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Toy vehicle, and wheel device and carriage frame for the toy vehicle

Patent Number: 8109805
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventor: Hirai, Hirotsugu

A wheel device for a toy vehicle, in which one of a pair of wheels rolling on a pair of metal rails attracts with a magnet to reduce resistance caused by magnetic force and suppress load on a motor. The wheel device 1 includes a first axle 2, and a first wheel 10 and a second wheel 20 provided on opposite sides of the first axle 2. The first wheel 10 includes a first wheel main body 11 rolling on one of the rails 261 and a first flange ...

Crawling device

Patent Number: 8109804
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventor: Su, Xiao-Guang

A crawling device includes a first end with a first magnet recessed therein, a second end with a second magnet recessed therein, an elastic member disposed between the first end and the second end, a power source module, and a controller. When the first and second ends are supported on a supporting surface, and the controller connects the power source module to the first end and the elastic member, the first magnet extends beyond the first end onto the supporting surface and the elastic ...

Assembling block

Patent Number: 8109803
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Kichijo, Hiroshi; Kichijo, Yoshiie

An assembling block includes block plates having square and equilateral triangular plan shapes, respectively, and a joint for connecting the block plates together. Each of the block plates includes seat portions provided along the respective sides of the block plate, and retaining pieces extending from the center of the block plate to the outer edge thereof and spaced from the seat portions in the thickness direction. The joint comprises a plate member made of a flexible and bendable ...

Toy helicopter having a stabilizing bumper

Patent Number: 8109802
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Kang, Paulo; Chui, Chi Keung

A toy helicopter has a fuselage having a front end a rear end and two lateral sides. A main motor is supported from the fuselage. A main rotor is operably connected to the motor and has at least one rotor blade that rotates about a center axis generally laterally centered with respect to the fuselage. The at least one rotor blade is configured and positioned to provide lift and has a rotational path having a maximum radius. A bumper is fixedly connected to the fuselage, is spaced entirely ...

Injection molded toy building element

Patent Number: 8105128
Publication Date: 2012-01-31
Inventors: Sorensen, Jens Ole; Sorensen, Soren Christian

A toy building element includes side walls, a top having an upper surface that extends from the side walls, and a plurality of projections extending upward from the extensive upper surface, an open bottom and an interior. The interior is accessible through the open bottom for receiving a plurality of projections of another building element of a set of toy building elements. The interior includes a plurality of hollow members that extend downward from a respective portion of the extensive ...

Timber toy building system

Patent Number: 8105127
Publication Date: 2012-01-31
Inventor: Heston, Christian

A log based building system including a plurality of logs having different lengths and a square cross section; at least one connector having an opening sized to slide over an end of a stack of at least two logs and thereby clamp the at least two logs together. The two logs can include notches that allow a third log to be clamped in place by the connector, this arrangement allows for building toys with long reach ...

Simulated engine sound device for bicycles or the like

Patent Number: 8100736
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventor: Iida, James

A housing supports a rotatable handle grip and is constructed to be received upon the end of a bicycle handlebar in place of a standard hand grip. The housing further supports a dial-type tachometer type readout. A gear drive within the housing responds to movement of the rotatable handle grip to produce tachometer readings. A sound producing device also responds to the handle grip movement to produce engine ...

Joining apparatus with rotatable magnet therein and built-up type toy with the same

Patent Number: 8100735
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventor: Park, Kyung-Hwa

Disclosed is a built-up type toy having plural parts 10a of polyhedron shape equipped with joining surfaces 11a that are joined with other surfaces 11b of other parts 10b. The built-up type toy of the present invention has the parts respectively having magnet portions 100a on the joining surfaces 11a thereof, wherein the magnet portion 100a of the part 10a and the magnet portion ...

Hand-held noisemaker

Patent Number: 8096850
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Inventor: Heilig, Eberhard

A hand-held noisemaker for use at sporting and other events. A dome-shaped, metal ringer is secured to a shallow, cup-shaped base by a lock knob having a parallel pair of barbed ends inserted into a keyway cutout of an upstanding boss within the base. A depending, cylindrical wall portion of the ringer is received within an annular recess of the base, but touches no part of the base. Whenever the noisemaker is shaken, and whenever two noisemakers are clapped together, a spherical ball ...

Rattle stick for attracting animals

Patent Number: 8096849
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Inventor: Knight, William L.

A rattle stick having an elongated member with an outwardly extending flange at one end and a handle at the opposite end. On the outer surface of the elongated member is at least one knob. Slidably fitted over the elongated member is a sleeve having at least one knob on an inner surface that is positioned to engage at least one knob on the outer surface of the ...

Collapsible toy airplane

Patent Number: 8096848
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Inventor: Hollis, John Rey

A collapsible toy airplane reconfigurable between storage and use configurations. At least one spar member forms first and second wings and is coupled to a fuselage. The main body member and the at least one spar are formed from spring steel with an arcuate cross section whereby they can be reconfigured from a straight, substantially rigid disposition to a coiled configuration. A sheath of flexible material envelops the at least one spar member. The at least one spar member can be pivotable ...