Abstract: Vehicle playsets having multiple configurations. The vehicle playsets may include a track segment, a trigger adjacent to the track segment, a moving component adapted to move toward the trigger, and a launch mechanism coupled to the track segment and adapted to launch a toy vehicle along the track segment toward the moving component. Striking the moving component with the toy vehicle may prevent the moving component from reaching the trigger. The playset may include at least two configurations including a closed configuration and an open configuration that is suitable for play.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 17, 2011
Date of Patent:
May 28, 2013
Assignee:
Mattle, Inc.
Inventors:
Michael Nuttall, Harold Garner, Stacy O'Connor
Abstract: A remote-controlled toy vehicle includes a plurality of road wheels supporting the toy vehicle for movement. A driving motor is selectively reversible between first and second directions of rotation and is drivingly connected to at least one of the road wheels through a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism operates in at least two modes, such that operation of the driving motor in either of its opposing directions of rotation causes rotation of the at least one road wheel to propel the toy vehicle in only a forward vehicle direction. A second motor can provide braking action or a third mode of forward vehicle propulsion.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 11, 2005
Date of Patent:
June 26, 2007
Assignee:
Mattle, Inc.
Inventors:
Vladimir Leonov, Nathan Bloch, Donald L. Balkie