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OwnerJoseph T. Moll, James M. Dickinson +4inventors
InventorsJoseph T. Moll, James M. Dickinson, Frank W. Winkler, David V. Helmlinger, Charles S. McCall, Stephen N. Weiss
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A toy vehicle remote control transmitter unit wirelessly controls the movements of a programmable toy vehicle. The toy vehicle includes a motive chassis having a plurality of steering positions. A microprocessor in the transmitter unit emulates manual transmission operation of the toy vehicle by being in any one of a plurality of different gear states selected by an operation of manual input elements on the transmitter unit. Forward propulsion control signals representing different toy vehicle speed ratios associated with each of the gear states are transmitted from the transmitter unit to the toy vehicle. The motive chassis has a steering feedback sensor with a plurality of defined steering positions to vary rate of steering position change to avoid overshoot.
A toy vehicle remote control transmitter unit comprising:
The remote control transmitter unit of claim 14 wherein the forward propulsion control signals generated by the microprocessor include at least a variable duty cycle component, each transmitted duty cycle component corresponding to one of a plurality of predetermined speed ratios of the toy vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.