Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Todokoro

Masatoshi Todokoro has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7867055
    Abstract: In order to provide a never boring toy which moves to the singing voice or accompaniment music and which people can enjoy karaoke, the present invention provides a sounding toy having a driving mechanism which has a sound synthesizing device and loudspeakers which are integrated with the toy in the interior thereof and a sound mixing circuit provided in the sound synthesizing device, the loudspeaker and a handy microphone are connectable to the sound synthesizing device, wherein in the sound mixing circuit, an analog signal inputted from a microphone terminal and an analog signal inputted from the audio terminal are superimposed in a mixer circuit and are amplified from the loudspeaker put into foot parts of the toy through a main amplifier, and then a driver applies a voltage to a power source of the driving mechanism and the toy is operated by the driving mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Agatsuma Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Publication number: 20060246814
    Abstract: In order to provide a never boring toy which moves to the singing voice or accompaniment music and which people can enjoy karaoke, the present invention provides a sounding toy having a driving mechanism which has a sound synthesizing device and loudspeakers which are integrated with the toy in the interior thereof and a sound mixing circuit provided in the sound synthesizing device, the loudspeaker and a handy microphone are connectable to the sound synthesizing device, wherein in the sound mixing circuit, an analog signal inputted from a microphone terminal and an analog signal inputted from the audio terminal are superimposed in a mixer circuit and are amplified from the loudspeaker put into foot parts of the toy through a main amplifier, and then a driver applies a voltage to a power source of the driving mechanism and the toy is operated by the driving mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Publication number: 20060183401
    Abstract: In order to provide a ball toy set which can be played with not only as a stuffed toy but also as a ball and a yo-yo, a soft resin ball toy 3 which can be inflated by introducing air into the interior thereof, a stuffed toy-like cover 4 which can detachably be placed over the exterior side of the ball toy 3 and a yo-yo string 2 which can detachably be connected to the ball toy 3 are made to make up a set, wherein the stuffed toy-like cover 4 is formed by sewing cloth in such a manner as to exhibit the external appearance of a figure as a whole, wherein a ball installation opening 41 is formed in the stuffed toy-like cover 4, wherein a fastener 42 is sewn to a circumferential edge portion of the ball installation opening 41, and wherein a rubber string tying portion 33 is provided on the ball toy 3 in such a manner as to erect therefrom which is formed into a thin sheet-like shape and which has a connecting hole which is opened therein and to which the yo-yo string 2 is tied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20030153242
    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: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    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
  • Publication number: 20030040251
    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;
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Publication number: 20020192319
    Abstract: In a cotton candy making apparatus with a removable tray according to the present invention, 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. Thus, it is constructed such that power is not supplied to the apparatus by the main power supply switch unless the contacts of the auxiliary switch are closed. Carbon brushes are used for brush devices for supplying electric current to a heater for a rotary pot, and the carbon brushes are each biased in a slip ring direction with a spring in a brush holder. In addition, a cover for the rotary pot is provided which is constructed so as to be assembled to and disassembled from the rotary pot, without using machine screws or nuts, by rotating the same cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    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: 5752704
    Abstract: A game board can be easily operated by infants and a game can be enjoyably played therewith for a long time, comprising; an arbitrary number of sunk rooms 9 extending downward from arbitrary positions in the disk surface of a rotary disk 4 supported by a table board 1; cutout holes 11 12 bored in the side wall of each of the sunk rooms 9; engagement parts 13 14 formed in lower parts of hole edges each defining the cutout holes 11 12; receptacles 15 for receiving flight bodies 16, each fitted in the sunk rooms 9 with a spring 22 interposed so as to be able to rise/fall freely; interlock projections 19, 20 which each fit in the cutout holes 11, 12 of the sunk rooms 9 and engage with the engagement parts 13, 14; and a group of projections, being equipped on a bottom plate of the table board 1, each releasing the interlock projections 19, 20 from the engagement by each hitting against the interlock projections 19, 20 shifting together with the rotation of the rotary disk 4, caracterized in that a side wall part 7
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Agatsuma Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Patent number: 5702108
    Abstract: A game board comprises; a table board; body parts; extrusive bodies; hollow catching bodies each of which is made in the shape of an animal's head or the like pivotally mounted to the front end of each of the extrusive bodies and has an open bottom part contacting a wall surface of the table board; driving plates each of which is put in a loose-fit so as to be reciprocatingly shiftable between the front endside and the rear end side of each of the extrusive bodies; projections each of which works so as to push up each of the catching bodies from the table board; levers each of which works so that an end thereof engaging with each of the driving plates may push, via each of the driving plates, each of the extrusive bodies out of each of the body parts when a projecting end of each of the levers is pulled; and springs each of which energises each of the levers so that the lever's end engaging with each of the driving plates may draw, via each of the driving plates, each of the extrusive bodies up to its origina
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Agatsuma Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Patent number: 5501601
    Abstract: An educational drawing toy with sound-generating function has a resilient whiteboard, plural sets of contacts arranged in the form of a matrix underneath the resilient whiteboard, and a sound-generating circuit electrically connected to the plural sets of contacts. Under the action of pen pressures applied upon drawing a picture on the whiteboard, the plural sets of contacts are selectively and successively brought into contact with each other to actuate the sound-generating circuit so that a scale or plural melodies can be selectively played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignees: Stuff Co., Ltd., Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Todokoro, 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: 4949967
    Abstract: In the tennis game board, each of the racket-supporting bodies that are reciprocally movable along each end of the base board is provided with a ball delivery member, which directly feeds the ball onto the board surface as if the ball was served by one of the racket-supporting bodies. After this, the ball on the board surface of the base board is hit alternately by the opposedly disposed racket-supporting bodies, thus enabling the game like tennis to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    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
  • Patent number: 4531751
    Abstract: Generally speaking, the present invention contemplates a toy motorcycle. It has a molded seat unit which imitates the body of a real motorcycle. There is a handlebar unit molded so as to imitate the handlebars of a real motorcycle which is rotatably attached to the seat unit. An imitation speedometer, an imitation fuel gauge, and an imitation flasher are provided on the handlebar unit with rotary discs provided within these imitation speedometer and fuel gauge to provide the illusion of speed and fuel. There is also an imitation flasher and a motor operated by turning grips on the handlebar unit. These illusion creating arrangements are operated by a gear train and other power-transmitting parts to which the motor drive shaft the rotary discs and flasher vanes are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1985
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro