Electronic sound-generating simulated baby bottle toy
AssigneeTyco Industries, Inc.
InventorsAvi Arad, Joseph Truchsess
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Abstract
An electronic simulated baby bottle toy generates human-like sounds and includes a cylindrically-shaped hollow housing portion with a nipple-shaped member mounted on one end of the housing portion to simulate a nurser bottle. Four microswitches within the toy can be individually activated by applying pressure to the nipple member or to a flexible cover on the side of the housing portion. The switches selectively activate a VLSI synthesizer chip which generates any of four signals. Each signal controls a sound transducer causing the transducer to generate a selected human-like sound.
Claims16
An electronic simulated baby bottle toy for electronically generating human-like sounds comprising:
- a generally cylindrically-shaped hollow housing portion simulating a nurser bottle;
- a generally nipple-shaped member mounted on one end of the housing portion;
- sound transducer means covered by the housing portion and the nipple-shaped member and located proximal the nipple-shaped member for generating sounds proximal the nipple-shaped member, said sounds appearing to come from an object when the bottle toy is used to simulate feeding of the object;
- circuit means within the housing portion coupled with the sound transducer means for generating a signal controlling the sound transducer means to produce a human-like sound, and
- a plurality of switch means actable from outside the toy for selectively activating the circuit means to control the sound transducer means.
An electronic simulated baby bottle toy for electronically generating a plurality of human-like sounds comprising:
- a generally cylindrically-shaped hollow housing portion simulating a nurser bottle;
- a generally nipple-shaped member mounted on one end of the housing portion;
- sound transducer means within the housing portion and nipple-shaped member for generating sounds within the toy;
- circuit means within the housing portion and coupled with the sound transducer means, the circuit means being configured for generating a plurality of signals controlling the sound transducer means to produce a plurality of different human-like sounds;
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- a plurality of switch means selectively controllable from outside the housing portion and nipple-shaped member for selectively activating the circuit means to selectively produce any of the plurality of different human-like sounds, at least one of the switch means being located within the nipple-switch member for activation by contacting the nipple-shaped member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.