Electrical educational toy

• US 4,869,701 A
• Filed: 12/22/1987
• Issued: 09/26/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Kawai, Hiroyuki, Shibukawa, Takeo, Mandai, Fujiyo
• Primary Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Muir, D. Neal
• Application Number:
  US07/126,817
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 446/91, 446/99, 446/100, 446/320, 446/297, 446/302, 446/321, 273/371, 273/156, 434/159, 434/259, 434/308
• US Class Current: 446/91
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/16 made of parts that can be put together facial parts only A63H3/365
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/46 Connections for limbs
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 1/36 the elements being connectible by corresponding projections and recesses

Abstract

A fabricated toy is equipped with a plurality of toy component members having predetermined shapes, a detecting device for detecting the assembly state of these toy component members, and a sound generating device for emitting sounds in accordance with the assembly state of the toy component members detected by the detecting device so that when the toy component members are correctly assembled, a specific shape is completed. In this fabricated toy, the sound generating device generates the sounds of mutually different kinds in the cases where the toy component members are correctly assembled and incorrectly. Infants, therefore, can play at the assembly of the toy for a long period of time, without losing their interest in the toy, and the toy, which is "a horse" or "a frog", can also serve as educational stuff for assembling correctly the toy into the shape of the animal.

Claims

1. A fabricated toy comprising:

plural toy component members having predetermined shapes capable of being mechanically coupled when said toy component members are assembled to construct a toy, said plural toy components being constructed so that a specific shape is completed when said plural toy component members are correctly assembled;

a plurality of electrical circuits, one of said plurality of electrical circuits being provided in each of said plural toy component members, said plurality of electrical circuits being electrically coupled together when said toy component members are assembled;

detecting means for detecting an assembled state of said plurality of electrical circuits when said plural toy component members are assembled; and

sound generating means connected to said detecting means and constructed such that a sound generated in the case where in said plural toy component members are correctly combined with each other is different from that generated in the case where said plural toy component members are incorrectly combined.

2. A fabricated toy according to claim 1, further comprising manipulating means connected to said detecting means and capable of operating to actuate said detecting means.

3. A fabricated toy according to claim 2, wherein said detecting means and said sound generating means are incorporated in at least one of said plural toy component members and said manipulating means is provided on at least one surface of said plural toy component members.

4. A fabricated toy according to claim 1, wherein said plural toy component members vary in color.

5. A fabricated toy according to claim 2, wherein said manipulating means is a push button switch.

6. A fabricated toy according to claim 2, wherein said manipulating means is constructed as a pressure sensor capable of controlling the kind of sound to be generated from said sound generating means in accordance with force to strike said manipulating means.

7. A fabricated toy according to claim 1, further comprising means for distinguishing what member is combined in error when said plural toy component members are incorrectly assembled so that sounds different from each other are generated in accordance with the result distinguished by said distinguishing means.

8. A fabricated toy according to claim 1, further comprising light emitting means connected to said detecting means and provided to at least one of said plural toy component members so that a sound is generated by said sound generating means when said plural toy component members are correctly combined with each other, whereas said light emitting means is turned on when said members are incorrectly combined.