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AssigneeWinkler International, SA
InventorsLuis Arnaum Manresa, Ignacio Domingo Garcia, Rafael Ortiz Ontoria, Andreas Lopez Saiz
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The invention relates to a control system and method for electric toy vehicles. The invention is suitable for vehicles which are controlled using a control element, which are actuated by an electric micromotor and which move on tracks comprising a guide groove which is flanked by electronductive tracks. Moreover, each vehicle is provided with a dynamic current collector and guide assembly comprising a guide flange which keeps the vehicle on the track. The inventive system comprises a transmitting control device which is associated with the above-mentioned control element in order to transmit signals in the form of digital waves which control the operation of the vehicle, a control device which receives the aforementioned signals and which is built into the vehicle, and actuation means which are connected to said receiving device. According to the invention, the signals are applied to at least one electronductive track which can be shared temporarily by at least two vehicles equipped with respective receivers.
Control system for electric toy vehicle of the type that said vehicle includes an electrical micromotor that transmits movement to at least a shaft of the vehicle, being a part of the same motor shaft, specially of the type that it is foreseen for moving on tracks with a guide groove flanked by electroconductive tracks with electrical current, and that includes a set of guide and dynamic current collector in the front extremity of the chassis, that includes an adapted fin of guidance to slide by the inner part of the mentioned guide groove retaining the vehicle on the track, being this vehicle dominated by a control, characterized in that it comprises:
Control method for electric toy vehicle of the type in where said vehicle includes an electrical micromotor that transmits movement to at least a shaft of the vehicle, constitutive of the motor shaft of the same one, foreseen to move on tracks with a guide groove flanked by conductors or electroconductive tracks with electrical current, and that includes a set of guide and dynamic current collector in the front extremity of the chassis, that comprises a fin of guidance adapted to slide by the inner part of the mentioned guide groove retaining the vehicle on the track, being said vehicle dominated by a control, characterized in that there is a communication codified by means of digital waveform signals, in a first direction, from a station to the vehicle, consists of a temporary weft of pulses in series composed by first pulses that carry an authentication code foreseen to be compared with a reference code by the mentioned receiver of the vehicle, followed by second pulses that carry an operative command about the operation of the vehicle that is only processed if the receiver validates the authentication code.
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