Patents Assigned to Staff Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 6776686
    Abstract: The object is to provide a running toy which can be charged while the player plays with the toy by simplifying operation of charging the running toy and by providing a charging runway as one element of playing with the running toy. The present invention relates to a running toy comprising a running body and a runway, wherein said running body comprises a reception means for receiving outer operating information, a control means for control based on the information received by the reception means, a driving means for making wheels rotate by control signals from the control means, a condenser able to supply electric power to the driving means, and a connecting means connected to the condenser and charging the condenser from the outside of the running body, and wherein said runway comprises a power supply for supplying electric power and an electric power supply means connected with said power supply and adapted to come in contact with a connecting means of said running body and to supply electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Staff Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Patent number: 6722869
    Abstract: In a cotton candy making apparatus with a removable tray, a main power supply switch and an auxiliary switch are provided. The main power supply switch is locked by being rotated in a predetermined direction while being depressed. Contacts of the auxiliary switch are closed when the tray is properly attached to a main body of the apparatus. Carbon or alloy brushes are used for brush devices for supplying electric current to a heater for a rotary pot, and the brushes are each biased in a slip ring direction with a spring in a brush holder. A cover for the rotary pot is provided which is constructed so as to be assembled to and disassembled from the rotary pot by rotating the same cover. A translucent tray and light emitting portions are provided on the main body of the apparatus for illuminating cotton candies within the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Staff Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Patent number: 6537124
    Abstract: A fishing toy comprising a fishing rod comprising in turn a handgrip portion to which the fishing rod is attached, a fishing line adapted to elongate via the fishing rod and a toy body fishing means attached to a distal end of the fishing line, and a toy body formed to mock fish and adapted to be fished up with the toy body fishing means, the toy body comprising a power supply, a driving means adapted to be driven with the power supply and an operation switch for varying the driven conditions of the driving means, the fishing toy being characterized in that; the fishing rod has an operating means for varying the driving speed of the driving means provided on the toy body and a transmission means for transmitting operation information operated by the operating means to the toy body and that the toy body is provided with a reception means for receiving the information transmitted from the fishing rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Staff Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Patent number: 6039655
    Abstract: A bowling game plate having a base plate with a lane and gutter channels on both sides of the lane. A throwing platform is provided on one end of the base plate, the position and the direction of which is variable relative to the lane. The throwing platform has a ballthrowing figure. A portion for standing pins, which is pivotable, is connected to the other end of the base plate and behind it is located a portion for collecting the pins. Poles are provided on both sides of the portion for standing pins. A pin arranging device which can be vertically moved has pin guide holes and is inserted onto the poles. Enlarged portions which have a length larger than the thickness of the pin are formed on both sides of the portion for arranging pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Staff Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Patent number: 5807178
    Abstract: A horse race game instrument which utilizes a simple running mechanism enabling running bodies to move and with which a horse race game can be enjoyably played on a table. A plurality of running bodies with a dummy of a horse or the like fit thereto being caused to move at different speeds on an oval-shaped running track formed in the top surface of a board body, a plurality of planar oval-shaped grooves are provided along the bottom of the running track, an endless belt is movably disposed in each of the grooves, a magnet is provided to an upper part of each of the running belts in order to move the running bodies by attraction, and a drive motor is provided under each of the running belts in order to move each of the running belts around along each of the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Staff Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Patent number: 5785313
    Abstract: A bowling game board having a base board on the top surface of which a lane is formed for rolling a bowl; a bowler's platform provided on one end of the lane of the base board and attached thereon movably in the width direction of the base board; a bowler doll fixed on the top of the bowler's platform and having an arm which rotates under the restitution force of a spring; a locking part provided in the rear of the arm of bowler doll on the bowler's platform for engagingly locking the tip end of the arm and a push button for disengaging the lock of the locking part; a pin stand part provided on the other end side of the base board; a pin controller for causing pins to stand provided above the pin stand part so as to be able to move upward/downward; and a pin collecting case removably attached on the outer end part of the pin stand part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: Staff Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masami Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 5183431
    Abstract: A toy facsimile machine has a hollow case for housing a rotatably mounted roll of paper, transfer roll members that frictionally engage the paper to unroll it, a plate positioned between the roll and the transfer roll members to support the unrolled paper so that the user of the toy may write and draw on the paper, a motor for activating the transfer roll members, an integrated circuit for generating tone signals, a speaker for converting those signals into sound, and a battery for operating the motor and integrated circuit. A window frame formed in the case exposes the paper so that the user may write and draw on it. A delivery port is formed in a leading end of the toy and operation of the transfer roll members feeds the paper out of the hollow interior of the toy through that port. A cutting device is positioned at the port so that the discharged paper may be cut off by pulling up on it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Staff Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Patent number: 4790790
    Abstract: A toy musical instrument comprising a toy body, an imitation mouthpiece projecting outward from one side portion of the wall of said toy body, formed similarly to a mouthpiece of a trumpet and adapted to generate an imitation sound of a trumpet when a blast is given on the imitation mouthpiece with the imitation mouthpiece held in the mouth, an imitation bell, from which the imitation sound of a trumpet is sent out, projecting outward from the other side portion of the wall of the toy body, and some other kinds of imitation musical instruments provided on the remaining portion of the wall of the toy body, which include imitation castanets formed similarly to castanets and assembled so that an imitation sound of castanets occurs when they are beaten, an imitation piano formed similarly to a keyboard of a piano and assembled so that an imitation sound of a piano occurs when it is beaten, an imitation drum formed similarly to a parchment of a drum and assembled so that an imitation sound of a drum occurs when it
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: Staff Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Patent number: 4778429
    Abstract: A toy for dabbling, having a toy body; a cylinder extending from one side portion of the toy body to the opposite portion thereof and supported fixedly therein; a fish bowl in which a smaller imitation fish is to swim, an imitation windmill, a larger imitation fish connected to a thread, a pump, and an ejection nozzle joined to the pump, all of which are fitted in different portions of the wall of the toy body; a reel which is urged so that the thread is constantly taken up therearound, and which is secured to the portion of the wall of the toy body in which the larger imitation fish is fitted; a lens or a transparent plate fitted in one end of the cylinder; and a cover having a plurality of air vents and fixed to the other end of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Staff Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Patent number: 4650192
    Abstract: A game toy wherein a vibrator is incorporated in a scooper for scooping up a model piece of a goldfish or the like put in a vessel, and whereby competition is made for catching the model piece in the condition that the vibrations of the vibrator are propagated to the scooper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: Staff Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro