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EP0633046A1 - Lebewesen darstellende Spielzeuge, insbesondere Puppen - Google Patents

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EP0633046A1
EP0633046A1 EP94401435A EP94401435A EP0633046A1 EP 0633046 A1 EP0633046 A1 EP 0633046A1 EP 94401435 A EP94401435 A EP 94401435A EP 94401435 A EP94401435 A EP 94401435A EP 0633046 A1 EP0633046 A1 EP 0633046A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H3/00—Dolls
    • A63H3/28—Arrangements of sound-producing means in dolls; Means in dolls for producing sounds

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  • the invention relates to toys representing living beings, toys such as stuffed animals or any other material, and, among these toys, it relates more particularly to dolls, because it is in their case that its application seems have to offer the most interest.
  • the invention relates more particularly to dolls comprising an effect generator, such as a mechanical and / or sound and / or light effect, controlled by an electrical control circuit.
  • an effect generator such as a mechanical and / or sound and / or light effect, controlled by an electrical control circuit.
  • dolls of this type which, for example, move, walk, frolic, shed tears, or even make sounds, and speak or cry, or, so more generally, come alive like a real living being, and possibly fulfill other functions.
  • the body of these dolls contains an electric animation circuit with battery (s) controlled by an electric switch.
  • this electric switch is accessible from the outside of the headstock and is in the form of a button or a lever with two positions (on-off), or that the switch is placed inside the doll and activated by a magnetic field produced, for example, by a permanent magnet close to the doll or introduced into a compartment provided for this purpose in it, it is always the child who, each time, commands or provokes directly actuation of the switch to trigger the operation of the effect generator.
  • the aim sought by the invention is to remedy this drawback and to make a toy of this type such that it is as attractive as possible for children, by giving it a "behavior” to produce or cease to produce a particular effect.
  • animation or emission of sounds which is as close as possible to reality, in particular in that the doll allows the on-off control of at least one effect generator in an almost “spontaneous" manner while the child is playing with the doll.
  • the toy representing a living being such as a doll or a stuffed animal, comprising at least one effect generator, such as a mechanical and / or sound and / or light effect.
  • an electrical control circuit controlled by an electrical control circuit, is characterized in that it also comprises at least one mechanical generator of electrical pulses, comprising at least one electrically conductive body and movable in a confined space, partially delimited by at least one electrically surface conductive, forming a first switch terminal, the space having a second electrically conductive switch terminal, which is isolated from the first terminal, so that the coming of a movable body simultaneously in contact with the two terminals generates a electrical pulse, and in that the control circuit comprises at least one pulse counter, which triggers the operation of at least one effect generator, when it has co mpt a first predetermined number n of pulses, and interrupts the operation of said effect generator when it has counted a second predetermined number m of pulses.
  • the advantage of the invention is that the generator effect or function (voice or other mechanism) is not directly controlled by the child, but is activated automatically, while the child is playing with the toy, and at an indefinite time for the child, which only depends on the movements and positions given by the child to the toy, and having led to the production, in continuous or discontinuous successions, of the number n of pulses, predetermined in the manufacture of the toy.
  • the child can then cause this function or the effect generator to stop, by moving or moving the doll in such a way that the second number of pulses m is received by the counter, m being also predetermined at the manufacture of the toy and preferably less than the first number n.
  • the doll reacts in a way that seems spontaneous and unexpected, like a real living being.
  • the doll 1 has a body 2 which contains an animation mechanism or effect generator 3, for example a sound effect generator, capable of emitting sounds such as short sentences alternated with periods of silence, or tears.
  • This generator 3 comprises for example a synthetic voice generator, of known structure, supplied, in a manner also known, by an electric circuit with battery not shown.
  • the animation of the doll 1 by the generator or animation mechanism 3 can be quite different.
  • the mechanism or generator 3 can in particular allow the doll to move, walk, cry tears of water, blush, etc.
  • the triggering and stopping of the operation of the generator or animation mechanism 3 are controlled by an electrical or electronic control circuit 4, comprising an electrical pulse detector provided with a pulse sensor associated with a reset circuit. zero, when the counter has alternately recorded a first and a second number of pulses n and m which are predetermined at manufacture.
  • Circuit 4 commands the triggering of the operation of the animation generator 3 as soon as its counter has recorded a number of pulses equal to n, then, after the resulting reset to zero, it commands the shutdown of the operation of the generator d animation 3 as soon as the counter of circuit 4 has recorded a number of pulses equal to m, which brings the counter to zero and circuit 4 to the initial state for a new control cycle.
  • the detector receives these electrical pulses from a mechanical generator of electrical pulses 5, connected, in a known manner, to the control circuit 4 by a two-wire line 6 connected in particular to the two supply terminals of a source of electric current such that 'a battery (not shown), preferably the same as that necessary for the operation of the animation generator 3.
  • the mechanical generator of electrical pulses 5 comprises an electrically conductive mechanical body 7, moving freely inside an enclosure 8 delimiting a closed volume 9.
  • a wall 10 of the enclosure 8, and on which the body 7 circulates is electrically conductive, at least on its internal face to the enclosure 8, and this conductive wall 10 constitutes a switch terminal connected by line 6 to a terminal with a polarity of the electric power source.
  • Another switch terminal 11, projecting into the enclosure 8 or forming another electrically conductive wall thereof, is isolated from the terminal 10 and connected by line 6 to the terminal of the other polarity of the electrical power source.
  • the other parts of the enclosure 8 are electrically insulating, for example made of plastic.
  • the terminals 10 and 11 are made in such a way that in one of the positions that the movable body 7 can take in the volume 9, when the doll is moved and moved by the child, this body 7 comes simultaneously into contact with the two terminals 10 and 11, which generates an electrical pulse detected by the counter detector of circuit 4.
  • the electrically conductive movable body 7 is a conductive metal ball or provided with a conductive metal coating
  • the enclosure 8 is a cylinder of circular cross section, in which the ball 7 rolls, a strip longitudinal conductor, parallel to the generator of the cylinder and extending practically from one base to the other of this cylinder on its lateral face forming the terminal 10, while the terminal 11 is formed or carried on the internal central part of an end base of the cylinder 8, so as to be without contact with the terminal 10.
  • the detector of circuit 4 activates generator 3 after its counter has counted n pulses.
  • the child must move the doll, for example rocking it, which causes the ball 7 to move and therefore new pulses.
  • the detector of circuit 3 stops.
  • the advantage of this device is that the time to count the n pulses is completely indeterminate. he depends only on the child's play with his doll, and on the movements and positions he successively gives to it.
  • the numbers of pulses n and m are determined at the design of the toy and depend on the desired effect. These numbers n and m are generally constant, n being greater than m, but it is possible, in an improved version, that the electronic circuit 4 includes electronic means making it possible to vary the numbers n and m in a relatively random manner in a predetermined range of values.
  • the movable conductive body (not shown) is also a ball such as 7 in FIG. 1, but the enclosure 18 is a spherical cap or a hemisphere in insulating plastic material closed by a plane base or an electrically conductive equatorial plane, for example made of sheet metal, or whose internal face at least is electrically conductive, for example by a metallic coating on a plastic disc, and forms a terminal 20, on which the ball can roll.
  • the other terminal 21 is constituted by an electrically conductive annular strip, delimited on the spherical cap between two planes parallel to the equatorial plane, and formed for example by a strip of metal sheet glued against the internal face of the enclosure 18 or by a metallic coating located on this internal face.
  • three insulating obstacles 22, each having substantially the shape of a pyramid of triangular section, are fixed against the base 20 and against the internal face of the spherical cap 18, projecting towards the inside of the volume 19 internal to the latter, being regularly spaced from each other in the circumferential direction.
  • These obstacles 22 have the effect of forcing the ball to move towards the center of the volume 19, in order to increase the number of contact breaks which have come into simultaneous contact with the two conductive tracks 20 and 21.
  • the base of the enclosure 18 may not be completely conductive but present, for example, a network of angular conductive sectors, or a conductive network in the form of a cross, to constitute the terminal 20.
  • the annular terminal 21 can be replaced by a terminal projecting from the central part of the volume 19 at the end of a support oriented for example along the polar axis.
  • the conductive movable body can be mounted in a pendulum at the end of a suspended and freely articulated conductive arm under one of the terminals at the top of a bell-shaped enclosure, the other of which terminal is a conductive annular strip on the internal lateral face of the enclosure.
  • the variant of FIGS. 2 and 3 as well as the other variants mentioned are sensitive to the displacement of the headstock by pivoting or oscillation around two perpendicular axes, while the mechanical generator 5 of FIG. 1 essentially only reacts to oscillations around a single axis.

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FR9307846A FR2707518B1 (fr) 1993-06-28 1993-06-28 Perfectionnements aux jouets représentant des êtres vivants, notamment aux poupées.
FR9307846 1993-06-28

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