Eating toy with vocal response

• US 5,037,345 A
• Filed: 11/07/1989
• Issued: 08/06/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nakashou Giken Limited Company
• Original Assignee: Nakashou Giken Limited Company
• Inventors: Nakayama, Toshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Yu, Mickey
• Assistant Examiner(s): MUIR, DAVID N
• Application Number:
  US07/432,630
• Time in Patent Office: 637 Days
• Field of Search: 446/297, 446/298, 446/299, 446/300, 446/301, 446/302, 446/333, 446/304
• US Class Current: 446/297
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/24 Drinking dolls; Dolls producing tears; Wetting dolls
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/28 Arrangements of sound-producing means in dolls; Means in dolls for producing sounds

Abstract

A doll of a human baby, teddy bear or other shape is provided and has the capacity to ingest a simulated solid food item in its mouth and thereafter store it within its body, and produce one of a variety of responsive simulated voice expressions. The ingested food item may thereafter be recovered for reuse from a holding region of the doll.

Claims

1. An eating and sounding doll, comprising:

a body;

a movable part defined on said body, said part permitting the introduction of an object;

an operational block within said doll body, said block causing opening and closing of said movable part, said block further causing said object to be conveyed within said doll body;

electronic means for storing multiple vocal messages;

3. The invention as described in claim 1, wherein said means for generating a vocal message comprises, a voice generating apparatus, said apparatus contained within said doll body.

6. The invention as described in claim 1, comprising in addition a leading roller and a press roller, said rollers causing deflection of said movable part so as to receive said object, said object further being communicated by a slope plate and a gate plate to said receiving case.

2. power means operatively linked to said operational block, electronic means and to an output means;

a receiving case for receiving and holding said object within said doll; and

output means for selecting and generating a particular vocal message in response to placement of a given said object within said doll.

4. The invention as described in claim 2, comprising in addition first and second leaf spring switches, said switches connected to said voice generating apparatus.

5. The invention as described in claim 2, comprising in addition push-and-lock switches located in proximity to the surface of said doll body, said switches connected to said voice generating apparatus.

7. The invention as described in claim 5, wherein said press roller deflects upon contact with said object causing said second leaf spring switch to close and in turn generate circuit output resulting in said voice message.

8. The invention as described in claim 4, wherein said voice generating apparatus comprises said first and second leaf spring switches and said push-and-lock switches all connected in parallel to a select circuit, said circuit responding to the closing of any of said four switches by outputting an appropriate signal.

9. The invention as described in claim 7, comprising in addition three NAND circuits, said circuits enabling said select circuit to output one of two memory circuits contained within said doll.

10. The invention as described in claim 8, comprising in addition a readout circuit, said readout circuit having an oscillation circuit and a binary counter, said oscillation circuit displaying a predetermined frequency pulse signal when said first of three NAND circuits issue an output.

11. The invention as described in claim 9, wherein said binary counter counts said pulse signals from said oscillation circuit, said counter in turn outputting a discrete signal.

12. The invention as described in claim 10 wherein said discrete signal from said binary counter is addressed to one of said memory circuits as a result of the number of signals counted, said memory circuit in turn outputting a particular voice message signal.

13. The invention as described in claim 10, wherein a digital-to-analog converter receives said output signal from either of said memory circuits, said converted signal being communicated to an amplifier, said amplifer amplifying said signal and delivering said signal to a loudspeaker.