Patents Represented by Attorney Edward D. O'Brien
  • Patent number: 4458899
    Abstract: A game capable of receiving and then seemingly randomly dispensing objects includes a housing which has an accumulator chamber located therein. The accumulator chamber can receive individual objects, accumulate them, and then dispense the objects so accumulated. An activation member is mounted on the housing in association with the accumulator chamber. Further, a chance member is mounted on the housing in association with the activation member. The chance member is capable of moving between a plurality of positions, at least one of the positions being a dispensing position. The activation member moves the chance member on the housing between its positions in response to reception of one of the objects in the accumulator chamber by the depositing of the object in the accumulator chamber. Objects are accumulated in the accumulator chamber as they are so deposited, with the chance member being moved with the deposition of each of the individual objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1984
    Assignee: Tomy Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kanno, Takahiko Ichimura
  • Patent number: 4422261
    Abstract: A toy capable of pivotal movement on a support surface has an articulated body divided into a lower and upper section. A motor is located in the body and drives a set of drive wheels to propel the toy across a support surface. A member is associated with the motor and is capable of pivoting the upper body section side to side with respect to the lower body section. The upper body section includes a left side extension and a right side extension. Both of these extensions extend downwardly from the upper body section toward the support surface and are capable of either contacting the support surface or being lifted upwardly from the support surface in response to the side to side movement of the upper body section with respect to the lower body section. The toy will pivot to the left during motion when the left side extension contacts the support surface and the toy will pivot to the right when the right side extension contacts the support surface as the toy is propelled on the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1983
    Assignee: Tomy Kogyo Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Michihiro Kozuka, Masayuki Tonokura