Luminous ball

• US 9,821,196 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2016
• Issued: 11/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wei-Hung Lin
• Original Assignee: Wei-Hung Lin
• Inventors: Lin, Wei-Hung
• Primary Examiner(s): WONG, STEVEN B
• Application Number:
  US15/242,511
• Publication Number:
  US 20170065856A1
• Time in Patent Office: 458 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2037/125 stitchings
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2102/18 Baseball, rounders or similar games
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/74 with powered illuminating means, e.g. lights
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/06 Elastic cores
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 43/06 with illuminating devices ; with reflective surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0002 for baseball

Abstract

A luminous ball is provided, including an internal sphere in which at least one receiving space is disposed; a light-emitting device disposed in the receiving space; at least one covering wrapping an external circumferential surface of the internal sphere; at least one seam formed on an edge of the covering; a plurality of thread apertures disposed in pairs at two sides of the at least one seam; at least one thread penetrating the plurality of thread apertures to stitch the edge of the covering between the two sides of the at least one seam; wherein the internal sphere is a transparent ball, a light generated by the light-emitting device penetrates the internal sphere through the receiving space, and is visible through the at least one seam and the plurality of the thread apertures distributed on the covering.

Claims

1. A luminous ball similar to a baseball/softball in appearance, comprising:

an internal sphere having a hollow part therein;

a receiving space disposed in the internal sphere, wherein the receiving space penetrates the internal sphere from an outside of the internal sphere to an inside of the internal sphere and passes through the hollow part, wherein a top opening is formed on one end of the receiving space and exposed on the outside of the internal sphere, wherein a lower end of the receiving space is formed on another end of the receiving space and opposite to the top opening, wherein the top opening and the lower end of the receiving space are arranged on two opposite sides of the hollow part;

a light-emitting device disposed in the receiving space, a cap being disposed on a top end of the light-emitting device, and a lower connection part being disposed on a lower end of the light-emitting device, wherein the cap is fixed in the top opening of the receiving space, and the lower connection part is fixed in the lower end of the receiving space;

at least one covering of which ends are spliced to wrap an external circumferential surface of the internal sphere, at least one seam formed on an edge of the covering, and a plurality of thread apertures disposed on the covering and arranged in pairs at two sides of the at least one seam; and

at least one thread penetrating the plurality of thread apertures to stitch the edge of the covering between the two sides of the at least one seam; and

wherein the internal sphere is made of a light transmissive material, and a light emitted by the light-emitting device penetrates the internal sphere through the receiving space and is visible through the at least one seam and the plurality of thread apertures.

2. The luminous ball according to claim 1, wherein the seam and the thread are distributed on the covering in accordance with a meandering course of red threads distributed on a regular baseball/softball.

3. The luminous ball according to claim 2, wherein the internal sphere is made of a transparent elastic material.

4. The luminous ball according to claim 1, wherein an internal side surface of the hollow part is disposed with a plurality concave parts.

5. The luminous ball according to claim 2, wherein the internal sphere has at least two elastic layers having different elastic coefficients, and the at least two elastic layers are concentrically covered with each other to wrap the internal sphere.

6. The luminous ball according to claim 2, wherein the external circumferential surface of the internal sphere has at least one smooth surface and at least one rough surface adjacent to the at least one smooth surface, wherein the at least one smooth surface and at least one rough surface contact an inner side of the covering, the at least one smooth surface is distributed in accordance with the meandering course of the seam distributed on the covering and the rough surface is distributed on a surface area of the internal sphere where it is not covered by the smooth surface, a width of the at least one smooth surface at least covers a width of the seam and the thread aperture, and a roughness of the at least one rough surface is greater than that of the at least one smooth surface.

7. The luminous ball according to claim 2, wherein a part of the thread apertures has a diameter that is bigger than that of the remainder of the thread apertures.

8. The luminous ball according to claim 1, wherein the light-emitting device comprises a main body and a plurality of light-emitting diodes disposed at an external side of the main body.

9. The luminous ball according to claim 1, wherein the light-emitting device is a fluorescent luminous device.