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US 12,179,125 B2Granted
Toy assembly with character in housing and mechanism to open housing with tether
AssigneeSpin Master Ltd.
InventorsHamid R. Hashemi, Ian Patterson, Goran Markovic, William Benedict Camacho, Jay Vogler, Edwin Steele
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Abstract
In an aspect, a toy assembly is provided, and includes a housing, an inner object (which may, in some embodiments, represent a character) inside the housing, a tether, and a motor. The tether is driven by the motor to pull at least one removable housing portion from the housing.
Claims6
A toy assembly, comprising:
- a housing;
- an inner object inside the housing;
- a fastener that is positioned in a receiving aperture in the housing to hold the housing closed;
- a fastener driver that is a biasing member that is positioned to urge the fastener towards a discharge from the receiving aperture;
- a fastener locking member that is movable between a fastener locking position in which the fastener locking member holds the fastener in the receiving aperture and a fastener release position in which the fastener locking member permits the fastener driver to drive the fastener towards the discharge from the receiving aperture;
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- a motor that is operatively connected to the fastener locking member to drive movement of the fastener locking member between the fastener locking position and the fastener release position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.