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US 2002/0164923 A1Published application
Electrically interconnected snap for dolls
AssigneeMattel, Inc.
InventorJon C. Marine
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Abstract
An interactive, animated, robotic doll including a body, a processor, terminals linked to the processor, and a removable attachment. The terminals are connected to metal snaps on the body and the removable attachment includes complimentary snaps that secure the garment to the doll body. An electric circuit is completed when the attachment is secured by the snaps to the doll.
Claims17
A doll, comprising:
- a body having a processor substantially enclosed within the body;
- a pair of terminals positioned on the body including integral doll side fastening structure, wherein the pair of terminals are each electrically linked to the processor as part of an electric circuit;
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- a removable attachment having attachment side fastening structure configured to couple to the doll side fastening structure of the terminals securing the attachment to the doll, and wherein the attachment side fastening structure is linked to complete the electric circuit when attached to the doll.
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A doll system for sensing the presence of an attachment, the doll system comprising:
- an electric doll having a processor unit;
- a removable attachment configured to attach to and detach from the electric doll;
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- a sensor subsystem having an attachment-side connector positioned on the removable attachment and a pair of doll-side terminals configured to electrically link to the processor unit positioned on the doll, wherein
- the attachment-side connector includes fastening structure and the doll-side terminals include fastening structure integral with the terminals and adapted to couple to the fastening structure of the attachment-side connector, and further wherein when the removable attachment is attached to the doll, the attachment-side connector electrically couples to the doll-side terminal to complete an electric circuit and thereby send a signal to the processor unit indicating when the removable attachment is attached to, and detached from, the electric doll.
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A doll, comprising:
- a body;
- a processor contained within the body of the doll;
- split terminals each electrically linked to the processor as part of an electrical circuit and forming a fastening structure;
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- a garment configured to attach to the fastening structure of the split terminals of the doll, thereby completing the electrical circuit and holding the garment in place on the body of the doll.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.