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Granted Patent B2
US 10,421,022 · App. 15/939,442 · Granted Sep 24, 2019

Detachable structure of toy

Inventors: Makoto Muraki (Tokyo, JP); Takeaki Maeda (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
A63H1/04A63F9/16
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Patent No.
US 10,421,022
App. No.
15/939,442
Granted
Sep 24, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A detachable structure includes a toy and a detaching tool. The toy comprises a first part and a second part engaged with the first part. The detaching tool comprises a presser and elastic holders with holding parts that are at any one of a holding position and a holding releasable position. The first part is elastic and comprises an elastic engaging hook that is at any one of an engaged position and an engagement releasing position. The second part engages with the first part when the second part is brought to the first part in a certain direction so that the second part slidably contacts the first part to move the elastic engaging hook to the engagement releasing position and then further to the engaged position.

Claims (19)

1. A detachable structure, comprising:

a toy top having a first part, a second part removably connected to the first part, and a spinning shaft received by the first and second parts; and

a detaching tool having a pair of pressers and a pair of elastic holders,

wherein the first part has a pair of elastic engaging hooks that are mutually opposed across the spinning shaft,

wherein the second part has—

a ring,

a first pair of engaging holes that are mutually opposed across the ring and correspond to the pair of elastic engaging hooks of the first part and to the pair of pressers of the detaching tool, and

a second pair of engaging holes that are mutually opposed across the ring and correspond to the pair of elastic holders of the detaching tool,

wherein the pair of elastic engaging hooks are respectively inserted into and removably engaged with the first pair of engaging holes of the second part,

wherein, when the pair of pressers of the detaching tool are respectively inserted into the first pair of engaging holes of the second part, the pair of pressers release engagement between the elastic engaging hooks and the first pair of engaging holes and, at the same time, the elastic holders of the detaching tool hold the ring of the second part, and

wherein, when the detaching tool is then withdrawn, the elastic holders hold the second part via the second pair of engaging holes to detach the second part from the first part.

2. The detachable structure according to claim 1 , wherein

the pair of elastic engaging hooks is two pairs of elastic engaging hooks mutually opposed across the spinning shaft at substantially equal intervals,

the first pair of engaging holes is two pair of engaging holes that are disposed around the ring at substantially equal intervals, and

the pair of pressers is two pair of pressers that are disposed corresponding to the two pairs of elastic engaging hooks.

3. The detachable structure according to claim 1 , wherein a step is formed in each of the first pair of engaging holes of the second part to engage with the pair of elastic engaging hooks.

4. The detachable structure of the toy according to claim 1 , wherein

the ring of the second part includes an outer diameter, and

the pair of elastic holders include hooks and surround and hold the outer diameter of the ring of the second part when the second part is detached from the first part.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 31, 2018
From: MURAKI, MAKOTO; MAEDA, TAKEAKI
To: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 045950/0819 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-201196 · Oct 17, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190111353A1 · Apr 18, 2019
Cited By (1)
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