Game apparatus with toy vehicles
OwnerHermann Neuhierlinventor
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Abstract
A toy or game apparatus with toy vehicles, having a track in which there are located contact elements for the electrical recognition of individual vehicles and in which the toy vehicles are provided with bridging contacts. The apparatus serves to prescribe predetermined driving rules for the vehicles traversing the track. The driving rules variously take the form of driving within set speed limits over a portion of the track, avoiding obstacles, staying on the left or right side of the track over a portion thereof, etc. Circuitry is provided for the assessing of penalty points to the vehicles when they fail to abide by a prescribed driving rule.
Claims24
In a game apparatus with toy vehicles adapted to run on a track, said vehicles being electrically identified with contact segments being located in said track and bridging contacts being provided on said vehicles whereby electrical contact with said contact segments is made the improvement comprising:
- at least one pair of said contact segments being arranged pair-wise so that upon the passage of a vehicle over the first contact segment there is generated a starting impulse and upon the passage of the said vehicle over the second contact segment there is generated a stop impulse;
- a start-stop generator means associated with each said pair of contact segments to receive both said start and stop impulses therefrom and said generator emitting an impulse the length of which corresponds to a time interval between said start and stop impulses;
- at least one time comparator stage being connected to the output of said start-stop generator means and said comparator emitting an output impulse if the length of the impulse received from said start-stop generator means exceeds a predetermined length as set by a desired game variant, and a counter means receiving said output from said time comparator stage.
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