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US 7,014,525 · App. 10/426,878 · Granted Mar 21, 2006

Movable toy and movable toy set for the same

Assignee: The Pilot Ink Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 7,014,525
App. No.
10/426,878
Granted
Mar 21, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A movable toy having movable bodies selected from the group consisting of at least a pair of wheels and leg portions which move when driven by a motor provided in the main toy body, wherein there is provided an energization detecting unit comprising at least three elements at the lower part of the main toy body and both or either of the movable bodies is selectively allowed to move depending on the energized state of the elements.

Claims (31)

1. A movable toy set, comprising:

a main toy body including an energizing detecting unit having three or more elements, said main toy body having said energizing detecting unit on a bottom surface thereof; and

a movable body for moving said movable toy;

wherein said movable body selectively moves depending on an energized state of said elements;

a water adhesion unit for providing a locus on a play surface,

wherein one or more of said elements reaches an energized state when said one or more of said elements is in contact with the locus on the play surface

wherein said water adhesion unit includes writing utensils or coating device, and wherein said water adhesion unit comprises a plastic porous material or processed fiber having an open cell as a forward end member; and

a sheet member for functioning as the play surface,

wherein said sheet member includes a water-discolorable sheet material, and wherein said sheet member further comprises a porous layer having a low refractivity pigment, and wherein aid porous layer is fixed and dispersed in a binder resin on a surface of a support member of said sheet member, and wherein said porous layer has difference in transparency between when said sheet member absorbs liquid and when said sheet member doesn't absorb liquid.

2. The movable toy according to claim 1 , wherein said energizing detecting unit comprising three elements (A, B and C), and

wherein said movable body includes a pair of movable bodies, and

wherein said pair of movable bodies move on a condition that all said three elements are energized, and

wherein one of said movable bodies moves on a condition that two (A and B) of said three elements are energized, and

wherein the other of said movable bodies moves on a condition that two (A and C) of said three elements are energized.

3. The movable toy according to claim 2 , wherein the one of movable bodies moves on a condition that none of said three elements are energized.

4. A movable toy set, comprising:

a main toy body including:

a motor

an energizing detecting unit having three or more elements, said energizing detecting unit provided on a bottom surface of said main toy body; and

a movable body including wheels, said wheels displaced by driving said motor,

wherein said wheels are selectively displaced depending on an energized state of said elements so that said movable toy moves,

a water adhesion unit for providing a locus on a play surface,

wherein one or more of said elements reaches the energized state when said one or more of said elements is in contact with the locus on the play surface,

wherein said water adhesion unit includes writing utensils or coating device, said water adhesion unit comprising a plastic porous material or processed fiber having an open cell as a forward end member; and

a sheet member for functioning as the play surface,

wherein said sheet member includes a water-discolorable sheet material, and wherein said sheet member further comprises a porous layer having a low refractivity pigment, and wherein aid porous layer is fixed and dispersed in a binder resin on a surface of a support member of said sheet member, and wherein said porous layer has difference in transparency between when said sheet member absorbs liquid and when said sheet member doesn't absorb liquid.

5. The movable toy according to claim 4 , wherein said energizing detecting unit includes three elements (A, B, C), and

wherein said wheels are displaced in such an arrangement that said movable toy goes straight in its forward direction, when all said three elements are energized, and

wherein said wheels are displaced in such an arrangement that said movable toy goes rightward when two (A, B) of said three elements are energized, and

wherein said wheels are displaced in such an arrangement that said movable toy goes leftward when two (A, C) of said three elements are energized.

6. The movable toy according to claim 5 , wherein said wheels are displaced in such an arrangement that the movable toy goes rightward or leftward, when none of said three elements are energized.

Assignments (2)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Feb 3, 2022
From: THE PILOT INK CO., LTD.
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION (ALSO TRADING AS PILOT CORPORATION)
Reel/Frame 058879/0828 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 1, 2003
From: ABE, TAKEHIRO; TAKEDA, MASANORI
To: PILOT INK CO., LTD., THE
Reel/Frame 014025/0142 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP P2002-130415 · May 2, 2002 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20040002280A1 · Jan 1, 2004