Having Detachable Cord For Spinning Patents (Class 446/235)
  • Patent number: 9302191
    Abstract: A yo-yo toy that is assembled from hemispheres into which the yo-yo is inserted together with the axle thereof. Holding elements for retaining the string during the free running of the yo-yo are provided at the outlet opening for the string of the yo-yo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: LIMMAT PRODUKT GMBH
    Inventors: Urs Robustelli, Gregor Altenburger
  • Publication number: 20130102223
    Abstract: A toy apparatus having a lower base, an upper base and a doll cover for the upper base where the lower base and the upper base attach and detach with an easy twisting motion. The lower base encloses a flywheel on a shaft, and a passageway for a rack and includes a cover with an outside screw thread. The upper base is either empty or encloses three switches, a sound generator, a light source, a controller printed circuit board, and a battery chamber and includes a cover with an inside screw thread that mates with the screw thread of the lower base. The toy apparatus has two primary play modes, a first mode where the lower base, the upper base and the cover are connected and a user uses the rack to spin the flywheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Meredith Brooks, Dean Carley, Sean Carmine Isabella
  • Patent number: 7740518
    Abstract: A jousting element for use in a game. The jousting element has a body which is arranged around a cylindrically aligned vertical axis. The body is configured to rotate about the vertical axis and to be carried above a playing surface. A traveling component connected to the body enables the body of the jousting element to be carried above the playing surface along multiple directions of travel. Attached to the body is a first playing component. The first playing component enables the jousting element to engage a second jousting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Inventor: Michael Elliott
  • Patent number: 7736276
    Abstract: An illuminating wrist exerciser includes upper and lower casing members, a ring, a rotor, a magnetic element, an illumination control circuit board, a plurality of illuminators, and a coil holder. The upper and lower casing members mate each other to form an interior space receiving the rotor therein. The upper casing member forms in a top portion thereof an opening to partially expose the rotor. Opposite ends of the rotor are rotatably coupled to the ring surrounding the rotor. The magnetic element is mounted to the ring. The illumination control circuit board and the coil holder are received in a recess defined in one of the ends of the rotor. The coil holder forms a bore in which the magnetic element is received. The coil holder carries thereon at least one pair of coils. The illuminators are distributively arranged on an outer surface of the rotor and are electrically connected to the illumination control circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Inventors: Yun Yu Chuang, Ming Hung Lin, Pei Sung Chuang
  • Patent number: 7736275
    Abstract: A wrist exercise includes a casing composed of upper and lower casing members mating each other to form a hollow sphere, a retention ring fixed between the upper and lower casing members, a rotor rotatably supported inside the casing by the retention ring. Cavities are formed in opposite sides of the rotor and are each divided into chambers by partitions fixed in the cavities. Holes are defined in an outside surface of the rotor and are in communication with the chambers, whereby, in operation of the wrist exerciser, the rotor is rotated and high-speed airflows are caused between the holes and the chambers due to centrifugal forces induced by the rotation of the rotor, which airflows generate sounds, thereby effecting sound generation of the wrist exerciser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Inventors: Yun Yu Chuang, Ming Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 7101315
    Abstract: A wrist exerciser includes a casing comprised of upper and lower casing members mounted together to form a substantially spherical shape. A rotor has opposite shafts rotatably received in the holes defined in the casing for rotatably supporting the rotor in the casing. Illumination elements are mounted on an outside surface of the rotor. A power source is fixed in the rotor for powering the illumination elements. A control circuit is in electrical connection with the power source and the illumination elements for selectively lighting the illumination elements. A transmission device is mounted in the rotor and has an interface circuit connected to the control circuit and a socket connector in connection with the interface circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Inventors: Yun Yu Chuang, Ming Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 6770012
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a self-generating wrist ball which includes a ball-shaped housing, a revolution ring, a flywheel and a generating and lighting mini-module. The ball-shaped housing has a plurality of protruding arched pieces to enhance the light-concentrating effect and to increase the stability when the fingers hold the wrist ball. The generating and lighting mini-module includes at least two rotor aggregates within flywheel and at least two stator aggregates corresponding to said rotor aggregates being fixed on the revolution ring. The wrist ball is self-generating in operational state by means of the impulse excitation created at the rotational moment of the wrist ball. In addition, the effect of magnetic field line can be enhanced by means of magnets and magnetic metal plates of the rotor aggregates and the stator aggregates. Furthermore, the same magnetic poles of both magnets are arranged in opposite way to prevent the flywheel from interference in rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Inventor: Hsiu-Min Kuo
  • Patent number: 6607420
    Abstract: A gyroscopic toy is provided having a shaft to which is coupled a flywheel. A drive gear is used to spin the shaft and flywheel for spinning the toy. A pinion gear is rotated to impart spin energy to the shaft and flywheel and thus to the toy. A gearing mechanism couples the drive gear to the pinion gear when the pinion gear is rotated in a first direction and decouples from the drive gear when the pinion gear is rotated in a second opposite direction. A transmission may be provided allowing for at least two different gearing sets to be selectively coupled to the drive gear when the pinion gear is rotated in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Toyinnovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Caleb Chung
  • Publication number: 20030119417
    Abstract: The present invention provides toy or model aircraft with motions that can reproduce the operational status and flight attitude of the corresponding real aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventor: Tatsuo Iwasawa
  • Publication number: 20020094749
    Abstract: A gyroscopic toy is provided having a shaft to which is coupled a flywheel. A drive gear is used to spin the shaft and flywheel for spinning the toy. A pinion gear is rotated to impart spin energy to the shaft and flywheel and thus to the toy. A gearing mechanism couples the drive gear to the pinion gear when the pinion gear is rotated in a first direction and decouples from the drive gear when the pinion gear is rotated in a second opposite direction. A transmission may be provided allowing for at least two different gearing sets to be selectively coupled to the drive gear when the pinion gear is rotated in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventor: Caleb Chung
  • Patent number: 6413144
    Abstract: A hand-held toy that lights when spun, and which includes a rod, a head attached to, and spins with, the rod, a light source illuminates with movement of, the head, and apparatus associated with the light source, and which is grasped by the hands of a user. The head is either spherically-shaped or a pair of stacked disks. The light source includes a plurality of bulbs that are disposed on the head, a pair of battery interfaces that are in electrical communication with the plurality of bulbs and hold, and electrically communicate with, a pair of batteries, and a centrifugal switch that is electrical communication with the plurality of bulbs, and which closes when the head is spun, and when closed, illuminates the plurality of bulbs so as to allow the plurality of bulbs to illuminate when the head is spun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Inventor: Colin Williams
  • Patent number: 6406349
    Abstract: A gyroscopic toy is provided having a shaft to which is coupled a flywheel. A drive gear is used to spin the shaft and flywheel for spinning the toy. A pinion gear is rotated to impart spin energy to the shaft and flywheel and thus to the toy. A gearing mechanism couples the drive gear to the pinion gear when the pinion gear is rotated in a first direction and decouples from the drive gear when the pinion gear is rotated in a second opposite direction. A transmission may be provided allowing for at least two different gearing sets to be selectively coupled to the drive gear when the pinion gear is rotated in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: ToyInnovation, Inc.
    Inventor: Caleb Chung
  • Patent number: 5032101
    Abstract: An improved spinning toy comprised of a primary flywheel affixed near one end of a shaft penetrating the central axis, a symmetrical handle having a specific size, shape, and relational location rotatably connected about the shaft penetrating it; a smaller secondary flywheel near the lower end of the handle through which the shaft penetrates, two end caps having conical terminations, flat protruding surfaces on the sides of the handle, a tangential line of the handle having the lower end tip in the line, and a hole in the handle through which a string passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1991
    Inventor: Victor L. Hartman