Patents Assigned to Nikko Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 7733293Abstract: An antenna for a remote controlled toy comprises a conductor made of a metal wire and a cap portion anchored in an end of the conductor, wherein said conductor has a hook portion with a U-shaped end, a first flared portion articulated with said hook portion and provided crookedly for projecting in the perpendicular direction to said hook portion, a second flared portion articulated with the first flared portion and provided crookedly for projecting in the opposite direction from said first flared portion with regard to said hook portion, said cap portion has a T-shaped groove comprised of a horizontal groove housing said first flared portion and said second flared portion, a perpendicular groove housing said hook portion, and a hook locking part is provided inside the T-shaped groove.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2007Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nobuo Imai
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Publication number: 20090156088Abstract: A reality generating device wherein a traveling toy with a chassis and a body includes: an operation sound generating unit for generating operation sounds of the traveling toy during operation; a vibration generating unit attached to the body for causing the body to vibrate; and a travel driving unit provided on the body for causing the traveling toy to travel. If desired, operation sounds and vibrations are simultaneously generated for enhanced reality of the traveling toy.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2005Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: NIKKO CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji Mukaida
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Publication number: 20080280527Abstract: A traveling toy and a radio-controlled traveling toy having a transmission which brings about an operational feeling like a real car is provided. Under a shift lever 4, there is provided a gear box 10 that covers the motor unit and is secured to a chassis rear portion 6, and a rear wheel shaft 8 extends through the gear box 10 covering a motor unit, with a crank box 12 being disposed on the gear box 10. A second slider 14 is disposed on the crank box 12, a first slider 16 is disposed on the second slider 14, and a shift shaft 18, which is a shaft portion of a shift lever 4, stands vertically from the first slider 16. On top of the shift shaft 18, a grasping section 20 is disposed to control the shift lever 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2008Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: NIKKO CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeharu SATO, Nobuo Imai
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Publication number: 20080167160Abstract: To provide a spherical roller which is capable of fully rotating when moving on a rough road surface with a small contact area and which produces no obstacle to the movement in other portions. The present invention comprises a spherical roller in a globular form, a housing on the undersurface of which an opening in a circular form is provided in such a way that the spherical roller is projected in a horizontal down direction, a support roller having rotatable contact with an upper side portion of the spherical roller within the housing, and a drive roller which is arranged in the housing and driven by a drive motor to rotate the spherical roller in a direction at an angle of 90 degrees different from the direction in which the support roller rotates from immediately above for friction drive, thereby driving the spherical roller to move the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2008Publication date: July 10, 2008Applicant: NIKKO CO., LTDInventor: Tomohiko KOIKE
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Publication number: 20080141776Abstract: There are included a movable body on which an ultrasonic wave signal output part for producing and outputting an ultrasonic wave signal of a particular frequency is mounted; an ultrasonic wave signal reception part for receiving the outputted ultrasonic wave signal; a determination part for determining the difference between the frequency of the ultrasonic wave signal received by the ultrasonic wave signal reception part and the particular frequency; a calculation part for calculating the speed of the movable body from a signal of the determination difference; and a display part for displaying a result of the calculation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2004Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toyozo Kato
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Publication number: 20080143889Abstract: A video reproducing apparatus which comprises a radio control signal receiving portion, a video sound data reproducing portion connected to the radio control signal receiving portion, a video projection portion connected to the radio control signal receiving portion and the video sound data reproducing portion, speakers connected to the video sound data reproducing portion, a housing for accommodating the video sound data reproducing portion, the video projection portion, and the speakers, and a housing drive portion for moving the housing, and which drives the housing according to a control signal of the housing drive portion which controls the housing drive portion and which is received by the radio control signal receiving portion, projects the video sound data onto the video projection portion according to a control signal of the video sound data reproducing portion at an arbitrary position, and reproduces the data through the speakers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2007Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: NIKKO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji MUKAIDA, Yoichi MAEDA, Yasuo KAGAYA
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Publication number: 20080132143Abstract: There is provided a device for enhancing a reality of the toy by realizing the sounds and the oscillation of the real article. The device provides an actuation sound generating unit for generating an actuation sound when the toy is actuated and an oscillation generating unit for realizing the oscillation of the running drive unit to generate the actuation sound and the oscillation simultaneously in order enhance the reality of the running toy.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2005Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: NIKKO CO., LTD.Inventor: Masao Miyaura
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Publication number: 20080119106Abstract: The present invention provides an on-water/underwater movable toy which has the optimal form for high-speed on-water cruising like a leisure boat and a racing boat, and which can also cruise underwater. The on-water/underwater movable toy according to the present invention comprises: a hull having a boat-shaped deck board that is in close contact with a boat bottom without any clearance therebetween; a screw mounted under said boat bottom; a ladder controllably mounted on said boat bottom; a recess prepared on a boat stern, the recess getting deeper toward the direction of movement; and an elevator disposed at the lower end of said recess, having a shape similar to that of said recess, and being controllably pivotable about a horizontal axis defined by the two elevator-holding axis supports projecting downward from the rear portion of the boat bottom.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: NIKKO CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuo Imai, Lim Chee Xheng
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Patent number: 7335084Abstract: A traveling toy having a plurality of steering front wheels and a plurality of rear wheels being connected with a driver, and a suspension of traveling toy in which a trailing arm having one end part supported rotatably at the upper part of a supporting wall standing from the chassis of the traveling toy at one end thereof, a first central hole part for passing a hollow tubular section projecting from the chassis through a specified interval from the supporting wall, a spring part interposed while being energized between a threaded part on top of the hollow tubular section and the end part of the first hole part, and a second hole part opening in the horizontal direction at the other end part serves to pass the axle of rear wheels through the second hole part thus absorbing a shock transmitted from the axle through the spring.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2002Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shigeharu Sato
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Patent number: 7333730Abstract: A steering method and system controls a plurality of infrared units with a plurality of infrared controllers. The infrared controller sets the time interval between the end of a start signal and the start of a steering signal to match a predetermined time interval specific to each infrared unit being controlled.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2002Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Youichi Maeda
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Publication number: 20080031435Abstract: Radio control over a distance beyond the arriving distance of the conventional radio control and transmission of the continuous instruction signal on the real time are possible. The system provides DTMF signal generation means for modulation of a control signal for controlling a controllable section into DTMF signal, VOIP transmission means for receiving DTMF signal to generate VOIP signal for transmission to VOIP line, VOIP line capable of transmitting VOIP signal, VOIP receiving means for receiving VOIP signal for conversion into DTMF code, DTMF demodulation and retransmission means for conversion of regenerated DTMF signal into a radio control transmission signal and a controllable section for receiving the radio control transmission signal and the signal generated by DTMF signal generation means is driven by DTMF demodulation and retransmission means through VOIP line in order to control the receiving means.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2007Publication date: February 7, 2008Applicant: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Kagaya, Kenji Mukaida
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Publication number: 20070279297Abstract: An antenna for a remote controlled toy comprises a conductor made of a metal wire and a cap portion anchored in an end of the conductor, wherein said conductor has a hook portion with a U-shaped end, a first flared portion articulated with said hook portion and provided crookedly for projecting in the perpendicular direction to said hook portion, a second flared portion articulated with the first flared portion and provided crookedly for projecting in the opposite direction from said first flared portion with regard to said hook portion, said cap portion has a T-shaped groove comprised of a horizontal groove housing said first flared portion and said second flared portion, a perpendicular groove housing said hook portion, and a hook locking part is provided inside the T-shaped groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2007Publication date: December 6, 2007Applicant: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nobuo Imai
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Patent number: 7291053Abstract: A radio-controlled toy two-wheeled vehicle where a front wheel support body is installed on a vehicle body without steering angle limitation and a doll portion is installed swingably on the upper part of the vehicle. The doll portion is moved by radio control vertically to an advance direction of the vehicle and parallel in a horizontal direction with respect to the vehicle body, so that steering is made by tilting the front wheel support body through the movement of doll's gravity center caused by the parallel movement of the doll. A doll movement control portion and travel control of the two-wheeled vehicle are conducted by radio. The doll movement control portion is mounted on the middle of the two-wheeled vehicle. A drive portion for driving the doll is fitted loosely in a hole portion cut in a doll's torso portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2003Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenji Mukaida
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Patent number: 7288017Abstract: A two-wheeled toy vehicle by radio control having a supporting member of a front wheel mounted on a vehicle body so as to control freely in steering angle and a rider-like doll mounted on an upper portion of the vehicle body, the doll response to the radio controlled steering operation, effecting parallel displacement vertically to traveling direction and horizontally to the vehicle body, the steering operation being effected by slanting the supporting member of the front wheel in accordance with displacement of the toy's gravity center caused by the parallel displacement of the doll. The supporting member of the front wheel includes a front fork joint provided with a connecting portion combined to the vehicle body and a long cylindrical member provided with an oval like opening portion at its upper part with opposite ends being jointed with a specific angle to the connecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenji Mukaida
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Patent number: 7202806Abstract: A transmitter for radio control with rotary control means on its both sides is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2001Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenji Mukaida
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Patent number: D538861Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2005Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Takahashi
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Patent number: D563487Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2005Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Takahashi
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Patent number: D871160Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuo Sato
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Patent number: D899202Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuo Sato
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Patent number: D934931Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuo Sato