Toy vehicle booster
AssigneeMattel, Inc.
InventorKevin Cao
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A toy vehicle booster is presented herein. The toy vehicle booster includes a booster assembly that is integrated into a lid of a track storage container so that the toy vehicle booster forms a portion of a storage container for a track set. In some instances, the booster assembly includes a first booster and a second booster. The first booster may accelerate toy vehicles along a first pathway and the second booster may accelerate toy vehicles along a second pathway. In at least some of these embodiments, at least the second booster may be reversible so that the second booster can accelerate toy vehicles along the second pathway in a first direction or a second direction opposite the first direction.
Claims20
A lid-integrated toy vehicle booster, comprising:
- a lid that is securable to a container to form a storage container;
- and
- a booster assembly operable to accelerate toy vehicles, wherein the lid hosts the booster assembly so that the booster assembly forms a portion of a closed compartment when the booster assembly is disposed in the lid and the lid is secured to the storage container,
- wherein the booster assembly comprises:
- a first booster to accelerate a first toy vehicle of the toy vehicles along a first pathway;
- a second booster to accelerate a second toy vehicle of the toy vehicles along a second pathway;
- and
- a control unit having a first state and a second state,
- wherein, when the control unit is in the first state, the first booster and the second booster accelerate the toy vehicles in a forward direction, and
- when the control unit is in the second state, the first booster accelerates the first toy vehicle in the forward direction and the second booster accelerates the second toy vehicle in a rearward direction, opposite the forward direction.
A toy vehicle track set, comprising:
- a container for toy vehicle track pieces;
- and
- a lid with an integrated booster assembly, the lid being removably coupleable to the container to close the container to define an enclosed storage space for the toy vehicle track pieces, toy vehicles, or both the toy vehicle track pieces and the toy vehicles,
- wherein the integrated booster assembly comprises:
- a reversible booster configured to accelerate a toy vehicle of the toy vehicles along a first pathway in a forward direction and a rearward direction opposite the forward direction;
- and
- a second booster configured to accelerate the toy vehicle along a second pathway in the forward direction.
A toy vehicle track set, comprising:
- one or more track pieces that are connectable to form various track layouts and disassembleable for storage;
- an open-top container that defines an interior compartment sized to store the one or more track pieces;
- and
- a booster operable to accelerate toy vehicles along the various track layouts and configured to close the open-top container to secure the one or more track pieces in the interior compartment for storage,
- wherein the booster comprises:
- a first booster to accelerate a first toy vehicle of the toy vehicles along a first pathway;
- a second booster to accelerate a second toy vehicle of the toy vehicles along a second pathway;
- and
- a control unit having a first state and a second state,
- wherein when the control unit is in the first state, the first booster and the second booster accelerate the toy vehicles in a forward direction, and
- when the control unit is in the second state, the first booster accelerates the first toy vehicle in the forward direction and the second booster accelerates the second toy vehicle in a rearward direction, opposite the forward direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.