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US 8,128,450 B2Granted
Thermochromic transformable toy
AssigneeMattel, Inc.
InventorJun Imai
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Abstract
A product, comprising a reconfigurable toy assembly, said assembly being reversibly reconfigurable between at least a first configuration and a second configuration; and the toy including at least one body surface with an integral thermochromic layer covering at least a portion of the body, where the integral thermochromic layer exhibits a visual change in response to temperature is provided.
Claims46
A product, comprising:
- a reconfigurable toy assembly, said assembly being reversibly reconfigurable between at least a first configuration and a second configuration;
- and
- the toy assembly including at least one body surface with an integral thermochromic layer covering at least a portion of the body surface, where the integral thermochromic layer exhibits a visual change in response to temperature, and the body surface portion is internally facing in the first configuration and externally facing in the second configuration.
A product, comprising:
- a reconfigurable toy assembly, said assembly being reversibly reconfigurable between at least a first configuration and a second configuration;
- the toy assembly including at least one body surface with an integral thermochromic layer covering at least a portion of the body surface, and at room temperature, the integral thermochromic layer exhibits a visual appearance similar to another non-thermochromic layer adjacent the integral thermochromic layer so that the integral thermochromic layer is substantially hidden, where the integral thermochromic layer exhibits a visual change in response to a temperature below the room temperature, and the body surface portion is concealed in the first configuration and revealed in the second configuration;
- a blaster accessory adapted to be removably coupled to the toy assembly;
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- a cartridge accessory adapted to be removably coupled to the blaster, the cartridge capable of retaining liquid.
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A product, comprising:
- a reconfigurable toy assembly, said assembly being reversibly reconfigurable between at least a first configuration and a second configuration;
- and
- the toy assembly including at least one body surface with a thermochromic region on at least a portion of the body surface, where the thermochromic region exhibits a visual change in response to temperature, wherein at least some of the thermochromic region is internally facing in the first configuration and externally facing in the second configuration.
A reconfigurable product, comprising:
- a body that is repositionable between a first configuration and a second configuration, the body having a plurality of surfaces that are hidden when the body is in its first configuration and that are visible when the body is in its second configuration, the body including a thermochromic region that exhibits a visual change in a response to temperature, the visual change including a human readable code that can be used by a user to obtain information relating to the product, the thermochromic region is located on one of the surfaces that is hidden when the body is in its first configuration and that is visible when the body is in its second configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.