Illuminated flying saucer

• US 4,778,428 A
• Filed: 03/26/1987
• Issued: 10/18/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Paul J. Wield
• Original Assignee: Paul J. Wield
• Inventors: Wield, Paul J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yu, Mickey
• Application Number:
  US07/030,675
• Time in Patent Office: 572 Days
• Field of Search: 446/47, 446/484, 446/485, 273/424, 273/425
• US Class Current: 446/47
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/18 Throwing or slinging toys, e.g. flying disc toys discs used in athletics A63B65/10as part of a game A63F9/02; sling weapons F41B3/00; spring toy guns F41B7/08

Abstract

A flying saucer toy having a pair of LED'"'"'s mounted diametrically opposed to each other on the rim of its disc-shaped body. The LED'"'"'s are electrically connected to a printed circuit board and batteries which allow the LED'"'"'s to strobe imperceptably fast at approximately 100 Hz. A touch-sensitive switch has three terminal posts that extend through the top surface of the disc-shaped body and the bottom ends of the terminal posts are soldered to the circuit board to form a mounting structure for the circuit board. When the flying saucer toy is thrown at night the strobing effect will produce the effect of more than twenty lighted points around the disc perimeter depending upon the rotational speed of the disc.

Claims

1. A flying saucer toy comprising:

a substantially disc-shaped body terminating at its periphery in a downwardly extending rim, said body and rim defining a substantially convex upper surface and a substantially concave bottom surface;

a combination battery and circuit board housing centrally located and extending downwardly a predetermined distance from the bottom surface of said disc-shaped body, said housing having a tubular wall whose top end is integrally formed with the bottom surface of said disc-shaped body, said housing also having a removable cap, battery power means mounted in said housing;

two apertures located in said rim, a LED mounted in each of said apertures, said two apertures are positioned diametrically opposed to each other on said rim;

a printed circuit board;

electrical conductor means connecting said LED'"'"'S, said battery power means and said printed circuit board;

touch-sensitive electrical switch means for activating said electrical circuit on and off, said switch means having a first electrical circuit having a first inverter in series with a resistor and a second invertor, a resistor in parallel with said first electrical circuit;

said printed circuit board having an oscillator having a logic gate, the output of the second invertor of said switch means being connected to the first input of said logic gate, the output of said logic gate being connected to the input of an invertor in said oscillator, the output of said invertor being connected in series through a capacitor to the second input of said logic gate, a first resistor in parallel with said logic gate, a second resistor in series with a diode also in parallel with said logic gate, a driver, the output of said oscillator coming from the output of the logic gate being connected to the input of said driver; and

grooves in the top surface of said disc-shaped body that extend from said respective apertures inwardly to said combination battery and printed circuit board housing and a label cover strip for covering the electrical conductor wires positioned in said grooves.