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Granted Patent B2
US 10,258,867 · App. 15/661,732 · Granted Apr 16, 2019

Transformer toy car and playing device using same

Inventor: Shin-Kyu Choi (Seoul, KR)
A63F1/04A63F1/06A63H17/02A63H17/26A63H33/003
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,258,867
App. No.
15/661,732
Granted
Apr 16, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a transformer toy car that automatically transforms the shape to turn a card over to provide the information on the card, if the card is attached to the transformer toy car. The transformer toy car includes: a separable toy car body; and cards adapted to be attached to the underside of the toy car body, wherein if one of the cards is attached to the underside of the toy car body, a portion of the separable toy car body is separated, and a portion of the separated toy car body pressurizes a floor surface, thereby making the toy car body stand up or turn over and thus allowing the underside surface of the card attached to the underside of the toy car body to be exposed to the outside.

Claims (7)

1. A transformer toy car comprising:

a toy car body having at least one or more portions rotatably coupled thereto by means of an elastic force and operating means adapted to supportingly fix the at least one or more portions to the toy car body, so that the toy car body being maintained at a first shape; and

transformation inducing means adapted to displace the operating means of the toy car body in such a manner as to allow at least one of the portions fixed to the toy car body by means of the operating means to be rotated separately from the toy car body to transform the toy car body from the first shape to a second shape.

2. The transformer toy car according to claim 1 , wherein the transformation inducing means comes into contact with the operating means through at least one of an attractive force caused by a magnetic field and a physical contact.

3. The transformer toy car according to claim 2 , wherein the transformation inducing means comprises a magnetic material or metal member disposed therein.

4. The transformer toy car according to claim 3 , wherein the toy car body is transformed into the second shape in a state in which the transformation inducing means is attached to the toy car body.

5. The transformer toy car according to claim 4 , wherein the transformation of the toy car body comprises at least one or more operations selected from standing up and turning over.

Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2012-0019210 · Feb 24, 2012 · national
KR 10-2012-0030798 · Mar 26, 2012 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 15146095 · May 4, 2016
Continuation 14377142
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