls a speed of the air flow ventilation device in accordance with the sensor reading.

11. The smart stuffed toy of claim 10, wherein the control unit increases the speed of the air flow ventilation device when the sensor reading exceeds a predetermined threshold.

12. The smart stuffed toy of claim 10, wherein the control unit decreases the speed of the air flow ventilation device when the sensor reading is below a predetermined threshold.

13. The smart stuffed toy of claim 1, further comprising a video camera for providing a video feed to at least one of a client device or a processor based server over a communications network.

14. The smart stuffed toy of claim 1, wherein said at least one sensor is a carbon dioxide detector for detecting carbon dioxide level and generates an alarm when the detected carbon dioxide level exceeds a predetermined threshold.

15. The smart stuffed toy of claim 14, wherein at least one of control unit or the carbon dioxide detector transmits the alarm to at least one of a client device associated a user of the smart stuffed toy or a processor based server over a communications network.

16. The smart stuffed toy of claim 1, further comprising a client device for communicating with the smart stuffed toy;

and wherein the client device is at least one of the following;

a Bluetooth enabled device, a zig bee protocol enabled device or Wi-Fi enabled device.

17. The smart stuffed toy of claim 16, wherein the client device is a portable hand held device, a tablet, a smart phone, a personal computer, a laptop or a net book.

18. The smart stuffed toy of claim 16, wherein said at least one sensor is a carbon dioxide detector for detecting carbon dioxide level and transmitting the detected carbon dioxide level to at least one of the client device or a processor based server;

and wherein the client device generates an alarm when the detected carbon dioxide level received from the carbon dioxide sensor or the processor based server exceeds a predetermined threshold.

19. The smart stuffed toy of claim 16, wherein said at least one sensor is a temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of the atmospheric environment within an immediate proximity of the smart stuffed toy and transmitting measured temperature to at least one of the client device or a processor based server;

and wherein the client device generates an alarm when the measured temperature received from the temperature sensor or the processor based server is outside a predetermined temperature range.

20. The smart stuffed toy of claim 1, wherein said at least one sensor is at least one of the following:

a carbon monoxide detector, a carbon dioxide detector, a smoke detector, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a relative humidity sensor, a motion detector or a sound sensor.