Mobile reconfigurable robot toy
AssigneeTakara Co., Ltd.
InventorIwakichi Ogawa
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Abstract
A toy is provided configurable as a robot whose appendages are press-fit attached to the body and may be removed and attached to other press-fit connection points located on the body or on other complimentary toy assemblies to form various other toy configurations. Locomotion of the toy is facilitated by endless treads mounted on triangular shaped carriages. The carriages are rotatable about a fixed point on the robot body, and the treads are driven by an electric motor mounted within the body through a gear train assembly. The gear train assembly also provides rotating press-fit connections at other points on the body member. The robot body may be fitted with a stylized robot head having a pivoted section, which, in a pivoted position, converts the head into a seat for supporting a doll figure.
Claims11
A toy to which a plurality of pressfittable parts may be attached to form various configurations comprising:
- a body member having a plurality of openings therein;
- a plurality of shafts, each one mounted for rotation in at least one of said plurality of openings;
- means within said body member for driving each of said plurality shafts;
- means attached to at least one of said shafts for removably press-fit connecting one of said press-fittable parts;
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- first and second carriage members pivotally mounted to said body member, each said carriage member bearing means driven by at least one of said plurality of shafts for translating said body member.
A toy comprising:
- a body member having a motor mounted therein and a plurality of apertures;
- a plurality of shafts rotatably mounted within said body member such that a shaft end extends into each of said apertures;
- gear means within said body member for transmitting motor drive from said motor to each of said plurality of shafts;
- first and second carriage means on said body member, each carriage means for imparting motion to said body member, and pivotally mounted to said body member for assuming a plurality of driving orientations with respect to said body member;
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- means cooperating with at least one of said shafts for transmitting motor drive to said motion imparting means.
A toy comprising:
- a torso member;
- first shaft means for providing rotatable pressfit connections at first and second shoulder locations of said torso;
- second shaft means for providing first and second drives at the respective first and second sides of the lower extremity of said torso;
- third shaft means for providing a press-fit connectable rotating drive on an axis perpendicular to that of said second shaft means;
- first and second carriage members pivotally mounted on said torso;
- first and second tread means rotatably mounted on said first and second carriage members respectively;
- means cooperating with said first and second drives of said second shaft means for respectively driving said first and second tread means;
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- means for rotating each of said first, second and third shaft means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.